SAN FRANCISCO - Ecards.com announced Wednesday that it will appeal the $4 million unfair competition verdict reached May 10. ...
Dicta: Money Matters By Kimberely Quackenbush A good time-entry program can make the difference between bills that are paid on...
Overriding a veto by Mayor Richard J. Riordan, the Los Angeles City Council Tuesday unanimously approved the continuation of a...
Practitioner: Insurance Law By Scott Thomas During 1999, California courts decided a number of cases involving the scope of co...
Practitioner: Insurance Law By Kirk A. Pasich On Thursday, May 4, much of the business world was hit by the "ILOVEYOU" virus/w...
Pending approval from the mayor's office, the city of Los Angeles will spend about $900,000 to hire an architect to design a n...
Dicta: By Paul O'Brien Browsing through some very old newspapers, I came across an article from 1860. A long, front-page story...
SAN BERNARDINO - Those responsible for investing the county's money in the early to mid-1990s made poor decisions and paid unn...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
DOJ Stands by Microsoft Breakup in Rebuttal
By Xenia P. Kobylarz
In an expected response to Microsoft Corp.'s proposed counter remedy for its antitrust violations, the Department of Justice a...
Labor/Employment
Lawyers Sue O.C. Over Reorganized Positions
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - The bargaining association for lawyers who work for Orange County has filed a lawsuit claiming county officials we...
WESTWOOD - James E. Holst, the University of California's general counsel and vice president of l egal a ffairs, said Wednesda...
The mother of a 14-year-old Orange County boy Wednesday filed a class action against Larry Flynt Publications, claiming that t...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
High Court to Review Confidentiality Ruling
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court voted Wednesday to review a lower court decision that has caused "enormous uproar...
Law Practice
Citing Heart Problems, Attorney, 84, Resigns From Bar to Avoid Investigation
By Garry Abrams
Berman Swarttz, the 84-year-old Los Angeles lawyer who skipped to Brazil with his prospective fifth wife last year after admit...
As four city leaders met Wednesday behind closed doors with representatives of the U.S. Department of Justice to discuss how t...
Forum: First Light By Terry Francke With every passing day, it seems we are met with headlines chronicling the inceasing depth...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Friends Hold Party to Remember Henrikson
By Martin Kruming
San Diego Watch: Leo 'Rik' Henrikson didn't want a memorial service. He wanted "to have a party so all my friends can have one...
SANTA ANA - Was it Pixelon or was it Microsoft technology that broadcast live segments of presentations by the Republican Nati...
Judges and Judiciary
Report Calls for Reform of States Family Courts
By Contributing Writer
SACRAMENTO - Angry veterans of child-custody battles packed a Capitol news conference Monday and called for closer scrutiny of...
SAN JOSE - With a key legal question cleared up, the Santa Clara County district attorney's office is moving forward with a fi...
In Estate of Brenner, 76 Cal.App.4th 1298 (1999), the 2nd District Court of Appeal found that a photocopy of a holographic ins...
International
Clinton Has China's Key, But Will Congress Let Him Use It?
By Contributing Writer
By Bob Deans Tapping the riches of the China trade has been a dream of Western merchants for centuries. The allure has grown s...
SANTA ANA - Steven and Denise Oleesky, accused along with a Glendora lawyer and several private investigators of obstruction o...
Attorney Ed Masry and legal researcher Erin Brockovich, made famous by the hit movie "Erin Brockovich," will speak at a meetin...
In an effort to provide a financial incentive to help improve Los Angeles' air quality, the City Council has given conceptual ...
In what will bring to 75 the number of felony cases that will have been thrown out of court due to the Rampart police corrupti...
Private legislation proposed Tuesday by U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., would grant citizenship to a severely disabled E...
RIVERSIDE - If Riverside County officials had wanted only to take some of Dr. Robin Oxman's land, they probably would no longe...
Dicta: By Erik Gunderson In the legal profession, cynicism pays. The practice of law is fraught with perils. These cynical ass...
Civil Rights
L.A., 'Homeless Capital of Western World,' To Host Alternate Convention
By Garry Abrams
Longtime homeless activist Ted Hayes laughed Monday when I asked him how many out-of-towners might ride the rails and the Grey...