SANTA ANA - John Franklyn Watkins, one of two Glendora lawyers accused of aiding a massive charity scam, encouraged the creati...
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Tuesday approved the payment of $475,000 to settle a sexual harassment case brough...
Six Los Angeles Superior Court judges have been selected to preside exclusively over the complex litigation courts that are sl...
Solo and Small Firms
Partner Jeffrey Sloan Leaves Landels for Sheppard Mullin
By Meredith Alexander
SAN FRANCISCO - The midsized San Francisco firm of Landels Ripley & Diamond is losing a partner and two associates to the ...
Managing the relationship with one's own client is at least as important as managing the relationship with the other side. ...
The two candidates trying to wrest the Los Angeles County district attorney's job from Gil Garcetti said they are eagerly anti...
SAN FRANCISCO - Before a packed gallery, the California Supreme Court struggled mightily during oral arguments Tuesday over th...
The Los Angeles Police Commission Tuesday informed city officials that its investigation of Police Department practices that l...
LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis appointed two veteran civil litigators to the Orange County Superior Court Tuesday. The new appo...
Saying such action could help prevent future Rampart-like police corruption scandals, Los Angeles County Public Defender Mike ...
Rafael A. Perez, the former cop who sparked the Rampart corruption scandal, Tuesday was called as a defense witness in a drug ...
A trial lawyer who cannot work 16- to 20-hour days because of health problems is entitled to full disability benefits, a feder...
WASHINGTON - Despite last-ditch efforts of conservative Republicans to derail confirmation, the long-delayed nominations of Lo...
A legal team from Los Angeles-based Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser, Weil & Shapiro has completed a $4.4 billion...
Cops-and-robbers shows on television usually have plots dealing with murder, rape, robbery, drugs, spousal or child abuse, and...
WASHINGTON - After many years and little success, judicial reformers who once firmly opposed the election of state judges are ...
WASHINGTON-In a decision with implications for states' rights and international treaties, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimo...
By Jerome P. Wallingford Californians should reject the Pete Wilson prison legacy embodied in Proposition 21 and chart a posit...
SAN DIEGO - A Civil Service Commission hearing for fired district attorney's investigator Eddie Cervantes ended Monday with th...
Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti, who has run an extremely low-key, barely visible campaign for a third term ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The state Supreme Court on Monday unanimously upheld a Los Angeles judge's decision to throw out a jury's $89 ...
LOS ANGELES - The state Commission on Judicial Performance filed disciplinary charges Wednesday against Judge Patrick B. Murph...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court grappled with a case Monday raising the issue of whether an employer may rescind ...
Media
So, Chief Parks, If Youre Looking at a Career Change, We'd Be Interested in Talking
By Garry Abrams
Move over, Matt Drudge. Los Angeles Police Chief Bernard Parks and the LAPD have discovered the World Wide Web. ...
Judges and Judiciary
9th Circuit Judge Wiggins Remembered for Nixon Defense
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Judge Charles E. Wiggins, for 16 years a conservative voice on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and the f...
Lawyers making a career change should consider the field of nonprofit development. ...
SAN DIEGO - Embattled Deputy District Attorney Peter J. Longanbach, under criminal investigation by the state attorney general...
Armen Vartian TANGIBLE ASSETS INCLUDES KEYSTONE IN ITS COLLECTION After conducting business with Gehringer & Kellar Inc.,...
Get ready for a true or false question. First the facts. A judge spoke these comments in court proceedings. "Sir, one of us is...
Fenwick & West EXODUS PROCEEDS TOWARD ITS KEYLABS ACQUISITION Santa Clara's Exodus Communications Inc. completed its acqu...