DICTA This week's 'The Practice' highlights two powerful themes in lawyers' lives: law firm management and jury nullification....

^^Criminal Law^^ Proposition 21's addition of strike-priors that are unrelated to gangs or juvenile crime leaves the measure o...

By Phil Record I fear that too often we take for granted the words of those precious documents that guarantee our freedom: the...

DICTA A 'Family Law' client decides that breaking the law is a small price to pay to stop the birth of drug addicted, unwanted...

DICTA Judge Amy's courtroom consists mostly of sophomoric, over-dramatized adults whining about emotional distress. Page 8. ^^...

SANTA ANA - The tug-of-war over custody of a 123-pound Rottweiler named Guinness is set for a court hearing next month, and a ...

^^Criminal Law^^ Prosecutors may rebut a defendant's testimony merely by pointing at the defendant's presence at trial. Page 7...

MARYSVILLE - Prosecutors have moved to disqualify the judge who cut the murder convictions of Jeffrey Aaron Erickson to vehicu...

SANTA ANA - A top official in the district attorney's office said Wednesday that the office is "moving ahead" following the re...

DICTA Many attorneys mistakenly focus on attaining new clients rather than retaining existing ones. Page 8. By Barbara Lewis a...

SAN FRANCISCO - The midsized firm of Rosenblum Parish & Isaacs will be closing its San Jose office by the end of April, sa...

SAN DIEGO - Curtis Fitzpatrick, whose career in the San Diego city attorney's office spanned much of the World War II growth o...

DICTA What to consider when making the decision to go 'business-casual.' Page 8. By Kimberly Quackenbush In corporate America,...

SAN DIEGO - A veteran prosecutor with anti-gang experience in two Southern California counties will lead the state attorney ge...

^^Employment Law^^ No Conscience Court Holds One-Sided Agreement Between Circuit City and Employee Unenforceable Ultimately, t...

SACRAMENTO - With the Los Angeles Police Department ensnared in the worst corruption scandal of its history, California's poli...

A malicious prosecution action against Best Best & Krieger and one of its clients was transferred Wednesday out of Los Ang...

After being lured to Charlston , Revich & Williams with assurances of an equity partnership, a six-figure annual salary an...

By Fred Silberberg Most California law students learn that, if a lender looks to community property in extending credit, that ...

PC Giveaway Offering Home Computers to the Workforce By Barrett K. Green and Mark A. Romeo The great PC giveaway has begun. Th...

Arming for its legal battle with the Los Angeles Unified School District, O'Melveny & Myers claims that methane at the now...

Without comment, the Los Angeles City Council Wednesday allocated $44 million to a reserve fund to pay settlements, including ...

Los Angeles Police Department corruption may date back farther and spread wider than former officer-turned-whistle blower Rafa...

INDIO - When Narcisco Medina asked for an attorney on the eve of his burglary trial, he had already been through no fewer than...

SAN FRANCISCO - The facts of the case fit a made-for-television drama. A wife is accused of killing her husband to prevent him...

What is the ultimate value of 25 percent of nothing? That was the Zen-like riddle posed Wednesday in, of all places, a Los Ang...

Services were held Sunday for Robert Steven Apfelberg, a bankruptcy specialist and real estate attorney. Apfelberg died Thursd...

Davis, Wright & Tremaine has been sued for more than $7.5 million for allegedly mishandling a family dispute over the oper...

SAN DIEGO - A criminal defense lawyer who served 14 years on a U.S. District Court panel of conflict attorneys in the Southern...

By Jennifer C. Pizer Now that the Knight Initiative has passed, creating a unique exclusion in California's law, which otherwi...