FORUM Two recent decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court offer only illusory encouragement to privacy advocates and discouragement...
Susan B. Jordan, the attorney for former reputed Symbionese Liberation Army soldier Sara Jane Olson, has asked the trial judge...
Family members of 88 people who presumably died when the Alaska Airlines plane they were in plunged into the ocean 20 miles o...
SANTA ANA - Virginia Opfell had complete trust in her lawyer - until he told her he needed $100,000 immediately to reconcile h...
There is no statute to prohibit judges from being sworn into office telephonically, Los Angeles Superior Court officials have ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court said Wednesday that a psychiatrist and a therapist whose work paved the way for the f...
Criminal
New Death Row Video Chills; Could It Be a Sinister Address Book?
By Garry Abrams
Marion "Suge" Knight, co-founder of rap label Death Row Records, is serving a 9-year term in California state prison for proba...
A quadriplegic man claims in an abuse of process lawsuit that an attorney induced the defendants in his personal injury case t...
New York - Standard & Poor's recently released a new criteria book outlining its approach in evaluating real estate cash ...
More than 100 guests, including about 15 North County judges, attended last week's installation and awards dinner of the Bar A...
By Thomas D. Elias All over California, school districts received big shocks this fall. The reason - they're not getting state...
By Timothy P. Dillon Recently, the Daily Journal published an article by well-known Los Angeles defense attorney Royal F. Oake...
Appellate Practice ...
Washington - The National Multi Housing Council, American Seniors Housing Association, and National Apartment Association are...
Entertainment attorney Deborah Klein has left a partnership position at Bloom Hergott Cook Deimer & Klein to join Santa Mo...
Criminal
Despite Release, Cop-Killer Convicted Once and Again
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - Once-convicted cop-killer John George Brown was convicted a second time Tuesday by an Orange County jury for the 1...
Is the "smart growth" movement just another attempt to limit growth or is it a viable concept the industry can embrace? If so...
WASHINGTON - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is off to a very bad start at the high court this term. The justices so far...
A new county claims board will handle all new claims and lawsuits filed against the 40 cities that contract with the county of...
Increasing the number of officers whose alleged misconduct has resulted in cases being thrown out since the Rampart scandal br...
SACRAMENTO - The many faces of California's criminal justice establishment clashed Tuesday in a lively Capitol debate over Pro...
In his annual State of the Court address Tuesday, Los Angeles Superior Court Presiding Judge Victor E. Chavez promised "consi...
Given San Francisco's escalating rents, it comes as something of a shock to discover tenants moving into the city to save on ...
Richmond Running in the space race When a corporation is taking down buildings as fast as it can and the market runs out of p...
Jury Deadlocks in Case Against City After nearly five days of deliberations, a Los Angeles Superior Court jury Monday declared...
Los Angeles Scholarships awarded to real estate grad students Cynthia A. Hwang and Matthew H. Walker, graduate real estate st...
San Francisco - The American Institute of Architecture named Gensler Architecture, Design and Planning Worldwide Firm of the ...
Historically, the California Supreme Court has held the attorney-client privilege in high esteem and has pronounced it to be "...