A Los Angeles County deputy district attorney who 21/2 years ago sued her office for retaliation, Monday accused her boss, DA...
Armed with a Supreme Court decision upholding its program, the State Bar of California has begun the process of enforcing man...
SAN DIEGO - Saying that development of computer forensic standards is one of the Justice Department's highest priorities, U.S...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Devises Way To Streamline Jury Selection Process
By Mark Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Judge Alex E. Saldamando may hold the antidote to the kind of jury selection nightmares that force people to ...
Based on revelations that Los Angeles police may have fabricated testimony to obtain a sweeping injunction against the city's...
^^Courtroom Craft^^ Trial and Error Admitting and explaining mistakes will lessen their impact at trial By Christopher Tayback...
Two brothers convicted in the first high-tech consumer fraud case of its kind in the nation have drawn one-year jail terms, a...
A civil rights lawsuit is expected to be filed this week on behalf of a little girl named Destiny - the 2-year-old daughter o...
Recently, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued on its consumer education Web site a warning to the country's investo...
^^Land Use Law^^ Last Request No Need to Seek Reconsideration Before Resorting to Court The court said that it now had recons...
Law Practice
Of course there's a different law for the rich and the poor; otherwise, who would go into business? E. Ralph Stewart CORRECTI...
Securities regulators have filed suit against a disbarred Santa Monica lawyer, charging that he made more than $200,000 from ...
Investments
Deals: Stater Bros. Acquires Two Supermarket Chains -- Wine.com Plucked Off the Vine in Merger -- IPO Increases Agility of San Jose Company -- Cyras Delivers Knockout in Second Round Funding -- Nokia Takes Calls from Rooftop to Close Deal -- Resource....
By Jason Song And Katherine Gaidos
byline = Jason J. Song and Katherine Gaidos Varner Saleson STATER BROS. ACQUIRES TWO SUPERMARKET CHAINS Stater Bros. Holdings...
^^Commercial Law^^ By Richard L. Seabolt Technological developments have produced shortened product cycles, which reward quic...
A malicious prosecution lawsuit brought against State Farm Mutual Auto Insurance Co., its CEO and other officers was dismisse...
SAN FRANCISCO - California district attorneys are immune from lawsuits when they accuse government officials of violating the...
RIVERSIDE - The San Bernardino district attorney's office will no longer take three-strikes cases to Superior Court Judge Pat...
A recent ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has some intellectual property attorneys wondering whethe...
WASHINGTON - Last October, at age 57, Walter Dellinger made a dramatic career change. After 30 years as a constitutional law ...
In an unusual wrongful termination verdict against a judge and county officials, a federal jury in Sacramento has awarded $3....
State Bar & Bar Associations
Dixon, Herman Win Seats on State Bar Board of Governors
By Don De Benedictis
Traditional bar association activists defeated reform candidates in two contested elections for the State Bar Board of Govern...
^^Intellectual Property^^ Separate Spheres Addressing the Confusion Surrounding the Enablement Requirement By Douglas B. Luft...
Within five years, every citizen called to serve on a jury in Los Angeles County will either be called as a potential juror o...
Discipline
Ex-Lawyer Sentenced for Continuing to Practice
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - An Anaheim attorney accused of practicing law after being suspended from the State Bar and posing as another lawy...
SAN FRANCISCO - Marvin M. Mitchelson, the Los Angeles celebrity divorce lawyer who made palimony a household word, has been o...
Innovative Invention New Bill Slated to Reform Patent System By Brennan Swain, David Meyer and Rod S. Berman On May 26, the H...
Laggard lawyers will have at least until 2001 to catch up on past-due continuing legal education requirements, governors of t...
SAN FRANCISCO - A prominent Pasadena attorney who met someone described as a 14-year-old girl in an online chat room and atte...
Large Firms
School District Sues O'Melveny For Role in Belmont Imbroglio
By Martin Bergn
Los Angeles school officials filed a legal malpractice suit against the school district's former lawyer at O'Melveny & My...
Judges and Judiciary
Study Recommends Letting Jurors Discuss Case Early On
By Jean Guccione
Rejecting fears that juries will prejudge cases, a new study has found no harm in letting jurors discuss a case among themsel...