Sometimes, Billing for Travel Time Isn't the Way to Go By Gary Greenfield No hard-and-fast rules dictate how to bill travel t...
^^Capitol Account^^ By Chris Micheli One of the measures on the legislative agenda of the plaintiffs' bar is a bill to severel...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to consider whether a new police weapon against drug smuggling - squeezing bus ...
Charlie Grebing didn't know a lot about San Diego back in the 1960s. Although he had been accepted by UCLA and USC, someone u...
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors took the first step Tuesday toward possibly directing the district attorney's and...
SAN FRANCISCO - Current settlement talks between the University of California and Genentech Inc., over the biotech firm's all...
VENTURA - The deputy prosecutors and public defenders of Ventura County are expected to receive substantial pay raises over t...
The rapid growth of the high-technology market in San Diego came into focus this week when San Francisco-based Morrison &...
SACRAMENTO - A coalition made up largely of major insurers and business groups took the first step Tuesday toward placing a r...
Criminal
Political or Malicious? That Is the Question
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - He fit the portrait of any other canvasser, handing out flyers on a Huntington Beach street corner last July Four...
RIVERSIDE - A precedent on the use of statistical analysis of DNA evidence could emerge from a death-penalty case scheduled t...
Entertainment & Sports
Hollywood Mogul Indicted for $1.5 Billion International Scheme
By Garry Abrams
The decade-long saga of fugitive Italian financier and former Hollywood mogul Giancarlo Parretti reached another climax Tuesd...
Entertainment & Sports
Gamblers Saddled With Online Losses Turn to a Visa Defense
By David Kravetz
Thanks to a personal computer and the credit card in his wallet, Mark Eisele of North Carolina recently lost $15,000 gambling...
Judges and Judiciary
Family Law Jurist Sees Children as Center of Society
By Leonard Novarro
CHULA VISTA - Few people know kids the way Ernest Borunda does. Twenty-eight years ago, while a sole practitioner, he was ass...
In a verdict that reportedly is the largest trademark infringement judgment in U.S. history, a Los Angeles federal court jury...
A memorial service will be held Wednesday for John Bayne, a special-education rights advocate and legal malpractice defense l...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Judith C. Chirlin Receives National Award at CJA Meeting
By From Staff Reports
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Judith C. Chirlin has received the 1999 Distinguished Service Award of the National Center f...
Personal Injury & Torts
Parents of School Shooters Attempt to Oust Attorney
By Charles Ashby
DENVER - A Michigan attorney representing the family of a Columbine shooting victim should not be allowed to sue in Colorado ...
SAN JOSE - The contentious battle for the top prosecutor's job in Santa Cruz County is taking shape. Former acting district a...
Criminal
Second Lawyer Accused of Theft From Food Banks to Surrender
By Daniel Jennings
SAN BERNARDINO - An attorney charged with criminal conspiracy and a host of other crimes in what one official has termed one ...
The political chaos that set Stuart Hanlon's course as a young radical lawyer is back on his docket. In 1974 Hanlon was a thi...
By Chris Ford There was a time not long ago when the Internet was viewed as a latter-day Wild West. There were no rules and u...
By Leslie A. Gordon Bed sores, falls and broken bones are nightmares for anyone. But they're a particular burden for lawyers ...
Solo and Small Firms
MEDIATION KEEPS HOMEOWNER SWINGING In a matter that gives new meaning to three-strikes offenses, an attorney recently mediate...
Money Matters Reversing the Tide of Bankruptcy Filings Requires Community Outreach By Maureen A. Tighe The upsurge in nationw...
By Jennifer Byrd The year was 1984, but San Francisco lawyer Eva Jefferson Paterson felt like it was still the 1950s. Paterso...
Outside California, E-filing is Closer to Reality By Chris Ford While California courts talk about electronic filing, other j...
Investments
Pillsbury Madison XEROX MAKES COLORFUL COPY A NEW ACQUISITION Xerox's document division closed its biggest deal in nearly 20 ...
By Mark Radcliffe and Maureen Dorney In early November in Los Angeles, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number...