The American Bar Association has released a report that examines the quality of legal representation provided to indigent chi...
It's 8 p.m. and she's already spent 10 hours in juvenile court. Cynthia Cohan is frantic. The father of one of her clients, a...
SACRAMENTO - Assembly Speaker Antonio Villaraigosa's measure to raise the $250,000 cap on noneconomic damages in medical malp...
Intellectual Property
States Immunity From Patent Suits Goes Before High Court
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Weighing issues of major concern to intellectual property attorneys, the Supreme Court this week will consider w...
The phone rings constantly in this place where the work never ends. And when a kid's in trouble, everything else gets put on ...
Judges and Judiciary
Citing Disrespect for Defense Counsel, Letts Leaves SIS Case
By Martin Bergn
In an extraordinary 10-page ruling, U.S. District Judge J. Spencer Letts Wednesday recused himself from a bitterly fought pol...
Defense attorney Larry Longo, fired by the Los Angeles County district attorney's office in 1997 for inappropriate ties to De...
SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County Superior Court judge cleared prosecutor Julius Finkelstein to continue pursuing Avant Corp. f...
A Littler Mendelson lawyer accused of posing as opposing counsel to obtain confidential information from witnesses in a wrong...
Government
Possible Candidates to Unseat S.F. District Attorney Discussed
By Laura Impellizzeri
SAN FRANCISCO - With three months left before the deadline to declare for district attorney, the names of at least eight San ...
The Commission on Judicial Performance's newest and youngest member also has a Hollywood connection - and becomes the fourth ...
Intellectual Property
Judge Denies Genentech Motion For Mistrial Over News Stories
By Pamela Mac Lean
On the fourth day of Genentech's Protropin patent infringement trial, a federal judge rejected the biotech firm's request for...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Attendees at the American Bar Association's Ninth National Conference on Children and the Law shared their...
Environmental
Farmers Challenge EPA Right To Regulate Runoff Into Rivers
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Farm and timber interests have launched a major court challenge of the federal government's authority to regu...
Government
Jury Clears San Bernardino in Administrators Harassment Suit
By Matthew Heller
INDIO - In a stunning conclusion to an eight-year legal battle, a jury has cleared the county of San Bernardino of failing to...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court announced Wednesday that it will decide the constitutionality of a term-limits i...
In an unusual request, Los Angeles County prosecutors have asked the judge in the upcoming murder retrial of a personal injur...
A special master has ruled that Los Angeles city officials and the attorneys who gave them advice about a federal overtime la...
Los Angeles native Tamiko S. Brown is not only the first member of her family to attend college, she also is the first to hav...
SACRAMENTO - The Association for California Tort Reform will change its name to Civil Justice Association of California, effe...
SAN FRANCISCO - David Coleman has been named the new public defender in Contra Costa County, making him the first black publi...
RIVERSIDE - When she attended a Riverside County day-care center for senior citizens in the mid-1990s, Aurelia Solano apparen...
Judges and Judiciary
Villaraigosa Adds Crystal Lui to Judicial Agency
By Jean Guccione
Crystal Lui, the wife of retired Los Angeles Court of Appeal Justice Elwood Lui, has been named to the Commission on Judicial...
WASHINGTON - Portraying himself as a proud foot soldier following the well-intentioned but misguided marching orders of the s...
Calling allegations of misconduct against Appellate Justice J. Anthony Kline "legally unsound," the California Judges Associa...
SAN FRANCISCO - Trading the bright lights of San Francisco for the somewhat more subdued glow of the state capital is against...
After prosecutors told jurors Tuesday that defendants in Operation Casablanca willingly participated in a massive money-laund...
Judges and Judiciary
Senate Judiciary Committee Passes Electronic Filing Measure
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - E-mail and Web pages could become standard tools for lawyers and consumers who use the civil justice system, und...
Former Menendez brothers prosecutor David Conn has filed suit against his ex-boss, Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil G...
Criminal
Legislature Takes a Step Toward Narrowing Felony-Murder Rule
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - A half-dozen young men get into a brawl over a drug deal gone bad. One of the four buyers stabs the two dealers....