U.S. District Judge Dickran Tevrizian Monday denied a bid by the Los Angeles city attorney's office to delay for six months di...

Tim R. Aguilar, executive officer of Los Angeles Superior Court's Compton branch, was removed from his job last week and place...

Sterling "Ernie" Norris, a highly regarded Los Angeles County prosecutor who obtained a death verdict in the 1980s against Fre...

SAN FRANCISCO - In an effort to blunt criticism of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, a year-long evaluation by a court co...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Corrections Department has disclosed that it will expand its internal investigation of the shoo...

By Marty Graham Special to e-merging Bold New World, one of Southern California's oldest technology incubator firms, took a b...

The proponents wore blue buttons, the opponents yellow, but the hot-button issue that divided them was AB1800, proposed legisl...

Kristian Miccio wants to make sure lawyers come out of Western State University College of Law in Fullerton a little smarter ...

It's a good thing Lisa Kenkel likes being immersed in her job. When a deal is rushing forward at roaring speeds, representing...

SAN BERNARDINO - Samuel Elias Rangel spent less than four hours at Patton State Hospital before he died, as orderlies attempte...

SMALL FIRMS Ex-tennis pro Laura J. Enos went to law school courtesy of her celebrity students and embarked on a successful car...

BOTTOM LINE Internet access for firms comes in a variety of methods, from dial-up, ISDN, DSL, cable, T-1 to wireless systems. ...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Edward Y. Kakita's last day on the bench will be May 8, his 60th birthday. Kakita is retiring...

^^First Principles^^ By John C. Eastman The U.S. Supreme Court is once again visiting the issue of prayer in public schools. O...

The chief financial officer of the State Bar of California, T. William Melis, has resigned. Melis, whose last day was Friday, ...

Corporate Law Last Leg A corporate entity exists until its affairs are wound up, excepting only to be sued in a quiet-title ac...

WEBVAN WONDERLAND Alan Chesick, general counsel of online grocer Webvan Group Inc., believes the company will one day deliver ...

Tribbling Up Like those loveable, furry balls on the early 'Star Trek' episode, lawyers at a Santa Monica firm are multiplying...

LARGE FIRMS Legal recruiters are living high on the hog now that California's major firms have upped associate salaries to new...

Ancillary Authors Federal Courts Differ on Criteria for Co-Authorship The safest practice is not to permit any contribution fr...

A once-prominent personal injury attorney with a reputation for charming juries into large verdicts has returned to the courtr...

Seymour Greitzer, founder of Glendale University College of Law, died March 3 from chronic lymphocytik leukemia. He was 75. Gr...

^^PRODUCT LIABILITY^^ The incident that led to the largest personal injury verdict in history, Anderson v. General Motors Corp...

^^COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT^^ Despite Columbia Picture Television Inc.'s termination of licensing agreements with C. Elvin Feltne...

SAN DIEGO - When Edward J. Schwartz was a boy, he attended kindergarten on the site where San Diego's federal courthouse now s...

In one of the largest medical malpractice verdicts ever awarded in Los Angeles County , Vasquez v. Lin , BC191183 (Los Angeles...

According to her testimony in Henley v. Philip Morris Inc ., 995172 (San Francisco Superior Court, Feb. 9-10, 1999), Patricia ...

SAN DIEGO - Madge Bradley, who studied law in a correspondence school and became San Diego County's first female judge, died W...

A Northridge couple who allegedly used $634,000 in insurance proceeds to not only repair but remodel their earthquake-damaged ...

WASHINGTON - Appearing before a House subcommittee Thursday, Los Angeles' Chief U.S. District Judge Terry J. Hatter Jr. urged ...