Adult Video Maker Settles Obscenity Suit
By Christina Landers
LOS ANGELES - What might have been the first obscenity trial in Los Angeles in nearly 10 years settled Wednesday before making...
Justices Indicate Support of Contingency Fees
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Reviewing an issue that affects thousands of elderly, widowed and disabled people each year, Supreme Court justic...
'Legal Giant' Argued Japanese Internment Case
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - Fred Okrand, legal director emeritus of the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California and...
Mercury in Fillings Caused Autism, Family Claims
By Erin Carroll
LOS ANGELES - A Burbank family has sued the American Dental Association and 29 other dental corporations, claiming that they c...
Jurors Decide Four Counts in Dog Mauling Case
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - One day after they began their deliberations, jurors in the trial of two San Francisco attorneys accused in the ...
State Court To Review Mandatory Ad Programs
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court voted Wednesday to revisit the free speech controversy surrounding state-sponsore...
Courts Shouldn't Allow HMOs to Escape Accountability
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Steven Heimberg - The box office success of "John Q.," a dramatization of ordinary people's frustration with...
Libel Suit Upheld Over CNN Retraction of Vietnam Story
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Wednesday reinstated a portion of the defamation claim against Cable News Network ove...
Slander Suit Is No Laughing Matter
By Gina Keating
LOS ANGELES - Ben Shimpff admits he's not perfect. But he's no pervert. Which is why, according to his lawsuit, he got very up...
Water Well Before Sowing Recruitment Seeds
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By Barbara Lewis and Dan Otto - The sluggish economy is finally showing signs of recovery. Law firms who alread...
Keep It Simple, Stupid
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By Robert M. Unterberger - Lawyers generally believe that the words they use in motions and briefs are the key ...
Coverage May Be Available for Accounting Liability
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Kirk A. Pasich - In recent months, the accounting practices of major corporations have been under ever-incre...
Slander Suit Is No Laughing Matter
By Gina Keating
LOS ANGELES - Ben Shimpff admits he's not perfect. But he's no pervert. Which is why, according to his lawsuit, he got very up...
Justices Indicate Support of Contingency Fees
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Reviewing an issue that affects thousands of elderly, widowed and disabled people each year, Supreme Court justic...
Engineer Sues ICANN Over Restrictions by Web Overseer
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - The organization created to manage the Internet domain-name system is being sued by a member of its board of d...
Kline Pleads Not Guilty to Lesser Sex Charge
By Jenna Bordelon
SANTA ANA - An Orange County judge pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges in an amended complaint accusing him of oral copulati...
U.S. Treats Radical Greens As If They Were Terrorists
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Steven Zak - These are strange times we live in, when any disfavored group can be labeled "terrorists" and, ...
Children's Advocate Finds New Home at Foundation
By Cheryl Romo
LOS ANGELES - One of the county's most outspoken and articulate advocates on behalf of the rights of foster children is moving...
To Inherit, Foster Child Must Prove Some Intent to Adopt
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Marshal A. Oldman and Susan J. Cooley - In Estate of Ford , 2002 DJDAR 2021 (Cal. App. Feb. 21, 2002)...
Judges, Clergy Will Begin Dialogue
By Erin Carroll
LOS ANGELES - Growing up the son of a minister in East Los Angeles and in San Francisco's Mission District, Commissioner David...
Court Upholds Attorney's Disqualification for Bribery
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - West Hollywood lawyer Brian D. Witzer tried to bribe witnesses and must be disqualified from representing clie...
Counsel General for Air Force Feels Sense of Mission
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - They are rare, those up-and-comers whose talent so overshadows their greenness that employers beckon them to the f...
Republicrat Grip
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By Jeff E. Jared - Campaign finance reform is a bad idea, I don't care what Sen. John McCain of Arizona thinks....
DOJ Opposes Easing Penalty for Crack Cocaine
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice announced Tuesday it is aggressively opposing any moves to change federal crack and pow...
Judge in Mauling Case Threatens to Jail Lawyer
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - The case against two San Francisco lawyers charged in the dog-mauling death of a neighbor went to a Los Angeles ...
Pushing to Move Court Forward
By Amy Tatko
LOS ANGELES - Justice Thomas E. Hollenhorst was only 34 when he had the worst week of his life. He was the acting district att...
MoFo Names Head of Office
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Morrison & Foerster has named Eugene Illovsky, a member of its busy white-collar criminal defense practice...
State Prosecutor Always Thought of Friends
By Claude Walbert
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Arpie Balekjian, a deputy state attorney general whose death left dozens of her "b...
U.S. Treats Radical Greens As If They Were Terrorists
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Steven Zak - These are strange times we live in, when any disfavored group can be labeled "terrorists" and, ...
To Inherit, Foster Child Must Prove Some Intent to Adopt
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Marshal A. Oldman and Susan J. Cooley - In Estate of Ford, 2002 DJDAR 2021 (Cal. App. Feb. 21, 2002...