WASHINGTON - An on-the-record briefing by a justice in the Supreme Court pressroom - a retirement, perhaps? No, the extremely ...

Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn, No evidence is more damning than the confession of a defendant in a criminal case. The U.S. g...

LOS ANGELES - During the past two months, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Judith Chirlin has pored over the intricacies of th...

SAN LUIS OBISPO - A repeat sex offender has evaded prosecution on felony charges related to his escape from a state mental hos...

LOS ANGELES - After more than a decade of public service and almost three years in the governor's office, Sacramento attorney ...

1. Boeken v. Philip Morris Inc ., BC226593 (L.A. Super. Ct., June 6, 2001) Verdict : $5,539,127 compensatory damages & $3 ...

Breaking a promise can break the bank. Half of the cases on last year's list of the Top 10 plaintiffs' verdicts were breach-of...

Just because a defense contractor employees only 30 people doesn't mean it's a 98-pound weakling. ...

Although the stairway lacked a handrail in violation of a local building code, the attorney argued that having one wouldn't ha...

For 19-year-old Becky Burch, a license to drive was almost the end of her world. When a bob-tail truck broadsided her car in N...

Facing a nationwide class action with four million potential claimants, the Masonite Corp. turned to its insurer to pay for th...

Plaintiffs' attorney Lawrence H. Nagler didn't need to peer into the future to know that his clients, the makers of the "Psych...

After a jury slapped the B.F. Goodrich Co. and its subsidiary with almost $50 million in punitive damages as a result of alleg...

Case Name Amount Case Type Disposition 1. Anderson v. General Motors Corp., BC 116926 (L.A. Super. Ct., 1999) $4.9 billion (CA...

Sometimes, dirt isn't cheap. Especially if the land deal involves a big city fighting a budding business, with the two sides f...

Counsel won $21.4 million by showing the jury how the plaintiffs' prior counsel engaged in malpractice and fraud, which led th...

Case Name Award Case Type Disposition 1. Carroll v. Interstate Brands Corp., 995728 (San Francisco Super. Ct., verdict Aug. 2,...

It was a drive in the country with never-ending consequences for Cynthia Lampe. She changed from being an active radiographic ...

For Los Angeles transportation officials, it was a clear-cut case of negligence and front-loaded bidding. But a lawyer for the...

Forum Column - By Marc Levin, Many observers have taken recent revelations about Enron's extensive political contributions as ...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council has finalized a settlement between the city and seven journalists who were assaulte...

LOS ANGELES - From office hallways to online chat rooms, speculation spread like wildfire yesterday that San Francisco's Brobe...

Forum Column - By Marc Levin, Many observers have taken recent revelations about Enron's extensive political contributions as ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A proposal for new rules aimed at governing private arbitrators got mixed reviews Thursday as some consumer at...

LOS ANGELES - One of the county's most high-profile legal battles came to a halt Thursday when a Los Angeles Superior Court ju...

SAN JOSE - As a youngster, Robert Foley would catch the bus from home to watch his father try cases in Santa Clara County Supe...

LOS ANGELES - One of more than 500 potential jurors in a fatal San Francisco dog-mauling case said Thursday that she is unqual...

LOS ANGELES - It's not quite a public relations blitz. But for those who wear robes at the office, it may be as close as it ge...

Dicta Column - By Henry L. Hecht, Take a party's deposition, and the party's lawyer will attend. Take a nonparty's deposition,...

SAN FRANCISCO - Where in the world could an employee who has twice been accused of sexually harassing female co-workers - incl...