Richard Scheuler embarked on his legal career in an ailing VW bug. Now he presides over a misdemeanor calendar in Tehama Coun...
Vista Judge David J. Danielsen, like Mark Twain, who he physically and philosophically resembles, appreciates the comedic and ...
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr opened its Los Angeles office about a year ago and has now burst onto the scene, secur...
New statute does not revoke previous rule.
The State Bar will honor Los Angeles County Public Defender Michael P. Judge with a 2008 diversity award.
U.S. District Judge Manuel L. Real of Los Angeles, no stranger to criticism by federal appellate panels, now has come under th...
Wanderlust once led Mark Curry around the world. Now the former star prosecutor has embarked on a new adventure, as a member o...
A state appellate court Friday endorsed a new defense for price-fixing cases in California. ...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
State Closes Book on Illegal Policy Rescissions
By Evan George
The state's HMO watchdog agency this month closed its sweeping yearlong investigation into the insurance industry's controvers...
The process of filing a writ petition is fraught with opportunities for missteps, writes Joan Wolff. - Focus Column ...
What radio host Michael Savage said about minority children and those with autism is nothing short of hate-speech directed at ...
Self-Assessment Test by Hon. Alex Ricciardulli ...
A state appeal court has reversed roughly $1.1 million in sanctions against plaintiffs and their attorneys in a toxic tort law...
While Edna Funes sat in a San Bernardino jail last week awaiting an immigration trial, her 5-year-old, U.S.-born son sat at ho...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Judiciary Still Sorely Lacking When It Comes to Real Diversity
By Sara Libbyn
In a society that professes to worship diversity, an able, civic-minded fellow should be able to question orthodoxy without ni...
Federal prosecutors unveiled six recordings of private eye Anthony Pellicano feeding attorney Terry N. Christensen intimate de...
Web Exclusive - The lawyer for accused distributor of obscenity Ira Isaacs filed a motion Friday to dismiss his client's case ...
The lawyer for MGA Entertainment asked a judge Friday to declare a mistrial in the Bratz doll federal court custody fight, cla...
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
Chicago-based Hinshaw & Culbertson promoted 15 attorneys to partner, including Wendy Chang of the firm's Los Angeles office.
Three decades after her stay-at-home-mom plan disintegrated, Lesley C. Green sits on the Los Angeles County Superior Court be...
At 8, Helena R. Gweon came from Korea to California. She adapted, graduated from Harvard Law and now sits on the Sacramento ...
James M. Cooper has a goal that is likely to delight some young law students - and possibly cause some head-shaking among old-...
As general counsel of Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. since 1984, John A. Schulman has seen his share of upheaval in the enter...
Law Practice
Chief Kozinski Won't Speak at 9th Circuit's Annual Conclave
By John Roemer
Alex Kozinski, beset by an investigation into racy photos on his Web site, has scratched his public appearances at the 9th U.S...
Defense lawyers officially have a new weapon in their arsenal to get their clients' convictions overturned on appeal. ...
Farm workers and health and environmental advocates sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Thursday to ban a pesticide ...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Meal and Break Class Actions: On the 'Brink' of Extinction?
By Sara Libbyn
The Court of Appeal's opinion in Brinker Restaurant Corp. v. Superior Court (Hohnbaum), 2008 DJDAR 11267, addresses sev...
Lawyers for "Girls Gone Wild" creator Joe Francis, who is facing federal tax evasion charges, Thursday filed a civil complaint...
Read Ambler loved being a judge. But with college costs looming for several of his children, he retired in 2000 and took a job...