Verdicts
Seeking Change, Lawyer Finds Several Careers, Peaking at Neutral
By Gabe Friedmann
LOS ANGELES - In 1988, Joel Grossman was representing the Writers Guild of America, West during the union's six-month strike a...
Forum Column - By Paul Woodhull - The federal government needs to regulate radio to ensure a balanced dialogue. ...
Verdicts
Two Firms Will Settle California Energy Crisis for $66 Million
By Dennis Pfaffn
SAN FRANCISCO - Half a dozen years after Californians experienced dimmed lights and power shortages as a result of a crisis in...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Justices Let Manufacturer Control Price Policy
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Explicitly overruling a century-old antitrust precedent, a divided U.S. Supreme Court held Thursday that it is no...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles County Superior Court jury ordered the nation's second-largest payroll processing firm to pay $15 ...
LOS ANGELES - A former defense attorney for Phil Spector will avoid jail for now after the California Supreme Court late Wedne...
SANTA ANA - One Mission Viejo doctor must pay $11.7 million to a man left nearly paralyzed by strokes, but another doctor owes...
Focus Column - By Dennis F. Moss - An upcoming California Supreme Court verdict will decide the future of class-action protect...
LOS ANGELES - Vitesse Semiconductors, a Camarillo-based company that discovered problems with its stock-options grants and acc...
Patricia Frobes, general counsel at The Irvine Co. and widely considered one of the nation's top real estate attorneys, hopes ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
State’s Ban on Race Use Exceeds Court’s
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Although Thursday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down two voluntary school integration plans significantly ...
San Bernardino County Superior Judge Raymond C. Youngquist has retired after 18 years on the bench.
The Los Angeles firm will be in the historic Hunter-Dulin Building and co-captained by partners Christopher L. Wanger and T. H...
Whether calling balls and strikes on the radio or officiating cases from the bench, Judge Steve Malone focuses on respect fo...
LOS ANGELES - Export and import values were up 8.3 percent and 5.6 percent, respectively, in April at the Los Angeles Customs ...
A Los Angeles lawyer's work for a defendant in a rape case was so bad that a state appellate panel on Wednesday vacated the ma...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Israeli Forbearance on Torture Holds a Valuable Lesson for America
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By Jordan Susman - Our Middle East allies have much to teach the United States about balancing freedom and secu...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
In Slap at Court, Lawmakers Push for Retroactive Wage-Bias Lawsuits
By David Houstonn
SACRAMENTO - In a rebuke of the conservative members of the U.S. Supreme Court, Democratic state lawmakers are trying to preve...
OS ANGELES - Former U.S. Attorney General William French Smith, a close confidant of President Reagan's who helped formulate m...
WASHINGTON - With three of the California's four U.S. attorney positions vacant with 18 months of the Bush administration to g...
Forum Column - By Peter Scheer - Corporate America's attempt to move away from business transparency will undermine the streng...
LOS ANGELES - Barring a last-minute intervention by the California Supreme Court, a former defense attorney for Phil Spector f...
Judge Who Upheld Same-Sex Unions Carries on, Respected by Complex Litigation Bar ...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Two Judges Lean Toward Panel for Prison Medical Care
By David Houstonn
SACRAMENTO - Two federal-court judges, frustrated with the state's inability to provide adequate mental and medical care to pr...
LOS ANGELES - Plaintiffs' lawyers Melvyn I. Weiss and William S. Lerach have rejected an offer to plead guilty to criminal cha...
Handling a crushing family law caseload, Court Commissioner Gregory Ward Dwyer wins admirers with his consistency in l...
Law Practice
Panel Publicly Censures Judge for Delays, False Affidavits
By Amy Yarbroughn
Members of a state panel teetered on removing Alameda County Superior Court Judge Robert B. Freedman from the bench but decide...
Reared in an artistic family, with many opportunities to excel, Judge Caryl A. Lee applies those lessons to help kids in her d...
Corporate
Brocade CEO's Defense Clashes With Judge in Backdating Trial
By Jennifer Hammn
SAN FRANCISCO - The simmering tension between former Brocade Communications Systems Inc. Chief Executive Officer Gregory Reyes...
Litigation
Firm Denies Conflict of Interest in Bar Review Course Case
By Jennifer Hammn
Web Exclusive - Having five named plaintiffs who are requesting either $25,000 or $75,000 for participating in the litigation ...