Unwilling to relinquish their ability to target some criminal defendants with the longest prison terms possible, prosecutors a...
If a prosecutor and public defender made a judge, you would get Laurie M. Earl, whose experience yields respect to attorneys o...
On the Move
San Diego County Superior Court Judge Michael T. Smyth is quick to credit others for his many achievements. ...
Kimberly Mueller has long had a penchant for civil rights, a fortunate affinity for the U.S. magistrate judge whose bench in C...
Blessed with a courtroom shark’s abilities and the disarming demeanor of Mr. Rogers, Jim Butler embodies a defense lawyer’s ni...
LOS ANGELES - At a time when most cities saw an increase in federal funding for homeless programs, cuts in Los Angeles undersc...
SAN FRANCISCO - California's shortage of trial judges has forced many court commissioners to take assignments that are normall...
LOS ANGELES - A group of Mission Viejo homeowners who lost a construction-defect case and had been ordered to pay $500,000 in ...
Government
Victims Can Garnish Defendants' Pensions, U.S. Appeals Court Rules
By Amelia Hansen
The government can garnish criminal defendants' retirement pensions as a means to compensate victims of their crimes, a federa...
LOS ANGELES - The head of the agency that oversees the immigration court system is stepping down with a pointed letter that bl...
Focus Column - By Lara M. Krieger - Lawyers sometimes make mistakes. Some of these errors crop up in the world of appeals, whe...
Entertainment & Sports
Getting Raiders' Appeal Into Scoring Position
By Eric Berkowitzn
Forum Column - By Arturo J. Gonzalez - You may be getting your clock cleaned in court, but don't forget to set a good record f...
Employment Column - By Angela Reddock and Anna Brathwaite - For an insightful look into the current state of the employer-empl...
Often, he pauses in the middle of a sentence. Then, he makes eye contact. As the approach repeats, it becomes oddly robotic. ...
Forum Column - By David M. Marquez - Don't be too proud of yourself when you throw paper in one of those blue plastic cans. Pa...
A late-night pizza order is delivered by a hungry, tired-looking driver. If that sounds familiar, here's a possible explanati...
Large Firms
'And I'd Like to Thank My Lawyer for Negotiating My Bonus'
By Jennifer Hammn
LOS ANGELES - And the money goes to ... There isn't an award for best behind-the-scenes deal making, but while millions of mo...
A federal court has ruled that by conserving water for fish and environmental purposes, federal officials did not breach contr...
In one of the biggest patent verdicts ever, a federal jury in San Diego found that Microsoft Corp. had infringed Alcatel-Lucen...
SAN FRANCISCO - Robert Nelson, a San Francisco partner at Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner, knows India. ...
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Judson Morris retired Wednesday after sitting on the bench for 20 years.
Northern California firms seemed eager to expand to the east in the past year. San Francisco-based firm Cooley Godward added a...
In what plaintiffs' lawyers described as the largest settlement for military personnel injured during the Iraq war, a federal ...
LOS ANGELES - First, the paparazzi sued him for allegedly stealing photos. Now, celebrity blogger Perez Hilton, the self-style...
Forum Column - By Jordan Susman - Recent developments in Jewish and Roman Catholic theology put constitutional debates in pers...
Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - Some of the drama and expense of family law court can be mitigated if the Legislature woul...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County recorder failed to promptly record the mortgage releases of 400,000 properties in 2006, a...
LOS ANGELES - Renewable-energy has experienced a bit of a boom in the past two years as the present-day economic costs and the...
Focus Column - By Natasha Shabani - Here's a guide for setting up a contest or promotion without getting your client tagged fo...