SAN FRANCISCO - It's been called the "opt-out revolution" - an alarming trend of highly qualified women ditching the career tr...
Few combinations lead to the cha-ching of billable hours quite like a dead rich guy and an unhappy heir. ...
The issue of generic causation - i.e. whether some toxin T or hazardous substance S has the general capacity to cause disease ...
LOS ANGELES - A California appeals court ruled that an attorney who brings suit against a current client may still be entitled...
LOS ANGELES - Advocates of tort reform found a reason to gripe and a reason to be hopeful this U.S. Supreme Court session. ...
SACRAMENTO - California's crime rate among youth has dropped to its lowest level in 30 years while at the same time the state ...
Litigation
Vioxx Lawyers Fight Consolidation in Next California Cases
By Bobbi Murrayn
LOS ANGELES - The company wants to try the cases separately. The plaintiffs have no problem consolidating some, and the judge ...
Litigation
'Extreme Makeover' Arbitration Provision Wins Panel's Sympathy for Orphans
By John Roemer
The five Higgins orphans who appeared on ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" have won a Los Angeles appellate court's sympa...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against two foreign nationals Wednesday who were seeking to overturn their convictio...
LOS ANGELES - When Judge Antonio Barreto went to Ireland last year, his most recent high-profile case followed him. ...
LOS ANGELES - Fifty years ago today , a secretary's telephone conversation transformed the way studios turn ideas into movies....
Entertainment & Sports
Broad Release Protects Studio and J.Lo in 'Flashdance' Redux
By David Minkown
When you purchase the rights to someone's life story, one of the rights you typically buy is the right not to get sued based o...
'Early in life, we, as foster children, must grow up extremely fast. Sometimes we lose a sense of childhood that some children...
If you subscribe to publications like "Narrow Gauge & Short Line Gazette" and "Model Railroader," you already may be famil...
A man serving more than six years in prison for arson at a San Diego synagogue must be retried because the judge issued flawed...
Labor/Employment
Lower Costs Are Only One Factor in Picking a Provider
By Anne Marie Ruff
MUMBAI, India - American Jay Ethington is a criminal defense attorney with a solo practice. He uses a legal process outsourcin...
Verdicts
Judge's Lashing of KPMG Prosecutors Heartens White-Collar Defenders
By Gabe Friedmann
LOS ANGELES - Members of California's white-collar criminal bar said Tuesday that an opinion by a New York federal judge could...
MUMBAI, India - Sanjay Kamlani is co-chief executive officer of Pangea3, a legal outsourcing firm where 55 Indian lawyers work...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge Tuesday tentatively cleared the way for a lawsuit to force the University of California system t...
Judges and Judiciary
Late Budget Maneuver Adds Judges and Increases Judicial Raises
By Savannah Blackwelln
SAN FRANCISCO - A Santa Cruz assemblyman Monday night inserted funding into the 2006-07 state budget for 50 new judges - twice...
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for Merck & Co. and plaintiffs in the Vioxx litigation will meet with the judge in a Los Angeles cou...
SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Magistrate Judge Lawrence J. O'Neill wastes no time. ...
MARTINEZ - About 90 deputy public defenders and other court employees went on strike along with 6,000 Contra Costa County work...
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, facing re-election and trying to stave off a court takeover of the state's prison sys...
Litigation
Medical Journal Runs Correction on Study of Vioxx Data
By Sandra Hernandezn
LOS ANGELES - On the eve of the first California Vioxx trial, the drug's manufacturer was dealt a potentially devastating blow...
Administrative/Regulatory
Daily Journal Reporter Is Named Press Club Journalist of Year
By Anne Marie Ruff
LOS ANGELES - Daily Journal staff writer Anat Rubin has been named print journalist of the year by the Los Angeles Press Club....
LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Supreme Court decided Monday to stay out of Winnie the Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood. ...
Lawyers and judges do not reflect the ethnic and racial diversity of our state - a fact starkly illustrated by the statistical...
LOS ANGELES - Retired Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Leonard P. Edwards will become the first Judge-in-Residence for ...
LOS ANGELES - A federal lawsuit to be brought on behalf of four siblings alleges Pasadena school district officials are illega...