SAN FRANCISCO - The government is sticking to its argument: No aspect of an illegal-surveillance lawsuit against telecommunica...
Criminal
California Needs a Sentencing Commission, Expert Tells Panel
By David Houstonn
SACRAMENTO - California is falling behind other states in reducing prison overcrowding and inmate recidivism and should establ...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday made it easier for workers to sue their employers when they believe they were ...
Los Angeles County Mental Health Court Commissioner Laura Hymowitz relishes each day of work in the converted pickle factory.
Forum Column - By Scott William Davenport - Recent statistics demonstrate that nearly 70 percent of all paroled felons in the ...
RIVERSIDE - William H. Sullivan, a former Riverside probate judge who was admonished by the state judicial watchdog agency in ...
Corporate
Has the Ban on Corporations Practicing Medicine Become Outdated and Untenable?
By Amy Kalinn
Focus Column - By Jay Paik - 'One who practices a profession is directly responsible to his patient or client. Hence he cannot...
LOS ANGELES - When Charles Manson lunged at Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Charles H. Older in the courtroom, saying,...
Family
Opening Statements in Polygamist's Murder Trial Are Scheduled Monday
By Jim Adamekn
SAN DIEGO - It was Oct. 21, 2003, and San Diego police investigators were interviewing friends of Joy Risker, trying to learn ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Continuing a spate of judicial appointments, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed a litigator to the Santa Cla...
Insurance
Bad Investing, Not Lawsuits, Cause Med-Mal Insurance Crisis
By Jennifer Hammn
LOS ANGELES - Seeking to dispel the widely held belief that lawsuits are the cause of the nation's medical-malpractice insuran...
LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors have indicted a Marina Del Rey personal-injury attorney on conspiracy and tax counts after h...
SAN FRANCISCO - Youth offenders who get in trouble while on parole rarely receive prompt hearings to defend themselves, are ro...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
An Early Look Into Med-Mal Mediation Saves Money for All
By Amy Kalinn
Focus Column - By Robert S. Luft - In a 1986 address to the American Law Institute, Chief Justice Warren Burger defined the ro...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
L.A. Court Borrows Northern District Tool for ADR Toolbox
By Anne Marie Ruff
LOS ANGELES - Imagine hearing your opposition's arguments and knowing what evidence it will present even before you go to cour...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Conflicts Dog Small Field of Health Law Attorneys
By Peter Zuckerman
LOS ANGELES - Attorney Craig Cannizzo's client was running out of options: The hospital administrator had gone through a list ...
The California Supreme Court on Wednesday revived a three-year-old lawsuit filed against the Los Angeles Police Department by ...
OAKLAND - A driver evading police sped the wrong direction down a one-way street in front of the Alameda County courthouse las...
LOS ANGELES - In Jeannette Popp's nightmare, her daughter sat bruised, naked, on her knees, begging for her life with a gun to...
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for Merck & Co. were pleased with this week's decision by a Los Angeles Superior Court judge to try ...
WASHINGTON - A Republican proposal to split the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals into two is back from the dead. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A 15-judge panel of a federal appeals court today is scheduled to consider whether a civil rights-era voting l...
SAN FRANCISCO - After 33 years as a mainstay at Hanson Bridgett Marcus Vlahos & Rudy, Laurence W. Kessenick is starting hi...
Forum Column - By Robert Phillips and Brett Jackson - Protection against trademark dilution has long been an element of state ...
Sentencing guidelines, juror service and disaster planning will be among the topics of discussion at the upcoming 9th Circuit ...
Focus Column - By Randy Broberg and Monique Ho - France has long earned a reputation for nationalism and the defense of the Fr...
Forum Column - By Greg Lukianoff - You know a possible way to lower the murder rate in this country? Simply declare all 16- to...
Firm Watch
Bursting at Boutique Seams, Littler Expands Cross-Country
By William Arthur Haynes
SAN FRANCISCO - The first half of 2006 has been a period of substantial growth for Littler Mendelson, the labor and employment...
Product Liability
Concerns About Due Process Cause Judge to Sever Vioxx Cases
By Bobbi Murrayn
LOS ANGELES - With less than a day to go before jury selection begins in California's first Vioxx liability trial, a Los Angel...
Appellate Practice
Court Says Arbitrator Can Be Sued for Failing to Explain Withdrawal From Case
By Itir Yakarn
Arbitrators are not immune from liability if they withdraw from a case without explaining why, a state appellate court ruled T...