LOS ANGELES - Almost a year after the death of its founder and namesake, Johnnie Cochran, the Cochran Firm appears to be at a ...
Appellate Practice
Panel Gives Justice System 'F' in Drug Probation Case
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - If anybody can claim the system failed them, it's Gregory Gayton. An Orange County appellate court has issued a ...
ORANGE - Word & Brown Insurance Administrators Inc. renewed and expanded its lease for a total of 90,776 square feet of sp...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Battling Alcoholism Together
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - It's not often that a man convicted of attempted voluntary manslaughter scores a job with full benefits at the la...
Entertainment & Sports
Right to Bias-Free Workplace Outweighs 'Friends' Right to Vulgar Speech
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Crissy Sohl - The California Supreme Court heard arguments Feb. 14 in the sexual harassment case of Amaani L...
Forum Column - By Michael Bhargava - From Warner Bros.' perspective, Lyle v. Warner Bros. presents the classic situation of ba...
Focus Column - By Martha K. Gooding - The Federal Rules are playing catch-up on electronic discovery. After more than five yea...
LOS ANGELES - Superior Court Judge Robert J. Sandoval, one of the first openly gay prosecutors in Los Angeles, died Tuesday of...
Appellate Practice
Supreme Court Says Oil Giants Didn't Violate Antitrust Law
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Shell Oil and Texaco did not violate antitrust law when they formed a ...
SAN JOSE - A Los Angeles federal judge's ruling last week that Google Inc. probably infringed an adult Web site's copyrights ...
SACRAMENTO - California consumers will have to endure so-called junk faxes sent from out of state under a ruling by a federal...
Litigation
Three-Year Patent Dispute Ends With Purchase of Defendant
By Geneva Whitmarsh
LOS ANGELES - A three-year patent litigation dispute between two medical diagnostic companies has ended with the plaintiff agr...
State laws protecting employees from discrimination, intimidation and threats to their civil rights in the workplace are not p...
SACRAMENTO - California Chief Justice Ronald George was expected to renew his plea Tuesday for more judges, better retirement...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Scott T. Millington uses technology to engage prospective jurors in the ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Environmentalists have gone to court again to block a water agency's plans that critics believe would help fue...
Appellate Practice
Court Kills Countersuit in Oscar Crasher Litigation
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - It's a case with all the intrigue and drama worthy of an Academy Award: a sting operation to capture a party-cra...
SAN DIEGO - An employee at the El Cajon branch of San Diego's Superior Court who prosecutors believe stole cash to support a g...
LOS ANGELES - Any number of issues could have hit the table - energy regulation, prescription drug prices, Three-Strikes refo...
Marvell Buys Avago Unit - Marvell Technology Grup is buying the printer-chip unit of Avago Technologies for $240 million in ca...
RANCHO PALOS VERDES - A private individual purchased the Ocean Crest, a 90-unit apartment building at 6507 Ocean View Drive, f...
LOS ANGELES - Mario Rocha sits in state prison awaiting the outcome of his latest bid for freedom. It has been 10 years since ...
SUSPENSIONS Barone Jr., Leo Gerald , Willits Brubaker, Gregory A. , San Francisco Grady, Scott LaForce , Sherman Oaks PROBATI...
Focus Column - By Laurie L. Levenson - Wiretaps are in the news today. There seems to be plenty of spying to go around. Yet fe...
Product Liability
Law Would Further Awareness of Prescription Drug Dangers
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Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - Tens of millions of Americans may have been unknowingly exposed to serious side effects of...
SAN FRANCISCO - Sometimes there is a good excuse for selling illegal drugs, such as: "I'm working for the Drug Enforcement Adm...
RIVERSIDE - The state judicial watchdog agency Monday charged a Riverside judge with trying to use his influence as a bench of...
LOS ANGELES - When downtown Los Angeles-based Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges announced in September an increase in...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for an Encinitas resident to sue a San Diego FBI agent for wron...
LOS ANGELES - When it comes to police officers, a legal haze surrounds a seemingly simple question: What constitutes a person...