Government
Riverside Will Pay $1.6 Million to Settle Bias Claim by Black Ex-Officer
By Jim Adamekn
RIVERSIDE - A black former Riverside policeman who claimed fellow officers harassed him and racially discriminated against him...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
City Files Two 'Dumping' Suits Against Kaiser
By Anne Marie Ruff
LOS ANGELES - Carol Ann Reyes was 63 and homeless in March when hospital personnel from Kaiser Bellflower put her in a taxi - ...
LOS ANGELES - The regents of the University of California on Thursday quickly and unanimously approved creation of a new law s...
Discipline
Off-Color and on-Record, Cooley Keeps Rift With State DAs Going
By Carri Karuhnn
LOS ANGELES - With blunt profanity, District Attorney Steve Cooley put to rest any notion he has patched his rift with other p...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge's Plan Puts Former Mayor Atop S.F. Housing Agency
By Tim Hay
SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge is on the verge of handing over leadership of the city's beleaguered housing agency to ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The feds want a time out for an appeal, but plaintiffs attacking the Bush administration's controversial warra...
LOS ANGELES - At the ripe old age of 17, Krystina Kessler is racing against time. ...
Whether driving a boat or steering the court system, Orange County Superior Court Judge William L. Evans likes making things w...
LOS ANGELES - Maria Perez's four-year legal battle to stay in the U.S. has cost her money, time and now her faith that the nat...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Daniel J. Curtin Jr., Cecily T. Talbert and Todd A. Williams - Affordable housing, redevelopment and eminent...
Firm Watch
Busy Year of Wheeling and Dealing Puts Corporate Associates in Demand
By Emma Dewaldn
LOS ANGELES - Only five years ago, law firms turned away would-be transaction lawyers. But now, mid-level corporate associates...
FORUM COLUMN - By William M. Crosby - The business community has lamented both court decisions affirming employment-related cl...
SAN JOSE - Alameda County Superior Court Judge Robert B. Freedman was so busy subbing for two judges and maintaining his own c...
The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether criminal defendants who miss the start of their own trials whi...
A Butte County judge was publicly admonished Wednesday for failing to disclose that his father loaned him $71,000 toward his 2...
Discipline
Bar May Make Resigning During Disciplinary Hearings Harder
By Amy Yarbroughn
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys facing discipline might soon find it tougher to resign their way out of trouble. ...
Intellectual Property
Blogger Sees Irony of Earning an IP Warning From YouTube
By Anna Oberthurn
SAN FRANCISCO - A popular Silicon Valley blogger says YouTube has threatened him with legal action for showing the Web site's ...
WASHINGTON - All of a sudden, California's Democratic senators are the go-to women on federal environmental and election law. ...
LOS ANGELES - President Bush nominated former Congressman James E. Rogan, who served as a "House prosecutor" during the impeac...
SACRAMENTO - A tenacious former supermarket clerk has played a key role in making the prison guards' union one of the most pow...
Environmental
Lawsuit Seeks Climate Change Report From Bush Administration
By Dennis Pfaffn
SAN FRANCISCO - Against a stark backdrop of increasingly dire warnings about climate change, environmentalists Tuesday accused...
LOS ANGELES - This week brings big changes for former Assistant U.S. Attorney Adam Kamenstein, who joined McDermott Will &...
SANTA ANA - If all goes very well this week, UC Irvine will be in the market for a top-flight law school dean as early as next...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Sentencing Commission has launched its latest campaign to convince Congress that lowly crack cocaine dea...
Judges and Judiciary
Court Needs to Follow Its Own Rule of Not Relying on Legislative History
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Dylan B. Carp - A key part of the California Supreme Court's job is to interpret California statutes. ...
Investments
A Few Signs Can Point a Sleuth to Fraud in Financial Statements
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Stanley I. Foodman - When reviewing a financial statement, how do you know if the numbers it contains are tr...
Litigation
New E-Discovery Rules Mean Lawyers Must Learn the Language of Technology
By Rebecca Beyer
LOS ANGELES - When it comes to discovery and the need to produce electronic data for an opposing party in litigation, the excu...
FOCUS COLUMN - Daniel Ellis and Ute Krudewagen - Outsourcing is on the rise. ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Neutral in L.A. Was First Monterey Judge
By Anne Marie Ruff
Monterey County's first judge, Ralph Drummond, has died at 88. Drummond began and ended his career in Los Angeles, first as a...
Government
Election Gives Locals Bigger Role in Picking U.S. Attorney
By Carri Karuhnn
LOS ANGELES - Before last week's midterm elections, conservative attorneys with ties to the Bush administration were believed ...