LOS ANGELES - As the Los Angeles trial of a former Roman Catholic priest neared the end Thursday, both sides agreed on one th...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Search for the Right Neutral Moves to the Web
By Kenneth Davis
LOS ANGELES - Litigators looking for the right neutral can now use the Internet to find a mediator or arbitrator. The Californ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court unanimously has agreed to decide whether relatives of convicted criminals can be ...
LOS ANGELES - When Southern California businessman Bill Simon ran for governor in 2002, incumbent Gray Davis blasted him in TV...
SANTA ANA - Jurors are supposed to tell one another whether they think a witness lied or told the truth. But they virtually ne...
SAN DIEGO - Rather than helping women, the nation's tough laws against sexual harassment segregate females and make it harder ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco man must stand trial for the first-degree gunshot murders of two accomplices during an allege...
Entertainment & Sports
Jury Says Angels Can Keep L.A. in Team Name
By Don De Benedictis
SANTA ANA - An Orange County jury voted late Thursday to let the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim retain their unusual name, soun...
Labor/Employment
'Patten' Warns Employers About Reach of Whistle-Blower Retaliation
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Michelle A. Reinglass - In a case of apparent first impression, the 3rd District Court of Appeal in Pat...
DISBARMENTS Cover, Eric A , Fresno Davis, Bret Jay , Los Angeles Dorsa, Lawrence Rodger , Temecula Valley, David Russell , San...
SAN BERNARDINO - Taking the helm of San Bernardino County Superior Court means worrying about things like a dilapidated 80-yea...
LOS ANGELES - Corri Planck and her partner, Dianne Hardy-Garcia, became foster parents to Sarah Angeline Chavez last year. Pla...
Focus Column - By Kirk A. Pasich - Insurance brokers play a significant role in the procurement and negotiation of policies. T...
Forum Column - By David Halberstadter - By now, James Frey has become a national literary pariah. His supposed autobiography, ...
LOS ANGELES - A Santa Monica car dealership has agreed to pay $1.37 million to settle a deceptive practices civil lawsuit, th...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Desperately Seeking Promising Biotech Companies to Invest In
By Geneva Whitmarsh
LOS ANGELES - With big pharmaceutical companies flush with cash but struggling to find new drugs, acquiring all or part of pr...
LOS ANGELES - When it comes to securities class-action settlements, 2005 probably will be remembered for the announcement of t...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco prosecutor pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal drug charges while avoiding a trial on more ser...
SAN FRANCISCO- A Silicon Valley engineer tried to defend himself in an insider trading trial by claiming he had never read a c...
LOS ANGELES - Here's a sure-fire recipe for legal trouble: Take some famous lawyers, combine with cash in duffel bags. Wait fo...
LOS ANGELES - Paul S. Aronzon, a partner in the Los Angeles office of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, is leaving the firm...
LOS ANGELES - The indictment has been unsealed. The prosecutors and defense attorneys are in place. But one of the most critic...
Environmental
Church Leader Gets Tangled Up In Federal Shark-Poaching Case
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Six people, including the head of an East Bay Unification Church congregation, have been indicted in an allege...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Wins Mayoral Election by 2-1 Margin
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - By a 2-1 margin, voters have put a Superior Court judge in the mayor's office of this city. Voters chose Pat...
SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed two veteran prosecutors to the Los Angeles County Superior Court on Tues...
SILICON VALLEY - James Pooley is a man without a law firm. Pooley made headlines in late January when he split Milbank, Tweed,...
Forum Column - By Gerald Sato - In "Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights" (Random House 2006), Yale Law Professor ...
Appellate Practice
Appellate Lawyers Would Be Wise to File Under New Rules
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Hieu Hoang - The first place to start in any appeal - and particularly if the appellate lawyer does not prac...
Letter to the Editor - The Bush regime's recent public relations campaign justifying the secret wiretaps of international call...
Administrative/Regulatory
Californians Need to Constrain Harshness of Three-Strikes Law
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Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - It is axiomatic in Anglo-American juridical philosophy that the punishment fit the crime. ...