LOS ANGELES - Richard Goldman, dean of the Santa Barbara and Ventura Colleges of Law, has died. ...
FORUM COLUMN - By Ellen Aprill - In Murphy v. U.S., 05-5139, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit he...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury Tuesday awarded $4 million to the former hostess of a popular celebrity eatery in Malibu, who...
SAN FRANCISCO - The sports trainer who has opted to sit in prison rather than testify about whether his old friend Barry Bonds...
Judges and Judiciary
State's Justices Weigh Teenager's Search Protections on Probation
By Aris Davoudiann
SANTA BARBARA -The California Supreme Court seemed split Tuesday on whether juveniles on probation should have the same protec...
LOS ANGELES - The federal prosecutor whose cross-examination of Enron executive Kenneth Lay was described by one observer as "...
SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will re-examine three major patents on human embryonic stem cells held by...
SACRAMENTO - A Southern California Indian tribe that has contributed millions of dollars to political campaigns and causes wil...
Judges and Judiciary
Labor Board Ruling Keeps Some Nurses From Unions
By Annemarie Ruffn
Permanent charge nurses are supervisors and cannot enjoy U.S. union protections, the National Labor Relations Board ruled Tues...
Whether reading history or applying the lessons of his childhood move from Cuba, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Jesse...
LOS ANGELES - Mark Bell is one of roughly 100 doctors in the Emergent Medical Associates group that staff 10 emergency departm...
Judges and Judiciary
How Bad Is Bad? Courts Conflict on Reprehensibility Guide
By Eric Berkowitzn
FOCUS COLUMN - By David T. Biderman and Gabriel Liao - The application of the BMW of North America Inc. v. Gore, 517 U.S. 559 ...
LOS ANGELES - A challenge to a Justice Department policy used to gain the cooperation of companies under white-collar criminal...
LOS ANGELES - A former Studio City attorney was charged Monday with bilking $1.4 million from the trust funds of two clients w...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court opened its 2006 term on Monday by rejecting nearly 1,900 appeals that had piled up over the sum...
Judges and Judiciary
Everything You Need to Know About the State Bar Court and Then Some
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Barbara W. Ravitz - When the California Supreme Court first appointed me to its Applicant Evaluation and Nom...
Zoning, Planning and Use
New City Squares Off Against Santa Barbara County Over Land Use
By Itir Yakarn
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court will consider Tuesday how much power a newly incorporated city has to block a hou...
Immigration
Court to Review Drug Provision of 1996 Immigration Reform
By Sandra Hernandezn
LOS ANGELES - For Avinesh Naidu the hardest part of each day comes early, just after the sun rises over the Mira Loma Detentio...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Former State Bar President Shallenberger Is Found Dead
By Susan Mcraen
LOS ANGELES - Garvin F. Shallenberger, former president of the State Bar of California and the Orange County Bar Association a...
SACRAMENTO - Former California Attorney General John Van de Kamp said Monday that he believes Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger misun...
Corporate
Is the Los Angeles Times in Play or Is Its Chicago Parent on Block?
By Rick Kennedyn
COLUMN - It was showdown week in the media industry. A stand-off between management and ownership at the Los Angeles Times gav...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco County Superior Court judge has refused to change his mind against requiring canned tuna maker...
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Franklin E. Bondonno intently scanned the contents of the folder on his des...
Entertainment & Sports
If You Can Negotiate in Tinseltown, You Can Do It Anywhere
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By William J. Rose - Lawyers negotiate. It's how we get our clients what they want and how we persuade them to ...
SANTA ANA - Longtime angler Mark Bolanos had always heard the fishing was good at Canyon Lake. So one beautiful day in August,...
LOS ANGELES - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill Friday to explicitly outlaw "pretexting," the practice of obtaining tel...
FORUM COLUMN - By Andrew R. Wiener By enacting Civil Code Section 1714, the Legislature intended that any person giving alcoho...
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday appointed two female and two male prosecutors to Superior Court judgeships in three Calif...
Firm Watch
Bryan Cave Loses Four Partners, Welcomes Franchise Law Group
By Robert Iafolla
LOS ANGELES - One arrival and another departure in the same week proved that the door at Bryan Cave's Santa Monica office goes...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Sets Limits on Uniformed S.F. Police Officers Attending Trial
By Dennis Opatrnyn
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge has ruled that no more than five uniformed police officers at a time can attend the tria...