Focus Column - By Randolph C. Visser and Kavita P. Lesser - As any corporation, insurer, or taxpayer is patently aware of by n...
LOS ANGELES - A 40-year-old man testified Monday that a former Catholic priest repeatedly sexually molested him while he live...
SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to get involved in a closely watched judicial elections case from Min...
Law Practice
Client Demands Strengthen the Business Case for Law Firm Diversity
By Anne Marie Ruff
LOS ANGELES - As the face of corporate America becomes increasingly diverse and gender balanced, the smart money at law firms...
LOS ANGELES - Despite a larger than expected readership and much critical acclaim, Legal Affairs magazine will suspend its pr...
Administrative/Regulatory
Activists Claim Another Casualty: Ousted Animal Services Chief
By Erin Park
LOS ANGELES - Guerdon Stuckey knew the difficulties he faced. Animal rights activists had painted "murderer" on his predecesso...
Judges and Judiciary
Former DA Prefers Litigants Resolve Their Own Problems
By Don De Benedictis
SANTA ANA - Orange County Superior Court Judge Claudia Silbar doesn't have much use for onerous family law orders. Often, the...
Entertainment & Sports
'CSI' Actors Deserve a Crack at Solving B.I.G.'s Murder
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Here's an obvious, easy, indubitably popular idea for the Los Angeles Police Department: Call the cast at "CSI" ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The maker of the popular BlackBerry e-mail device suffered another legal setback Monday when the U.S. Supreme ...
CREDIBILITY GAP - When foreigners apply for political asylum in the United States, it's not unusual for courts to find they've...
SAN JOSE - Google Inc.'s plan to create a digital library so books can be searched online has set the stage for a major legal...
REDWOOD CITY - ARCS Commercial Mortgage Co. provided $123.4 million in financing to Prometheus Real Estate Group Inc. for four...
LOS ANGELES - When Eleanor J. Hunter was 9, her family left Toronto for the warmer climate of Torrance. Finances were tight as...
Forum Column - By Nicole A. Ozer - The recent revelation that the federal government has been listening in on our phone calls ...
Native Americans
Transparency Would Improve Strength of Tribal Sovereignty
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Peter Scheer - Jack Abramoff, who has pleaded guilty to five counts of conspiracy and wire fraud, is not typ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Because of a medical condition, California Supreme Court Justice Ming W. Chin will be not be present for the s...
Intellectual Property
So Far, Hooters Can't Claim Ownership of Short-Shorts
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Randy Broberg and Cheryl Withycombe - It's not possible for a single restaurant to have exclusive rights to ...
RIVERSIDE - Kenneth B. Stream has joined Gresham Savage Nolan & Tilden in the firm's Riverside office as a partner. Gresh...
LOS ANGELES - The general counsel of a health care business has joined a Los Angeles-based firm that focuses on business and ...
LOS ANGELES - Latham & Watkins can't be expected to make decisions as quickly as its smaller brethren. The firm has over ...
LOS ANGELES - In his first appearance in the United States since being indicted in 2003, a remorseless former chief of Credit...
LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court jury returned a guilty verdict Friday against a Thousand Oaks man who was videotaped shooting ...
SAN FRANCISCO - For Christopher Borders, joining Hinshaw & Culberston was a homecoming of sorts. Borders started his law ...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge has ordered the city of Los Angeles to pay $1 million in legal fees to relatives of the late Not...
SAN FRANCISCO - High-profile defense attorney Daniel Horowitz was dismissed from the Susan Polk murder case Friday because of ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Federal Jurist Prevents Use Of 'Suicide-by-Cop' Defense
By Ryan Oliver
RIVERSIDE - A federal judge has blocked a "suicide-by-cop" defense in the wrongful death lawsuit against a top Los Angeles pro...
LOS ANGELES - Crime victims are too often treated as "Victorian children" who should be seen and not heard, the 9th U.S. Circu...
LOS ANGELES - The right to privacy in divorce proceedings does not always trump the First Amendment right to public access to ...
SAN FRANCISCO - When New York-based Nixon Peabody needed a lawyer to represent the firm's clients in equipment leasing transa...
LOS ANGELES - Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold has announced that the firm has elected Curtis Parvin as the new managing p...