SAN FRANCISCO - Craig Manson, a former California judge who became a lightning rod for environmental critics of the Bush admi...
LOS ANGELES - Post Kirby Noonan & Sweat, a top litigation firm in San Diego, is changing its name. At the start of next y...
SANTA ANA - Finding a $1.9 million wrongful-death verdict was too low, an Orange County Superior Court judge has taken the un...
SAN FRANCISCO - First, he was scammed by a phony lawyer. And then Mexican immigrant Jose Juan Martinez Barroso was steered to ...
Judges and Judiciary
Disciplinary Inquiry Halted After Clerk Makes Accusations
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
VENTURA - The Commission on Judicial Performance has stayed disciplinary proceedings against Santa Barbara County Superior Co...
CALIFORNIA - DISBARMENTS Borrevik, Jason D. , Palo Alto RESIGNATIONS Covey, John A. , San Diego Hawes, William Ray , Millville...
CALIFORNIA - Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker has announced that Stephen Harris has been promoted to partner in the firm'...
CONGRESS DEBATES IDENTITY THEFT - A bill that would toughen federal laws on identity theft, co-sponsored by Sen. Dianne Feins...
INDUSTRIAL SAN JOSE - TODA Development purchased a 59,316-square-foot research-and-development building at 5285 Hellyer Ave. ...
LOS ANGELES - Michael D. Young usually takes an understated approach to mediation. "I can only think of one time I raised my v...
Focus Column - By Alan G. Saler and Leonard Levy - On Oct. 26, the 2nd District Court of Appeal, Div. 4, issued its opinion in...
Labor/Employment
Interaction with Workers is Key to Lawful Handling of Disability Claims
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Employment Column - By Michelle A. Reinglass - A longtime employee learned he had Hepatitis C. He continued working, but years...
LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Justice Department filed a motion Thursday that would make it easier to deport Salvadorans detained al...
LOS ANGELES - Controlling the cost of expert witnesses has taken on added importance in recent years because their hourly rate...
SAN FRANCISCO - Grieving East Bay defense attorney Daniel Horowitz pledged Thursday to continue representing alleged murderer...
LOS ANGELES - For the second time in two weeks, a state Court of Appeal has ordered a child custody case returned to the tria...
LOS ANGELES - Something was wrong with the baby. Charlie's eyes, dark and foggy, drifted during peak-a-boo; his tooth was blue...
Judges and Judiciary
9th Circuit Hears State's Oldest Death-Row Case
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - A federal appellate panel appeared to be split Thursday on whether the longest-sitting death row inmate in Calif...
LOS ANGELES -Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley made an emotional written plea Thursday to Gov. Arnold Schwarze...
Education
West L.A. Law School Learns It Likely Will Lose Accreditation
By Draeger Martinez
LOS ANGELES - The University of West Los Angeles Law School learned this week it probably would lose its regional accreditatio...
WASHINGTON - After Ronald Rompilla was sentenced to death for the 1988 murder of a Pennsylvania bar owner who had been stabbed...
SAN FRANCISCO - Although the governor's former legal affairs secretary, Peter Siggins, is considered the front-runner for the ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp., China's leading chip maker, was stung earlier this year when ...
WASHINGTON - Samuel A. Alito Jr. may have been a federal prosecutor for seven years. His defenders and detractors disagree ove...
Administrative/Regulatory
Beyond Superman -- Legal Comic Books Bring Justice to the Masses
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Forum Column - By Kristian Williams - The law is famously complex, technical and difficult to understand, and lawyers often en...
Environmental
9th Circuit Considers How Far Water Protections Will Flow
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Environ-mentalists, in a case that could greatly expand the universe of private litigation, urged the 9th U.S...
Administrative/Regulatory
Archdiocese Must Give Abuse Papers to Grand Jury, Court Says
By Itir Yakar And Sandra Hernandez
LOS ANGELES - The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles must turn over church documents to a grand jury, the California Su...
LOS ANGELES - Like other law firms, Ivie McNeill & Wyatt strives to create a diverse work force. "We live in a diverse ci...
LOS ANGELES - The class that entered UCLA School of Law in 1994 appeared to signal a new era. For the first time at a "top 50...
SACRAMENTO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer defended himself Wednesday against accusations he is suing an affiliate of Sempra ...