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
By Columnist
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 ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The district attorney's office refused Wednesday to file murder charges in the case of a slain rap artist, pr...
Law Practice
Law Firms Use Specialists to Tackle Recruitment, Retention
By Geneva Whitmarsh
LOS ANGELES - Forty-six percent of law firms have a designated diversity manager whose primary description is to "develop or p...
LOS ANGELES - By the time John H. Reid was 18, he'd wanted to be a lawyer for more than half his life. In 1957, fictional atto...
International
Where in the World Is Michael Jackson's Deposition? Pick a Continent
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Bahrain, Paris or London? When it came to picking a place to depose pop star Michael Jackson in a civil suit in ...
LOS ANGELES - A monsignor in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles cannot assert "clergy privilege" to avoid disclosi...
JURORS LIKE PLAIN ENGLISH - Three out of four potential jurors say California's new plain-English jury instructions are easier...
SAN DIEGO - The judge who made the rare decision to reverse a jury's conviction of a San Diego city councilman in a corruption...
SAN FRANCISCO - First, the U.S. attorney's office in San Francisco wouldn't allow a major energy fraud case to be decided by a...
Forum Column - By Stephen R. Barnett - The state Supreme Court's "Werdegar committee" on publication of appellate opinions - c...
Mergers & Acquisitions
U.S. Buyout Company Plans to Add Canadian Software Maker
By Geneva Whitmarsh
LOS ANGELES - Kirkland & Ellis attorneys are representing San Francisco buyout firm Golden Gate Capital in its $1 billion...
Judges and Judiciary
Prosecutor Testifies He Misstated Accusations
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
VENTURA - A prosecutor who accused a Santa Barbara County trial judge of improperly questioning him in court admitted Tuesday...
LOS ANGELES - Some paralegals in the Los Angeles County district attorney's office are balking at an effort to incorporate th...