Alternative Dispute Resolution
Summer Associates Learn About Pro Bono Work
By Kenneth Davis
LOS ANGELES - The Western Justice Center Foundation held its second annual summer-associates workshop on June 30 at the center...
Law Practice
California Lawmakers and Lawyers React to O'Connor's Retirement
By Maggie Guerin
REACTIONS: The following is a sample of reactions to the retirement of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. "The retire...
LOS ANGELES - Home and small-business owners in California shuddering at the recent expansion of cities' power to seize priva...
Native Americans
Legal Peace Finally Will Reunite Kennewick Man's Pieces
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Barring last-minute glitches, scientists Wednesday finally will get to first base with a set of 9,3...
SAN BERNARDINO - First comes the morning briefing by Deputy Wilson Morgan. It's akin to a drill sergeant briefing recruits on ...
LOS ANGELES - After gearing up for what promises to be the biggest Supreme Court nominee fight in decades, Republican and Dem...
Wayne Grajewski of the Los Angeles firm of Brown, Winfield & Canzoneri was made a partner in June. Grajewski, a trial atto...
Melanie E. Lomax, managing attorney of Los Angeles-based Lomax & Associates, received the inaugural Johnnie L. Cochran Jr....
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court may have washed its hands of eminent domain for the time being, but the national debate over th...
HOSPITALITY PALM SPRINGS - Highland Hospitality Corp. signed a definitive agreement to acquire the 410-room Wyndham Palm Sprin...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Eric Honig - Attorneys who venture for the first time into the complex world of federal civil a...
Labor/Employment
Employers Beware: Meal Periods Are Not Waivable, 9th Circuit Says
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Arthur F. Silbergeld and Michael H. Weiss - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a decision...
Litigation
Muslim Inmate May Sue Over Prison's Failure to Protect Him
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate court said Thursday a Muslim inmate at Calipatria State Prison can press ahead with alleg...
SANTA ANA - A federal judge has ruled that attorneys representing employees of Anaheim Hills-based Eastwood Insurance employe...
Personal Injury & Torts
Tort Reformers Award Prizes for Essays on 'Meritless' Litigation
By Eron Yehuda
LOS ANGELES - The San Diego chapter of Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse recently awarded cash prizes to local teenagers who won ...
LOS ANGELES - Amy M. Pellman, legal director of the Alliance for Children's Rights, has been elected a commissioner on the Lo...
LOS ANGELES - After Fred Maffei married his first wife, Flora, he developed a close relationship with her family. That familia...
LOS ANGELES - Just before attorney Kenneth Worth's son was born last May, the father-to-be learned about what "virtually ever...
Judges and Judiciary
Mediator Makes Attorneys Take Hard Look at Risks Their Clients Face
By Adrianna Khoo
LOS ANGELES - When Alexander S. Polsky goes to work, he doesn't expect to be back at 5 o'clock, doesn't plan for a lunch break...
LOS ANGELES - City Controller Laura Chick denies she intended a public slap at City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo when she asked G...
LOS ANGELES - Kenneth Burry makes an unlikely bouncer. The straight-laced Greenberg Traurig attorney hardly looks like someone...
SAN FRANCISCO - Suspended San Francisco Assistant District Attorney Robert Roland was arraigned Thursday in U.S. District Cou...
SAN FRANCISCO - Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's former chairman will have his day in court to fight claims he owes his form...
Judges and Judiciary
Santa Ana Judge Strives to Eliminate Intimidation Factor
By Tim Willert
SANTA ANA - Orange Superior Court Judge Kirk H. Nakamura's respect for the law grew out of respect for his grandfather. Masaa...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors can keep secret documents related to last year's decision to close t...
LOS ANGELES - A jury Thursday awarded $12 million in punitive damages to a paraplegic who claimed that negligent care and abu...
Network storage solution company Network Appliance Inc. has agreed to acquire network encryption company Decru for $272 millio...
LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors on Wednesday won the first-ever case brought in federal court against an individual for ill...
INDUSTRIAL IRVINE - Nick Payzant and Thomas Horton of US Modular purchased a 9,612-square-foot industrial condominium at 34-B...
LOS ANGELES - Kevin Garnett. Amare Stoudemire. LeBron James. Kobe Bryant. Each represents the multimillion-dollar cornerstone ...