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 ...
Focus Column - Constitutional Law - By Daniel W. Park - When is a threat really a true threat? This is a question with which g...
Administrative/Regulatory
Court Goes 'Clueless': Now 'Public Use' Means Whatever!
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Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - Nearly a decade ago, a commentary in Time magazine sarcastically concluded that "eminent...
SAN FRANCISCO - Shaping the way mass-tort cases are defended, pharmaceutical companies increasingly are hiring one law firm fo...
LOS ANGELES - Faced with the prospect of having to answer to a Court of Appeal justice, a Compton judge agreed to allow a pub...
Verdicts
State-Court Rulings Strengthen Right of Consumers to File Class Actions
By Eron Yehuda
LOS ANGELES - Recent state Supreme Court decisions in California and Florida have strengthened the right of consumers to file...
SAN JOSE - A Campbell family law attorney who touts himself as "Mister Divorce" on his Web site has been convicted in U.S. Di...
LOS ANGELES - A former Los Angeles probate attorney was arrested in the downtown civil courthouse Wednesday on charges that h...
LOS ANGELES - The ACLU has reached a settlement with a South Los Angeles high school that calls for a series of training sess...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Classes Expand as More Legal Professionals Weigh Going Into Mediation
By Kenneth Davis
LOS ANGELES - Mediation is not just for mediators anymore. Law students, sitting judges, attorneys and other legal profession...