RIVERSIDE - Tamalpais High School is nothing if not persistent. Winners of 10 straight Marin County mock-trial contests but ne...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Santa Clara County jury ordered Japanese technology giant Toshiba Corp. on Thursday to pay $84 million in pu...
Forum Column - By William J. Becker Jr. - On this Good Friday as Christians head into Easter weekend, our thoughts turn to the...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Where Rule of Law Reigns, Congress Must Let Court Decisions Stand Despite Strong Disagreement
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Forum Column - By Edward H. Telfeyan - We're all going to die someday. It isn't a question of "if," it's a question of "when."...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Early Mediation Preserves Value of Disputed Property
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Focus Column - Land Use Law - By Max Factor III - The mediation landscape has changed for single-family residential real estat...
Labor/Employment
Human Resources Staffers, Experts May Play Important Role in Litigation
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Employment Column - By Craig Pratt - Employment litigators encounter human resources specialists because they are often an org...
LOS ANGELES - Services will take place April 2 for retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Edward Y. Kakita, who was known as...
LOS ANGELES - The city of Lynwood does not have to pay more than $1 million to a trash contractor who is under federal indictm...
Judges and Judiciary
Panel Chastises Judge for Inappropriate Actions
By Blair Clarkson
LOS ANGELES - The Commission on Judicial Performance on Thursday publicly admonished retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge ...
LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury on Thursday expanded its South Gate corruption probe, indicting a 53-year-old nursery busin...
SANTA ANA - Attorneys representing the Los Angeles Times and the Orange County Register have challenged a judge's ruling barri...
Firm Watch
Farella Loses Corporate Chief To D.C.'s Covington & Burling
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Bruce Deming, a former certified public accountant and business executive, has left San Francisco's Farella, B...
SAN FRANCISCO - Even in the slammer, the rule of law exists. A federal appellate panel took a slap Thursday at the Prison Liti...
SAN FRANCISCO - Environmentalists earlier this year hoped an Alameda Superior Court judge's ruling had helped them revive the ...
WEB EXCLUSIVE: SAN FRANCISCO - Partners at Thelen, Reid & Priest have elected Stephen O'Neal chairman of the 440 lawyer Sa...
Judges and Judiciary
Ex-Lawyer Gets Six Months for Practicing Law Without License
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Former Sherman Oaks attorney Howard A. Lipton was sentenced to six months in jail Wednesday for practicing law w...
LOS ANGELES - An Orange County Superior Court jury awarded a brain-damaged woman $22.3 million Wednesday in a medical-malpract...
SAN FRANCISCO - A man battling deportation to Mexico won a break from a federal appellate panel Wednesday on the grounds he's ...
SANTA ANA - Three young men accused of raping an intoxicated teenager on a pool table in the home of a former high-ranking Ora...
Environmental
Flood of Intervention Stems Due Process in Regional Water Proceedings
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Forum Column - By Paul Singarella - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger promised to "blow up the boxes" of agency bureaucracy through a...
Letters to the Editor - Your article on the outcome of the much-publicized trial of Robert Blake ("Jurors Acquit Blake in Deat...
SANTA ANA - A stoic teenage girl testified Wednesday that Alejandro Avila molested her 50 times over a one-year period when th...
RIVERSIDE - Best, Best & Krieger, the Inland Empire's largest law firm, has been fined for failing to report $57,223 in ca...
LOS ANGELES - Entertainment litigator Lucia Coyoca will return to Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp in April as a partner in the...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge on Wednesday declined to dismiss the criminal indictment against David Rosen, the former finance...
SAN FRANCISCO - A grad student at UC Davis can't duck into bankruptcy to escape a $23,000 court judgment won by a professor he...
Administrative/Regulatory
S.F. Judge Approves $1 Billion Settlement for Public Schools
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge approved a landmark settlement Wednesday that promises California schoolchildren more a...
Judges and Judiciary
High Court Takes Case Involving Judges, ADR Providers
By Hudson Sangree
WEB EXCLUSIVE: SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court decided Wednesday to take up the case of a judge who talked to an...
LOS ANGELES - If it looks like a duck, it's probably a duck, right? Well, what if it looks like a hooker? According to two Afr...
LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper has refused to set aside an order dismissing the criminal case against...