Constitutional Law
Court Leans Toward Upholding Hawaii Law Caping Rent Rates Oil Dealers Charge Service Stations
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared to show little enthusiasm for affirming a 9th Circuit decision that struck ...
Judges and Judiciary
Justices Will Review Legality of Oregon's Assisted-Suicide Law
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether the Bush administration can block Oregon's assisted-suicide law, t...
LOS ANGELES - A 33-year-old inmate, held in the Los Angeles County jail since 1998 for a string of San Fernando Valley salon r...
SAN DIEGO - City Attorney Mike Aguirre said the Tuesday that he will ask a court to put the San Diego's troubled pension fund ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
New Bar Tally A Cause for Cheers, Jeers
By Blair Clarkson
LOS ANGELES - A doctor told his patient that she had only six months to live. "Isn't there anything I can do?" the patient ple...
LOS ANGELES - Dr. Park Dietz built an enviable career as the nation's most renowned courtroom forensic psychiatrist, weighing ...
WASHINGTON - In a property-rights case pitting a working-class neighborhood against a city struggling to rebound from its econ...
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court judge has suggested that a Los Angeles Superior Court judge rigged the 1996 retrial of E...
The work of 94-year-old renowned architectural photographer Julius Shulman will be housed at the Getty Museum in a deal script...
After narrowly losing the November election for San Diego city attorney, Leslie Devaney just couldn't shake her interest in mu...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Neutral Gets City to Make March 18 Mediation Day
By Eron Yehuda
Californians honored Presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln yesterday. Mediators deserve a special day, too, accordi...
The legal community loosened its tie for a few hours in January to pay tribute to a good time. Oh, there was plenty of shoptal...
SAN FRANCISCO - With mediation under way in the Northern California clergy sex abuse cases, million-dollar settlements are at ...
The time for large-scale takeovers in the oil industry may be on the horizon again, with companies eagerly buying back their o...
Brenda Nelson, mother of Mario Nelson, has added her name to the list of anguished Angelenos seeking justice from the embattle...
When a landlord tried to sweep out tenants she thought overcrowded her building with too many kids, the 2nd District Court of ...
Now that Michael Sfregola's real estate and tax practice has expanded overseas, he's moved to a law firm that's taken some tra...
A Butte Superior Court judge recently refused to take the shine off of a college's solar energy project, despite allegations t...
Geographically speaking, Gail Standish's move in January from the 52nd to the 39th floor of downtown Los Angeles' Wells Fargo ...
LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Judge Howard Matz has never been the biggest fan of Gary Fontana's representation of lead plaintif...
Charles Yesnick is one attorney whom you'll never find coasting along on cruise control, whether he's behind the wheel or prac...
A Metrolink conductor claims that the mild concussion he sustained during a 2002 Placentia train crash pushed him to alcoholis...
INDUSTRIAL SAN JOSE - Arseen Auto Body purchased a 95,936-square-foot industrial building at 1655 Little Orchard St. from Gla...
Column - Career Management - By Valerie A. Fontaine - The first step to achieving career success and satisfaction is an honest...
Government
Give Eminent Domain A Chance: Law Supports City's Redevelopment
By Amy Kalinn
Forum Column - By Timothy J. Dowling - It is a wonder to behold the public relations campaign being conducted by the libertari...
Focus Column - International Law - By Peter J. Engstrom - The act of state doctrine is alive and well, and perhaps growing, in...
Product Liability
Appellate Court's Decision in 'Lockheed' Was Correct, Mostly
By Amy Kalinn
Forum Column - By Raphael Metzger - The recent decision of the 2nd District Court of Appeal in Lockheed Litigation Cases has p...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
First Woman Partner at Kadison Pfaelzer Loved France
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - When life dealt Ellen Braver Friedman, a midlife curveball, she went to law school and became the first woman pa...
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys with the Cochran Firm say they are hoping their high-profile chairman, Johnnie Cochran Jr., will retur...
SAN DIEGO - A three-judge appellate panel ruled Friday that pending unfair-competition suits can be dismissed under Propositio...