SACRAMENTO - In a case of bad timing, the state's criminal defense lawyers have lost their respected lobbyist in the state Cap...
INDUSTRIAL POWAY - Sorrento West Properties Inc. purchased a 72,454-square-foot industrial building at 12889 Gregg Court from ...
LOS ANGELES - As lawyers for Anaheim prepare for court today, local litigators and sports experts were willing to take a swin...
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - Regulatory zealots have been in the news lately, and not in a way of their choosing. In ...
Labor/Employment
Employers Need to Refine Investigation Process for Bias, Harassment
By Columnist
Column - Employment Law - By Kenneth C. Hardy - Federal and state legislation and case law make it clear that employers who ha...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Terri R. Brown - In the recently decided case of Robinson Helicopter Co. v. Dana Corp. , 2004 D...
LOS ANGELES - A memorial service will take place Sunday for Los Angeles personal injury trial attorney Richard C. Du Par. Du ...
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for Phil Spector filed an emergency writ with the state Supreme Court on Thursday, asking to stay the...
Government
AG Nominee Defends Not Applying Geneva Conventions to Detainees
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Attorney general nominee Alberto Gonzales on Thursday pledged to comply with all of the United States' domestic a...
Civil Rights
Jurist Will Revisit Case if City Plans to Pack Off Pachyderm Again
By Blair Clarkson
LOS ANGELES - A judge dismissed the 18-month-old lawsuit to get Ruby the elephant sent home to the Los Angeles zoo, but he pro...
LOS ANGELES - The county of Los Angeles, the city of Inglewood and Culver City sued the city of Los Angeles on Thursday, makin...
Litigation
Shell Will Pay $14.5 Million Fine for Groundwater Contamination
By Tim Willert
SANTA ANA - Shell Oil Co. will pay Orange County $14.5 million for failing to maintain underground gasoline storage tanks at ...
SAN FRANCISCO - An attorney for McKesson Corp. argued Thursday that a federal judge should keep confidential an internal repo...
SAN JOSE - A federal judge said Thursday he was not persuaded by arguments that Donald J. Beardslee's constitutional rights w...
LOS ANGELES - Citing attorney-client privilege, and the municipal charter, City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo has refused to allow...
LOS ANGELES - Renowned forensic psychiatrist Park Dietz contended late Thursday that he quickly learned he had given false tes...
Criminal
Planned Raises Include $50,000 For San Diego District Attorney
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis would get a $50,000-a-year raise under a plan released this week to increase sign...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Superior Court Judge John Dearman banged his gavel, something he rarely does. An authoritarian ...
Employee Benefits
Insurer Must Pay Secretary Back Benefits For Disability
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge wrongly upheld an insurer's denial of disability benefits for a Santa Ana legal secretary, th...
INDUSTRIAL COMPTON - Good Karma LLC purchased a 64,000-square-foot industrial building located at 1700 S. Wilmington Ave. from...
SAN FRANCISCO - The latest test of whether a corporation waives the confidentiality of any internal records it shares with fed...
Criminal
Misdemeanor Calendar Court Raises Questions of Justice, 'Content'
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Forum Column - By John M. True III - Several times a day in my court, I question defendants about the plea they are about to e...
Letter to the Editor - Some 135,000 people dead at last count and 5 million homeless - desperately needing food, water and med...
Focus Column - Construction Law - By Paul Means - A recent case out of the 2nd District Court of Appeal suggests that general ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Hearing an appeal Wednesday from the lone Iranian on death row, the California Supreme Court did not seem tro...
The families of four slain security contractors whose bodies were burned and dragged through the streets of Fallujah, Iraq, s...
LOS ANGELES - Private services have taken place for Alden Gray Pearce, a retired senior partner with Loeb & Loeb and a tr...
LOS ANGELES - Howrey Simon Arnold & White announced Wednesday that it will donate $1 million to organizations helping tho...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Napa Superior Court commissioner violated Dr. Jeffrey Thomas Gray's due process rights by requiring him to s...
LOS ANGELES - The 2nd District Court of Appeal on Wednesday turned down legendary music producer Phil Spector's request to kee...