Forum Column - By Carlos Castresana - Why did a federal court in the United States have to accept jurisdiction on a murder com...
Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - Star athletes are not the only people who operate on the basis of "Show me the money!...
Focus Column - Environmental Law - By William D. Wick - Buyers of contaminated properties in urban infill areas can agree to c...
RIVERSIDE - In one of the largest verdicts in a lemon-law case, a Riverside jury has ordered the Ford Motor Co. to pay $500,0...
SAN JOSE - Defendants in an impending economic espionage trial will be allowed to depose the federal government's expert witne...
LOS ANGELES - A judge can't persuade a criminal defendant to give up his right to trial by promising him a lighter sentence, t...
Column - By Philip Carrizosa - "Our criminal justice system has always been haunted by the specter of the innocent person conv...
EXTRA Feature - By David Houston - Terry W. Bird and Vincent. J. Marella have quaint notions. They think they can keep their l...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley on Friday found that the county Board of Supervisors violated the st...
LOS ANGELES - Bob Barker, host of the long-running television game show "The Price Is Right," has given UCLA School of Law a $...
LOS ANGELES - Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp lost another round Friday in a legal-malpractice suit filed by a clothing manuf...
SAN FRANCISCO - Cantinflas, the jug-eared Mexican comic, delighted audiences by poking slapstick fun at the rich and powerful....
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court appeared deeply divided Thursday over reining in a state parole board that almos...
Litigation
Tort-Reform Initiative Will Be Good For Everyone, Even Plaintiffs' Bar
By Columnist
Forum Column - By William L. Stern - I admit I'm biased. As one of the authors of Proposition 64, I happen to think that the i...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Jim Burgess - California voters approved Proposition 64 by a significant margin on Tuesday. The...
Judges and Judiciary
Supreme Court Studs Its 2004 Docket With Property Issues
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - For its 2004 term, the U.S. Supreme Court has taken an interesting group of property cas...
Labor/Employment
Departing Law Firm Employees Should Practice Civility, Restraint
By Columnist
Employment Column - By David Gurnick and Sue Bendavid-Arbiv - "A revolution in the practice of law has occurred requiring econ...
Letter to the Editor - I am writing concerning your article on Gibson Dunn & Crutcher and its managing partner, Ken Doran ...
Judges and Judiciary
Litigant Should Not Have to Hire Hitman to Get Judge's Recusal
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Forum Column - By Dana Cephas - Federal judges are required to recuse themselves whenever their impartiality might reasonably ...
Focus Column - Employment Law - By James Baker and Heather Reinschmidt - Can a retirement plan change the rules for receiving ...
SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali approved more than $24 million in payments Thursday to the California Pu...
SAN FRANCISCO - The purpose of matrimony is to encourage procreation, same-sex marriage opponents wrote in a brief filed Thur...
SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court appeared to struggle Thursday with balancing a city's desire to enact stricter mort...
SAN DIEGO - A federal judge has frozen $500 million in bank and investment assets belonging primarily to doctors who placed in...
LOS ANGELES - A retired Methodist minister cannot challenge a church order keeping him from preaching or worshipping at his f...
SAN DIEGO - Saying that it could lead to animals' deaths, a Superior Court judge has blocked the sale of a pet identification ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The judge overseeing the Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison bankruptcy approved a settlement late Thursday in wh...
Judges and Judiciary
Education Gave Judge Hope Beyond Dad's Tortilla Factory
By Claude Walbert
CHULA VISTA - The family of Yvonne E. Campos valued education, and, if she had any rebellious doubts about that, her father's ...
LOS ANGELES - A judge on Thursday rejected a defense request to remove Santa Barbara County District Attorney Tom Sneddon fro...
SAN FRANCISCO - When Phyllis J. Hamilton was a girl in tiny Jacksonville, Ill., her high school principal sought her out to m...