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
By Columnist
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...
LOS ANGELES - Some may think that Herman Melville's classic "Moby Dick" chronicles a sea captain's self-destructive and obsess...
SACRAMENTO - Defense attorneys scrambled Wednesday to use a newly passed ballot measure to dismiss an untold number of unfair...
WASHINGTON - Though Republicans expanded their control of the U.S. Senate after significant victories in Tuesday's elections, ...
INDUSTRIAL GOLETA - Cortona Partnership has purchased a 29,548-square-foot research-and-development building at 6860 Cortona D...
Family, Alternative Dispute Resolution
Forum Column - By Franklin R. Garfield - It is widely believed that justice or even fairness is not available in the Los Angel...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for criminal and civil attorney Myron S. "Mike" Lapidus of Mission Viejo. Lapidus, who...
WALNUT CREEK - Contra Costa Superior Court Judge Nancy Davis Stark was known as a by-the-book prosecutor who fought hard in co...
Forum Column - By William L. Buus - Have you ever served on a jury? If so, you've felt the boredom that comes with passively l...
SAN DIEGO - After 15 years of litigation, the city of San Diego is back where it started: facing a federal-court injunction to...
SAN DIEGO - A low-key judicial race that hinged on the candidates' experience turned into a sweeping victory Tuesday for feder...
LOS ANGELES - A half-cent sales tax to fund more Los Angeles County police was defeated in Tuesday's election, sending leaders...