Holocaust survivor Roman Rakover, 86, knows he's running out of time. But he's still struggling to claim two life insurance po...
A judge declined to hold Chowchilla's former police chief in contempt for not following a court order to return more than a po...
Technology & Science
Wireless Technology Lets Attorneys Work Al Fresco
By Claire Borthwick
Attorneys at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher's Palo Alto office have an extra option to spice up their week - they can do their wor...
Education is the name of the game for the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, says the group's president, Tony Stua...
Column - Closer - By Michael Gregg - If you think for one second that jurisprudence - the study of the law - has no applicatio...
Where would a company be without its outside counsel? As this year's Corporate Counsel Top 50 chart shows, even the behemoths ...
Deal-maker-to-the-stars Barry Hirsch ended his 24-year relationship with Hirsch Jackoway Tyerman Wertheimer Austen Mandelbaum ...
Personal Injury & Torts
Jury Orders Sony Executive to Pay Filipino Servant $800,000
By Blair Clarkson
SANTA MONICA - One day after hitting a Sony vice president of legal affairs with a half-million-dollar judgment, a Santa Monic...
After several years of heated debate over the development of a parking lot owned by Hastings College of the Law, the school an...
The state Supreme Court recently depublished an appellate opinion that had expanded the scope of damages available for defecti...
Alerting an insurance investigator that her employer allegedly committed fraud when seeking coverage for a factory fire cost R...
Mark Goodman and Ethan Miller spent seven years at Barger & Wolen, a 70-lawyer insurance regulatory and litigation boutiqu...
Firm Watch
Tech-Savvy Attorneys Attact Work From In-House Counsel, Speaker Says
By Kenneth Davis
Attorneys hoping to be hired by in-house counsel should make sure they're up on the latest technology, attendees learned at a ...
Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Steven B. Katz - Both the plaintiff and the defense bars were eagerly awaiting the state Sup...
Criminal
Social-Security-Fraud Sweep Leaves Bigger Mess Than It Ever Removed
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Forum Column - By Lara Bazelon - On July 21, the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles issued a release proudly announcing the...
Judges and Judiciary
S.F. Superior Courtrooms To Close Early on Fridays
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Starting next week, San Francisco Superior Court will close courtrooms early on Fridays. The early closures ar...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Judicial Council, citing soaring caseloads especially in Southern California's Inland Empire, will pursue ...
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Tina Spee - It's high noon, and general counsel David Tognotti is almost late for a depositio...
BAKERSFIELD - Services have taken place for Mark Richard Baker, a Kern County deputy district attorney who previously worked f...
SAN JOSE - Hoping to avert a contempt of court charge, a San Francisco attorney has apologized to the judge who accused him of...
Judges and Judiciary
Walker Will Get Budget Woes With Role as Chief
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - When U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker takes over as chief judge for the Northern District on Sept. 1 he will ...
LOS ANGELES - Thomas A. Mesereau Jr. was in familiar territory earlier this month when he put Michael Jackson's prosecutor in ...
LOS ANGELES - A string of court rulings this summer does not bode well for the First Amendment rights of political protesters,...
SAN FRANCISCO - Continuing news leaks in the steroid doping scandal linked to BALCO, a nutritional lab run by founder Victor C...
Litigation
HIV-Related Litigation, Like The AIDS Crisis, Is Still Here
By Philip Carrizosa
Column By Philip Carrizosa - More than 20 years after the onslaught of the AIDS pandemic, it was a little unsettling to see la...
SAN FRANCISCO - The state attorney general's office has described an ex-Alameda County prosecutor's claim that he was advised ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court will untangle the knotty legal question of whether federal grand jurors have the power...
Employment Column - By Valerie Fontaine - Past performance often is the best indicator of how a candidate will perform. Theref...
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - No deity or graffiti artist ever wrote more clearly on a wall. The Michigan Supreme Cour...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Raymond Cordozo - To litigants who believe that evidentiary objections are the proverbial white...