Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Draeger Martinez - The story is as old as Hollywood. A young hopeful, brimming with confidenc...
Focus Column - Environmental Law - By William D. Wick - Did manufacturers who provided solvents or dry cleaning equipment to a...
SAN JOSE - Last week's lawsuits by San Francisco and Santa Clara counties accusing natural gas providers of price gouging came...
LOS ANGELES - The long-running feud between two titans of drunken-driving defense in California may finally be over with a rec...
SAN FRANCISCO - Gordon Poole, one of San Francisco's pre-eminent maritime and corporate finance lawyers, has died following a ...
LOS ANGELES - Attorney Allen Lindell Cleveland Jr. died Thursday after a brief battle with cancer in Houston. He was 71. Cleve...
WASHINGTON - After class action reform legislation failed in the Senate last week, about the only thing that Democrats and Rep...
LOS ANGELES - The former director of a nonprofit job-training agency who was found guilty last month of bilking Los Angeles Co...
Appellate Practice
Two Cases May Shape the Evolving Definition of Family
By Philip Carrizosa
Column By Philip Carrizosa - About a decade ago, I had lunch with a certain appellate justice. It was an off-the-record, socia...
LOS ANGELES - Citing the importance of ensuring access to justice for low-income individuals, appellate court justices have ru...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Mark Goldowitz - This year, the courts have continued and accelerated a trend of issuing a larg...
Employment Column - By Timothy Long and Sara Dionne - So your client is thinking about offering its employees a way to share i...
SAN FRANCISCO - Suspected enemy combatant Falen Gherebi, now held at the Guantnamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, will get his day in...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Archdiocese is "the primary target" of the revision of a California law that has opened a floodg...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco attorney Michael Traynor will be honored as the 2004 recipient of the 9th Circuit John P. Frank ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court unanimously upheld a life sentence Thursday for a sex offender who neglected to u...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Bills May Curb Associations' Ability to Sue Homeowners
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Sanford and MaryJane Madigan's search for a spot to park their daughter's pickup truck near their Scripps Ranch h...
SANTA ANA - A high-profile lawsuit by Suzuki against Consumer Reports magazine over the safety of the automaker's defunct Samu...
Appellate Practice
High Court Rose to Heights of Eloquence in 2003-04 Term
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - It's said that adversity brings out the best in us, and that certainly was the case at the Supreme Court in the r...
SAN FRANCISCO - For many observers in California, which was ravaged by the energy crisis in the early part of the decade, Thur...
SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda County unlawfully terminates the welfare benefits of its mentally disabled residents, according to a f...
LOS ANGELES - The state's newest judges can now sing along to the tune of Alice Cooper's "School's Out for Summer." After two ...
SAN FRANCISCO - In an effort to impose $77.5 million in budget cuts on courts that can best afford them, the California Judici...
SAN FRANCISCO - Defense attorney Frank Dunham had no ready retort when a government lawyer told the U.S. Supreme Court on Apri...
SACRAMENTO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer says he might have to lay off hundreds of employees, including one of out of every...
Focus Column -Construction Defects - By Daniel Lee Jacobson - When it comes to construction defects, in whom does the right to...
Judges and Judiciary
Lawyers Need to Lobby Congress on Behalf of U.S. Judiciary
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Thomas C. Mundell - Our nation's courts are facing a crisis, and it's time for the nation's lawyers to come ...
Forum Column - By Kyle Kveton and Natalie Kouyoumdjian - First, full disclosure: The authors of this comment have been privile...
LOS ANGELES - Services will take place July 16 for retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James W. Edson. Edson died June 30...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury on Wednesday found a 71-year-old woman who was part of a mother-and-son grifter team guilty o...