Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk A. Pasich - In many situations, an insured may find that more than one insurance policy...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has agreed to renovate courthouse bathrooms and doors to settle a la...
LOS ANGELES - In a case of first impression, a state appellate court ruled Wednesday that a company can be sued by an insurer ...
LOS ANGELES - City Controller Laura Chick is refusing to make public a document she furnished to James Hahn's four campaign ri...
Government
Judge's Pointed Questions Poke Holes in DA's Public-Integrity Probe
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - The downtown Los Angeles criminal courthouse could have been the site of a psychics convention Tues...
Daily Journal Web Excluxive - SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court ordered a review of a 1988 death sentence Wednesday...
SAN FRANCISCO - In the latest in a series of partner departures, Silicon Valley law firm Cooley Godward has lost intellectual...
Administrative/Regulatory
1st District Rejects Retroactive Use of Initiative on Tort Reform
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - An opinion issued Tuesday, holding that Proposition 64 should not be used retroactively to dismiss cases that ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Crips co-founder Stanley "Tookie" Williams will remain on San Quentin's death row, thanks to the 9th U.S. Circ...
LOS ANGELES - The mother of actress Lana Clarkson will file a wrongful-death lawsuit today claiming that legendary rock produc...
INDUSTRIAL VISTA - Trent Lake and Jennifer Betlazar, doing business as World Buyers, purchased a 17,440-square-foot industria...
Focus Column - Construction Law - By Laurence P. Lubka - In December, California courts issued opinions that are very importan...
Forum Column - By Reza Dibadj - Many of us who study telecommunications policy are saddened by Michael Powell's resignation fr...
Forum Column - By Joseph R. Grodin - The first reaction most people have to the news that Californians enjoy a constitutional ...
LOS ANGELES - An appeals court Tuesday ordered the city of Malibu to pay a couple $35,000 in sanctions for filing a "frivolou...
SAN DIEGO - San Diego's registrar of voters testified Tuesday that she often counted ballots that offered clues to voter inte...
SAN FRANCISCO - Insurers have agreed to pay a fraction of the costs the state has incurred in cleaning up one of California's...
LOS ANGELES - A state appellate panel tossed one of the final claims remaining from a two-decade-old toxic-tort case that once...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge sharply questioned prosecutors Tuesday about their bid to convict top litigator Pierce O'Don...
LOS ANGELES - The case of McClure v. City of Long Beach climaxed, so it seemed, in August, when, after an eye-popping five mon...
SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County Superior Court jury awarded $1 million each in punitive damages to two female Federal Express...
Administrative/Regulatory
Judge Limits Potential Fines In Suit Against PG&E Parent
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge has delivered a major blow to public entities that have accused PG&E Corp. of illic...
Judges and Judiciary
Judges, Attorneys Unite Behind Magistrate Judge
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Four years ago, U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen G. Larson applied for a federal judgeship but didn't make the cut. N...
INDUSTRIAL LOS ANGELES - The 7Up/RC Bottling Co. signed a five-year lease for a 41,736-square-foot industrial building locate...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Dual Functions of State Bar Need to Be Torn Asunder
By Columnist
Forum Column - By David Cameron Carr - New State Bar President John Van de Kamp is a man of extraordinary talent and accomplis...
LOS ANGELES - Retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Raymond Choate, a death-penalty expert who presided over Charles Manso...
LOS ANGELES - A former executive with Vans Inc. seemed to have a good defense to federal bribery charges when e-mails surfaced...
SAN BERNARDINO - Less than a week after hiring a lawyer convicted of paying jail inmates to garner clients, San Bernardino Pub...
SAN FRANCISCO - Judge JoAnn Remke quickly signaled that she had heard enough from a prosecutor appearing before her. "I hate ...
Government
Judge Sanctions County $54,000 for 'Ineptitude' in Turning Over Evidence
By Ryan Oliver
LOS ANGELES - In a scathing ruling, a judge sanctioned Los Angeles County $54,000 on Monday for "ineptitude" in failing to tu...