First Nation Gaming, a corporate arm of the Tunica Biloxi tribe of Native Americans in Louisiana, recently began an arbitratio...
A San Pedro jury recently awarded apartment fire victim Elizabeth Berry $4.15 million in her negligence lawsuit against her fo...
LOS ANGELES - Remember Josh Connole. That's what defense attorney W. Michael Mayock told reporters outside the U.S. courthouse...
A company founded by Dick Clark, "The World's Oldest Teenager," is being sued for age discrimination because the 74-year-old t...
The Temecula Valley Unified School District agreed to pay $75,000 to settle a suit brought by a district psychologist who clai...
Growing up in Orange County piqued Mike Alvarado's interest in becoming a real estate lawyer. "It was inescapable to notice re...
Appellate attorney Ted Boutrous probably didn't think that, the first time he met Shaquille O'Neal, the 300-pound basketball s...
Six months after becoming vice chair of the Los Angeles office of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, attorney Elena Baca h...
For Bingham McCutchen partner Lawrence Silverstein, the timing of the merger between his Boston-based firm and Los Angeles' Ri...
Column - Tort Reform - By Andrea Mosmann - The tort reform debate has raged for years. Tort reform advocates blame supposedly ...
Focus Column - Securities Law - By Jay C. Gandhi - On March 12, 2004, U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake issued her decisi...
Criminal
Feds Send Wrong Message by Making Martha Stewart Target of Classic Sexism
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Wendy J. Murphy - I bought my first Martha Stewart Living magazine the other day. I have no intention of coo...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Mediation Can Be a Lot Like Negotiating Hostage Situations
By Columnist
Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Steven G. Mehta - Everyone who has attended a mediation probably has had th...
SAN DIEGO - A federal judge has ruled that an ordinance limiting picketing in residential areas "somewhat curtails" free speec...
FULLERTON - A 72-year-old former priest Friday received a six-month jail sentence for molesting a teenage parishioner in the b...
LOS ANGELES - Thirteen California lawyers are seeking election to spots on the State Bar board of dg governors for 2004-05, in...
SANTA ANA - The road to accreditation for Orange County's oldest law school just got a little longer. The American Bar Associa...
LOS ANGELES - When an outspoken Roman Catholic lay chaplain was barred from Los Angeles Men's Central Jail for criticizing con...
Judges and Judiciary
Jurist Lives by Old Lesson: Play the Hand You're Dealt
By Sarah Garveyn
LOS ANGELES - Of the 12 boys who spent their teenage years in Bausch Cottage at Hillside Children's Center in Rochester, N.Y.,...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge has joined together two lawsuits seeking to give same-sex couples the right to marry. Su...
Personal Injury & Torts
Helicopter-Crash Suit Pits Associate Against Ex-Boss
By Dan Evans
SANTA ANA - "Mayday!" firefighter Floyd Hiser shouted into the radio of the helicopter he was piloting. "I have a flameout. I'...
You're standing in the Court, all nine Supremes in your face, before you notice your nightgown ...
Employment Column - By Elizabeth Lampert and Diane E. Hamlin - Speaking engagements are an essential component of every succes...
Forum Column - By Wendy J. Murphy - The prosecution of Kobe Bryant had commentators and columnists early on questioning whethe...
Focus Column - Environmental Law - By David Pettit and Michael Schafler - Ratification of the 14th Amendment was motivated by ...
LOS ANGELES - A technical problem at the 2nd District Court of Appeal on Tuesday resulted in the wrong opinion's being posted ...
SANTA ANA - Ruling the names are too similar, a federal judge enjoined organizers of the "Newport Beach Boat Show" from using ...
SANTA CLARA - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danser will take the stand in his own defense when his trial on ...
LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court Thursday ruled that a Santa Barbara doctor did not have to turn over a patient's medical r...
Judges and Judiciary
Civil Litigators Fear Return to Bad Old Days of Long Delays
By Dan Evans
SANTA ANA - The looming budget cuts for trial courts have given civil ligitators here an acute attack of arachnophobia. They f...