MODESTO - It was one of Modesto's most sensational murders: A young mother's body found buried in a peach orchard, her three-...
Judges and Judiciary
'Protector of Children' Puts Youths' Best Interests First
By Cheryl Romo
LOS ANGELES - After 18 years in dependency court, Commissioner Debra L. Losnick thought she'd seen and heard it all until a fl...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
High Court Has Encouraged Rise of Commercial Arbitration
By Columnist
Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Richard Chernick - The daily coverage of arbitration decisions and the deba...
LOS ANGELES - Former Santa Monica attorney John Patrick Maginnis pleaded no contest Tuesday to embezzling nearly $200,000 from...
LOS ANGELES - Criminal defense lawyer Morton H. Boren, who used a crabby sense of humor to worm his way into the hearts and mi...
LOS ANGELES - Calling some of the charges against him "silly", an appellate court has overturned a legal malpractice award aga...
ALAMEDA - The Alameda County Superior Court has elected Barbara Miller and Robert Freedman to head court operations and policy...
Judges and Judiciary
Legislators Suggest Courts Take Back As They Give
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Lawmakers struggling to hammer out a budget plan have agreed on a package of new and increased court filing fees...
LOS ANGELES - The city of Los Angeles has agreed to scale back its Skid Row law enforcement activities and pay $75,000 in dama...
PALO ALTO - In some circles, the opinion of a former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission carries more weight th...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court ruled Tuesday that an anti-abortion group has no right to enter a high school campus to ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The 1st District Court of Appeal on Tuesday reversed a San Francisco judge who had dismissed murder charges a...
Focus Column - Family Law - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and David L. Marcus - Does California's public policy allow premarital agree...
Forum Column - By E. Martin Estrada - The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to once again take up the issue of the use of affirmat...
Judges and Judiciary
Kuhl's Critics Distort Meaning Of Her 'Sanchez-Scott' Ruling
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Kristin Linsley Myles - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl is a well-qualified judge who has d...
LOS ANGELES - Attorney Ed Masry and his assistant, Erin Brockovich, took their battle over the Beverly Hills High School oil ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Confessed Murderer Goes Free
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - Murder defendant Robin Woods was released Monday from West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga as pro...
Reporter's Notebook - By Hudson Sangree - Two factors, the declining number of attorneys in the Legislature and the effects of...
LOS ANGELES - Walking into a courthouse, perhaps for the first time, with a troubling divorce, custody or paternity issue can ...
WASHINGTON - Taking on an important air-pollution-control case from Southern California, the Supreme Court on Monday agreed to...
SANTA ANA - Former priest John Peter Lenihan on Monday pleaded not guilty to charges he molested a teenage girl while he was a...
Judges and Judiciary
Officials Break Ground on Child-Centered Facility
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - Chief Justice Ronald M. George and dozens of San Bernardino County judges and officials were on hand Monday f...
SAN FRANCISCO - Yuba County Superior Court Judge David E. Wasilenko was charged Monday by the state's judicial watchdog agenc...
SAN FRANCISCO - Michael Anthony Cox, a resident of San Quentin's death row since 1985, will stay there, the state Supreme Cou...
SAN FRANCISCO - Partners at Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly have voted to make the 148-lawyer firm's retrenchment complete ...
LOS ANGELES - Three female police officers filed a claim Monday accusing an attorney for the city of Glendale of slandering th...
Securities
Martha Stewart's Legal Strategy: Innocent Tomorrow If Not Today
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Suppose that, a thousand years from now, archeologists dig up the grave of lifestyle guru Martha Stew...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles-based Northrop Grumman Corp. has agreed to pay $111 million to settle a decade-old whistle-blower la...
SAN JOSE - A dozen years ago, Alison Tucher, then a third-year student at Stanford Law School, learned through her mother that...
LOS ANGELES - In a surprise move, Los Angeles Unified School District General Counsel Hal Kwalwasser has been fired, with a po...