LOS ANGELES - It was unusually quiet at the hospital of last resort Thursday afternoon. Security was tight as women inmates p...
Judges and Judiciary
Innovative Judge Changes Compton Court's Image
By Christina Landers
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge John J. Cheroske beams with pride as he offers a sneak peak at the newl...
Forum Column - By Eric S. Daar and Judith F. Daar - President Bush recently unveiled a timetable for vaccinating the nation ag...
LOS ANGELES - Bet Tzedek held its 15th annual dinner Saturday night, raising $2.1 million for the nonprofit firm. More than 1...
LOS ANGELES - In a stunning reversal, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison decided Thursday to close its doors and possibly seek ba...
WASHINGTON - On a straight party-line vote following a politically charged debate, the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday ...
LOS ANGELES - A Beverly Hills attorney who once represented such pop stars as Janet Jackson, Marvin Gaye and Run DMC was to be...
Forum Column - By Terri Towery - As an attorney in the Los Angeles County public defender's office who specializes in capital ...
LOS ANGELES - A former Valencia attorney who allegedly continued to practice law after resigning from the State Bar was arres...
SACRAMENTO - They've been called extortionists, pooper scoopers and two-bit legal whores. But have a group of lawyers being i...
Product Liability
Dog-Food Fight Throws Up a Big Breakfast for Legal Champions
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - The dog's breakfast has been the subject of a class settlement in Los Angeles Superior Court. It's a ...
SACRAMENTO - Five small law firms are either under investigation by the office of state Attorney General Bill Lockyer or are ...
SACRAMENTO - If only it were true. Someone with a warped sense of humor has created a convincing but fake Web site that claim...
Judges and Judiciary
Family Law Judge Says He Prefers Mediation to Litigation
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - One day family law Judge Peter J. McBrien was faced with a choice: He could hear two domestic violence cases inv...
SAN FRANCISCO - An unrepentant Vietnamese protester shouted "human rights for Vietnam" to the cheers of a packed federal cour...
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Richard S. Rosenberg and John J. Manier - Under the judicially created "continuing violatio...
Intellectual Property
'Flutter Faeries' Creative Pitch Results in an Implied Contract
By Jeff Berg
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Edward A. Klein - The Court of Appeal recently eased the burden on plaintiffs trying...
LOS ANGELES - A former Carson mayor and another figure in a city corruption probe agreed Wednesday to cooperate with authorit...
LOS ANGELES - Former "Hollywood Madam" Heidi Fleiss cannot duck a slander judgment obtained by both the two Los Angeles polic...
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for a developmentally disabled group that sued the state Department of Developmental Services over the r...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether landlords must always give a 90-day notice be...
LOS ANGELES - Former "Hollywood Madam" Heidi Fleiss cannot duck a slander judgment obtained by both the two Los Angeles polic...
Criminal
Jury Convicts Man for Killing Police Detective
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A Riverside County Superior Court jury on Tuesday convicted a man of shooting a police detective to death two year...
LOS ANGELES - The White House plans to nominate two Latinos to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a clear acknowledgmen...
Judges and Judiciary
Hitchens' Plan For Calendar Should Speed Cases Through
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - Judge Donna Hitchens, the newly appointed presiding judge of the San Francisco Superior Court, has assembled ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Lori Schechter, a 41-year-old San Francisco trial lawyer, will lead Morrison & Foerster's 420-lawyer liti...
SAN JOSE - The Santa Clara County Superior Court has settled a lawsuit filed 15 months ago by the San Jose Mercury News, agre...
Environmental
Environmentalists Knew It Would be Bad, But Not This Bad
By Dennis Pfaff
Reporter's Notebook - By Dennis Pfaff - The veteran eco-warriors at Earthjustice in Oakland didn't wait for George W. Bush to ...
SACRAMENTO - A tiny state commission charged with updating California law may be snipped out of existence this year in the mi...
Forum Column - By Norman E. Kjono - Does the principle of liability for promotion of products with potentially dangerous prope...