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...
LOS ANGELES - Police Chief William Bratton's plans to get more officers into the street ran up against political reality Tues...
Judges and Judiciary
Jurist Has Tried His Hand At Prosecuting, Defending
By Christina Landers
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Arthur M. Lew got a judicial appointment when he least expected it. The news ca...
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers for an alleged beating victim of San Francisco police officers Alex Fagan Jr. and Walter Contreras sai...
SAN JOSE - Idelle Clarke, a Southern California woman locked in a bitter custody dispute with her ex-husband, has not seen he...
SAN FRANCISCO - While other U.S. law firms are trimming their corporate and transactional groups through layoffs and attritio...
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney Norlen Drossel will be remembered at a Feb. 8 service at Northbrae Community Church in Berkeley. The...
LOS ANGELES - Less than two years ago, Igor Serebryany was ranked at the top of his graduating class at the Los Angeles Cente...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Peter Stern and Becky Kruse - In December 2000, Federal Rule of Evidence 703 was amended to clo...
LOS ANGELES - A Glendale couple reportedly has agreed to pay $8 million to 27 tenants who sued them over living conditions, in...
SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. District Judge William Alsup on Monday set aside $9 million of a jury's $9.8 million damage verdict agai...
SAN FRANCISCO - Gary Cohen, the California Public Utilities Commission's top lawyer through much of the state's energy crisis...
Focus Column - International Law - By Winston Zee - Doing business in China frequently involves entertainment, favors and gift...
SAN FRANCISCO - California free speech law is at a crossroads: Apparently it's OK for Santa Cruz peace activists to drape ant...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Alternative Weeklies Agree to Settlement
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - Village Voice Media and New Times Media have settled a Department of Justice antitrust complaint over the altern...
Judges and Judiciary
Complex-Case Judges Say They Know Hellholes and They're Not in One
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - The six judges of Los Angeles Superior Court's Central Civil West Courthouse have unanimously objecte...