Put together two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun and you have yourself ...
In a wrongful-death action, are the parents of the deceased entitled to recover damages based on their loss of future grandchi...
Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue managing partner Patrick F. McCartan has tapped Stephan J. Brogan to be his successor as managi...
Management Column By Barbara Lewis and Dan Otto - Law firms often struggle with hiring decisions. When a firm generates new bu...
Litigation
State-Court Supervising Judge Jumps to Federal District Seat
By Staff Writer
Following testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Gary Klausner was confirmed to th...
Litigation
Superior Court In L.A. Chooses Two Commissioners for Vacancies
By Staff Writer
After facing two runoffs in the last six months, Guillermina Byrne has been elected by the Los Angeles Superior Court judges t...
SAN FRANCISCO - A female Boalt Hall law student woke from a drunken sleep to find the school's dean, John P. Dwyer, sexually ...
Government
County OKs Observer During Riverside Autopsy in Shooting
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Heading off a legal showdown, coroner officials in Riverside County last week allowed a private pathologist to obs...
Intellectual Property
At Long Last, E-Book Trial Ready to Get Under Way
By Riley Guerin
SAN JOSE - Even though no one faces any jail time, the stakes are high as the first trial under a 1998 federal law intended t...
The jury is out on whether junkets for judges are out of order. The hotel, meals and plane ticket are paid for, luring judges ...
Labor/Employment
Courts May Still Place Limits on Former Employee's Disclosure
By Columnist
Focus Column - Tort Law - By L. Amy Blum and Kevin O. Schwartz - Although many business owners fear that Schlage destro...
SAN FRANCISCO - It's been seven years since Lockheed Corporation pulled out of the state, but the world's largest defense cont...
SAN FRANCISCO - It's been six months since Tower Snow Jr. carved up Brobeck Phleger & Harrison's prized securities litiga...
SAN FRANCISCO - Julie Su was one year out of law school when she became a champion of Thai immigrant sweatshop laborers, even...
Forum Column - By George Lefcoe - In this season between elections and the holidays, consider a reverse Robin Hood program the...
LOS ANGELES - Saying prosecutors breached their plea agreement with a convicted drug smuggler, a federal appellate panel has r...
SAN FRANCISCO - A man convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend cannot also be held liable for the killing of her first-trimes...
SANTA ANA - When Orange County sheriff's deputies arrested Alejandro Avila for the molestation and murder of 5-year-old Samant...
POMONA - When Judge Robert M. Martinez recalls the numerous murder trials he's presided over during the past few years, he thi...
Forum Column - By Heidi Lypps - On Nov. 4, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the case of Dr. Charles Thomas Sell, a dentis...
LOS ANGELES - Services took place for David Greenberg, a founder of the Los Angeles law firm of Greenberg & Panish, who di...
SAN FRANCISCO - The dean of the Boalt Hall School of Law has resigned after a former student accused him of sexual harassment....
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court has prohibited plaintiffs from seeking monetary damages for alleged violations of...
LOS ANGELES - Celebrity sleuth Anthony Pellicano, who has stood by embattled clients ranging from entertainer Michael Jackson ...
Litigation
Legal Fights Spawned by Troublesome Dead Royal Hit Los Angeles Court
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - In death, Diana, Princess of Wales, seems more and more like a raging brush fire than a candle in the...
LOS ANGELES - Calling the city's action "retaliatory and punitive," a Los Angeles Superior Court judge Wednesday issued a prel...
Environmental
I Think I Shall Never See, a Poem as Spiteful as a Tree
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Maliciously planted trees make spiteful fences, which make not-so-good neighbors. Or so says a Siskiyou County...
Labor/Employment
Build a Good Relationship With Each Firm's In-House Recruiter
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Gail N. Kaneshiro - Anyone who has ever applied for a legal job can agree on the importance of the inte...
MARTINEZ - By most accounts, the key to the recent district attorney's race in Contra Costa County was an independent committe...
SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court shut the door Tuesday on five plaintiffs firms that were attempting to get an $88.5 ...