Focus Column - By Thomas Brennan - In her summation in the Winona Ryder case, Beverly Hills Assistant District Attorney Ann Ru...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council will vote today on an ordinance to protect consumers from so-called "predatory lend...
Employment Column - By Phillip R. Maltin - Is stupidity enough to create liability for hostile workplace sexual harassment? Un...
Entertainment & Sports
Mouse Gets Mugged in New Episode of 'Cartoon Lawyers Smackdown'
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Mickey Mouse suffered another major legal injury in the Winnie the Pooh royalties case this week, per...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco prosecutor Floyd Andrews was acquitted Thursday of three out of four criminal charges filed agai...
LOS ANGELES - The nation's only entirely virtual law school sent its first class of graduates into the real world Thursday. Th...
LOS ANGELES - A memorial service will be held Saturday for Los Angeles attorney Lair C. Franklin Jr., who specialized in crimi...
LOS ANGELES - Memorial services for Anthony D. Seine, a partner in the Los Angeles law firm of Veatch, Carlson, Grogan & N...
Commercial Law
Vons Fights Back Against False-Ad, Overcharging Accusations
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - For several years, state and county officials have been taking Vons grocery stores to court, claiming that the m...
CARSON - Call it a city cursed. Once again, suburban Carson finds itself mired in a scandal of bribery, kickbacks and extortio...
SACRAMENTO - Local prosecutors traveled to Sacramento on Thursday to discuss their Top 10 consumer complaints and ask for the...
Entertainment & Sports
State, Not Federal, Law Governs Security Interests in Copyrights
By Columnist
Focus Column - Entertainment Law - By John M. Genga - Those who provide or obtain financing based at least in part on the borr...
LOS ANGELES -An allegedly abusive father in Mexico who has visitation rights to his children cannot force his former wife to r...
Government
Intelligence Court's Shunning of Strict Secrecy Diet May Increase Paranoia
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review this week made U.S. Attorney General John Ash...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Michaelbrent Collings - Project design professionals, project inspectors or former employees of...
SAN FRANCISCO - Pillsbury Winthrop has hired former Assistant U.S. Attorney David Anderson for its criminal defense practice ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The city's surreal dog-mauling case captured the state's attention for much of last year, making media stars ...
LOS ANGELES - When Stanford Law School roommates Melvin Swift and Warren Christopher drove home from school in the Model A For...
LOS ANGELES - Oscar Lee Morris, who was freed after 16 years in prison when his chief accuser issued a deathbed recantation, l...
SAN FRANCISCO - A heavily lobbied California Supreme Court stepped into the middle of the energy crisis Wednesday, agreeing t...
Judges and Judiciary
Santa Clara Court Strikers Say They're Close to a Deal
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - The union representing Santa Clara County court employees moved toward a settlement with management Wednesday in a...
Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky, Amy Pellman & Jenny Weisz - Being a teen-ager in foster care all too often transla...
LOS ANGELES - The White House is gearing up to select five new federal trial judges in San Diego and one in Los Angeles by spr...
Labor/Employment
Insurance Suit Litigants Study U.S. Advisory On Overtime
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Insurance companies got a new boost from Uncle Sam in the oft-litigated issue of whether claims adjusters qua...
Appellate Practice
New Statute Adds Certification for Interlocutory Appeal to State Practice
By Columnist
Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Donald M. Fenmore - Section 166.1 is a reasonably nonadversarial method of seeking prompt ap...
Judges and Judiciary
Trials Derail In Santa Clara as Employees Stay on Strike
By Riley Guerin
SAN JOSE - The second day of the Santa Clara County court employees' strike was marked by chaos at the Hall of Justice, a judi...
LOS ANGELES - More than 4 million Californians living in poverty lack access to a lawyer, a new report from the California Com...
LOS ANGELES - In an issue that will soon before the California Supreme Court, an appeals court ruled Tuesday that a drug defen...
LOS ANGELES - Orange County Superior Court Judge James P. Gray is scheduled to formally approve a $27.5 million binding arbitr...
BAKERSFIELD - The attorney defending the man accused of brutally murdering a Kern County district attorney is known to talk to...