Forum Column - By Melanie E. Lomax - An examination of the life of Justice Mildred L. Lillie illuminates her determination, de...
LOS ANGELES - Ricardo Anthony Torres II is the first to admit he's no political professional. The Alhambra personal injury and...
OAKLAND - The latest offering from Albany lawyer-turned-filmmaker Abby Ginzberg includes moments from the profound to the pros...
Labor/Employment
Under California Law, Employer Isn't Liable for Nonemployee Harassment
By Contributing Writer
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Harold M. Brody and Gloria C. Jan - Employers certainly should not construe Salazar as a pr...
WASHINGTON - Mir Aimal Kasi, the Pakistani man who murdered two CIA officers and wounded three others in 1993, and FBI Special...
Forum Column - By Joy A. Simmons - In low income and minority neighborhoods, particularly South Central and East Los Angeles, ...
LOS ANGELES - Attack leaflets from a longtime ally of Nick Pacheco cost the incumbent councilman the endorsement Wednesday of ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Environmental groups seeking to reduce auto-related air pollution in the Bay Area do not have the right to att...
LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve Cooley on Wednesday ordered prosecutors to stop seeking search warrants for news media o...
Forum Column - By Leslie T. Thornton - Because of the behind-the-scenes maneuvering by the Bush administration, the president ...
Securities
Hell in Los Angeles: A Witness Stand in a Case With Money to Burn
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Lawyers who think they have a good idea of what Hades will be like when they finally get there should...
LOS ANGELES - The president of a construction company cannot sue TV producer Aaron Spelling, his wife or his lawyers for malic...
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Michelle A. Reinglass - The decision to let stand a $290 million punitive damages award was...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court refused Wednesday to help a federal appeals court decide whether a policy that a...
SACRAMENTO - Bruce Brusavich tackles his breakfast much the way he confronts a product liability case or legislation: He gets ...
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for a man convicted of murder and facing the death penalty in Imperial County moved Wednesday to disqu...
SAN FRANCISCO - Rumors of an impending Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison merger were exaggerated, according to William Sullivan,...
SAN FRANCISCO - A prison inmate who stabbed his cellmate in both eyes and then strangled him to death has won a reduced senten...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a key victory for the state Judicial Council, a federal judge Tuesday dismissed a suit filed by two stock m...
Forum Column - By Eric Goldman - In introducing yet another online privacy bill, Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) claimed that "p...
LOS ANGELES - Monster-movie guru Forrest Ackerman, also known as "Dr. Acula," can keep a $518,000 judgment he won from his for...
SAN FRANCISCO - A skeptical and sarcastic Judge Alex Kozinski and two colleagues Tuesday revived part of Gennifer Flowers' 199...
SAN RAFAEL - A Marin County prosecutor failed Tuesay to derail San Francisco prosecutor Floyd Andrews' self-defense claim that...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Goes From Mental Gymnastics to Metal Work
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - It can be as late as 11 p.m. when Superior Court Judge Sheridan Eckhardt Reed goes down to her basement workshop. ...
Focus Column - Environmental Law - By David M. Niebauer and William W. Funderburk Jr . - When the government tries to decide h...
Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - Today, nearly 17,000 nursing homes exist in the United States, with a resident populati...
LOS ANGELES - Former Beverly Hills attorney Angela F. Wallace was arrested Tuesday by Los Angeles Sheriff's deputies and accus...
YUCCA VALLEY - It was a scandal that thrust this small High Desert town into the headlines as six of its high school's finest ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Harry Low, the retired appellate justice brought in to clean up the state's scandal-plagued insurance departme...
LOS ANGELES - An attorney for a 10-year-old boy allegedly sexually abused by his foster father filed a petition for review wit...