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...
Personal Injury & Torts
Prosecutor Faces Trial in Woman's Suit over Coercion
By Riley Guerin
SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County judge Tuesday kept alive a woman's unusual civil lawsuit accusing authorities of keeping her b...
WASHINGTON - Returning to the issue of pornography on the Internet, the Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to consider whether th...
WASHINGTON - In a case pitting lingerie maker Victoria's Secret against a Kentucky sex shop called Victor's Little Secret, a s...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
U.S. Probe Targets Closing of Alternative Paper New Times
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Justice Department's antitrust division has opened an investigation into the deal that led to the closi...
SAN FRANCISCO - Rumors of an impending Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison merger were exaggerated, according to William Sullivan...
LOS ANGELES - Paramedics responding to a 911 call from a rundown apartment on 11th Street East in Palmdale March 7 found a ble...
Criminal
Did Treachery Play Arresting Role in the Stunning End to SLA Saga?
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - You gotta wonder if confession and prison time will prove to be a kind of two-step shock therapy fo...
SAN FRANCISCO - Lynne F. Stewart, the New York radical lawyer, arrived in Palo Alto on Friday expecting to be honored as a men...
LOS ANGELES - Hundreds of troubled children, many of them suicidal, are in Los Angeles' County's foster-care system, according...
Personal Injury & Torts
CalPERS Sues Investment Banks for Sale Of Enron Stock
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - California's public employee pension fund has become the latest plaintiff seeking to hold Wall Street account...
Forum Column - By Lee A. Wood - When did the rights of litigants become less important than courtroom calendars and the court'...
Forum Column - By James Acret - On the last day of its 2002 session, the Legislature passed SB800 at the urging of a coalition...
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court employees have set a strike date of Monday after their union broke off mediated ...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge David W. Perkins' condition was upgraded from fair to good Monday, follo...
SACRAMENTO - State officials announced an agreement Monday to drop two lawsuits against Williams Energy for alleged price gou...
Focus Column - Family Law - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - Rose gives some guidance on what ...
Litigation
Davis Puts Pair of Civil Litigators On Los Angeles Trial Court Bench
By Leslie Simmons
Two civil litigators, John A. Kronstadt and Rafael Ongkeko, were appointed to the Los Angeles Superior Court bench by Gov. Gra...
Intellectual property specialist William J. Robinson has left Chicago-based Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw to head the West Coas...
Alameda County Superior Court staffers got to check one another's work during an October celebration of National Customer Serv...
Litigation
RAND Institute for Civil Justice Elevates Executive to Director
By Staff Writer
The RAND Institute for Civil Justice promoted Robert Reville to director of the institute Oct. 22. The institute is an indepe...
Litigation
Bar Group Honors Federal Jurist With Judge of the Year Award
By Staff Writer
The Mexican American Bar Association of Los Angeles County honored U.S. District Judge Terry J. Hatter Jr. with its annual Be...
Litigation
Legal Nurse Consulting Field Expands Rapidly Nationwide
By Christina Landers
Many litigators have hired doctors to testify in medical malpractice, product liability, workers' compensation and other lawsu...
In Closing Column - By Stephen Greene and Joshua Henderson - California recognizes an exception to the rule of employment at w...
The eighth floor of the Figueroa Plaza in downtown Los Angeles still has the fresh-paint and new-carpet smell to it. Cardboard...
Firm Watch
Manatt Jones Taps Ex-President of Costa Rica to Chair Advisory Group
By Staff Writer
The consulting branch of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips - Manatt Jones Global Strategies - appointed former Costa Rica Presiden...
With the 2002 World Series over and Angel fever still running rampant throughout Southern California, it's time for some North...
Litigation
Name Partner at Casey Gerry Receives Kroll Leadership Award
By Staff Writer
The Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Jacobs Family Campus, honored Frederick Schenk with the David K. Kroll Leadershi...