Personal Injury & Torts
British Tourists Settle for $10 Million With Bus Line
By Joan Osterwalder
For 39 British tourists, a two-week journey through California and Nevada three years ago ended abruptly with a crash. "The We...
Litigation
Suits Over Concrete Require Step-by-Step Investigations
By Contributing Writer
Construction defect litigation related to concrete often involves issues not always present in typical defect cases. For examp...
Litigation
Defense Counsel Offer Seminar On New Civil Jury Instructions
By Stefanie Knapp
The Association of Defense Counsel of Northern California and Nevada will present its new civil jury instructions seminar Fri...
Entertainment & Sports
Sitcom Success Doesn't Equal Courtroom Victory
By Joan Osterwalder
The success that co-creator Michael Moye had with "Married ... With Children," a bawdy TV sitcom about the dysfunctional Bundy...
New York's Sullivan & Cromwell has selected Alison Ressler to become the eighth member of its management committee, effect...
Law Practice
Litigator Brings His Passion For Lacrosse to West Coast
By Stefanie Knapp
When Mitch Fenton arrived at San Diego State University in 1976 as a transfer student from a small school in Pennsylvania, the...
Amanda Wong walked into the Redondo Beach courthouse as a volunteer attorney in August 2001 with five cases prepared and ready...
Judges and Judiciary
Retired Judge and Family Law Specialist Joins ADR Provider
By Claude Walbert
Retired Superior Court Judge Thomas Ashworth III has joined alternative dispute resolution provider JAMS, where he will speci...
Litigation
Retired Judge Joins JAMS, Will Handle Arbitrations, Mediations
By Stefanie Knapp
Retired Orange County Superior Court Judge David Brickner has joined JAMS, a private alternative dispute resolution provider....
Litigation
Civil Litigator Will Stop Private Practice for Full-Time Neutrality
By Stefanie Knapp
After more than 20 years of private practice and eight years as Santa Barbara County's district attorney, Stanley M. Roden jo...
Personal Injury & Torts
Restaurant Not Liable for Hot Oil Flung by Cook at Cop
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco police officer has lost a $1.1 million jury award because an appellate court was not convinced...
SAN FRANCISCO - Former employees of the defunct Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison and their newly hired attorney appear to be ma...
SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Co. dropped a legal bombshell in bankruptcy court last week with the disclosure that ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Former employees of the defunct Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison and their newly hired attorney appear to be m...
SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Co. dropped a legal bombshell in bankruptcy court last week with the disclosure that...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County officials late last week bolstered security at the soon-to-be-closed MacLaren Children's Cen...
LOS ANGELES - Longtime Compton Judge Jerry E. Johnson's life story reads more like that of a rowdy outdoorsman than a solemn ...
SACRAMENTO - President Bush has announced his intention to nominate Shasta County District Attorney McGregor Scott to be U.S....
Reporter's Notebook - By Linda Rapattoni - For decades, California court reporters have vigilantly guarded their intimate rela...
SAN BERNARDINO - The publishers of Sports Illustrated have settled a lawsuit that claimed the magazine violated the privacy o...
Forum Column - By Michael T. Shannon - "Danielle's Law," which would expand the definition of kidnapping to include moving the...
Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Laurie L. Levenson - Fingerprint evidence is back in the news. Prosecutors and politicians ar...
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - Shortly before President Bush signed legislation creating a new Department of Homeland Sec...
LOS ANGELES - In a decision that broadens legal recourse for victims of sexual abuse by priests, an appellate court for the f...
LOS ANGELES - A Santa Monica jury Thursday refused to award any money to two men who were in the room when Halloween partygoer...
LOS ANGELES - A memorial Mass for Los Angeles attorney Richard L. Noble will take place Saturday at Thomas Aquinas College in...
SAN FRANCISCO - Palo Alto lawyer Bruce Train, ousted by a federal judge from his lucrative job as special master over an inso...
SAN FRANCISCO - The dining hall at Pleasant Valley State Prison is a bad place for a fight. The Coalinga medium-security lock...
SAN FRANCISCO - In budget proposals being submitted today, City Attorney Dennis Herrera is raising the possibility of layoffs,...
LOS ANGELES -Legal Aid Society of Orange County launched a free service earlier this week to allow low-income families nation...