SAN FRANCISCO - Is a Boston law firm's offer to pay $50,000 signing bonuses to qualified patent attorneys a sweet deal or an a...

Focus Column - By Jim Burroughs - Under the California Environmental Quality Act, the "fair argument standard" determines whet...

Forum Column - By Robert S. Thompson - Again, Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown has produced concise, insightful sepa...

Focus Column - By Michele E. Beuerlein and Bryan S. Smith - When starting a new business, one of the first questions that an e...

The settlement of construction defect cases, and therefore the protection of developer defendants, depends almost entirely upo...

Steven L. Hoch recently hosted a round-table discussion at Los Angeles' Hatch and Parent to explore issues related to handling...

When Orange County Superior Court Judge James Jackman retired in 2000 and turned to private mediation and arbitration, he left...

When a major San Diego insurance carrier was forced by then Insurance Commissioner Charles Quakenbush to seek insolvency statu...

A new law, which goes into effect July 1, attempts to resolve construction disputes outside the traditional court system. AB17...

Here are some highlights of the key developments in the year 2001, affecting the practice of construction law in California. ...

It was Joan M. Cotkin's displeasure at her first "real" job after college, working for an insurance company, that led her to a...

LOS ANGELES - Two men convicted of murder in a gang-related shooting will go free, following an appellate ruling that reversed...

LOS ANGELES - Former Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mark Brandler, who retired from the bench in 1969 and later returned to ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court held for the first time Thursday that U.S. border agents may routinely X-ray luggage o...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Thursday devised a penalty for lawyers who deliberately discriminate against w...

SANTA ANA - The Orange County district attorney's office has filed felony charges against a Chino man accused of illegally kil...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles family law Judge Kenneth A. Black has a way with words. Courthouse observers have dubbed his pithy o...

LOS ANGELES - Longtime Overton, Lyman & Prince senior partner Donald H. Ford, who died last month at the age of 95, is rem...

LOS ANGELES - Faced with a taxpayer's lawsuit, Compton officials have done an about-face and decided that, short of a court or...

LOS ANGELES - News that the Justice Department is considering giving local police agencies the power to enforce immigration la...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a tentative ruling, a San Francisco judge has ousted a state utility commissioner from office because he ow...

LOS ANGELES - Miriam Krinsky, chief of criminal appeals for the central district of the U.S. attorney's office, has been selec...

LOS ANGELES - As funny as it may sound to hear about a 6-foot-6, 236-pound man being beaten by a 5-foot-7, 145-pound woman, ex...

Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - What part of "extortion" don't they understand? Fifteen years ago, the U.S. Supreme Cour...

LOS ANGELES - The state's most-senior Superior Court judge, Leslie W. Light, is stepping down. Appointed to the court by Gov. ...

Forum Column - By Richard Glen Boire - According to a report issued by the National Drug Intelligence Center in December and ...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for attorney Ernest John "E.J." Caldecott, a real-estate specialist and devoted family...

Dicta Column - By Donald E. Griffith - What would happen if the modern practice of law were to come head-to-head with 16th Cen...

Employment Column - By Craig A. Blumin - You did it. After careful thought about whether you should leave your current positi...

Dicta Column - By Pete Peterson - Law firm merger activity slowed during the fourth quarter of 2001 because many firms were fo...