SACRAMENTO - Millions of dollars originally intended to clear up the state's huge backlog of unsolved rape cases will now prob...
Forum Column - By Phillip Carter - Suicide bombers and snipers now duel in the Middle East while ambassadors and envoys wait ...
LOS ANGELES - California soon may have to alter its approach to death-penalty cases, according to experts awaiting a U.S. Supr...
One case stands out for San Diego-based civil litigation boutique Thorsnes Bartolotta & McGuire. The satisfied client gave...
LOS ANGELES - In an extraordinary late-night hearing, Superior Court Judge David Yaffe ruled that the Roman Catholic Church co...
LOS ANGELES - A former employee of the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services who claimed she was demoted and ...
WASHINGTON - Bucking the wishes of the White House, the Justice Department and the Drug Enforcement Agency, the U.S. Sentencin...
SAN FRANCISCO - For more than six months, headhunters have been advising out-of-work or underworked California lawyers to seek...
SAN FRANCISCO - The country's two biggest and most profitable industries - Hollywood and high-tech - are slugging it out on Ca...
Personal Injury & Torts
Conspiracy Suit Brought By Earth First Reaches Trial
By John Roemer
OAKLAND - Abortion politics joins domestic terrorism and other hot-button issues as jury selection begins today in Oakland in ...
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...
Corporate
A Delaware C Corporation Is the Best Corporate Form for Most Start-Ups
By Columnist
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...
Judges and Judiciary
'Humble, Serious' Jurist Gave 11 Years to Superior Court
By Erin Carroll
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...