Labor/Employment
Requiring Employees to Arbitrate May Not Always Be Employers' Best Option
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Richard S. Rosenberg and John J. Manier - With the rise in the popularity of binding arbitration of employme...
PASADENA - Services have taken place for Fred W. Brandt, an insurance defense lawyer who is remembered by fellow lawyers as a ...
SANTA ANA - With 268 write-in votes in the primary, Dana Point attorney John Adams not only got himself in a runoff with incum...
LOS ANGELES - Santa Monica-based Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstreif has recruited two new senior lawyers, who start ...
LOS ANGELES - Lee G. Paul, the last surviving name partner at Los Angeles' Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, has died at ...
SAN JOSE - A month after signing a permanent injunction barring two research scientists from launching personal attacks agains...
Appellate Practice
Panel Reverses Disqualification of Lawyer for Remote Conflict
By Amy Tatko
LOS ANGELES - When Santa Monica attorney Joseph Hartley asked a lawyer who was representing his client's insurer to do a few d...
Appellate Practice
New Rules Aim to Attract More Death Row Attorneys
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court announced Tuesday that attorneys who volunteer to take death penalty appeals will...
Focus Column - By Michael J. Bleck and Brad Keil - America's corporate boards are on a record-setting pace in replacing their ...
Judges and Judiciary
Jurist Finds Support, Camaraderie
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - One of Judge W. Robert Fawke's most heart-wrenching cases involved an 8-year-old girl who died after a stray ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The federal government's zero-tolerance drug policy for public housing tenants got the OK on Tuesday from the ...
Forum Column - By Susan Lerner - The battle over the now-rejected nomination of Charles Pickering to the 5th U.S. Circuit Cour...
Forum Column - By Susanna Dokupil - Last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee fired the latest salvo in the battle over the pr...
SAN FRANCISCO - A jury ended the strange and sensational criminal case against Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel with guilty ve...
LOS ANGELES - He has been slapped with slum violations and paid thousands of dollars in fines, but lawyers for a tenants' righ...
Real Estate/Development
Real Estate Firm Wins $1.5 Million in Damages
By Donna Huffaker
LOS ANGELES - A federal jury in Los Angeles has awarded $1.5 million in compensatory damages to a Beverly Hills real estate in...
Criminal
Organized Stupidity Sums Up Alleged Killers' Murder-for-Profit Scheme
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - In the cavalcade of crime in Los Angeles, some events stand out because they so dramatically illustra...
UKIAH - Frank Brady told officers he accidentally ignited a wildfire while trying to heat up bath water to soak his hemorrhoid...
SAN DIEGO - Superior Court Judge Bonnie Dumanis, who hopes to unseat incumbent District Attorney Paul Pfingst in the November ...
Forum Column - By Jonathan Watkins - If you were one of the 130 million people who tuned into the Super Bowl this year, you pr...
VAN NUYS - Judge Darlene Elizabeth Schempp commands her courtroom like a mothership. Schempp has a reputation as a straightfor...
Focus Column - By Peter J. Engstrom - You file an action on behalf of your client in Superior Court. The defendants respond wi...
Bankruptcy
PG&E's Latest Move Entails Paying 7.5 Percent to Creditors
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s unusual proposal to repay $2 billion to a group of major creditors at 7.5 perce...
LOS ANGELES - A 19-year-old Pakistani man was sentenced to four months in federal custody Monday after pleading guilty in Janu...
SAN FRANCISCO - For years, environmentalists have expressed alarm about U.S. corporations running for the Mexican border, alle...
LAKE ELSINORE - Two years ago, Michael DiMeglio found his stepfather dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. His s...
Administrative/Regulatory
Feds, Industry Must Tighten Security on Lethal Chemicals
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Larry Kamer - Since Sept. 11, industries and federal regulatory agencies have scrambled to address a risk th...
Government
White House Tries to Resolve Ridge Testimony Imbroglio
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - White House lawyers - including a new legal team in the homeland security office - are in the process of trying t...
OAKLAND - For all the criticism of the number of welfare fraud cases prosecuted in Alameda County, the county may in fact be t...
OAKLAND - The woman was a typical defendant in Alameda County's welfare fraud court: black and a single mother. She'd been arr...