SANTA ANA - A self-described "international attorney" faces arraignment in Orange County Superior Court Jan. 16 on five felony...
Forum Column - Pursuing Justice - By Peter A. Schey - In 1992, the Guatemalan military announced that Efrain Bamaca Velsquez, ...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a big win for civil rights plaintiffs, a federal appellate court has ruled that counties are liable for dam...
SANTA ANA - A special Orange County grand jury panel is investigating District Attorney Tony Rackauckas for possible criminal ...
Judges and Judiciary
Quick-Witted Judge Keeps Mood Lighter With Humor
By Contributing Writer
LOS ANGELES - Ventura County Superior Court Judge Steven Hintz thinks that a new career might be out there waiting for him. Af...
Construction Law Practitioner Column - By Daniel Lee Jacobson - It is important to understand the difference between an action...
When Gloria Handelman's husband, Douglas Coppin, died in 1991, his company, Hydro Mill, a Los Angeles manufacturer of airplane...
Defective compliance with Section 364 provides an effective basis for challenging the timeliness of a lawsuit. While the Legis...
In a highly publicized case in the late 1980s, the head of a cryonics freezing firm was challenging the will of late televisio...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court ruled Thursday that a divorced father cannot escape his child support obligations just...
SAN FRANCISCO - The nation's largest federal appellate court, long seen as the cutting edge of legal trends, once again in 200...
LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve L. Cooley can be sued for malicious prosecution by a defense lawyer who claims he was fa...
Entertainment Law Practitioner Column by David Halberstadter - In his 1928 novel "Point Counter Point," Aldous Huxley observed...
LOS ANGELES - On Oct. 26, President Bush signed the USA PATRIOT Act into law, giving sweeping new powers to both domestic law-...
Judges and Judiciary
More Appointments: Rushing Is Named to 6th DCA
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Gray Davis filled a vacant seat on the 6th District Court of Appeal on Thursday by elevating Santa Clara ...
LOS ANGELES - A management consultant hired by the county Board of Supervisors recommends stripping the county counsel of its ...
LOS ANGELES - Judge Michael Bruce Harwin is a hero in a black robe. Harwin saved a dozen lives when he disarmed a crazed gunma...
SAN FRANCISCO - More than 80 percent of the claims filed against Pacific Gas and Electric Co. - most so small the total equals...
Judges and Judiciary
Litigator Jon Tigar, a former deputy public defender, is named to the Alameda bench.
By Matthew King
SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Gray Davis on Thursday appointed Keker & Van Nest trial lawyer Jon S. Tigar to the Alameda County Sup...
LOS ANGELES - Medical malpractice defense and general tort liability partner Michael Martinez, formerly with 23-lawyer O'Flahe...
Forum Column by Steven Zak - That we're a country united is a nice illusion until you read what conservatives truly think of e...
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers for a former high-tech executive who has pleaded guilty in an Internet sex case got his federal court ...
LOS ANGELES - A graphic artist who was fired for questioning her employer's attitude toward homosexuals won a $314,000 verdict...
Forum Column by Earl Ofari Hutchinson - Attorney General John Ashcroft has made a public pitch to dump the guidelines put in p...
Labor/Employment
Rainmakers, In-House Counsel Remain Desirable in Recession
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Employment Column by Robert Major - Rarely does a day pass without someone asking me when the job market will rebound. My answ...
LOS ANGELES - The USA PATRIOT Act and other security-minded measures brought big changes to federal law after Sept. 11, but wh...
SAN FRANCISCO - For most women, juggling a thriving solo civil practice, teaching law school and chasing around a 5-year-old s...
LOS ANGELES - Take the word "leadership" out of the English language, and City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo could have a hard tim...
LOS ANGELES - Services will take place today for James Greely Kolts, a former Superior Court judge who came out of retirement ...
Forum Column by Mary L. Topliff - As we embark on 2002, several new laws will go into effect that will significantly impact Ca...