Going back to his tennis heyday, attorney Lawrence H. Nagler is used to doing things his way. "On the tennis court, it's just ...
Focus on ADR Column by Palmer Brown Madden - The best way to prepare for mediation is to think through to the end what it is t...
If the plaintiffs had contacted the "Psychic Friends Network," they might have avoided this lawsuit. But Tim Youd and Jason Fr...
Focus on ADR Column by Sara Adler - This piece responds to an article by Diana Scott in the Nov. 14, 2001 issue of Verdicts &a...
LOS ANGELES - Toxic tort and environmental partner Frederick Ufkes has left Cleveland-based Arter & Hadden for Kirkpatrick...
Environmental
Renne Settles Fourth and Last of City's Tobacco Suits
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - City Attorney Louise Renne, preparing to step down after 15 years in office, announced Tuesday a $2.75 million...
Judges and Judiciary
San Bernandino DAs Disqualify Judge from Case
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - San Bernardino prosecutors are refusing to take their cases before Judge Kenneth G. Ziebarth - a retired ju...
Personal Injury & Torts
Tort Reform Advocates Consider Ballot Initiative for '04
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - A tort reform group that repeatedly has failed in its legislative efforts to narrow the state's Unfair Competitio...
VENTURA - Wading into one of coastal California's hottest property disputes, an appellate court has ruled that billionaire new...
Personal Injury & Torts
Unfair-Competition Laws Need More Focus on Proportionality
By Columnist
Forum Column by Jeffrey S. Galvin and Matthew G. Jacobs - The letter from the district attorney is terse and ominous. Your cli...
LOS ANGELES - More than 200 immigrants, civil rights activists and high-school students will rally today in front of the Los A...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Lawyer Was in 'Four-Wheel Drive for Civil Rights'
By Pat Alston
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Crispus A. Wright, who was encouraged to become a lawyer by the educational zeal o...
LOS ANGELES - Seven Chinese garment workers plan to file suit today against Bebe Stores Inc., a designer of trendy women's clo...
LOS ANGELES - Today, at 73, Senior Judge Dorothy W. Nelson of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is respected as a jurist, ...
Judges and Judiciary
Judicial Council Approves Limits on Online Public Access
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Asserting that complete Internet access to court records threatens personal privacy and makes the courts unwit...
Health Care Law Practitioner Column by Clare Richardson and Carrie E. Fogliani - Sept. 11 was the day everything changed in Am...
Judges and Judiciary
Dedication to Dispute Resolution Spurs Jurist to Nurture Center
By Tamara Scott
LOS ANGELES - For nearly 50 years, Judge Dorothy W. Nelson has been dedicated to the mediation of disputes. Nelson, a senior j...
Forum Column by Richard McKee - Comedian Shelly Berman used to do a skit about an airline passenger who sees sparks and flames...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Microsoft Jury Will be Told of Violations of Monopoly Law
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge presiding over a massive state class action against Microsoft Corp. said Monday he's inc...
SAN FRANCISCO - Prosecutors urged the California Supreme Court on Monday to make public three psychological evaluations of ser...
SAN JOSE - A jury awarded $350,000 in punitive damages Monday against two research scientists who defamed their former manager...
LOS ANGELES - Santa Monica landlords no longer will need to pay interest, out-of-pocket, on their tenants' security deposits f...
LOS ANGELES - Two former associates at Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro out-climbed, out-swam and out-smarted their rivals ...
Natural Resources
Special Master Keeps 'Disciplined Approach'
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Fresh out of World War II service and law school, Arthur Littleworth was set to accept a position as an associate ...
Sara Jane Olson defense attorney Shawn Snider Chapman feels "very, very wounded and sad" in the aftermath of the high-profile ...
LOS ANGELES - Four months after his release from state prison for stealing cocaine from a Los Angeles Police Department locker...
LOS ANGELES - Mark another victory for the Recording Industry Association of America. In the past it has made Redwood City's N...
SAN FRANCISCO - Christopher Silva was on a roll. In a recent interview, the chief operating officer of Sonoma County's St. Fra...
SAN FRANCISCO - A defense attorney is threatening to challenge a new program that pulls Hunters Point probationers off the str...
LOS ANGELES - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo added homeland security to the scope of his duties Monday by commissioning a $70,...