WASHINGTON - As Osama bin Laden's videotaped "confession" gripped viewers throughout the world Thursday, legal experts express...
Every January, prudent attorneys check to see if they have to send in a report regarding their minimum continuing legal educat...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court refused Wednesday to release a serial rapist from a state mental hospital, settin...
SAN FRANCISCO - Fenwick and West is re-inventing its management structure in an effort to restore the agility it had as a smal...
LOS ANGELES - The city of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $433,000 to settle a civil rights claim against an off-duty Los Angele...
SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Attorney's office in San Francisco disclosed Wednesday that it is questioning at least 85 aliens in t...
SAN FRANCISCO - The mailers apparently worked. As maritime lawyer Dennis Herrera roared back from a big deficit to win electio...
SAN FRANCISCO - Angela Bradstreet, the new president of the Bar Association of San Francisco, occasionally wears a glass brooc...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has approved a $1.1 million settlement to the wife and children of a...
Entertainment & Sports
Litigator Imposes Vicarious Retribution in Novel About Depraved Greed
By Garry Abrams
One of the nice things about being both a pugnacious litigator and a novelist is that you can impose ruthless retroactive reve...
SAN FRANCISCO - KPFA fans didn't like the news, so - following the adage of longtime staffer Larry Bensky - they went out and ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The three-year probation term handed to patent attorney Malcolm Wittenberg last week for insider stock trading...
The holiday season is here, and it's almost the end of a year that we would prefer to forget. The holidays also have their eff...
The noted American philosopher Eric Hoffer once said: "[T]he only way to predict the future is to have the power to shape the ...
It is shocking that three officers connected to the Rampart scandal have sued the city and county of Los Angeles for malicious...
Outside of California, the doctrine of inevitable disclosure has been used successfully by employers to prevent former employe...
James Friery is a physical education teacher at Van Nuys High School in the Los Angeles Unified School District. He happens to...
Personal Injury & Torts
Lawyers Will Help Claimants Navigate Federal Fund Maze
By Charles Asbhy
DENVER - Thousands of American lawyers will step up to represent the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the largest ...
DENVER - After the Sept. 11 attacks, Americans gave unprecedented amounts of money to charities to help the victims. At the sa...
DENVER - The nation's first state-established victim-compensation program already is processing claims from Sept. 11 victims. ...
Counsel and parties in settlement negotiations often balk, saying they won't negotiate against themselves. They usually object...
On cross-examination, the attorney got a defense witness to concede that the employer had a "lousy" record of promoting women ...
Beverly Hills attorney Gary A. Dordick may be one of the few lawyers in Southern California to have attended law school withou...
Jennifer Joyce doesn't like to hear the story of how, when she was 13, she was hit by a car while crossing the street to enter...
LONG BEACH - Newport Beach-based Lyon Capital Ventures purchased the Pacific Holiday Towers apartment complex from PHT Limite...
"Daddy litigators," not just "mommy" trial lawyers, must make adjustments in their practices and lives to accommodate the dema...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Bradstreet Launches Scholarship for Afghan Women
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Angela Bradstreet has said she will focus her one-year term as president of the Bar Association of San Francis...
LOS ANGELES - Latham & Watkins has closed more deals over $500 million in North America and Latin America than any other g...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously voted Tuesday to rename the downtown civil courthouse in...
Constitutional Law
State Immunity Does Not Bar Bias Suits for Medical Leave
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - In a significant expansion of the right to sue under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act, a federal appea...