LOS ANGELES - After a year of study, a special panel has recommended that California ease its rules against out-of-state lawye...
LOS ANGELES - Paul Abrams, a federal public defender for 14 years, took the oath Wednesday as the U.S. Central District Court'...
Forum Column - By Merrick Bobb, Respectful and effective policing, which was pioneered and practiced first in Los Angeles and ...
Dicta Column - By Robert M. Unterberger, Were you ever admonished to stop using unnecessarily large or pretentious words in yo...
Dicta Column - By JoAnne Earls Robbins, Most attorneys know that discipline can be imposed by the State Bar if the attorney is...
WASHINGTON - Ordering the resentencing of a South Carolina death-row inmate, the Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled, 5-4, that w...
Employment Law Practitioner Column - By Michelle A. Reinglass, In a decision making clear distinctions between retaliation and...
Focus Column - By Jon D. Meer and Eric S. Beane, As a result of recent decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court and the California ...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Norman Tyre, an entertainment-law veteran and a founder of boutique firm Gang Tyre...
LOS ANGELES - Marking its first foray into Northern California, Los Angeles-based Burke Williams & Sorensen has acquired t...
SAN FRANCISCO - Joining the list of city agencies trying to shut down the circus of crime and drugs on San Francisco's notorio...
WASHINGTON - For Sheldon Sperling, an assistant U.S. attorney for 16 years in Muskogee, Okla., the decision to accept Presiden...
SAN FRANCISCO - A settlement ending the bitter legal battle over Jerry Garcia's famed guitars divides the four valuable instru...
SAN FRANCISCO - Maritime lawyer Dennis Herrera took the helm of San Francisco's municipal law office Tuesday, becoming the cit...
LOS ANGELES - Lyle Greenberg kept his 1991 New Year's resolution to become active in some local organizations. "While it is tr...
LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury in Los Angeles has indicted a Middle Eastern pilot who made headlines recently in Arizona a...
SAN FRANCISCO - Judge Joseph Tyree Sneed doesn't have much interest in tort law, but let a slip of tax code catch his eye and ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Skadden Fellowship Foundation, a public interest law foundation created by the partners of New York's Skad...
SAN FRANCISCO - Continuing its quest to win federal protection for the medical distribution of marijuana, an Oakland cannabis ...
Forum Column - By James Acret, A harsh and dangerous new law has been unleashed on a mostly unsuspecting and unprepared constr...
SAN FRANCISCO - The state Public Utilities Commission on Tuesday demanded a voice in the reorganization of Pacific Gas and Ele...
LOS ANGELES - Insolvency expert Jeffrey Krause is returning to venerable Los Angeles bankruptcy boutique Stutman, Treister &am...
Forum Column - By Suzanne Evans, Last month, a Louisiana man who intentionally dragged a dog to death in May 2001 was sentence...
Judges and Judiciary
Booted Judge Seeks Hearing to Get His Law License Reinstated
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Former Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patrick Couwenberg, booted from the bench last year by the Commission on...
SAN FRANCISCO - The former defense lawyer for a man who has spent nearly two decades in prison for a double murder acknowledge...
Judges and Judiciary
Every Story Has Two Sides Worth Hearing, Jurist Says
By Contributing Writer
LOS ANGELES - Judge Barbara Meiers, a 20-year veteran of Los Angeles' municipal and superior courts, doesn't have to listen fo...
ADR Practitioner Column - By Richard Chernick, This is the second part of the 2001 review of significant developments in ADR p...
LOS ANGELES - In a decision long awaited by employment lawyers, the 2nd District Court of Appeal has ruled in an unpublished o...
SAN FRANCISCO - James Pooley, one of Silicon Valley's preeminent intellectual property litigators, has left the well-establish...
SAN JOSE - Bill Priest fell just short two years ago in his bid to win election to the Santa Clara County Superior Court. This...