Employers contemplating facility closings or reductions in force as a means of coping with the current business downturn must ...
As we are all aware, on Sept. 11, the United States was attacked by terrorists. However, a potentially more harmful attack occ...
The ability to negotiate is central to good lawyering. But there are many psychological, cognitive and emotional forces at wor...
Every major recession brings new winners and new losers, a reshuffling of the "have" and "have not" firms. Here are some near ...
U.S. agencies involved in protecting the borders have been criticized because almost all 19 of the suspected hijackers easily ...
WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday demanded answers from a senior Department of Justice official about P...
LOS ANGELES - After only two years with Greines Martin Stein & Richland, former Los Angeles County Bar Association Preside...
Police raided a motel suite in Gardena expecting to find a cache of illegal drugs. Instead, a cop shot a 51-year-old man who h...
Carrying a hefty trial caseload and can't find time to work out? Slaving over discovery in a chilly law office, breathing reci...
I have been a prosecutor since 1974, and I prosecuted the Richard Allen Davis trial for the kidnap-murder of Polly Klaas. I ha...
Business attorneys around the world are moving rapidly into new business structures that include nonattorney partners. Busines...
Some litigators are simply frustrated actors. But Southern California attorney James M. Epstein says he's living the Hollywood...
LOS ANGELES - Orange County Superior Court Judge Ronald Kline is scheduled to be indicted by a federal grand jury today on cha...
SAN FRANCISCO - The insurance industry has dodged a bullet over claims its house counsel practices are illegal, thanks to a Lo...
SAN FRANCISCO - A memorial service will be held Saturday for Donald S. Tayer, general counsel for the national office of the A...
LOS ANGELES - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo has tapped O'Melveny & Myers litigation partner Cheryl White Mason to head hi...
Civil Rights
Guards Abused Disabled Boy, Lawsuit Alleges
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A developmentally disabled San Bernardino County boy has filed a federal lawsuit against the county's probation de...
SAN FRANCISCO - The historic horsehide Barry Bonds smacked into the right-field bleachers to set a new major league home-run ...
SAN DIEGO - A disabled man whose service dog was attacked by the Escondido library's pet cat has sued the city for $1.5 millio...
Imagine the following nightmare scenario: After months of negotiations and painful due diligence, your client is ready to clos...
In many ways, committed lesbian and gay relationships used to be invisible to the legal system. Case after case treated same-s...
There has been a great uproar ever since President Bush issued his executive order providing that suspected terrorists be trie...
SAN FRANCISCO - Two things distinguish the appointment of U.S. Magistrate Edward M. Chen to the Northern District bench: He is...
SAN FRANCISCO - Following up on a pledge to run a grass-roots campaign for San Francisco public defender, candidate Jeff Adach...
SAN JOSE - The Santa Clara County Superior Court trial of Michelangelo Delfino and Mary Day, who are accused by Varian Semicon...
Criminal
Defense Counsel for Mexican Mafia Did It Their Way in Temple of Doom
By Garry Abrams
The Mexican Mafia murder and racketeering trial that ended earlier this month in federal district court in Los Angeles was par...
SAN FRANCISCO - Ted Fang is back in his mother's good graces and will return as publisher of the San Francisco Examiner, his l...
SAN JOSE - Plaintiffs attorneys have won a tentative $45 million settlement in a class action against a Johnson & Johnson ...
LOS ANGELES - During the eight years he was in office, the controversial and charismatic Mayor Omar Bradley was the face of th...