While the fight against terrorism will continue for years to come, the United States already has fought and won the war's most...
LOS ANGELES - The Anaheim Union High School District board will consider a proposal tonight to require school officials to inf...
Game theorists who study conflict and negotiations have developed some interesting conclusions about the way in which particip...
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently issued one of the most far-reaching decisions in the brief history of the Famil...
Lawyers do very interesting things with documents that are presented to them for review and finalization. ...
Bruce Wold often tells people he's a better athlete than a lawyer. Don't tell that to Michael Meadows, who represented a 50-ye...
With the strains of Sergei Eisenstein's "Alexander Nevsky" soaring from the dozens of voices in the midst of the turmoil gripp...
The last five years have seen an incredible growth in technology, including wireless Internet, hand-held computers, high-speed...
It's one thing to be honored by one's peers. It's another to be honored by an opponent. Such was the case recently when P. Bea...
Earthquakes, hurricanes, employee violence. When a disaster occurs, much of the focus is on "managing" the crisis, typically i...
I love to fly. One of the best parts of flying, assuming my children are not screaming in the seats on either side of me, is t...
P. Beach Kuhl, by his own admission, is sort of old-fashioned. He doesn't rely much on blowups, PowerPoint or video technology...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Lawyers Must Break Silence Cloaking Domestic Violence
By Columnist
Although crime rates around the country are down, one insidious crime still flourishes in homes across America. It is a crime ...
As the word "wireless" replaces previous buzzwords such as "push," "B2B," "broadband" and "New Economy" as the Next Big Thing,...
SAN JOSE - Patricia White, a partner at Littler Mendelson in San Jose, has been chosen president-elect of the Santa Clara Coun...
ROUNDTABLE: Rick O'Hare, of Santa Rosa's Rivkin Radler, recently hosted a discussion of patent litigation issues in light of n...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court agreed Tuesday to take a second look at a groundbreaking decision that allowed a forei...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge, 69, Plans Retirement, Reflects on Career
By Contributing Writer
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge David B. Finkel has discovered that courtroom drama can occur in the unlikelies...
LOS ANGELES - An attorney for former Sonoma County Judge Patricia Gray asked the Commission on Judicial Performance Tuesday to...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate confirmed four district court nominees on Thursday, even as Republicans held up approval of the f...
LOS ANGELES - J. Bruce Robertson, a civil litigator who dedicated his courtroom skills to causes ranging from death-penalty ap...
LOS ANGELES - A former Los Angeles attorney has been sentenced to more than two years in federal prison for helping to launder...
LOS ANGELES - When members of the Board of Supervisors agreed three months ago to place on the March ballot two measures that ...
LOS ANGELES - McKenna & Cuneo and Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton have called off their merger talks, citing client ...
LOS ANGELES - The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California filed suit Tuesday in federal court to stop the city o...
LOS ANGELES - Julie Su, an attorney with the Asian Pacific-American Legal Center, will receive a $500,000 grant today from the...
LOS ANGELES - Judge Melvin B. Grover, "Barney" to those who knew him best, made a pledge to always do what was right, even if ...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a boon for defendants, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that government prosecutors cannot characteriz...
Civil Rights
Racial Bias in Jury Selection Nets New Trial for Convicted Murderer
By Amy Tatko
LOS ANGELES - A Hispanic murder defendant will get a new trial because a prosecutor violated his right to a representative jur...