SACRAMENTO - A bill that revamps the process for resolving construction defect disputes has cleared a key legislative committe...
SAN FRANCISCO - Perkins Coie, a Seattle firm with aspirations for prominence in the Silicon Valley, has landed another intelle...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether Medi-Cal patients can sue health care provider...
LOS ANGELES - In the first conviction since the Los Angeles County district attorney reactivated a program that dispatches pro...
Intellectual Property
Tactics of the 'Sunrise Squatters' Creating Aggravation
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - The "sunrise period" designed to give trademark owners a chance to register their names first in the newly int...
Criminal
Judge Criticizes DA for Talking Privately With Dismissed Juror
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge Wednesday sharply criticized a prosecutor who followed a dismissed juror out of the Roybal Feder...
LOS ANGELES - A pending lawsuit pitting 139 female attorneys against the county got a boost this week from a federal report th...
SAN FRANCISCO - An unusual agreement that begins to break a logjam in adding new plants and animals to the nation's catalog of...
SAN FRANCISCO - Parents can sue California teachers if they refuse to instruct students only in English in violation of the st...
SAN FRANCISCO - When two key witnesses in a capital murder case recant their testimony years after the trial, the search for t...
On my desk in chambers are two hopeful documents. One is a recent book by a Boston lawyer named Ronald B. Shwartz. Shwartz had...
Q: To win cases, must counsel use visual aids or graphics? A: "Show, don't tell" is the cardinal rule when it comes to maintai...
LOS ANGELES - A former Intel Corp. employee pleaded guilty to insider trading for using information he learned while working a...
Neutral L. Therese White, former big-company accountant, is soft-spoken and articulate. A regular churchgoer, she often conduc...
Cathay Bank learned the hard way recently not to underestimate Curtis Jung. In the 40-year-old attorney's opinion, bank offici...
Developed over centuries, the common-law doctrine of "sovereign immunity" provided that "you can't sue the king." This basic d...
LOS ANGELES - The city of Los Angeles will appeal a federal judge's order barring enforcement of an anti-panhandling ordinance...
These questions and answers regarding developments in employment law in 2001 were presented at the SHRM 2001 annual conference...
LOS ANGELES - A Monterey Park attorney and his female co-defendant pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court to...
LOS ANGELES - In the eyes of members of corporate boards across the nation, a few California-based law firms are among the cre...
Properly used, a convenor can streamline the procedural aspects of ADR that cause delays and aggravation. When advocates come ...
In a group discussion hosted by Los Angeles mediator Jeff Kichaven, plaintiffs' counsel John B. Marcin, defense counsel Fred B...
Appellate Practice
Excessive Verdicts Affect Both 'Real People' and 'the Powerful'
By Columnist
During his campaign for president in 2000, Al Gore boiled down his message to the slogan "the people vs. the powerful." That s...
Criminal
Riverside County OKs Plan For Conservatorship Cases
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Two years after a San Francisco lawyer's investigation sparked criticisms about the way Riverside public defender ...
LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge on Tuesday set aside involuntary-manslaughter convictions in a five-defendant murder case...
LOS ANGELES - Defense attorneys for accused bombing conspirator Sara Jane Olson will ask a judge next week for yet another del...
SAN BERNARDINO - A judge has blocked the attempt of a teen-age girl to hold a group-home operator vicariously liable for the a...
VENTURA - Stricken with mental illness, David A. Culp went from the life of a successful attorney to that of a virtual hermit ...