SAN FRANCISCO - One week and a day after staging a lunch-hour protest outside the San Francisco Superior Court, a union repres...
Civil Rights
Supervisors Pay $27 Million to Settle Strip-Search Class Actions
By Gina Keating
LOS ANGELES - The county Board of Supervisors Tuesday approved paying $27 million to settle five class actions in which former...
SACRAMENTO - A measure that would impose strict new limits on prenuptial agreements is on the verge of passing the state Legis...
SAN FRANCISCO - A nearly deaf man may pursue disability discrimination claims against Kitsap County, Wash., and three "disabil...
SAN FRANCISCO - What lasts three weeks and is worth at least $7 billion? One of the most tantalizing events any city can win: ...
LOS ANGELES - Maria Villalvazo won't be around to take her daughter, Armida, to Disneyland next week for her eighth birthday a...
The court ruled that the community-property interest in the firm should be valued as of the date of separation, pursuant to Fa...
Law firms often succeed or fail because of the relationship among the partners. A partner with good communication skills will ...
Almost five years after winning the 1996 California lottery with an entitlement to over $1.3 million, Denise Rossi lost it all...
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court on Monday refused to allow former Superior Court Judge George W. Trammell III to remain ...
LOS ANGELES - Hours after standing in a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department lineup in which two witnesses reportedly conne...
SAN FRANCISCO - An Hispanic prosecutor was appointed to the Fresno County bench by Gov. Gray Davis on Monday, the fourth Latin...
SAN FRANCISCO - On Sept. 21, 1972, California Supreme Court Justice Stanley Mosk changed the course of environmental law in Ca...
SAN DIEGO - Deputy district attorneys have filed a $100 million claim against San Diego County charging that the county's poli...
SAN DIEGO - A man who was convicted in the killing of an Ocean Beach man has filed a federal lawsuit claiming that a prosecuto...
SANTA ANA - A decade ago, Hugh "Randy" McDonald was a highly respected associate with Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue's Irvine ...
Judges and Judiciary
Panel Wants to Limit Court Employees' Internet Access
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The tempest over rules for monitoring Internet use by federal judges and their staffs produced recommendations...
SAN FRANCISCO - Court-awarded attorney's fees belong to the lawyer, not the litigant, even if the lawyer fails to secure a wri...
SAN FRANCISCO - Campus security is so important that underage students can be detained and questioned outside of class even if...
SAN FRANCISCO - One by one they take the hot seat for job interviews in Joe Russoniello's offices at Cooley Godward, seeking S...
LOS ANGELES - Cooley Godward associates have something to smile about. The industry information and discussion resource Vault....
LOS ANGELES - Admitting he erred in denying an earlier mistrial motion, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge granted a new trial...
LOS ANGELES - Tom Forsythe is free to serve Barbie enchiladas again. A federal judge ruled Friday that the 43-year-old Utah ar...
In his seminal tome, "California Judicial Conduct Handbook" (2d ed. 1999), Los Angeles Superior Court Judge David M. Rothman w...
Prosecutors now can be sued civilly. It widely was believed that criminal defendants couldn't turn around and sue prosecutors ...
Law Office Automation
Blockbuster 'Revolt of the Black Robes' Is Coming to a Court Near You
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Are the inmates running the asylum? Sure, the uproar over Internet monitoring at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of A...
Firm Watch
Liner Yankelevitz: SANTA MONICA SHOP NABS FORMER STROOCK LEADER
By Toni Vranjes
Santa Monica's Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstreif welcomed three new attorneys into the fold earlier this month, inc...
Everyone who's played Monopoly knows the satisfaction of buying a hotel. But for Mark Weinstock, few things are as professiona...