SAN FRANCISCO - Oregon's novel vote-by-mail statute complies with federal election law, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...
SACRAMENTO - A conflict between Enron Corp. and a Senate committee investigating alleged price-gouging in California's energy ...
LOS ANGELES - Retired securities lawyer Wayne H. Knight has died. Knight died July 3 from complications of pneumonia. He was 9...
Defending an 81-year-old woman threatened with eviction brought Southern California attorney Denise Letzer-McGranahan a long-s...
Facing an eviction from her Santa Monica apartment after more than 30 years, 81-year-old Lavon Fitzgerald couldn't fund an exp...
Unlike most franchise cases of the past several years where arbitrability was an issue, the court did not proceed with the usu...
LOS ANGELES - Family law sole practitioner Toby Plevin has died after a two-year battle with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Plevin di...
A deposition taken by an inexperienced deposition-taker can be a cruel experience for the questioner, the deponent and the vet...
Predatory lending became the focus of a multicase pro bono effort spearheaded by a team of attorneys in the Silicon Valley off...
LOS ANGELES - A Sacramento man who fled to England after he and his wife embezzled nearly $1 million from a Santa Monica law f...
One of the challenges facing litigators during peak stress times is time pressure interfering with quality nutrition. Busy tri...
Violence on campus cannot be the basis for abdicating our duty to protect the Constitution and instill in youth what the Bill ...
Sometimes, all it takes is a suggestion. Irene Zeibarth sensed that an elder wanted more than money when he sued his church fo...
SANTA ANA - When Orange County Deputy Marshal Stephen J. Scott retired in 1992, he knew his 11-year tenure in the Sheriff's De...
It was raining, and I was poring, over some 90-day A/Rs. The phone rang. Stanley, a plaintiff's lawyer, was upset. "I've been ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Ratepayers will not have a formal committee to represent them in the Chapter 11 case of Pacific Gas and Electr...
RIVERSIDE - The national watchdog agency that lambasted the Riverside County public defender's office in an audit last year la...
SAN FRANCISCO - Two San Francisco attorneys, themselves behind bars awaiting trial for murder and manslaughter in the dog-maul...
SAN FRANCISCO - The 90 lawyers and staff in the San Francisco office of Coudert Brothers will get a change of scenery next wee...
SACRAMENTO - In an apparent effort to circumvent a landmark DNA law enacted last year, an attorney general's task force has dr...
SAN FRANCISCO - A little-noticed California Supreme Court decision has alarmed consumer advocates concerned that insurance com...
Judges and Judiciary
Supervising Judge of L.A. Criminal Courts Dies at 56
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Stephen E. O'Neil, supervising judge of the county's criminal courts, and a man...
SAN FRANCISCO - Walk into the red brick storefront office of Clarence & Snell on the corner of Ellis and Van Ness and it's...
Law Practice
Mayor Puts Politically Savvy on Board of Police Commissioners
By Gina Keating
LOS ANGELES - In naming four politically savvy and ethnically varied attorneys to the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioner...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court, excoriating two Idaho state prosecutors, upheld sanctions Tuesday against the lawyers...
The proper functioning of our republican form of democratic government requires a clear rule of law that federal law enforceme...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Unified School District will fight an arbitrator's decision to award more than $16 million to th...
Firm lawyers must be on their best behavior while the summer associates are on board. ...
Cross-selling can expand your practice, offer more services to your clients and increase firm revenues. ...
The deportation of former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia ...