Mary Anna Henley called it "a David and Goliath type of thing." Make that two Goliaths and a complexity of twists and turns th...
It was supposed to be a roast. But when Richard C. Turrone, the presiding judge of the Santa Clara Superior Court, sat down to...
Resolving "broken homes" cases is time-consuming, costly and frustrating. A seven-step process that begins with a discovery st...
Homeowners often experience water damage to their homes. The homeowners usually have insurance, so they expect the problem to ...
Even though cigarette butts were found on the ledge outside the window, the defense attorney argued that the hospital staff di...
LOS ANGELES - A former word processor at Barger & Wolen has sued the firm and partner Richards D. Barger, claiming Barger ...
LOS ANGELES- A Pakistani man, who faced visa fraud charges along with two Pakistani students, pleaded guilty Thursday in feder...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Thursday to address the thorny issue of visitation rights for grandparents...
Forum Column by Christopher L. Carpenter - Estate of Guidotti , 90 Cal.App.4th 1403 (2001), is the first case in 50 yea...
LOS ANGELES - Three immigrants who filed a class action against the city of Los Angeles a year ago, claiming the Los Angeles P...
LOS ANGELES - Hogan & Hartson of Washington, D.C., will acquire New York-based Squadron Ellenoff Plesent & Sheinfeld, ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Arguing that their clients would be prejudiced by a joint trial in the dog-mauling death of their neighbor, at...
LOS ANGELES - Adding another page to the complicated history of California law on confidential communication, an appellate cou...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Superior Court has announced the new members of the court's policy-making Executive Committee. M...
SAN JOSE - In Judge Ronald M. Whyte's Silicon Valley courtroom, the stakes are high - hundreds of millions of dollars - in leg...
LOS ANGELES - The federal court's Central District clerk's office Thursday issued a "clarification" of its check-acceptance po...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court has upheld a California statute aimed at curbing unsolicited e-mail advertisement mess...
Law Practice
Legal Consultant Leaves Altman For Public Agency Law Practice
By Marisa Navarro
LOS ANGELES - Suffering a blow to its Bay Area business, nationwide legal consulting firm Altman Weil Inc. will lose the head ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Co. has asked U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali to block a demand by state utility...
WASHINGTON - Erwin Chemerinsky was on the phone, calling from Des Moines, Iowa, where he was about to speak to a group of judg...
Appellate Law Practitioner Column by Laura Grisolano and Catherine Valerio Barrad - Even an order that is not appealable still...
Dicta Column by Peter M. Newton - Most law firms assign partners to be associates' mentors and supervisors. It is vital that t...
Labor/Employment
Begin the New Year Right by Avoiding Job-Seekers' Pitfalls
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Employment Column by Craig A. Blumin - The New Year is upon us. It's a time to wash away bad habits and start fresh with good ...
Dicta Column by Leigh Datzker - We are on our way into Year 2 of the 21st century, and the lucky among us are fresh from som...
Law Practice
Book Says Attorneys Cruised Through Top Law Schools on Diet of Indulgence
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - Anyone who believes top rank law schools are brutal academic salt mines that routinely push students ...
LOS ANGELES - Music attorney Jay Cooper, formerly of Manatt Phelps & Phillips in Los Angeles, now heads the Los Angeles en...
SAN DIEGO - A bearded, 48-year-old homeless man accused of killing another homeless man in a dispute over a blanket was arraig...
SAN FRANCISCO - David Roseman, the primary outside leasing counsel to San Francisco real estate investment company The Shorens...
LOS ANGELES - A family-oriented channel is at the center of a heated legal battle between two media giants fighting for contro...
LOS ANGELES - After five years with the Los Angeles federal public defender's office, Michael J. Proctor is returning to priva...