LOS ANGELES - David W. Burcham's genes are made of chalk dust and the ink from textbooks. Son of a school board president and ...
SAN FRANCISCO - City Attorney Louise Renne endorsed Police Commissioner and maritime lawyer Dennis Herrera as her successor Th...
Personal Injury & Torts
Court Weighs CHP Liability For Accident At Traffic Stop
By Peter Blumberg
LOS ANGELES - A California Highway Patrol officer pulls over a speeding motorist to issue a ticket. While parked in the center...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a ruling highly anticipated by cities feeling California's housing crunch, a state appeal court has upheld ...
California's Supreme Court recently revisited the California Environmental Quality Act in the context of ballot measures and h...
A residential landlord will be liable only if the landlord had actual knowledge of the dangerous dogs and the ability to preve...
SACRAMENTO - Angry senators eliminated funding for the state parole board in April, saying board members weren't doing their j...
Cutting off a habitual speeder is like scoring a point in his highway survivor game. ...
LOS ANGELES - Thomas Burke, head of the labor and employment group at San Francisco's Brobeck Phleger & Harrison and forme...
Should anti-discrimination statutes be construed to require employers to provide women with health insurance plans that cover ...
Lawyers often have to answer unexpected questions. For example, imagine that first thing Monday morning you are greeted with a...
LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court appeared reluctant Wednesday to let a homeowner's insurance company deny coverage f...
VENTURA - Westlake Village lawyer Cathleen Drury, whose own experience with divorce and single-motherhood inspired her to beco...
SACRAMENTO - A bill that would require the owners of condos and townhouses to mediate their construction dispute claims to avo...
LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court cited two Los Angeles attorneys for contempt and fined them $1,000 apiece Wednesday...
LOS ANGELES - Ramona Godoy Perez, an associate justice of the 2nd District Court of Appeal beloved for her easygoing demeanor ...
ORANGE - An Orange County deputy district attorney has lost his second bid for a seat on the Orange City Council, defeated by ...
Insurance
Closely Watched Case Examines Insurer's Duty to Cover Shooting
By Peter Blumberg
LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court appeared reluctant Wednesday to let a homeowner's insurance company deny coverage f...
SACRAMENTO - A bill to grant new legal privileges to domestic partners was approved Wednesday by the state Assembly following ...
SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County prosecutor, hoping to get legislation passed that would make it easier to convict defendants a...
SAN FRANCISCO - Listen carefully when you leave the office tonight - the click of the lock might sound slightly different. Law...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a role reversal, the notably litigious record industry found itself on the defensive end of a lawsuit Wedne...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles-based Riordan & McKinzie has lost three more partners from its Orange County office. The departu...
LOS ANGELES - The next thing Los Angeles' newly elected city attorney should do is buy a lottery ticket. With a new baby and a...
LOS ANGELES - The specters of those tiny but fearsome twins, Hanging and Dimpled Chad, haunted Tuesday's elections. Concern th...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Mayor-elect James K. Hahn said he wants to move past the bitterness of an election race he won with ...
SACRAMENTO - The high-technology industry has succeeded in dumping financial fraud from a list of public hazards that would be...
SAN FRANCISCO - As if the 1995 securities reform law didn't clamp down enough on shareholder class action suits, a federal app...
SAN FRANCISCO - At first, courtroom clerk Margie Sadler figured her runny nose and scratchy throat were just allergies, a comm...
DENVER - Defense lawyers for Timothy McVeigh today will appeal a federal judge's decision refusing to stay the convicted bombe...