How far does potential nondisclosure liability extend for providers of "commercial information"? California's 2nd District Cou...
LOS ANGELES - Sterling Brennan has been named managing partner of Morrison & Foerster's Irvine office, the firm announced ...
For neutral Leonard S. Wolf, 72, the best part of leaving the bench may be the freedom to speak. While some judges and former ...
Peter A. Mittenthal of Calabasas' Snyder, Dorenfeld & Tannenbaum won a defense verdict Jan. 24 in a confidential case alle...
On March 14, 2001, the 4th District Court of Appeal, Division One, filed its opinion in Michael Piscitelli v. Robert Friede...
When Richard R. Patch isn't busy litigating the fine points of telecommunications law or testifying as an expert on cable tele...
Law Day, observed yesterday, presents a unique opportunity for judges and lawyers to retell the story of the law and its role ...
Mediation is a process of dealing with people and facts. Perceptional facts differ widely depending on which side a party is o...
What should a party do when faced with orders granting or denying a preliminary injunction in federal court? In a potentially ...
J. Edgar Hoover said, "Justice is incidental to law and order." A majority of U.S. Supreme Court justices apparently concurs. ...
Cable companies always have made concessions to local franchising authorities in order to win and keep their franchises. But w...
LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court has departed from case law to expand the scope of strict product-liability claims to all...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles city attorney's office Tuesday renewed its opposition to defense efforts to obtain personnel com...
LOS ANGELES - In a description that will be etched on Daniel Rosenberg's headstone, the father of the entertainment lawyer and...
Personal Injury & Torts
Insurance Coverage Follows Liabilities, Court Says
By Gina Keating
LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court has ruled that insurance coverage follows liabilities, not policyholders, in a case involv...
SANTA ANA - The Orange County Bar Association bestowed its Harmon G. Scoville Award on personal injury lawyer Vernon W. Hunt d...
RIVERSIDE - An African-American man has filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Ontario, claiming an Ontario police office...
SANTA ANA - An Orange County graphic designer has filed a wrongful termination lawsuit alleging that, when he complained that ...
SAN BERNARDINO - Judges can approve warrants with the click of a mouse, and court staff don't have to go any further than thei...
SANTA ROSA - You have constitutional rights, but you better respect those rights, a local attorney told 45 high school student...
LOS ANGELES - After months on the sidelines, the Los Angeles City Council signaled Tuesday that it will take a stronger role i...
SANTA BARBARA - Piercing the attorney-client privilege, a judge ruled Tuesday that a criminal defense lawyer could be forced t...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Panel Clears Treatment Program for Lawyers
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - A proposal to create California's first comprehensive substance abuse program for addicted lawyers cleared the Se...
LOS ANGELES - On a warm spring afternoon in an empty dining hall on the campus of a century-old boys' home, three teen-agers s...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Beverly Hills family law and celebrity divorce attorney Norman M. Dolin. Dolin die...
Family
In Landmark Ruling, O.C. Judge Allows Posthumous Adoption
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
ORANGE - An Orange County family law judge broke new legal ground Tuesday by granting the adoption petition of a man who died ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Seven years after a San Francisco jury punished the world's largest law firm with the nation's largest damage ...
Entertainment & Sports
Players Fail to Settle Case In Film-Industry Breakup
By Contributing Writer
LOS ANGELES - In Hollywood's hottest legal dispute, everyone agrees on only one thing: The parties did try to settle. But the ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Christopher Cottle, the presiding justice of the state Court of Appeal in San Jose, announced his retirement M...
SAN FRANCISCO - In the midst of the California energy debacle, it may be easy to forget that not very long ago the only news a...