Medical malpractice suits usually are prosecuted and defended by seasoned lawyers. And invariably, medical experts will testif...
Despite the weakened economy, lawyers continue to trade in Perry Mason ambitions for Bill Gates aspirations. Just ask Glenn We...
Oops, you weren't paying attention and you woke up on the other side of 35 (the harshly arbitrary cutoff for highest reproduct...
SAN FRANCISCO - Teams of upstart young legal eagles got to practice intellectual property litigation just like the grown-ups T...
"If there was a way, and I speak only for myself, to have avoided getting involved in that difficult decision ... I would have...
SAN BERNARDINO - A teen-ager who told police she stabbed her baby moments after giving birth because it would have ruined her ...
LOS ANGELES - The endorsement sweepstakes in the Los Angeles city attorney's race continued Thursday, with office-seeker Rocka...
LOS ANGELES - Although a jury last year acquitted Los Angeles Police Department Officer Paul Harper of corruption in the Rampa...
Appellate Practice
Court Denies Lawyer's Appeal In Long-Running Murder Case
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
SANTA ANA - Affirming murder convictions in one of the longest-running criminal cases in California history, an appellate cour...
LOS ANGELES - Ronald L. Cheng has been named chief of the U.S. attorney's office criminal division. Cheng, 36, replaces John S...
LOS ANGELES - After years of complaints by immigrant advocates, Los Angeles soon will be getting a shelter to house undocument...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council has voted to pay $2.6 million to settle a case involving the New Year's Day 1999 sh...
SAN FRANCISCO - Disapproving an appellate court ruling that a 16-year-girl was an "accomplice" to incest with her father, the ...
SAN FRANCISCO - It took two small children in England to do what tobacco companies, gun makers, corporate bankers, energy baro...
SAN JOSE - On the eve of the criminal trade-secrets theft trial against Avant Corp., the Fremont-based company has quietly set...
SAN FRANCISCO - Jonathan V. Holtzman, a longtime chief deputy in Louise Renne's office who is currently Mayor Willie Brown's t...
SAN FRANCISCO - White House Republicans and California's two Democratic senators have hashed out a power-sharing mechanism thi...
LOS ANGELES - Five years ago, Chapman University began an aggressive effort to establish a law school. Jurors will get a chanc...
The dawn of the 21st century should not be a time in which we regress so far back in time as to re-establish long-discredited ...
LOS ANGELES - Gender inequality in the legal profession remains a serious problem despite advances by women in the past 30 yea...
In the court of public opinion, the media are under increasing pressure to take more responsibility for the products they dist...
Napster may have run afoul of the law but in its place on the Web is Gnutella, a file-sharing network that could be the next a...
In Bendheim Brothers & Co. v. Baldwin, 73 Ga. 594 (1884), Justice M.H. Blandford found the following for the court:...
Arbitration as a preferred method for resolving employment-related disputes received a substantial boost recently with the U.S...
SAN FRANCISCO - An amended lawsuit that was to be filed today in Alameda County Superior Court alleges that Deputy State Attor...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles City Councilman and city attorney candidate Mike Feuer announced Wednesday that he has added the uni...
Whether you are a litigator or a transactional attorney, negotiation of disagreements is a part of your everyday business life...
LOS ANGELES - After a year of unprecedented growth in which northern California firms outpaced their Southland counterparts, t...
LOS ANGELES - The long arm of California law just got longer in legal malpractice cases as a result of a state appellate court...
The legal standards by which today's custodial arrangements are derived have their roots in law created over 40 years ago. Soc...