Independent Hollywood producer Les Haber saw the potential of reality television before the popular show "Survivor" and its ma...
LOS ANGELES - Two Los Angeles Police Department officers have sued the Los Angeles Times for libel, saying the newspaper impli...
Q: Is mediation underutilized in entertainment litigation? A: Generally, the answer is no. Mediation appears to be accepted ab...
The relationship of insurance-defense counsel, the insureds that they are hired to defend and the insurance companies that pay...
Perhaps the most important consideration in any arbitration is the selection of the arbitrator. The arbitrator determines the ...
Martin Stanley, a sole practitioner in Santa Monica, won $500,000 in a product liability case. Keegan v. Joytech Internatio...
SAN FRANCISCO - Now that Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe is firmly entrenched in the United States, the San Francisco-based ...
LOS ANGELES - A memorial service will take place at 3 p.m. Thursday for Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney John C. Sp...
SAN FRANCISCO - A pair of high-profile patent litigators, Lynn Pasahow and David Hadden, joined Palo Alto's Fenwick & West...
To call John M. Gatti a perfectionist may be an understatement. As an undergraduate majoring in finance at the University of S...
Last fall, the California Supreme Court held that employers could impose a fair and mutual arbitration process on employees as...
Civil Rights
New Law Could Put Americans' Medical Privacy on Critical List
By Columnist
Uncle Sam wants your private medical records, and you have only a few days to stop him. Not only does he want your medical dat...
VENTURA - In a case that tested police-pursuit policies, a bystander seriously injured as officers were chasing a fleeing vehi...
SAN FRANCISCO - Marshall B. Grossman, a senior partner and business litigation specialist at Los Angeles' Alschuler Grossman S...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a move that ensures Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel will eventually appear in civil court to face liabilit...
LOS ANGELES - No matter who wins the mayoral race, Big Money's influence on politics will continue to be a festering issue in ...
Solo and Small Firms
Valley's GCA Keeps Plugging With Associate-Free Model
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - No one's hiding his head in the sand at General Counsel Associates in Palo Alto. Members of the 22-lawyer Sili...
SAN FRANCISCO - The White House has not yet worked out a formal system for evaluating judicial nominees, but that has not stop...
What is the "crime of aggression," and why doesn't the United States want the International Criminal Court to punish it? The U...
Labor/Employment
Role of DA's Anger in His Firing Surprises AG Staffers
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
SANTA ANA - State attorney general staffers are surprised that an Orange County homicide prosecutor's firing occurred in part ...
SAN FRANCISCO - He had been with Foley & Lardner for less than a year, but lawyers there say the loss of Peter Ferris has ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Palo Alto lawyer who was "blinded by greed" has been ordered by a federal judge to repay roughly $200,000 of...
Allowing two mediators to work as a team in a mediation can be very beneficial to clients. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Morrison & Foerster, the last of the Bay Area's biggest firms to announce its salary plans, will be forgoi...
LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors argued Monday against a fifth postponement of the April 30 trial of former Symbionese Liberation Arm...
LOS ANGELES - "Bye, Ali." It was a fitting send-off to U.S. Attorney Alejandro N. Mayorkas from "Hollywood madam" Heidi Fleiss...
Constitutional Law
Mother Files Bias Lawsuit Against School District
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
CHINO - The mother of two former students sued the Chino Valley Unified School District, claiming the district discriminated a...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge on Monday ruled against the city of Los Angeles, allowing a man to pursue his civil rights lawsu...
Judges and Judiciary
Panel Says Judge's Excuses for Absences 'Not Believeable'
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - A panel of special masters has determined that Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patrick B. Murphy, who attende...
SACRAMENTO - For more than 15 years convicted hatchet murderer Kevin Cooper has insisted he is innocent, and lately he has ask...