In the current film about the drug war, "Traffic," one character discusses the North American Free Trade Agreement as a boon f...
Litigation firms require an ongoing influx of new business in order to thrive. They must invest considerable time and effort i...
Imagine being an attorney on the receiving end of a $1-billionsettlement offer to your client. That's "billion" - with a "B." ...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for international law and commerce specialist John J. Baer. Baer, a linguist who serve...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Mayor Richard J. Riordan on Tuesday unveiled for the second time his attempt to get police Chief Ber...
RIVERSIDE - The Riverside County Board of Supervisors Tuesday voted to approve a countywide juvenile crime intervention progra...
LOS ANGELES - Downtown Los Angeles, undergoing radical urban renewal efforts, will get the largest inner-city park in its hist...
LOS ANGELES - Former Secretary of State Warren Christopher, who led a commission that investigated the Los Angeles Police Depa...
Personal Injury & Torts
Paralyzed Woman Testifies in Case Against Tire Company
By Donna Huffaker
LOS ANGELES - A woman who suffered debilitating injuries in 1996 when the tread on one of her car tires separated, causing her...
SACRAMENTO - A bill to grant new rights to domestic partners cleared a key legislative panel Tuesday, following emotional test...
LOS ANGELES - The State Bar Board of Governors elected Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Karen S. Nobumoto on Tuesda...
SAN FRANCISCO - While the big law firms typically report their lawyers and profits-per on an August to August year, a survey t...
SAN FRANCISCO - In another complication for an already long-delayed case, former chief assistant public defender Jeff Adachi h...
SAN FRANCISCO - The year 2000 appeared tailor-made for the San Francisco Bay Area's legal dealmakers. And a dozen firms in all...
SAN FRANCISCO - Is technology changing the law? It sounds like a rhetorical question in the age of the Napster case, but if th...
^^Court Jesters^^ In Hall v. Mooring , 76 S.E. 759 (1912), Judge James Robert Pottle held the following for the court: This w...
SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Daily Journal has won two top awards in the Associated Press News Executives Council Newswri...
In January, there were five Court of Appeal opinions interpreting California's SLAPP statute. ...
Anti-affirmative action Proposition 209 aimed at eliminating programs that have increased access for women and minorities. Its...
VENTURA - Disregarding his last-minute claims of innocence, a jury Monday recommended a death sentence for a Ventura skinhead ...
LOS ANGELES - In theory, L.A.'s chief of police could receive a range of punishments - from 10 days' suspension to termination...
Criminal
Killer Fires Lawyers, Faces Penalty Phase In Pro Per
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
INDIO - A man facing a possible death sentence for killing an elderly man in a home-invasion robbery has fired both of his cou...
SAN DIEGO - District Attorney Paul Pfingst's top aide disciplined former chief economic fraud prosecutor Peter Longanbach in 1...
SAN FRANCISCO - Drunkenness is not a defense to arson, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday. The justices held that arson...
Personal Injury & Torts
Partner Files Novel Suit in Dog-Mauling Victim's Death
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys for Diane Whipple's partner filed a wrongful death suit Monday that would require the San Francisco ...
SAN FRANCISCO - After four years of delays, the notorious "Pink Tarantula" case went to trial Monday in San Francisco. Two men...
LOS ANGELES - Hollywood got some good news Monday from a Louisiana district court in Tangipahoa Parish. In a major and perhaps...
LOS ANGELES - Statements made by a mentally disabled Glendale man are inadmissible in his upcoming trial on child pornography ...
SACRAMENTO - How far the state should go in collecting DNA samples from convicted felons, and how those samples should be used...
When it comes to partner mentoring for associates, more is better. Where one powerful mentor can provide many benefits, a netw...