LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge David S. Wesley, assistant supervising judge of the county's criminal courts, h...
LOS ANGELES - John F. Walker Jr., former Latham & Watkins chair and one of the most high-profile partners in the firm's Lo...
The California Supreme Court has recently ruled on a federal civil rights case in the contentious area of rent regulation. In ...
SAN DIEGO - An appellate court in San Diego has ruled that a penal-code section that prevents criminal defendants from appeali...
SAN FRANCISCO - Jury selection in the infamous "Pink Tarantula" case is set to begin Monday. Two men are charged in the action...
LOS ANGELES - Rock star Courtney Love filed a cross-complaint Wednesday against UMG Recordings, alleging that the recording co...
SACRAMENTO - Despite laws beefing up protections for whistleblowers, workers may be reluctant to report alleged misdeeds becau...
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for six African-American men may depose eight security guards accused of beating the men as they shopp...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Board of Education has authorized a $3.5 million reorganization of the massive school district's...
Law Practice
Former Fiancée Files $5M Suit Against Baseball Player Justice
By Donna Huffaker
LOS ANGELES - The former fiancée of New York Yankee David Justice filed a $5 million lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court Wed...
LOS ANGELES - Trial will start Monday for former attorney James H. Davis and his wife, Gilda Mejia Davis, who are accused of b...
Section 6068(e) of the California Business & Professions Code requires lawyers to maintain "inviolate" the confidences and...
Litigation
God Invented the 9th Circuit to Give Hollywood Underdogs a Chance
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Plaintiffs in a trio of discrimination complaints against most of Hollywood's heavy hitters have turned to the 9...
LOS ANGELES - Change moves in mysterious ways. Under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice's civil rights division f...
WASHINGTON - A sharply divided Supreme Court on Wednesday restored the ability of Legal Services Corp. lawyers to challenge fe...
SAN FRANCISCO - America Online Inc. now will have a chance to explain why an Oakland man fighting the giant Internet service ...
LOS ANGELES - Joe Fernandez was happy to be stuck in traffic on the Harbor Freeway on a dreary day . "It's unbelievable that I...
Large Firms
'A Lot of Bricks Falling' as Seattle Outposts Weather 'Quake
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - A routine teleconferencing meeting for managers at Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe turned into a real-time...
SAN FRANCISCO - Mary M. Schroeder, the new chief judge of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, says the book that is "easily...
LOS ANGELES - Encouraged by a narrow Supreme Court decision Wednesday, legal aid lawyers from California to Washington, D.C., ...
The construction industry continues to keep full-speed pace with the influx of new residents in Southern California, so it is ...
In Erlich v. Menezes, 21 Cal.4th 543 (1999), the California Supreme Court clarified the rules that emotional distress d...
RIVERSIDE - The Riverside City Council agreed Tuesday to a five-year, legally-binding plan drafted by the state attorney gener...
You can always tell when something new becomes institutionalized - people try to make rules and regulations about it. ...
The time has come to recognize that the parties, courts and insurers can no longer afford the delay in resolving construction ...
How litigators draft case management orders may be the most critical factor in their success at resolving a construction defec...
Construction defect litigators know that the traditional mediation process has become a runaway train, loaded with excessive c...
Southern California neutral John O'Meara wanted to do something constructive with his self-proclaimed "big mouth," so after wo...
LOS ANGELES - Bathed in applause and honored for a job well done, Marilyn DuPies could think only of the face missing from the...
Plaintiffs' attorney Conrado Joe Sayas Jr. could hardly be regarded as smug. In a field of lawyering overpopulated by braggart...