The Legislature of California has made it clear that courts generally are supposed to order either arbitration or mediation....
The significance of the 'Musser' decision is that it creates uncertainty that did not previously exist. ...
WASHINGTON - Federal judges and legal experts are concerned about a new White House effort aimed at increasing federal gun-cri...
Two appellate decisions suggest that notwithstanding Cornette , design immunity may at last fall firmly within the public enti...
Recently, the public got a rare glimpse at the Draconian measures that our government is taking in a desperate effort to make ...
LOS ANGELES - Elliot J. Safirstein, the well-known external relations assistant to Dean Karen Lash of the University of Southe...
LOS ANGELES - It wasn't the most formal trial that acting Judge Janet Jackson had ever seen. The defense attorney was decked o...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles-based Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher plans to open an office in Munich, joining the growing number of l...
SAN FRANCISCO - Muslim inmates at a California prison cannot be punished for missing work to attend Friday religious services,...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Thursday scheduled an Aug. 13 contempt hearing for a prosecutor after lear...
SAN FRANCISCO - Anyone willing to endure a political campaign in San Francisco, sighed one lawyer thought to be an early conte...
SAN FRANCISCO - In one of the first interpretations of state immunity from federal disability law, a federal judge has ruled C...
SAN FRANCISCO - Overruling a San Francisco judge's novel and significant reduction of a prison sentence, a federal appeals cou...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Litigation Partner Leaves Wilson Sonsini
By Toni Vranjes
LOS ANGELES - A litigation partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati said this week that she is leaving the Palo Alto fi...
VICTORVILLE - On June 20, Carl Williams and his wife, Kathy Williams, ran out of patience with the local school district he ca...
LOS ANGELES - After 23 years of repairing and renting musical instruments out of her home, a disabled Laguna Hills woman may h...
Judges and Judiciary
Traffic Judge, Business Expert Becomes High-Court Candidate
By David Houston
In a recent ruling, U.S. District Judge Bernard A. Friedman issued a lengthy opinion declaring that the admissions policies at...
On the day that it left Washington for its summer recess, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in a case that has occupie...
State Bar & Bar Associations
ABA Vows at Conference to Vet Nominees, Come Rain or Shine
By Don Debenedictisn
CHICAGO - When the Bush administration in March snatched away the American Bar Association's 50-year-old job of rating potenti...
The prayer for relief - you all remember it as one of those building blocks in civil procedure. A true vestige of English hist...
SACRAMENTO - A bill to create a groundbreaking program to help California's troubled lawyers, particularly those addicted to d...
SACRAMENTO - A task force on the multi-jurisdictional practice of law tentatively recommended Wednesday that in-house counsel ...
Solo and Small Firms
Bad Economy Doesn't Restrict Successful IP Boutique
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - So you want to open a law firm in a down economy? Have you lost your mind? Where are you going to find clients...
SAN FRANCISCO - The names of four seemingly moderate judges with little appellate experience were submitted to a State Bar com...
What duty do adults owe to teen-agers whom they invite into their homes to supervise and protect them against sexual assault ...
Personal Injury & Torts
Lawyer's Novel Theory Sways Jury in Baby-Shaking Lawsuit
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - Grant Saucier was just 6 months old when the woman responsible for watching him at a San Bernardino County da...
Real Estate/Development
Battle Heats Up Between Developer and San Diego
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Lawyers for the city of San Diego will get their final chance this month to convince an Orange County judge to thr...
LOS ANGELES - The federal court in Los Angeles announced plans Wednesday to reappoint two full-time and two part-time magistra...
"If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed." Supreme Court Jus...