With astonishing frequency, I hear this exact remark, made during jury trial, usually when dealing with damages or other impor...
Mental health professionals have become an important part of the process of assisting courts in resolving child custody disput...
The War on Drugs has proved to be one of the most difficult, if not impossible, fights. The current laws, while threatening on...
SAN FRANCISCO - A judge's ruling in a case in which environmentalists sought to impose massive fines for leaks from undergroun...
SAN FRANCISCO - The state's last outpost of municipal courts, Kings County, has unanimously approved consolidating its trial c...
SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran trial lawyer Paul Gutierrez has dissolved his award-winning, four-attorney law firm, Gutierrez & A...
There are many changes in California employment law in 2001. ...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles district attorney's office illegally made $1.7 million in interest on parents' child support pay...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge Wednesday temporarily halted the threatened cancellation of contracts that empower Southern ...
WASHINGTON - Citing what she called John Ashcroft's "ultra-right wing" record and his treatment of federal court nominee Ronni...
LOS ANGELES - Chicago's Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal will be adding four attorneys to its Los Angeles office Feb. 1. Part...
LOS ANGELES - In the end, the vote was the same. But the real effects of the conflict between county prosecutors and the Los A...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a sharp rebuke of the federal government's zero tolerance drug policy for pubic housing residents, the 9th ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to review two murder convictions of an Alameda County woman whos...
Personal Injury & Torts
Trial Starts for Continental, Maker Of Paralyzed Woman's Car Tires
By Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - Manufacturing and design defects caused a 1996 tire-tread separation accident that left a young woman paralyzed ...
LOS ANGELES - It's too bad Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patrick Murphy can't give guided tours of the inside of his head. ...
Judges and Judiciary
After 20 Years, Sexual Orientation Can Still Make a Difference on the Bench
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - When family law attorney Mary C. Morgan was appointed to the San Francisco bench in 1981, she became the natio...
LOS ANGELES - Last August, a year after white supremacist Buford O. Furrow Jr. went on a shooting rampage that left a Filipino...
RIVERSIDE - People who are terrified of snakes suffer from ophidiophobia. Those fearful of leaving their homes are agoraphobic...
Litigators encounter many mediators in the course of their practice - some good, some not so good. To increase the chances of ...
BY MELISSA ONSTAD When it comes to ADR, retired U.S. District Judge Eugene F. Lynch has has seen a few seasons come and go. H...
BY RICHARD M. MOSK While the provisions specifically applicable to international arbitrations are codified in Code of Civil P...
LOS ANGELES - Gregory Weingart has become chief of the complaints section of the U.S. attorney's office, U.S. Attorney Alejand...
SAN DIEGO - William Turley became president of Consumer Attorneys of San Diego during the Annual Awards & Installation Din...
SAN FRANCISCO - The local branch office of a Los Angeles-based attorney service vendor, Express Network Inc., unexpectedly clo...
By Leonard Novarro Luxury has its bounds. Between January 1990 and March 1994, the Sanwa Bank Ltd. loaned $94.5 million to Ja...
Financial distress is a common plague hitting many new dot-com companies struggling for a piece of the high-stakes technology...
In 1993, Elizabeth Cristina de Oliveira Maia witnessed and survived a military police massacre of street children in Rio de Ja...
LOS ANGELES - Chapman University School of Law will host the hearings of the 4th District Court of Appeal today. It is the fir...
Government and energy-industry officials scrambling for a solution to California's energy debacle have been struck by the same...