DICTA: By Gerald T. McLaughlin The following is an edited version of the speech that Dean Gerald T. McLaughlin gave at Loyola ...

The Practitioner: Alternative Dispute Resolution By Matthew P. Guasco Mediation has indeed come of age. What was once perceive...

Forum: By Jon W. Davidson For most high-school students, the relief of summer vacation begins this month. For the majority, it...

Forum: By Elaine Michetti The children of Sierra Leone have borne the brunt of the Revolutionary United Front insurgency. Eigh...

Lawyers to Offer Mediation Tips Attorney-mediators Gig Kyriacou and Steven R. Cerveris will offer "Tips for Litigators and Med...

San Diego Watch: By Martin Kruming A large crowd attended last Wednesday's memorial service in La Mesa for retired Deputy Cler...

SAN DIEGO - A parolee who helped convict "Freeway" Ricky Ross on cocaine charges in 1996 was never promised a deal that could ...

SAN DIEGO -- A Union-Tribune reporter, whose notes from a jailhouse interview with a triple-murder suspect were sought by the ...

The district attorney's Rampart prosecution team has agreed to modify a protective order imposed on the Rafael Perez transcrip...

A prominent civil litigator and an assistant U.S. attorney Tuesday became Gov. Gray Davis' most recent appointments to the Lo...

The concept of "courtroom theatrics" took on vivid new meaning Tuesday morning at Central Civil West when a litigant argued hi...

SAN FRANCISCO - A judge who grabbed his female bailiff's breasts should not be removed from the Placer County bench, the state...

Possibly as a result of an increasing population of juveniles and the shredding of the welfare safety net, homicides, rapes a...

The Rodent: At the Firm, you are often judged by the company you keep. Being seen in and around the Firm's movers and rainmake...

Forum: By Brian S. Kabateck The current California Insurance Commission scandal, while disturbing, has produced legislation th...

The Practitioner: International Law By Jan L.N. Snel On June 7, the European Commission launched a proposal to change the Euro...

Jayne W. Williams, the lame duck Oakland city attorney who was denied another term by voters in March, has announced she will ...

The state Supreme Court ruled Monday that trial courts may not use the class action certification process to weed out meritles...

Dicta: Recruiting Roundtable By Valerie A. Fontaine A major concern for attorneys is producing prodigious quantities of billab...

Retired trial attorney Richard Bernard Goethals Sr. died Monday in Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach following a lengthy illness...

After handling hundreds of deals in her career, attorney Van Dang never wants to handle another one. Not only that, she wants...

Forum: By Mike Farrell The smirk strikes again. Self-styled "compassionate conservative" presidential candidate George W. Bush...

SANTA ANA - Orange County Superior Court Judge Susanne S. Shaw was publicly admonished Monday by the Commission on Judicial Pe...

SAN DIEGO - An internal report commissioned by District Attorney Paul Pfingst has concluded that a prosecutor, earlier found i...

Obituary: Tax and corporate attorney Lawrence E. Irell, co-founder of Irell & Manella, has died. Irell died Thursday in Ra...

In a case likely to determine the extent gunmakers are liable for the damage their products cause, a Los Angeles police office...

Sending a man's hope of beating a drug rap up in smoke, a state appellate court ruled a Sheriff's deputy's observation of mari...

Minority students with the same grade point average as their white counterparts are less likely to be admitted to U.S. law sch...

California Chief Justice Ronald M. George is heading a delegation of 39 judges from throughout the state on a working jaunt to...

Threatened with possible recusal for expressing doubts about the credibility of Rampart scandal whistle-blower Rafael A. Perez...