^^VIEWPOINT^^ By Godfrey Isaac Mediators are catalysts for resolution. Subliminal stimuli influence behavior and attitudes, so...
SAN DIEGO - A veteran deputy district attorney who was the first witness in an unusual evidentiary hearing left no doubt about...
Dicta: On 'The Practice' By Paul Harris In the season finale Bobby Donnell and Lindsay Dole tie the marital knot with a ceremo...
Product Liability
Widow of Sky Diver Sues the Component Maker for Death
By Matthew Heller
RIVERSIDE - For nearly 30 years, James E. Martin Jr. had parachuted out of planes, making more than 5,000 sky-diving jumps and...
Forum: By Pablo Agrio California, like many other states in this country, subscribes to the philosophy that the purpose of inc...
Practitioner: Criminal Law By Laurie L. Levenson It is farely rare for this U.S. Supreme Court to limit police investigative p...
A federal judge Thursday dismissed a 4-year-old defamation lawsuit filed against Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Report...
A jury has ordered the United States division of Nestle USA to pay a former accountant more than $5 million for discriminating...
The Los Angeles Police Department officers at the heart of the Rampart scandal have been responsible for at least 108 civil la...
The political battle over community policing ratcheted up a notch Thursday when Los Angeles Police Department Chief Bernard C....
Graham & James has reached an agreement to merge with Squire Sanders & Dempsey, creating an international firm with mo...
SAN DIEGO - A judge has ordered an in camera review of a San Diego Union-Tribune reporter's notes of a jailhouse interview wit...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate on Wednesday unanimously confirmed San Francisco U.S. Magistrate Judge Phyllis Hamilton as a U.S....
Practitioner: Employment Law By William F. Murphy and Mark J. Rogers The "continuing violation" doctrine has long been a sourc...
Criminal
L.A. Robs Itself by Relying on High-Profile Crimes to Define What It Is
By Garry Abrams
If Los Angeles didn't have a criminal history, it wouldn't have a history at all. No other city in America, maybe in the unive...
SAN FRANCISCO - Sirhan Sirhan lost another round Wednesday in his ongoing quest for exoneration for the 1968 Los Angeles assas...
Dicta: Speak Easy By Charan Levitan People make judgements about you based on your English usage. Being aware of how you're us...
SAN BERNARDINO - After a decade-long absence from the San Bernardino public defender's office, John E. Roth, a criminal defens...
A former associate at Strook & Strook & Levan has been awarded $500,000 in damages by a Los Angeles Superior Court jur...
Forum: By Brian Panish Isuzu's misleading claims of victory ring hollow in the face of facts. When the Trooper performed badly...
Forum: By Fred Silberberg Trends are not something limited to fashion. They occur in all aspects of our lives, including the l...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge declined Wednesday to wipe out a $21.7 million verdict against the nation's biggest toba...
Practitioner: Employment Law By Jennifer N. Lehman Attorneys are all keenly aware of how judicial decisions affect employers a...
On the Move: Bolstering its intellectual property practice, Newport Beach-based Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth has recrui...
Assistant Presiding Judge James A. Bascue said he would be willing to revisit the process that yielded secret raises for a sel...
Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti's administration is pressuring prosecutor Michael Kraut to change his conclu...
WASHINGTON-The federal judge presiding over the antitrust case against Microsoft Corp. dealt the software giant a stunning blo...
The Los Angeles County district attorney has concluded that there is sufficient evidence that at least 28 Los Angeles Police D...
SANTA ANA - An Orange County Superior Court judge Tuesday refused to halt or delay a process currently underway that could lea...
Forum: Attorney Action By Elaine Michetti Rosemary Nelson, a 40-year-old lawyer, human-rights advocate and mother of three chi...