Practitioner: Legal Malpractice Law By Alec H. Boyd In Wiley v. County of San Diego, 14 Cal.4th 532 (1998), the California Sup...
SAN FRANCISCO - Hundreds of guilty and no-contest pleas carrying the possibility of permanent exclusion from the United States...
SANTA ANA - An Orange County ostrich investor is suing the Tehachapi ostrich ranch at which he boards his 18 birds, alleging t...
SAN DIEGO - A former high-ranking deputy district attorney accused of prosecutorial misconduct in a murder case claimed his F...
SANTA ANA - A woman receiving therapy through Orange County's Health Care Agency claims she was sexually harassed by her thera...
SAN FRANCISCO - Curtailing unfair business-practice suits, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday that individuals may not ...
Forum: By Alan P. Block The Supreme Court's decision in WalMart Stores v. Sumara Brothers provides some predictability to prod...
Prosecutors Monday joined Rafael A. Perez's bid to recuse the attorney for one of the first three police officers charged in t...
On the Move: The San Diego office of Morrison & Foerster has added intellectual property litigators David Doyle and Craig ...
Criminal
A Tale of Priests and Politicians; and the Bell That Tolls for All of Us
By Garry Abrams
Cardinal Roger Mahony, the archbishop of Los Angeles, has an exquisite sense of timing. With a speech at the National Press Cl...
Labeled by the Mexican Mafia as a snitch, Jose Uribe lasted less than two days at the Los Angeles County Jail, where he was be...
As baseball superstar Barry Bonds and his former wife watched from the sidelines, the California Supreme Court on Monday pitch...
Family
Man Seeks Money, Not Custody of Artificially Conceived Child
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Raymond Dunkin called young Marisa his "miracle baby." Stricken with testicular cancer, the East Bay laborer t...
Forum: By Edward F. O'Connor Congress should eliminate the confusion and uncertainty that is created when courts allow rights ...
RIVERSIDE - Jury panels need to be better diversified, agreed a panel of five legal and academic experts who gathered Wednesda...
The Adviser: Appellate Law By Ronald P. Kaplan Just as the trial lawyer must be ever vigilant in seeing to it that the complai...
News: New York's Kelley Drye & Warren has added five lawyers to its Los Angeles office, effective last Thursday. The addit...
Forum: By Madeline Bernstein In response to Andrew Bernstein's article "Animal Rights Activists Seek to Inflict Human Sufferin...
Forum: Spin Report By John M. Curtis Gunning for President Clinton's law license, an Arkansas Supreme Court ethics panel recom...
Forum: By Ronald A. Zumbrun Some governmental agencies are so misguided as to deserve public exposure of their actions. An egr...
SANTA ANA - Orange County prosecutors on Friday charged two Orange County businessmen with defrauding computer vendors such as...
SAN DIEGO - When Jon Eric Hollmann was admitted to the California Bar in 1980, his first job as a lawyer was with Earl T. Durh...
News: He has tried more than 100 jury trials and lost only four. His most recent book, The Alternate , was on the New York Tim...
SAN DIEGO - Navy Lt. Cmdr. Robert Lance Loeh, 40, was arraigned Friday on charges of selling tablets of Ecstasy , a manufactur...
The Employers Group legal committee says that in California's legal and political climate, employment law favors labor over ma...
A memorial service will be held Tuesday in Beverly Hills for Robert McCoun Shea, retired deputy general counsel of Arco. Shea,...
Judges and Judiciary
Court Ruling: Status of Court Clerks to Be Maintained
By Ed Kimble
California 2nd District Court of Appeal Judge William Masterson blasted Los Angeles County counsel's arguments for reclassifyi...
Practitioner: Public Interest Law By Michael S. Paul Welfare reform has brought many changes in law involving basic social-ser...
The Closer: By John Plotz The Holocaust happened long ago, or so I thought. But earlier this year, it was center stage at the ...
Deals: Corporate lawyer Mark Medearis of Menlo Park's Venture Law Group has been handling mergers and acquisitions for more th...