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...
Bottom Line: By Richard S. Rosenberg Routine personnel matters have the potential to become high-stakes personal-injury litiga...
Update: It's a work-day morning and attorney Joanne Caruso is in decision-making agony. It's not that an important court ap...
Members of a self-described gang peace group filed a class action against the Los Angeles police Friday, charging that Rampart...
A Romanian woman fears being raped and killed because of her religious beliefs if she returns to her homeland. A Russian Jew t...
The list of Rampart-related police misconduct cases is growing, with the recent filing in Los Angeles Superior Court of two mo...
Noah Frederick Baum won his first trial last week in Los Angeles Superior Court - and his last. ...
NEW ADMITTEES: By Suzanne Mellard The specter of ethical conflicts takes on new meaning when law firms hire recent graduates w...
The Alumni Association of Southwestern University School of Law recently honored three members of the bench, bar and business ...
Litigation
Suit Alleges Tickets.com Didn't Pay for Software
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
SANTA ANA - Go to the Web site for Tickets.com and the Costa Mesa-based company touts its mission as leveraging "the power of ...
Judges and Judiciary
Supporters Pack Courthouse For Judge Paez's Swearing-In
By Ed Kimble
The Pasadena courthouse of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals was packed Thursday afternoon with federal and state judges, membe...
The June meeting of the Family Law Section of the Long Beach Bar Association will feature a brown bag lunch with family court ...
NEW ADMITTEES: By Christopher Tayback and Adrian Pruetz Complex jury trials usually require more than one trial attorney - one...
Practitioner: By Mitchell Ehrlich The "fireman's rule" is traditionally applied to professional rescuers, who, because of the ...
Litigator Profile: By Deborah Rosenthal Attorney Rene D. Wasserman has cornered the market . As chair of the employment practi...
Dicta: By Andrew T. Cavagnaro and Elise G. Devecchio-Cavagnaro Imagine being in the jury box deciding the outcome of a murder ...
Keys to Victory: By Lisa Miller Galen Gentry, of Los Angeles' Law Offices of Galen Gentry, won a defense verdict plus $218,504...
Forum: Until I was 21, I knew no lawyers. Since then, I have known little else. Which is how I ended up on the cusp of winter ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Handing a significant victory to employers, a sharply split California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that an em...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Court Issues Sanctions for Arbitration Appeal
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - An evidently annoyed state appeals court has imposed $32,000 in sanctions on two San Mateo lawyers and their a...