Corporate and transactional attorney William Mark Levinson has joined the Los Angeles office of San Diego-based Luce Forward H...
Practitioner: Employment Law By Andrea M. Kimball Thanks to Monica Lewinsky's not-so-confidential discussions with Linda Tripp...
The Practitioner: Employment Law By Joseph Posner William Thiele worked as a financial consultant for Merrill Lynch Pierce Fe...
Dicta: Movie Review By Paul Frizler From "Adam's Rib" to "Snow Falling on Cedars," courtroom scenes have often been the high...
Jeff Ramseyer, one of the most popular and personable prosecutors in the Los Angeles County district attorney's office, suffer...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Congress Works to Ease Federal Antitrust Agencies' Load
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - In these days of the mega-merger, Congress is getting closer to approving legislation that would lessen the consi...
A Los Angeles Superior Court jury Wednesday awarded a former construction contractor $40 million in punitive damages. The jury...
Forum: By Al Gore It was 65 years ago that Franklin Roosevelt signed the law that created Social Security - perhaps the single...
Government Contracts
San Bernardino Adds to List Of Defendants in Fraud Suit
By Tessa Jarrett
SAN BERNARDINO - County officials have added three more parties, including a Minneapolis lawyer, to a growing list of defendan...
WASHINGTON-Microsoft Corp. counterpunched Wednesday, urging U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson to dismiss what it cal...
WASHINGTON - Keith Harper always wanted to practice American Indian law. But he never anticipated his life would be consumed b...
SAN FRANCISCO - Respected former U.S. District Judge Charles Renfrew was named Wednesday by Hearst Newspapers to conduct an in...
Angry at Marin County's decision to retry a case that ended in a 9-3 vote for acquittal last month, a group of jurors is raisi...
Services were held Tuesday for Charles F. Howard, a retired sole practitioner. Howard died May 2. He was 82. Born in Kansas, H...
JOSHUA TREE - Jurors called to serve in the Joshua Tree Courthouse finally have a little bit of room to move - and a place to ...
The Practitioner: Employment Law By Richard Chernick California Supreme Court Has Reaffirmed the 'Moncharsh' principle in two...
Labor/Employment
Orange County Vons Worker Wins $4M Verdict
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - An Orange County Vons employee won a $4 million punitive damages verdict against the supermarket Tuesday following...
Judges and Judiciary
Five-Year-Olds Travel to See Teacher's Jury-Duty Court
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - Nervous giggles came from the jury box. Small hands nudged aside papers on the counsel table. And a shy, smiling ...
Robert G. van Schoonenberg, senior vice president, general counsel and secretary of Avery Dennison Corp. , has become a member...
Public Interest
Gov. Davis Throws California A Party but Fails to Show Up
By Contributing Writer
If you are looking for a demonstration of raw political power, forget about the elder Daley's Chicago, Tammany Hall or any of ...
Judges and Judiciary
Law Day Activities Include Teen Mock Trial
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
SANTA ANA - Billy Harlow took the bench for the first time Tuesday in Orange County Superior Court, but he may have to wait a...
Explaining why a computerized system for tracking misconduct by Los Angeles Police Department officers has yet to be implemen...
Los Angeles County Public Defender Mike Judge, who has complained from the start of the Rampart scandal that the district att...
Civil Rights
S.F. Board of Supervisors Bans Weight and Size Discrimination
By Contributing Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - When a group of women gathered one morning last year for an outdoor aerobics session to protest a 24-Hour Fitn...
A Thai toddler, drugged and used as a decoy in a human smuggling ring, may stay in the United States during the evaluation of...
SACRAMENTO - Less than a year after signing landmark legislation to reform health maintenance organizations, Gov. Gray Davis ...
Judges and Judiciary
David Williams, the West's First Black Federal Judge, Dies at 90
By Martin Bergn
Senior U.S. District Judge David W. Williams, the first black federal judge appointed west of the Mississippi, has died, cour...
Native Americans
Golden State, Silver State Work Together to Control Markers' Rubbery Behavior
By Garry Abrams
The California attorney general's office has no sympathy for state residents who run up big gambling debts in Nevada. The offi...
WISE Senior Services will honor Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp for its pro bono legal work on behalf of the nonprofit agency...
Dicta: By The Rodent I once attended an "Introduction to Law" program at a local law school. The program was designed to attra...