^^KEYS TO VICTORY^^ Mark P. Velez, an employment litigator with Concord's Velez and Velez, won $ in Ralph S. Baker v. Buffingt...

^^LITIGATOR PROFILE^^ By Deborah Rosenthal Michael E. Wade discovered his interest in the legal profession in an unlikely plac...

^^VIEWPOINT^^ By Kurt Osenbaugh It is a popular sentiment that jury verdicts are irrational, motivated by inappropriate sympat...

SANTA ANA - A declaratory relief complaint filed in Orange County Superior Court on Tuesday could have a significant impact on...

The Public Eye: By Ross Johnson Memo to all entertainment lawyers: When you're in your 70th hour of a 100-hour work week and y...

Forum: By Karleen George The real issue behind the Los Angeles Superior Court judges' decision to raise the salaries of some o...

The Alumni Association of Southwestern University School of Law honored a local lawyer and judge at its 13th annual awards rec...

Dicta: On 'Judging Amy' By Akilah Monifa Amy presides over a show-cause hearing to terminate the parental custody rights of Ru...

^^AT ISSUE^^ By Deborah Rosenthal On Jan. 17, 1994, at 4:31 a.m. , an earthquake that registered 6.8 on the Richter Scale rock...

^^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...

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...

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...