A once-prominent personal injury attorney with a reputation for charming juries into large verdicts has returned to the courtr...
Seymour Greitzer, founder of Glendale University College of Law, died March 3 from chronic lymphocytik leukemia. He was 75. Gr...
^^PRODUCT LIABILITY^^ The incident that led to the largest personal injury verdict in history, Anderson v. General Motors Corp...
^^COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT^^ Despite Columbia Picture Television Inc.'s termination of licensing agreements with C. Elvin Feltne...
SAN DIEGO - When Edward J. Schwartz was a boy, he attended kindergarten on the site where San Diego's federal courthouse now s...
In one of the largest medical malpractice verdicts ever awarded in Los Angeles County , Vasquez v. Lin , BC191183 (Los Angeles...
According to her testimony in Henley v. Philip Morris Inc ., 995172 (San Francisco Superior Court, Feb. 9-10, 1999), Patricia ...
SAN DIEGO - Madge Bradley, who studied law in a correspondence school and became San Diego County's first female judge, died W...
A Northridge couple who allegedly used $634,000 in insurance proceeds to not only repair but remodel their earthquake-damaged ...
Judges and Judiciary
Judges Urge Funding of New Federal Courthouse in L.A.
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - Appearing before a House subcommittee Thursday, Los Angeles' Chief U.S. District Judge Terry J. Hatter Jr. urged ...
MORENO VALLEY - The Moreno Valley Police Department wants to send a message to child molesters: Don't come to our city unless ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Police officers in pursuit of lawbreakers are immune from personal injury suits even if their negligent behavi...
Constitutional Law
Full Panel to Consider Religious Exception to Discrimination Law in Housing
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - An 11-judge federal appellate panel appeared poised Thursday to duck the contentious question of whether two C...
DICTA This week's 'The Practice' highlights two powerful themes in lawyers' lives: law firm management and jury nullification....
^^Criminal Law^^ Proposition 21's addition of strike-priors that are unrelated to gangs or juvenile crime leaves the measure o...
By Phil Record I fear that too often we take for granted the words of those precious documents that guarantee our freedom: the...
DICTA A 'Family Law' client decides that breaking the law is a small price to pay to stop the birth of drug addicted, unwanted...
DICTA Judge Amy's courtroom consists mostly of sophomoric, over-dramatized adults whining about emotional distress. Page 8. ^^...
SANTA ANA - The tug-of-war over custody of a 123-pound Rottweiler named Guinness is set for a court hearing next month, and a ...
^^Criminal Law^^ Prosecutors may rebut a defendant's testimony merely by pointing at the defendant's presence at trial. Page 7...
MARYSVILLE - Prosecutors have moved to disqualify the judge who cut the murder convictions of Jeffrey Aaron Erickson to vehicu...
Law Practice
Demoted DA Resigns, Considers Legal Action
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - A top official in the district attorney's office said Wednesday that the office is "moving ahead" following the re...
DICTA Many attorneys mistakenly focus on attaining new clients rather than retaining existing ones. Page 8. By Barbara Lewis a...
SAN FRANCISCO - The midsized firm of Rosenblum Parish & Isaacs will be closing its San Jose office by the end of April, sa...
SAN DIEGO - Curtis Fitzpatrick, whose career in the San Diego city attorney's office spanned much of the World War II growth o...
DICTA What to consider when making the decision to go 'business-casual.' Page 8. By Kimberly Quackenbush In corporate America,...
SAN DIEGO - A veteran prosecutor with anti-gang experience in two Southern California counties will lead the state attorney ge...
^^Employment Law^^ No Conscience Court Holds One-Sided Agreement Between Circuit City and Employee Unenforceable Ultimately, t...
SACRAMENTO - With the Los Angeles Police Department ensnared in the worst corruption scandal of its history, California's poli...
A malicious prosecution action against Best Best & Krieger and one of its clients was transferred Wednesday out of Los Ang...