SANTA ANA - An Orange County Superior Court jury on Thursday granted more than $2 million in damages to an Orange County attor...
When attorney David J. Katz was paged in the middle of the night, five years ago, he knew there had been an accident. A car ha...
The courts struggled with how to protect an individual's ideas from exploitation by another without unduly interfering with th...
Keith Flaum, a partner in the mergers and acquisitions group at Cooley Godward, has discovered he no longer needs to sleep. Fl...
Required Redundancy Hard-drive failure can be catastrophic for a firm, but, thanks to falling hard-drive costs, a data-backup ...
Members of an organization that assists battered women are applauding a decision to reestablish a courtroom dedicated solely ...
VENTURA - A Ventura woman who shot her sleeping husband in the head before dismembering his body with an electric saw has been...
SAN FRANCISCO - Thelen Reid & Priest has elected 13 new partners, six from the associate ranks and seven attorneys who ha...
Services have been held for John W. Baker, a retired civil defense trial attorney. Baker died Dec. 11 at his West Los Angeles...
A lawsuit filed last week that raises new questions about privacy in cyberspace may force the Judicial Conference of the Unite...
Attorney Art Goldberg spent the 1960s going to school in the winter, spring and fall. In the summer, he went to jail. Goldber...
Judges and Judiciary
Chief Justice Used Fairness As Touchstone of Civil Liberty
By David Pike
Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, who led the court from 1953 to 1969, had a legendary career not only on the court, bu...
Public Interest
Prison Paper Publisher Breaks Stories With an Insider's Ear
By Ashby Jones
SEATTLE - A couple of years ago, Paul Wright read a short blurb in one of Seattle's daily newspapers. Washington state was con...
Steven A. Lerman, one of beaten-motorist Rodney King's former attorneys, is being sued by a woman who claims she was injured a...
LOS ANGELES - Steven A. Lerman, one of Rodney King's former attorneys, is being sued by a woman who claims she was injured a y...
DISBARMENTS Dixon, Kathryn Jo Anne, Berkeley Gray, Paul Michael , Hemet Moriarty, Michael J., Corte Madera Pohlmeyer, Donald V...
Peter M. Appleton Law School : University of California at Los Angeles School of Law, 1967 Career Highlights : Principal, Pete...
Allen Payne has a Y3K problem. Convicted in March 1997 of multiple sexual assault counts and three counts of child endangermen...
The sense of magic created was evident in the wide eyes and bright smiles of kids who weren't accustomed to this much attentio...
The U.S. economic blockade of Cuba that has led to the tragic conditions in Cuba must be lifted at once, and Elian must be ret...
Does Mayor Riordan see himself as a revolutionary marching into a new age with God and Mickey Mouse at his side? ...
Lone Harasser Non supervisory Employee Cannot Be Held Personally Liable Under FEHA The court considered and rejected appellant...
A Los Angeles County deputy district attorney has pleaded no contest in a lewd conduct case and must undergo a treatment prog...
EDWARD STERN ADR Group: JAMS Case Types: General civil Location Served: Northern California Law School: Harvard Law School, 19...
By Stephen R. Barnett As Justice Stanley Mosk on Dec. 26 becomes the longest-serving justice in the history of the California ...
The California Supreme Court has narrowed the focus of a closely watched divorce case it will hear between San Francisco Giant...
By Michael Young In a recent mediation, no briefs had been submitted and no pre-mediation conference calls had taken place, so...
RIVERSIDE - The Riverside public defender who was fired following a scandal over her office's handling of conservatorships sue...
SAN FRANCISCO - Curtailing the ability of minority motorists to challenge allegedly race-based traffic stops, a federal appeal...
By his own account, he was a "paid gladiator." "I fight for my clients," he explained to his secretary. "Most clients aren't ...