VENTURA - Call him the comeback kid. Robert Bradley - the former Ventura County Superior Court judge who was forced from the b...
Los Angeles judges began casting their ballots today on a proposed merger of the Superior and Municipal courts. This marks the...
Judges and Judiciary
Let Employers Insist If Three Years of Law School Is Necessary
By Columnist
FORUM There is no need for government to be telling the country that a lawyer to be worth his salt must have had at least thre...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Citing safety concerns, a committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States announced Tuesday it ha...
A state appellate panel has ruled a department store had no duty to provide better lighting and landscaping in its parking lot...
DICTA At its best , marketing training should make successful rainmakers even more effective - and help neophytes learn to mak...
Law Practice
Diamond Bar High Represents County at State Mock Trial Competition Finals
By From Staff Reports
Diamond Bar High School and Sierra Canyon Middle School took top honors in the Constitutional Rights Foundation's 22nd annual ...
In a move to build its entertainment practice, Washington, D.C.-based Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld has nabbed two med...
Litigation
Checks for $4Million Close Out Unique Oil-Spill Prosecutioin
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - An attorney for a Greek shipping company handed over four certified checks - totaling nearly $4 million - in f...
Kenny Rogers might have sung, "You've got to know when to hold them, and know when to stop paying your bar dues." Or so says t...
Judges and Judiciary
Orange County Judge Remembered for Reasoned Rulings, Kind and Boundless Sense of Humor
By Michael Grinfeld
Kenneth Williams, a retired Orange County Superior Court judge, died Saturday at age 90, leaving behind a legacy of high profe...
FORUM Terry Gross of "Fresh Air" spoke with author and lawyer George V. Higgins and asked about how he went from journalism to...
Judges and Judiciary
Thirteenth L.A. County Municipal Courthouse Opens With Whisper
By Anne La Jeunesse
Los Angeles County's 13th municipal courthouse - the Airport Branch near Los Angeles International Airport - opened with a whi...
Consideration of assets which do not produce income for child support may provide fertile ground for disputes and opinions. 'D...
RIVERSIDE - A Corona couple who let their 5-week-old son die because of their faith has pleaded guilty to child endangerment c...
RIVERSIDE - Exhibit A in the case of two former San Bernardino County marshal's department employees alleging sexual harassmen...
SAN DIEGO - In yet another unusual development in a case already with more than its share, a judge appointed less than two wee...
SAN FRANCISCO - Plaintiffs attorney Gregory M. Sheffer used unfair tactics to win a $5.9 million jury award last week in an as...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Lawsuit Claims Client Trapped in a Vendetta
By Denise Levin
An abuse of process and malicious prosecution lawsuit filed by an attorney and his clients against the now-defunct Daniels, Ba...
Personal Injury & Torts
LAPD Cop Suspected in Rap Star Murder Was No Stranger to Death Row
By Garry Abrams
On the night of March 13, 1995 Kelly Jamerson, a 28-year-old resident of south central Los Angeles went to a party thrown by D...
The justices Monday announced the following actions: GRANTS BANK ROBBERY/LARCENY: The court agreed to review a decision by the...
Legal Angels Law students at Pepperdine's legal aid clinic help homeless. 16 Inside the Union Rescue Mission in downtown Los ...
Renee Lanam of Menlo Park's Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian realized early in her law career tha...
Services were held Friday for Redondo Beach attorney Alexis Alexandrovitch Fafenrodt, who died Dec. 6 of cancer. He was 62. "...
The Sherman Act , Once considered a relic from a bygone era, has been shown in recent court decisions to have relevance in th...
Comfort Level Gibson Dunn and San Francisco Bar offer help to nonprofits. 16 Every year Arriba Juntos, a nonprofit job traini...
High-Tech Seas Richard Horning works with the Silicon Valley Vikings as they help Swedish companies navigate California water...
By Jeffrey Anderson In 1995, the Washington, D.C.-based Legal Services Corp. tightened its purse-strings on nationwide legal ...
COME TOGETHER Through its pro bono program, Mannis & Phillips contributes to troubled youths' lives while improving office...
There's likely not a lawyer around who hasn't at some point dreamed of leaving the law to become a writer. Doug Dorst , a for...
