By Anthony J. Oncidi and Alisa M. Chevalier On July 9, the 3rd District Court of Appeal issued an opinion that should make it...
Jennifer N. Lehman In a trio of recent decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court made clear that the Americans With Disabilities Act,...
SAN FRANCISCO - Setting the stage for a potentially important family law ruling, the state Supreme Court announced Wednesday ...
In a lawsuit that reads like a spy novel, London billionaire Mohamed Al Fayed claims a Los Angeles attorney and several other...
SAN FRANCISCO - Giving significant protection to California-based banks, a federal appeals court Wednesday held that outside ...
Labor/Employment
Judge May Reduce Jurys $4M Award to Fired Kmart Cashier
By Denise Levin
A $4 million punitive damages award against Kmart, described by the discount chain's attorney as the largest individual emplo...
Judges and Judiciary
Jurist in Controversy Invited to Domestic Violence Ed Classes
By Michael Harris
A Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner who sanctioned an attorney $1,200 for refusing to return a gun to his client's alle...
SAN FRANCISCO - Elisa Barnes and Denise Dunleavy, the New York lawyers who employed a negligent distribution theory of liabil...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Canadian company wants nearly $1 billion in compensation for Gov. Gray Davis' order phasing out the controv...
The state Welfare and Institutions Code prohibits disclosure of any information relating to a matter within the jurisdiction ...
Many judicial officers dislike hearing cases in which defendants act as their own lawyers. But Los Angeles Superior Court Com...
Judges and Judiciary
Court Employees Lose Some Rights With Unification
By Jean Guccione
Ruling in the first employment case arising out of state trial court unification, an appellate court in San Diego decided Wed...
In a major victory for the three children of a woman who was fatally gunned down by her estranged husband at the downtown Los...
Following guidance from a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously T...
SAN JOSE - A Contra Costa County judge has rejected a bid by retailers defending an unfair business practices suit over sale ...
By Royal F. Oakes The biggest year-2000 problem facing California businesses may have nothing to do with their computers' bel...
Biased Bequest? Attorneys Who Draft Wills That Benefit Themselves Carry Heavy Burden 'Angel View' is a lesson to counsel who ...
Public Interest
Team From City Attorney's Office Works on Improving City
By Martin Kruming
SAN DIEGO - Volunteerism has taken on a whole new twist in the city attorney's office during the past couple of years. From g...
Judges and Judiciary
Magistrate Judge Will Fill Top Leadership Post in Association
By Martin Kruming
Presiding U.S. Magistrate Judge Louisa Porter is expected to be elected secretary of the Federal Magistrate Judges Associatio...
The mother of a 41-year-old man who died after he allegedly was hogtied by sheriff's deputies has sued the county of Los Ange...
SAN DIEGO - District Attorney Paul Pfingst moved Tuesday to dismiss a grand jury accusation against Mayor Susan Golding, agre...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Church Sues City After Storefront Worship Denied
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
FOUNTAIN VALLEY - When code enforcement officials stopped by Mariano Yeo's storefront in a Fountain Valley strip mall last De...
Former reputed Symbionese Liberation Army soldier Kathleen Soliah, arrested last month on charges she tried to bomb two Los A...
A tape-recorded telephone conversation in which a Beverly Hills eye surgeon spoke in almost childlike code about two prized p...
Three Los Angeles Superior Court judges plan to hang up their black robes in the coming months, although at least two say the...
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved two lawsuit settlements Tuesday, including one for $450,000 to settle a ...
SAN FRANCISCO - As this city and others nationwide consider requiring AT&T Corp. to open its cable lines to competing Int...
SAN DIEGO - The same year John Ross Wertz began practicing law here, he became active with Big Brothers and Sisters of San Di...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Clinton Calls On Lawyers to Lead Era of Equality
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - Picking up a chord first sounded by President John F. Kennedy 36 years ago this summer, President Clinton Tuesda...
IRVINE - Baker, Silberberg & Keener's two Southern California offices will part ways next month, firm officials announced...