SAN DIEGO - Mayor Susan Golding was arraigned Thursday on two counts of misconduct in office but raised objections to the cha...
Entertainment & Sports
Online Music Providers Blast Plan for Antipiracy Pact
By David Kravetz
SAN FRANCISCO - The recording and electronics industries appeared on the verge of a historic accord Thursday that supporters s...
By Annette S. Biesecker Long gone are the days when law firms submit one-line bills "for services rendered" and still expect ...
Criminal
Attorney Faces Trial for Posing as Another One
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - An Anaheim attorney accused of practicing law while suspended from the State Bar and posing as another attorney c...
After 40 years, one of Phoenix's oldest and largest law firms, O'Connor, Cavanagh, Anderson, Killingsworth & Beshears, is...
Government Contracts
Qui Tam Litigant Will Appeal Award of Attorney Fees
By Anne La Jeunesse
A Hawthorne activist who claimed a trash collection company pocketed funds that should have gone to the city is appealing a j...
SACRAMENTO - A compromise bill to restore plaintiffs' right to sue defendants' insurers when they wrongfully deny or delay pa...
Los Angeles County prosecutors have filed charges against an auto insurance fraud ring they say perpetrated an apparently new...
U.S. Attorney Alejandro Mayorkas Thursday ratcheted up his office's focus on police misconduct, launching a civil investigati...
By Joseph Posner In Kolstad v. American Dental Ass'n , 99 Daily Journal D.A.R. 6251 (June 22, 1999), the U.S. Supreme Court h...
By Jill Strickstein The thought process of a large firm associate on the way to work could go something like this: "Behind on...
No-contest pleas have been entered by three of four defendants in what Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti has ...
Litigation
Ex-Inmates Slap Sheriff With Lawsuit Over Strip Searches
By Anne La Jeunesse
Three former Los Angeles County jail inmates have filed a class-action complaint against the county, accusing the sheriff's d...
By Mark A. Romeo In three cases decided last month, the U.S. Supreme Court provided specific guidance about what may and may ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Lumber Co. was rebuffed in its attempts to level a potentially devastating financial blow against an ...
SACRAMENTO - Sexual harassment claims could more easily be brought against lawyers, doctors, teachers and landlords under a b...
SACRAMENTO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer is reviewing charges that trade groups and state regulators have committed anticom...
SAN DIEGO - To heighten awareness of elder abuse, Deputy District Attorney Paul Greenwood put up a billboard and distributed ...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Defunct Pasadena Firm Faces Malpractice Suit
By Don De Benedictis
The city of Inglewood and three of its officials have filed a malpractice suit against a defunct Pasadena law firm, charging ...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Fertility Scandal Not Over, Even With $17M Paid
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
IRVINE - Described by attorneys as one of the toughest cases they've ever dealt with, the University of California, Irvine fe...
Entertainment & Sports
Katzenberg and Disney Settle for Undisclosed Sum
By Martin Bergn
Drawing the curtain on one of the most bitterly fought, high-stakes courtroom disputes in Hollywood history, the Walt Disney ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A single sentence on the last page of a 1996 police newsletter could change how police around California work ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
JAMS Approves Buyout by Its Top Managers
By Tom Orewyler
JAMS/Endispute's board of directors on Tuesday voted to approve a $3 million deal between the Irvine-based ADR provider and a...
By J. Grant Kennedy It appears that many people have strong feelings against lawyers. Some lawyers throw gas on the fire by c...
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a $500,000 settlement Tuesday of a lawsuit filed by a company president ...
Calling new security screening systems at the downtown Los Angeles County Courthouse "a sad necessity," family law attorney R...
Intellectual Property
Firms Discover Success Means Moving From Downtown
By Martin Kruming
SAN DIEGO - While most of this city's lawyers still work downtown, several firms have staked out their future to the north in...
SAN JOSE - Claude M. Stern never intended to become a Y2K expert nor an intellectual property litigator. Nor, for that matter...
A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a former Los Angeles police officer who claimed his personnel records illegally were...
One of two attorneys charged in a large auto insurance fraud case has refused to surrender as promised and is now considered ...