Granted, competition for entry-level jobs at top law firms is fierce. But by his own admission, UCLA law school student Ramon...
Government
Security, Technology Are Short on Cash Under New Funding System for Inland County Courts
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - It's been more than a year since the passage of the Trial Court Funding Act, or AB233, and judicial officials in ...
SANTA ANA - An Orange County judge Thursday postponed ruling on whether to grant a preliminary injunction against Vietnamese ...
SAN JOSE - The much-delayed Avant criminal trade-secrets theft case, which was filed in 1997, is scheduled to go to trial bef...
A music producer has sued singer-songwriter Dan Fogelberg and his accountants at the now-defunct Coopers & Lybrand, claim...
SAN FRANCISCO - Jackson, Tufts, Cole & Black, a 35-year-old Bay Area firm, is closing its doors. "The partners of the fir...
A proposed comprehensive bill, written by a Los Angeles prosecutor, would ban anyone under a domestic violence restraining or...
Perhaps foreshadowing action Monday by the American Bar Association's policy-setting body, the organization's Board of Govern...
Personal Injury & Torts
Scientology Victory on Appeal Sends Case Back to Trial Court
By Anna Marie Stolley
In a victory for the Church of Scientology International, a state appeal court Thursday made it harder for a longtime adversa...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Rise of Religious Hospitals Seen As Threat to Reproductive Rights
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - For reproductive health-care advocates, particularly in California, the legal and political environment for abor...
SACRAMENTO - The following quantifies the rising influence of Catholic hospitals and their impact on access to reproductive h...
VENTURA - After biting into a beef burrito from Taco Bell that he thought was a vegetarian item, Mukesh Rai claimed he would ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A war of words erupted within the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Thursday, with five dissenting judges acc...
Los Angeles County prosecutors Wednesday voiced irritation that a Municipal Court commissioner, acting on a probation departm...
Labor/Employment
Court Rejects Chance to Review Co-Workers' Liability Regarding Negative Job Evaluations
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - Rejecting appeals from both sides, the California Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to decide the extent to ...
A tangled dispute over the film, television and video rights to the comic book character Spiderman became less twisted Wednes...
In a volatile and unprecedented case with more twists and turns than a roller coaster, a Los Angeles Juvenile Court bench off...
Comedian Craig Shoemaker, Magic Johnson's sidekick on the former basketball great's ill-fated talk show, wants $10 million fr...
SANTA MARIA - Sharlene Miller came to Santa Maria's Town Center Mall last December to catch a comedy at the local theater. Sh...
State Bar & Bar Associations
ABA President Leads Debate On Great Issues of the Day
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - A broad grin has worked its way to Philip S. Anderson's face. "This job is a lot more fun than I thought it woul...
Municipal Court judges are quickly becoming extinct in California - at least as members of the state Judicial Council and Com...
WASHINGTON - Plans for a new federal courthouse in Los Angeles may be in jeopardy, court officials here said Wednesday, becau...
A former member of the television rock band the Monkees has been awarded $47 million in a counterclaim action against the Pub...
A national, Culver City-based anti-drug program filed a $50 million libel suit Tuesday against Rolling Stone magazine, chargi...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Lawyer Avoids Arbitration in Sexual Battery Suit
By Denise Levin
A sexual battery lawsuit brought by an associate against a senior partner of the now-defunct Solish, Jordan, Arbiter & Wi...
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to review the current process used in the county counsel's office f...
WASHINGTON - Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., announced Tuesday that she has recommended Los Angeles attorneys Fredric Woocher a...
An environmental law group has filed a whistle-blower lawsuit against a water meter manufacturer that allegedly sold the Los ...
A man who claims he wrongly was kept in jail for more than a week after his bail was posted has filed a lawsuit seeking class...
Judges and Judiciary
Clinton Judicial Nominee May Face Tough Battle Over 'Faustian Bargain'
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - Another battle may be brewing over a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals nominee, but this potential showdown has ...