Dicta Column - By Ralph Bovitz - Is your family's financial security at risk? Most lawyers don't know that their chance of be...
Forum Column - By Steven Zak - At the end of World War I, the British and French received "mandates" from the League of Nation...
LOS ANGELES - Managed care patients in California and 41 other states that have laws protecting their rights celebrated a vict...
SAN FRANCISCO - New misconduct charges were filed Wednesday against Alameda Superior Court Judge D. Ronald Hyde for allegedly ...
SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. District Judge's Claudia Wilken's controversial gag order silencing the Earth First jury drew a strong ch...
SAN FRANCISCO - Robert Ford, the longtime managing partner of Seyfarth Shaw's San Francisco and Sacramento offices, has left t...
SAN JOSE - The Santa Clara County district attorney's office is taking on an influential state law enforcement group to suppor...
SANTA ANA - Both plaintiffs' and defense attorneys agreed that former Los Angeles Superior Court Judge George W. Trammell III ...
LOS ANGELES - For anyone who has fought for civil rights and equal justice, or clean air and fair housing, and for anyone who ...
LOS ANGELES - Almost everyone from President Bush to your local barfly is claiming to be a soccer fan following the U.S. natio...
Environmental
Arco to Pay Nearly $50 Million in Fines and Upgrades
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Atlantic Richfield Co. agreed Wednesday to pay $45.8 million to settle claims that its underground gasoline st...
SAN DIEGO - A police fingerprint expert testified Wednesday that fingerprints found on a cabinet beside a bed in the rear of D...
LOS ANGELES - Jurors don't have to go for the jugular in calculating punitive damages against Genentech Inc., the lead attorne...
Focus Column - By Kirk A. Pasich - Over the last few years, California and federal courts frequently have addressed whether an...
Column by Garry Abrams - It's only June, but 2002 already is a vintage year for scandal-drenched lawyers, who have been drivin...
Forum Column - By James Acret - Though poor in lucidity, the mechanics lien law is abundantly rich in unintended consequences,...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors cannot seal once privileged, but now public, documents to defend its...
SACRAMENTO - Trial lawyers and consumer groups have suffered a significant setback in their efforts to chip away at mandatory ...
Dicta Column - By The Rodent - Recently, there has been much attention in the news about certain people from the sports world ...
Dicta Column - By Barbara Lewis and Dan Otto - Attorneys use a variety of methods for business development, which include rela...
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for Los Angeles County intend to appeal a jury's award of $650,000 to each of the parents of a man who d...
SACRAMENTO - An anti-terrorism package backed by the state's district attorneys cleared a key legislative hurdle Tuesday after...
SAN FRANCISCO - Sonoma County agreed Tuesday to pay $1 million to settle federal civil rights claims by the estate of Maria Te...
SAN DIEGO - A police forensic specialist testified Tuesday that she collected evidence from the body of slain second-grader Da...
LOS ANGELES - The Anti-Defamation League has tapped public sector lawyer and former City Attorney Amanda Susskind as the nonpr...
SAN FRANCISCO - Minutes after Marjorie Knoller's second-degree murder conviction was set aside Monday, an indignant prosecutor...
LOS ANGELES - A Beverly Hills lawyer was sentenced Tuesday to 90 months in federal prison for trying to sink a yacht off the c...
LOS ANGELES - Attorney Susan Harriman is upset about a $300 million verdict a Los Angeles jury made last week against her clie...
LOS ANGELES - David Sconce, former co-proprietor of the notorious Pasadena Lamb Funeral Home and recipient of an unusual life ...
Judges and Judiciary
Gay Judge, Former Priest Believes in Being Himself
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN JOSE - When Randolf Rice's 13-year-old son, Pasha, learned the San Jose Mercury News was going to run a story about Rice'...