Focus Column - By William D. Wick - The federal government won the battle when the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held tha...
Forum Column - By Leslie T. Thornton - An entire year after the disappearance of Chandra Levy, whose affair with California Co...
To underscore the company's negligence, attorney James A. Mangione came up with a simple theme: "Just show up for work," which...
Q: How could the plaintiffs' bar be more effective at mediation? A: After having asked the plaintiffs' bar how defense counsel...
On his way to winning a $114 million jury verdict, plaintiffs' attorney Robert M. Steele had to contend with a hostile defend...
What began as an effort to avoid conflict, by merging two companies with competing patent claims, deteriorated into bitter re...
Column by Jon G. Miller - Federal and state sexual harassment lawsuits have been front and center in our political and legal l...
Dicta Column - By Tim Hallahan - "You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you get what you need." - R...
SAN FRANCISCO - State welfare officials can't cut off benefits to disabled kids who have trouble finishing high school on time...
RIVERSIDE - Relying on a month-old California Supreme Court ruling, a Riverside judge has denied a prosecutor's attempt to dis...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court unanimously upheld the death penalty Thursday for a Sacramento convicted murderer...
LOS ANGELES - Services will begin at 7 tonight for Leon C. Fan, vice president of business development and acquisitions for Th...
SAN DIEGO - David B. Oberholtzer, a partner in the San Diego firm of Post Kirby Noonan & Sweat, will succeed a Superior Co...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles intellectual property boutique Small Larkin will dissolve in the next month or so, partners at the f...
LOS ANGELES - Two men who claim cleaning solvents at their workplaces caused injuries that led to kidney failure have lost the...
SAN FRANCISCO - The firm of Hanson Bridgett Marcus Vlahos & Rudy has been sued for for pursuing an action against a woman ...
LOS ANGELES - Judge Katherine Mader's résumé, according to attorneys who appear before her, gives her a seasoned quality that ...
Forum Column - By John C. Eastman - The Founders considered the right to acquire and protect property to be one of the inalien...
Environmental
$250 Million Pact Will Clean Up San Gabriel Valley Groundwater
By Erin Carroll
LOS ANGELES - Eight companies will pay $250 million over the next 15 years to clean up polluted groundwater in one section of ...
Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - In this tight legal market, job seekers must be diligent and creative in unearthi...
Dicta Column - By Evon G. Rosen - Partners at the most successful law firms have long recognized the need to increase their at...
Focus Column - By Alex Ricciardulli - Robert Blake's dyslexia, the fact that he's not a flight risk and the reality that he li...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court sent a clear signal Wednesday that older workers should not look to the courts fo...
Judges and Judiciary
Presiding Justice Sets Tone for Appellate Court's New Division
By Amy Tatko
LOS ANGELES - No description of the daily work of an appellate court justice can make it sound exciting, Justice Candace Coope...
SAN FRANCISCO -Vowing to create a first-class law library in San Francisco, Mayor Willie Brown has named a 10-member task forc...
BAKERSFIELD - When her adult daughter threatened to kill herself by overdosing on drugs, Colleen Rice said she tried to use re...
SAN JOSE - A federal judge on Wednesday turned aside a challenge to the constitutionality of a 1998 federal law intended to pr...
Judges and Judiciary
Davis Elevates Riverside Commissioner to Judge
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Commissioner Elisabeth Sichel, who helped pioneer the first family law substance abuse court in the state, became ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The lawyer for Nedra Ruiz, the defense attorney in San Francisco's notorious dog mauling case, has asked Super...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a surprise reversal, the California Supreme Court on Wednesday vacated a $1,000 contempt sanction that it l...