LOS ANGELES - The parents of a 22-year-old man who was fatally shot by police will divide $1 million, under a settlement reach...
LOS ANGELES - City Councilman Jack Weiss started the race Thursday to replace outgoing Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadi...
This year's annual Law Firm Leaders Forum in San Francisco, coordinated by Ralph Baxter, left, and Bradford Hildebrandt, exami...
Charges against a Santa Ana gun dealer accused in one of California's biggest illegal-weapons-possession cases must be dismiss...
LOS ANGELES - A former Roman Catholic priest has asked a court to throw out sexual-abuse charges against him, arguing that a n...
Tracy Grant was a deputy sheriff assigned as a court bailiff when the lawyering bug bit, a change in trajectory that has led ...
In January, the call volume picks up at the San Carlos office of sole practitioner Teri Shugart. ...
Focus Column - By Robert D. "Bo" Links - In the first of a two-part series, an arbitrator sets out the menu of considerations ...
Litigation
It's Ladies Night and the Feeling's Not Right on Bias-Wary Court
By Itir Yakarn
SAN FRANCISCO - California may soon have to say goodbye to ladies night discounts at bars. ...
Litigation
Before Going Live at Supreme Court, Lawyers Refine on Moot Court Circuit
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - When Los Angeles attorney Jean-Claude Andre learned last year that the U.S. Supreme Court had agreed to hear one ...
SAN DIEGO - A judge ruled Wednesday the Roman Catholic Diocese in San Diego can file bankruptcy documents without revealing th...
Forum Column - By Clay Calvert - The California Supreme Court made a mistake when it elevated voluntary journalism ethical gui...
Spitting in someone's face can be a federal crime, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. ...
Stop Prosecutor Bashing.
Ousted San Diego U.S. Attorney Carol C. Lam forcefully defended her record when she testified before Congress Tuesday as Democ...
Government
Man's Suit Over Missed Lunches a High-Stakes, High-Court Case
By Itir Yakarn
SAN FRANCISCO - In what experts say is the hottest labor law case of the year, the California Supreme Court today will revisi...
When presiding Judge David Power is not guiding justice through Solano County's cramped courts, he heads skyward. ...
AN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court seemed poised Tuesday to hold that a San Francisco trial judge may have let a form...
Forum Column - By Eric van Ginkel - An appellate court just denied an ant-SLAPP motion in arbitration, but that doesn't solve ...
LOS ANGELES - Business litigator George J. Stephan's name came off Stephan, Oringher, Richman, Theodora & Miller earlier t...
Construction
Grand Avenue Officials Say Mosk Courthouse Not Part of Plan
By Jennifer Hammn
LOS ANGELES - According to its backers, the massive Grand Avenue Project that will reshape a chunk of downtown is now on a fas...
SAN FRANCISCO - On Tuesday, a senior judge on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals railed against a federal anti-terrorism la...
Focus Column
Attorney General Jerry Brown has quietly begun pressuring local government planners to factor climate change into their long-r...
Constitutional Law
Employees Cannot Be Barred From Talking to City Council
By Jim Adamekn
VICTORVILLE - A federal judge has ruled a hotly disputed city ordinance that barred municipal employees from talking in privat...
Forum Column - By Karen J. Mathis - What do you get when you combine a demanding job in public service with terrible pay? Very...
SAN FRANCISCO - On the eve of the high court's revisiting his wife's conviction, Robert Noel, one-half of the attorney couple ...
Focus Column - By Michael M. Rosen - When a cyberadversary steals virtual property for which real money has been paid, a new k...
LOS ANGELES - The first co-defendant to be sentenced to prison in the wiretapping and racketeering case against private-eye-to...
Forum Column - By Dwight S. Wilson - Seventy-five years later, the trial of Bruno Hauptmann, the man convicted of kidnapping C...