LOS ANGELES - For the first time in its 150-year history, New York's Coudert Brothers has tapped a Los Angeles-based partner t...
Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Jeffrey Isaac Ehrlich - Kentucky Association of Health Plans Inc. v. Miller , 123 S.C...
Forum Column - By Charles S. Doskow - The burning cross may be the most reviled symbol in the United States - perhaps tied wit...
Employment Column - By Phillip R. Maltin - After Armendariz v. Foundation Health Psychare Services Inc., 24 Cal.4th 83 ...
LOS ANGELES - The Inter-Agency Council on Child Abuse and Neglect released annual statistical findings Thursday showing that i...
Criminal
DA Tackles Corruption, Creates Integrity Unit
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - District Attorney Michael A. Ramos formed a public integrity unit this week on the heels of recent government...
SAN DIEGO - Immigration lawyers reacted with alarm Thursday as word spread of Attorney General John Ashcroft's decision to sta...
LOS ANGELES - Reversing an earlier decision, a Los Angeles Juvenile Court judge on Thursday threw open court documents and fil...
Public Interest
Program Recognizes Volunteering Lawyers
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - The county's Volunteers in Parole program will honor Riverside attorneys John Vineyard and David M. Philips at an ...
VENTURA - During her murder trial, Bridget Callahan was so unhappy with her court-appointed attorney that she refused to speak...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Auditor: Bar Must Fix Files, Avoid 2005 Deficit
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - The State Bar is working diligently to ensure its membership dues are being used for legitimate purposes, but ne...
Judges and Judiciary
S.F. Presiding Judge: Close Early Wednesday, Not Friday
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Donna Hitchens, presiding judge of San Francisco Superior Court, said Thursday that she anticipates budget cu...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Split Court Limits the Scope of Arbitration
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - A divided California Supreme Court continued to limit the scope of mandatory arbitration agreements Thursday, ru...
SAN FRANCISCO - Oakland class-action whiz Guy Saperstein closed the book on his legal career once and for all at the start of...
LOS ANGELES - Juan Manuel Gomez Robledo, chief counsel to the Mexican Foreign Ministry, is on a crusade to stop the United Sta...
Constitutional Law
One Nation: Nonbelievers Shouldn't Have to Honor a Deity They Do Not Worship
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Margaret Crosby - In June, 2002, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel breathed life into the Pledge of ...
Labor/Employment
Bench Trials May Prove Better For Employers Than Arbitration
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Barry M. Appell - Many employment defense attorneys believe that binding arbitration is pre...
Constitutional Law
One Nation: Words 'Under God' in Pledge Are Description, Not Religious Statement
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - In the second Newdow v. U.S. Congress , otherwise known as Newdow II , the 9th U.S...
Administrative/Regulatory
Memorial Service Is Set for Prosecutor, 34
By Don De Benedictis
LOS ANGELES - A memorial service will take place Friday in Palos Verdes Estates for Deputy District Attorney Stephanie R. Wils...
Reporter's Notebook Large Firms By Erik Cummins SAN FRANCISCO - Jim Pooley took his daughter Catherine to the Lincoln Memoria...
COSTA MESA - Angry swap meet vendors are threatening to sue the Orange County Fair Board for commandeering their spaces for a ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether a boss who has an affair with an employee and...
SANTA CRUZ - With help from the city and county of Santa Cruz and a big-name law firm, medical marijuana advocates are trying...
SAN FRANCISCO - Next month, San Francisco immigration lawyer Marc Van Der Hout will once again stand before a federal appeals...
EUREKA - U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker will continue to handle the police brutality case brought by antilogging protesters...
LOS ANGELES - Mexican President Vicente Fox and former Illinois Gov. George Ryan were honored Tuesday night in Beverly Hills f...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that state courts are not required to give full weight to the laws ...
WASHINGTON -The U.S. Supreme Court signaled Wednesday it likely will protect some types of corporate communications under the ...
RIVERSIDE - A Riverside jury will decide whether the nation's leading recreational vehicle manufacturer is liable for the deat...
Personal Injury & Torts
Parents Can Sue School for Not Preventing Harm
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - The owners of a Costa Mesa preschool could be liable for damages for the murders of two children by a man who de...