SAN DIEGO - A public-private partnership on Wednesday launched one of the nation's largest programs to help domestic violence ...
LOS ANGELES - A young intellectual-property attorney and his wife have received nearly $200,000 in a settlement after their we...
SAN FRANCISCO - When he was first appointed to the bench, Ronald Evans Quidachay was in demand. Ethnic, political and communit...
Criminal
Jury Deciding Man's Fate Won't Know He Raped His Own Mother
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - Four days after he finished a prison term for murder, Steven Daniel Matthews raped his own mother. But the ju...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Thursday reaffirmed its zero-tolerance policy for attorneys who commit crimes ...
LOS ANGELES - Lewis Feldman, rainmaker and head of the structured-finance practice group at Cox Castle & Nicholson, has le...
SAN FRANCISCO - The old boys' club atmosphere at a small San Francisco firm doomed female attorneys to failure, a former assoc...
It is no longer sufficient to justify government action that favored constituents would benefit. ...
LOS ANGELES - A woman injured on the job at a La Salsa restaurant unsuccessfully petitioned a state appellate court in Los Ang...
You are in court. Your client is with you. The judge takes the bench. "The judge is wearing a pony tail," your client observes...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge David S. Wesley, assistant supervising judge of the county's criminal courts, h...
LOS ANGELES - John F. Walker Jr., former Latham & Watkins chair and one of the most high-profile partners in the firm's Lo...
The California Supreme Court has recently ruled on a federal civil rights case in the contentious area of rent regulation. In ...
SAN DIEGO - An appellate court in San Diego has ruled that a penal-code section that prevents criminal defendants from appeali...
SAN FRANCISCO - Jury selection in the infamous "Pink Tarantula" case is set to begin Monday. Two men are charged in the action...
LOS ANGELES - Rock star Courtney Love filed a cross-complaint Wednesday against UMG Recordings, alleging that the recording co...
SACRAMENTO - Despite laws beefing up protections for whistleblowers, workers may be reluctant to report alleged misdeeds becau...
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for six African-American men may depose eight security guards accused of beating the men as they shopp...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Board of Education has authorized a $3.5 million reorganization of the massive school district's...
Law Practice
Former Fiancée Files $5M Suit Against Baseball Player Justice
By Donna Huffaker
LOS ANGELES - The former fiancée of New York Yankee David Justice filed a $5 million lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court Wed...
LOS ANGELES - Trial will start Monday for former attorney James H. Davis and his wife, Gilda Mejia Davis, who are accused of b...
Section 6068(e) of the California Business & Professions Code requires lawyers to maintain "inviolate" the confidences and...
Litigation
God Invented the 9th Circuit to Give Hollywood Underdogs a Chance
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Plaintiffs in a trio of discrimination complaints against most of Hollywood's heavy hitters have turned to the 9...
LOS ANGELES - Change moves in mysterious ways. Under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice's civil rights division f...
WASHINGTON - A sharply divided Supreme Court on Wednesday restored the ability of Legal Services Corp. lawyers to challenge fe...
SAN FRANCISCO - America Online Inc. now will have a chance to explain why an Oakland man fighting the giant Internet service ...
LOS ANGELES - Joe Fernandez was happy to be stuck in traffic on the Harbor Freeway on a dreary day . "It's unbelievable that I...
Large Firms
'A Lot of Bricks Falling' as Seattle Outposts Weather 'Quake
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - A routine teleconferencing meeting for managers at Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe turned into a real-time...
SAN FRANCISCO - Mary M. Schroeder, the new chief judge of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, says the book that is "easily...
LOS ANGELES - Encouraged by a narrow Supreme Court decision Wednesday, legal aid lawyers from California to Washington, D.C., ...