SAN FRANCISCO - Adoption experts were scratching their heads Wednesday over news that two San Francisco lawyers had adopted a ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The receptionist at this city's Office of Citizen Complaints sits behind a protective window of plastic thick ...
SAN DIEGO - As society increasingly turns to the legal system to solve its problems with violent and emotionally troubled kids...
SANTA ANA - A former Santa Ana city councilman will spend the next 57 months in a federal prison following his conviction for ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A kidnapper who left his battered victim for dead in a Nevada snowbank may have to serve more prison time than...
Although plaintiffs' lawyer Sonya Winner says the facts of her trade-secret theft case spoke for themselves, her matter-of-fac...
Judges and Judiciary
Protesters Chant as Justice Lectures at Local Law School
By Martin Kruming
SAN DIEGO - Justice Antonin Scalia's visit to San Diego last week was the fruit of a trip he made two years ago to a summer pr...
The same litigation approach Claremont trial attorney Herbert Hafif adopted 43 years ago still works: "simplicity, simplicity,...
LOS ANGELES - An attorney may have had a conflict of interest if he simultaneously represented two clients believed to be invo...
STOCKTON - Dense tule fog obscures visibility along the back country farm roads 500 miles north of Los Angeles. This time of y...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles-based Latham & Watkins expanded its legal empire Tuesday, acquiring the Hamburg, Germany office ...
Administrative/Regulatory
No Sweepstakes Prize for Liquor Industry at Appeal Court
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court ruling Tuesday that bans sweepstakes linked to alcoholic beverages left a skunky-beer ...
Judges and Judiciary
Critics Point Out Discrepancies in Nominee's Tale
By Staff Writers
LOS ANGELES - On Tuesday, James Hormel, the Ambassador to Luxembourg whose nomination was opposed by Attorney General nominee ...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday voted 10-8 to send the controversial nomination of former Missouri...
SAN FRANCISCO - Acrimony between a Marin County litigator and two lawyers who recently left his firm has spilled over into the...
LOS ANGELES - A simmering dispute between two Los Angeles city departments broke into the open Tuesday when a psychologist acc...
LOS ANGELES - Although youth crime rates continue to drop nationally, the number of juveniles sent to adult prisons is on the ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The husband and wife attorneys whose dogs killed a young woman outside her apartment last week are the adoptiv...
Section 425.13 does not apply to allegations of misconduct by practitioners in various capacities other than as health care pr...
Michael McDonough was born with a brain infection four years before implementation of obstetrical guidelines to prevent compli...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley vowed Tuesday that an expanded panel of experts, including a s...
Trial preparation in the case that earned the state's third largest verdict last year had a lot in common with an archeology d...
Our new president likely will impact the direction of the U.S. Supreme Court for years to come. Conservative Chief Justice Wil...
Sometimes, simply taking the case at all is the most important factor in winning a big verdict. By the time Daniel Frasier's m...
Anomalies in the law tend to attract our attention. The municipal ordinance that makes it illegal to walk a pig on the left si...
SACRAMENTO - While the governor and state lawmakers race to solve California's energy crisis, a handful of private law firms a...
SAN FRANCISCO - Responding to growing complaints about evaluations done in child custody cases, the state Judicial Council is ...
Trial attorneys must develop rapport with the jury, beyond a mere understanding of the logic of the argument, to win the minds...
Convincing the jury that the lead defendant was a villain in Russomano v. Russo, LC031514 (Los Angeles Super. Ct., verdict Jul...
When it came to the theme of the 10 largest verdicts of 2000, it was all business, especially if it involved intellectual prop...