Evidence that's missing sometimes says more than what's there. That was the case in Hanstad v. Truck Insurance Co., in which p...
Paul Nelson of San Francisco's Hancock, Rothert & Bunshoft would like to take credit for a brilliant legal strategy that r...
Gary L. Chambers, a partner with Chambers & Noronha, of Santa Ana, won a $300,000 verdict in a premises liability case, Ha...
'The arrow to the bull's eye," San Francisco sole practitioner Robert Wallach says genially, "was that a bank had made a loan ...
It was almost a religious experience for San Francisco civil rights attorney Angela Alioto when a jury found for her clients t...
LOS ANGELES - Richard and Linda Stuber met 35 years ago cruising Van Nuys Boulevard. They married and raised two children in t...
SAN FRANCISCO - The sentence, buried in the first paragraph of a press release last month announcing the merger between Marvel...
SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan said Monday he is considering the possibility of filing a criminal charge a...
SAN DIEGO - Senior U.S. District Judge Earl B. Gilliam, the first African-American on the Municipal, Superior and federal cour...
SAN FRANCISCO - Kimiko Burton, the just-appointed interim public defender for San Francisco, announced several management chan...
Public Interest
Composed Champion of Crisis Control Could Crack an Occasional Smile
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Late one night in 1968, Warren Christopher broke his toe as he sprang out of bed to answer the telephone. The ca...
SAN FRANCISCO - Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Mark B. Simons, a judicial educator and author of two legal reference...
LOS ANGELES - An appellate court has rejected a father's attempt to decrease his child-support payments based on the life-insu...
The appellate brief alone can - and usually does - make or break the case. ...
Insurance companies should have learned some hard lessons in the wake of the Northridge earthquake, the insurance commissioner...
SAN DIEGO - A San Diego city councilwoman resigned from office and agreed Monday to plead guilty to misdemeanor Government Cod...
The next time a California lawyer tries to get a referral fee for sending a client to another attorney, he or she should think...
SAN FRANCISCO - According to a local juvenile justice expert, the fact that police have charged a San Francisco youth with com...
SAN DIEGO - Two Superior Court judges from San Diego and Los Angeles counties will share the state Judicial Council's Jurist o...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Samuel Greenfield. Greenfield died Jan. 2...
LOS ANGELES - As City Hall grappled over the weekend and on Monday with how to comply with a federal directive to put an end t...
LOS ANGELES - The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California filed suit in federal court Monday in an attempt to co...
If the appellate court could not agree on what Warner Bros. could film without permission, how is a production company to know...
Firm Watch
Miberg Weiss: LAW FIRM OPPONENTS SUE TO BLOCK $88 MILLION FEE AWARD
By Staff Writer
Several California plaintiffs' lawyers became the targets of a pair of lawsuits seeking to overturn fees awarded them in a law...
Music insider Elliot Cahn joined Century City's King Purtich Holmes Paterno & Berliner as a partner on Jan. 8. A former pa...
Firm Watch
Arter & Hadden: SIXTEEN LAWYERS TURNED OUT FROM CLEVELAND FIRM OFFICE
By Staff Writer
Cleveland's Arter & Hadden booted 16 lawyers from its 86-lawyer Los Angeles outpost on Jan. 18. Managing partner Harriet W...
Gov. Gray Davis has appointed Jeffrey Young, a sole practitioner based in Santa Barbara, to the Central Coast Regional Water Q...
For Channing Johnson, Faithful Central Bible Church's Dec. 29 purchase of Inglewood's Great Western Forum was a miracle. That'...
Does anyone know what the hell is going on in Hollywood's latest legal tussle? If you do, could you please explain it to the l...