Service Planned For L.S. Janofsky A memorial service for retired labor lawyer Leonard S. Janofsky will be held at Occidental C...
Dead IRS Agent ID'd by Officials SANTA ANA - Officials with the Internal Revenue Service said Thursday that the man fatally sh...
When does a successor company inherit the liability for products made by a former company? ...
In what could be a first, a Santa Ana jury Thursday topped a $623,000 insurance-fraud verdict against an Orange County develo...
By Deborah R. Rosenthal Talking with Randall W. Wulff about mediation is like talking to a proud parent: While he has a sense ...
^^Ally McBeal^^ By Renee Laurents Monday night's episode gave examples of the song lyrics: "Oz never did give nothin' to the T...
After a century of being undervalued and underpaid, California schoolteachers find themselves the darlings of politicians. ...
Los Angeles deserves a new district attorney - one with unquestioned integrity, skill and courage. One with the courage to mak...
VIEWPOINT By Paul R. Kiesel To beep or not to beep, that is the question. Flash back to 1977, my senior year of high school. I...
Attorney Lends Name to School LONG BEACH - Orange County construction defect attorney Thomas E. Miller is the namesake to a ne...
Judges and Judiciary
Candidates Vie for Seven O.C. Seats
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - Two months ago, a supporter of former Orange County district attorney and judicial candidate Mike Capizzi filed a ...
The American Bar Association on Thursday named a new consultant to its arm that accredits law schools nationwide. John A. Sebe...
Entertainment & Sports
Law & Order: Script Insidiously Attacks Civil Liberties
By Columnist
The producers of "Law & Order" have perfected the art of disguising devastating attacks on individual liberties. They snea...
Litigation
San Francisco Judge Dismisses $5.9 Million Asbestos Judgement
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - A judge presiding over an asbestos case has wiped out a $5.9 million verdict, saying the plaintiffs attorney ...
Los Angeles County has decided to drop its appeal of a $138,000 jury verdict awarded to a former sheriff's detective who claim...
Los Angeles' Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan has added three prominent new partners to its ranks . William Finkelstein jo...
Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps and partner James B. Hicks have been sued for slander and libel by Mattel Inc., which cl...
WASHINGTON - The American Bar Association has joined the chorus chastising Gov. Gray Davis for comments he made here earlier t...
SAN DIEGO - District Attorney Paul Pfingst took the witness stand Thursday to tell why he fired a district attorney's investig...
SANTA ANA - The 4th District Court of Appeal in Santa Ana has ordered prosecutors to show why a writ of habeas corpus seeking...
Constitutional Law
High Court Tells 9th Circuit to Use Intermediate Scrutiny Test
By David Kravets
SAN FRANCISCO - A divided California Supreme Court ruled Thursday in favor of a Los Angeles panhandling ordinance in a decisio...
Atten-hut, troops! Lost in all the hubbub about the Rampart police scandal is the fact that now those tens of thousands of unp...
Personal Injury & Torts
Gun Manufacturers Risk U.S. Supreme Court Scrutiny
By Anna Marie Stolley
Event One - On Feb. 28, 1997, as a horrified nation watched on television, two bank robbers sprayed assault weapons fire on p...
Robert Berkes didn't just read "Bleak House," he lived it. Similar to Jarndyce and Jarndyce, the law firm in Dickens' novel wh...
A majority of Americans are now enrolled in some type of managed-care organization, including the most widely known managed ca...
By Orlando Patterson The exoneration of the four officers who shot Amadou Diallo have set off heated debates on police procedu...
Man Found Shot In O.C. Courthouse SANTA ANA - An Internal Revenue Service agent was fatally shot Wednesday in a copy room in t...
The road from Port Said to Cairo is a long one. It is longer if you are watching the on-board video, which in our case was a s...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed unanimously Wednesday to review the validity of a new law cutting back on...
Judges and Judiciary
Two Judicial Seats Contested in San Bernardino County
By Tessa Jarrett
Five attorneys are fighting for one empty judicial seat in San Bernardino County. The winner in the March 7 elections will rep...