A highly regarded Los Angeles County alternate public defender Tuesday became new co-counsel for former reputed Symbionese Li...
Labor/Employment
EEOC Sues S.D. Law Firm Over Compulsory Arbitration Clause
By Martin Bergn
Federal authorities have filed a discrimination lawsuit against a prominent San Diego-based law firm, over the firm's inclusi...
There are plenty of hard-fought legal battles in the federal court in Los Angeles. But it's rare that lawyers for one side ask...
Former television news anchor Larry Carroll, who recently had charges of investment fraud against him dismissed, has sued his...
By William Funderburk and Lisa Morelli While members of environmental and other "public interest" groups may be celebrating th...
FORUM Two forms of illegality exist - actual and effective - and both can prevent a company from marketing its product.By Mich...
Firm Will Boost L.A.'s Salaries, Too San Francisco's McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen has decided to extend the salary in...
Government
LAPD Goals: Bureaucratically Perfect Probity, Honesty-Compliance
By Garry Abrams
Los Angeles Police Department Chief Bernard Parks has figured out how much integrity costs in the City of the Angels. In a 17-...
SAN JOSE - The Santa Clara County public defender's office has launched an unprecedented attack on a local jurist's impartiali...
Family Law Taxing Breakups Deductibility of Attorney Fees in Dissolution Matters The overriding rule on deducting legal expens...
Environmental
Toxic Chemical Suit by 600 Dismissed Seven Years Later
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - More than seven years after hundreds of neighbors sued Shell Oil Company, claiming its Martinez refinery relea...
NORWALK - Orange County Superior Court Judge Gary P. Ryan has received a sentence of three years' probation and a three-month ...
Judge Convicted of Bankruptcy Fraud A federal court jury has convicted Simona Flores Rosales, an administrative law judge for ...
A retired Los Angeles Superior Court judge claims the state has secret "sweetheart" contracts with insurance companies that wr...
Los Angeles district attorney candidate Steve Cooley, stepping up his criticism of incumbent Gil Garcetti for not uncovering t...
SAN DIEGO - The 11-year legal battle over the Mount Soledad cross could be ended with a federal court ruling that permits the ...
SAN DIEGO - Charges against Yvonne M. Reese of assaulting two Border Patrol agents remained unresolved after a federal jury de...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Client Jams JAMS Over Bias and Lack of Refund
By Denise Levin
A man claims in a lawsuit that the alternative dispute resolution firm JAMS has failed to refund his money after the arbitrato...
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Alban I. Niles once again found himself in court on the wrong side of the bench Friday, where...
Mother of Dead Boy Sues School District Los Angeles civil rights attorney Melanie Lomax Friday filed a $10 million wrongful de...
RightStart.com Inc., a Westlake Village-based children's education retailer, filed to issue an initial public offering of $69 ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Getting No Rest in the City That Never Sleeps
By Katherine Gaidos
The next time Blair White wants to see New York City, he will remember not to plan his visit as part of a business trip. White...
New York's Bell Atlantic Corp., GTE, and London's Vodafone AirTouch have finalized a merger agreement valued at more than $70 ...
SANTA ANA - U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carter approved a preliminary injunction Friday allowing students at El Modena ...
Columbus, Ohio-based Sterling Commerce Inc., which provides services to Internet businesses, has sold its XcelleNet division t...
Constitutional Law Pressing Protection High Court Upholds Reporter Freedoms and Privileges The court ruled that instead of ban...
If you want to be a better trial lawyer, take ballet, Cynthia Plevin , the first woman to practice and make partner at Sedgwic...