SAN FRANCISCO - Calling the public comments by former U.S. Attorney Michael Yamaguchi in the midst of a major drug trial "sho...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal court jury, despite viewing videotapes of screaming protesters whose eyes were being swabbed with a...
A Superior Court libel and slander suit seeking $1 million in damages was filed Monday against Wayne S. Braveman, a law partne...
WASHINGTON - Retired Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell, a courtly man who for 15 years played a pivotal role at the court'...
SAN DIEGO - Claudia Smith stood knee deep in the squalor of the McGonigal migrant camp, where workers live when not working in...
Rejecting a government effort to make it easier to get insider trading convictions, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rul...
SACRAMENTO - California's system for processing and tracking tort lawsuits against the state has undermined its ability to det...
WASHINGTON - A trio of high-powered amicus briefs is perhaps the sharpest weapon wielded by a New York law firm in its battle...
COSTA MESA --- The bow-tied waiter hovered over the tables, serving each of the formal-attired guests goat cheese and caramel...
SAN FRANCISCO - The courtrooms are dark. The law clerks' desks are bare. State Bar Court headquarters in San Francisco is in h...
For the second time in a month, Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti testified in a civil service claim filed ag...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a ruling that could prompt more stock fraud defendants to go to trial rather than settle lawsuits against t...
WASHINGTON - The California Supreme Court sent shock waves across the country last January when it ruled that out-of-state law...
SACRAMENTO - Pity the first-term lawmaker who takes on both the attorney general and the California District Attorneys Associa...
RIVERSIDE - The judge in a bank robbery trial has cited the prosecutor for contempt, finding that Deputy District Attorney Cy...
SAN DIEGO - Attorneys from Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach have filed a lawsuit seeking a class action in U.S. Distr...
SANTA BARBARA - Susan Trescher remembers the old days when women lawyers were few and largely unwanted by their male counterp...
In a year of efforts to improve the efficiency and productivity of California's trial courts, the majority of these courts st...
Government
Governor Vetoes Additional Pay for Jurors, Court Interpreters
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Pete Wilson cut $10 million for increased juror and court interpreter pay from the fiscal 1998-99 state budg...
Appellate Practice
Court Overturns Verdict in 'Friendly Fire' Police Death
By Craiq Anderson
SAN FRANCISCO - The widow of a Palo Alto police reserve officer who was shot to death by a Mountain View police officer durin...
A year after state court leaders rejected a plan to establish separate business courts in California, a new effort is under w...
Personal Injury & Torts
His Success Motto Is Set Your Goal And Never Give Up
By Mary Micheletti
A week or so into a product liability trial, plaintiffs' lawyer Arnold W. Schwartz ran headlong into one of the most brutal op...
SANTA ANA --- The verdict in the O.J. Simpson child custody case may be invalid because the case was taken away from a commis...
The Los Angeles County public defender's office is attempting to establish a legal precedent that would provide court-appoint...
Italian insurer Assicurazioni Generali agreed this week to pay $100 million to honor Holocaust-era life insurance policies pur...
Last week, New York's Wit Capital Corp. was named "e-manager" for an initial public offering by EarthWeb Inc., a New York com...
VENTURA - A Santa Barbara judge has rejected a defense attempt to disqualify four Ventura County judges from hearing certain ...
A state appeal panel has ruled that a plaintiff who files a meritless strategic lawsuit against public participation suit and...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a significant victory for insurers, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a policyholder -- not...
SANTA ANA - While the attorney general's office has found that the Orange County district attorney's investigation into alleg...