In a 1980s movie called "The Windwalker," a Native American family spends a lifetime looking for a child who was stolen as an...
SAN FRANCISCO- Reeling from what is anticipated to be a second consecutive year of losses, the Kaiser Permanente Group - the ...
DELLINGER LANDS IN L.A. - Building its appellate practice, Los Angeles' O'Melveny & Myers has recruited Walter Dellinger, ...
TORONTO - Among IOLTA advocates and state bar officials who have gathered here at the American Bar Association's annual meeti...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a highly unusual move, the California Judges Association has joined in support of Court of Appeal Justice ...
TORONTO - The nearest thing in Toronto to a media feeding frenzy greeted Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr at a breakfast mee...
SANTA ANA - Usually, the election of an Orange County assistant presiding judge is a drab affair, with the Superior Court iss...
Law Practice
Enforcing, Defending - or Both, Lawyers Thrive Under Prop. 65
By Dennis Pfaff
Defense lawyers representing companies in Proposition 65 lawsuits are fond of pointing the finger at plaintiffs and accusing ...
Government
Soft Money, Hard Lessons the Focus at Annual Bar Meeting
By Don De Benedictis
TORONTO - Even as Congress is debating campaign-finance reform, the American Bar Association, meeting in Canada Monday, came o...
SAN DIEGO - Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., has nominated Assistant U.S. Attorney Gregory Vega for appointment as the U.S. atto...
SACRAMENTO - Ending years of debate on how to provide voters more information about appellate justices, Secretary of State Bi...
In a resounding victory for insurance companies and their lawyers, a divided California Supreme Court ruled Monday that an in...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
High Court Sets New Deadline for Malpractice
By Philip Carrizosa
Judges and Judiciary
Job Reveals There's More to the Bench Than She Realized
By Mark Blumberg
Criminal
Ventura Successfully Uses 'Great Bodily Injury' Enhancement in a Statutory Rape Conviction
By Tamara Koehler
Personal Injury & Torts
Proposition 213 Allows Family of Uninsured to Sue
By Anna Marie Stolley