LOS ANGELES - His mother gets killed, his family collapses, his friends betray him, his enemies ambush him and the cops frame ...
LOS ANGELES - Prominent litigator Louis R. "Skip" Miller has added to the partnership of his two-month-old Century City-based ...
Environmental
Discovery Opens Lawyers' Eyes to a San Joaquin River Solution
By Dennis Pfaffn
SAN FRANCISCO - A potentially historic agreement that might one day revive California's second-largest river began to take sha...
Appellate Practice
Panel Faults Lawyer's Crapshoot That Sent Client to Death Row
By Amelia Hansen
Lawyers aren't expected to be clairvoyants. But they also shouldn't make risky predictions when their clients' lives are on th...
LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge has ruled the city of Santa Monica has a sufficient traffic plan and should not face civi...
LOS ANGELES - A state Court of Appeal has ruled the West Los Angeles entertainment litigation firm Christensen Glaser can be s...
Administrative/Regulatory
Now-Former Candidate Delgadillo Goes Back to Work
By Erin Park
LOS ANGELES - On June 7, Rocky Delgadillo showed up at his office on the eighth floor of City Hall East a bit later than usual...
Media
Newport Beach Lawyer Beats The Times to Win Press Club's Top Blog Award
By Robert Iafolla
NEWPORT BEACH - J. Craig Williams moved to Southern California nearly 20 years ago and never attended a celebrity award show. ...
Large Firms
Thelen Reid Reorganizes Its Leadership in Silicon Valley
By William Arthur Haynes
SAN FRANCISCO - Thelen Reid & Priest's Silicon Valley head is passing the reins to a young, energetic litigator with plans...
Government
More Prisons Aren't Answer; Decriminalizing Victimless Acts Is
By David Minkown
Forum Column - As long as California's prison population keeps growing, the state has to provide more prison facilities. In hi...
Focus Column - Experienced plaintiffs' trial lawyers handling medical-malpractice claims would agree with the views expressed ...
Forum Column - On May 3, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 5253, legislation that would make price gouging in the ...
Forum Column - It's open season on re-redistricting. That's the major long-term national impact of the Supreme Court's decisio...
International
9th Circuit Seems to be Leaning Toward 'Jurisdiction First' Rule
By Amy Kalinn
Focus Column - The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently faced the issue of whether personal and subject matter jurisdict...
Administrative/Regulatory
Nuclear Snafu in 1959 Brings Legal Fallout to L.A. Hills
By Dennis Pfaffn
SAN FRANCISCO - If asked to identify the worst nuclear accident in American history, most people would probably say the Three ...
Government
Taxation With Representation Keeps Alcohol Cheaper in State
By David Houstonn
SACRAMENTO - California's wine-and-cheese crowd and those who have a good stiff drink after work enjoy something the rest of t...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Eminent Domain Gets Twisted: Can Hercules Evict Wal-Mart?
By Tim Hay
SAN FRANCISCO - Poor old Mrs. Jones. Kicked to the curb so developers could bulldoze her lifelong home for a shopping mall. ...
Personal Injury & Torts
Justices Extend Liability in HIV Infection Cases
By Itir Yakarn
In a deeply divided ruling Monday, the California Supreme Court extended tort liability to defendants who have reason to belie...
People often tell Judge Lisa Hart Cole that her courtroom looks familiar. "That's because they've seen it on TV," she said. ...
EL CAJON - After more than 20 years practicing law, serving as a judge and living in eastern San Diego County, Superior Court ...
FULLERTON - There used to be a joke among students at Western State University College of Law during the late 1970s. ...
SAN JOSE - A federal judge took a dim view Friday of a Southern California Web site's complaint that Google Inc. violated its ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Farella Braun + Martel's newest real estate and land use partner hopes to fill a void left by prominent rainma...
Litigation
Jury Awards Heart-Attack Victim's Family $5.3 Million From Doctors
By Jim Adamekn
SANTA ANA - In a rare victory, a heart-attack victim's family has won a $5.3 million verdict against a pair of Orange County d...
Law Practice
Bet Tzedek Counts on the Young to Go-Go to Its Justice Ball
By Alexa Hylandn
LOS ANGELES - Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Bet Tzedek will hold its annual Justice Ball Saturday at the Hollywood Palladi...
FULLERTON - The first Western State University College of Law graduate to go on the bench was a member of the school's very fi...
Immigration
Workers Waiting 60 Years for Wages Eye Mexico's Election
By Sandra Hernandezn
LOS ANGELES-Ismael Silva's hearing is sketchy, and he isn't as steady on his feet as he once was. ...
Judges and Judiciary
Judges Threaten to Quit CJA Over Training Mandate
By Savannah Blackwelln
SAN FRANCISCO - Two highly regarded judicial education experts said Friday that they would resign in unison from the Californi...
WASHINGTON - The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had another rocky year at the U.S. Supreme Court, as th...
LOS ANGELES - On a recent searing afternoon in downtown Los Angeles, Michael Cypers stood in an air-conditioned room below the...