SAN FRANCISCO - Trial lawyers, complaining they can't get continuances unless they are "dead or dying," are on the verge of w...
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers say Jennifer T. Lum is dedicated. The day after delivering closing arguments in a multimillion- dollar b...
Appellate Practice
Justices Set Date for Hearing in Campaign-Reform Cases
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court announced Thursday that it will hear four hours of arguments in the battle over the McCain-Fein...
SACRAMENTO - The judiciary's long-running attempt to find funding to repair and replace crumbling, over-crowded courthouses a...
Litigation
Jury Awards $2.6 Million in Disability Firing
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - In an unusually large verdict, a jury has awarded a former employee of the state Department of Corrections ...
LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court has ordered a second-degree murder convict freed, saying the governor's decision to deny t...
Forum Column - By Bruce M. Brusavich - The Judicial Council blue-ribbon task force on jury system improvement recently passed ...
Real Estate/Development
Cases Address Owner Liability for Accidents, Assaults
By Columnist
Focus Column - Real Property - By Michael Paul Thomas - Three cases dealing with important premises liability issues recently ...
Tax
Relief Under 2003 Law Goes Mainly to Individuals and Will Be Temporary
By Columnist
Focus Column - Tax Law - By Dean Weiner - On May 23, Congress passed the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003...
LOS ANGELES - Saturday morning, a group of five dozen Los Angeles lawyers, summer associates, law-firm personnel and Habitat f...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley, already backed for re-election by the county police chiefs as...
LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court has slammed Orange County Judge James M. Brooks and attorney Constance Endelicato over t...
SANTA ANA - The former media spokeswoman for District Attorney Tony Rackauckas filed a claim against the county and district a...
LOS ANGELES - Real estate developer Alan I. Casden, who has expressed interest in buying the Los Angeles Dodgers, has filed a ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld California's impending ban on the gasoline additive ...
SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County public defender and three-time candidate for judge has been charged with a misdemeanor count o...
Government
Federal Report on Terrorism Offers First Clues to Ashcroft's Brain
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Every once in a while, I find myself wrestling with the deep philosophical question, "What's inside U...
LOS ANGELES - After quarreling with Justice Department officials over what charges to bring, the prosecutor assigned to the ca...
Entertainment & Sports
Justices Weigh Allowing Claims Against Sports Coaches
By Peter Blumberg
LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court debated Wednesday whether to expand liability for coaches when young athletes are ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal authorities unsealed stock fraud indictments Wednesday against the former general counsel and the for...
LOS ANGELES - Turning up the heat on the budget fight, Mayor Jim Hahn Wednesday attempted to veto the city's spending plan, bu...
SAN FRANCISCO - City Attorney Dennis Herrera believes building contractors have cheated San Francisco taxpayers out of hundred...
SAN FRANCISCO - To the whoops of medical marijuana supporters, a federal judge Wednesday ordered just one day in prison with c...
Administrative/Regulatory
Jurist's Tough-Love Justice Guides Addicts to Sobriety
By Anne La Jeunesse
SANTA MARIA - Santa Barbara Superior Court Judge Rogelio R. Flores doesn't spend a lot of time sitting on the bench. It's easi...
Forum Column - By Christopher M. Kelly - Calls for privacy protection in Latin America are getting an unexpected boost from su...
Appellate Practice
Attorneys Must Keep Informed On Changes to Appellate Rules
By Columnist
Focus Column - Appellate Law - By James M. Harris and Jill Faulkner McNeal - The appellate rules of the California Rules of Co...
Focus Column - By Laura Esquivel, Jackie Goldberg and Jennifer C. Pizer - In 1988, Lydia Ramos met the love of her life, Linda...
Constitutional Law
Legal Scholar Will Testify in Favor of Putting Curbs on Debates
By Mark Cromer
LOS ANGELES - As Democratic filibusters continue to logjam President Bush's efforts to appoint conservative jurists to the fed...
Pamela Jester, who has served as interim director of Continuing Education of the Bar, has been named as the organization's per...
LOS ANGELES - Outspoken constitutional scholar Douglas Kmiec is headed back to Southern California, where he will resume his f...