LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Sherman S. Welpton Jr., a retired senior partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, w...
Law Practice
Audit Finds Deficiencies at Public Defender's Office
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - The San Bernardino County public defender's office is overworked, understaffed, underfunded and lacks directi...
SAN FRANCISCO - Joan Haratani, a litigator who had spent her entire 17-year legal career at Oakland's Crosby, Heafey, Roach &a...
LOS ANGELES - One by one, psychiatric patients of Metropolitan State Hospital filed into the community center to receive a hol...
WASHINGTON - Delivering a rare decision disfavoring arbitration, the Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled, 6-3, that the federal Equ...
SAN DIEGO - Superior Court Judge John M. Thompson issued a sweeping gag order Tuesday in the case of a former medical examiner...
Civil Rights
Access to Courts Often Comes Too Easily for the Mentally Ill
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Richard Van Horn, Access to the legal system in America for poor people is rarely more than a theory or a ni...
Forum Column - By Joaquin G. Avila, Voting rights - a kaleidoscopic phrase, subject to different interpretations and often eli...
Probate Law Practitioner Column - By Marshal A. Oldman and Susan J. Cooley, In Estate of Kaila, 2001 DJDAR 13361 (Cal. App. D...
LOS ANGELES - San Francisco-based Pillsbury Winthrop will roll back first-year associate salaries from $135,000 to $125,000, t...
LOS ANGELES - In what critics call Hollywood's war on cyberspace, a teen-age Norwegian programmer has been charged in Norway f...
Court Jesters - In Pavlicic v. Vogtsberger, 390 Pa. 502 (1957), Justice Michael A. Musmanno held the following for the court, ...
SAN FRANCISCO -Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Northern California's leader in per-partner profits, will pay bonuses of ...
LOS ANGELES - Black leather jacket slung over the back of her desk chair, a can of Coke within easy reach, Eve Hill is ready t...
Admistrative Law Practitioner Column - By Stuart Miller, Parties dissatisfied with factual determinations at administrative he...
Law Practice
Lifelong Urge to Give Aid Inspires Head of Litigation For Bet Tzedek
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - In late 1999, Laura Streimer reluctantly accepted a promotion many in the public interest community would've kil...
SACRAMENTO - A report presented Monday by the 12-member California Advisory Committee on Human Cloning recommends the state e...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles office of Chicago's Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood has lost bankruptcy partner Thomas E. Patte...
LOS ANGELES - Many jurists traditionally have light calendars on New Year's Eve day, but not Orange County Superior Court Comm...
SACRAMENTO - For more than 13 years, an inmate and his lawyers argued that he was innocent of the rape of a 6-year-old Long Be...
Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen, 'Today, access to justice for poor Californians is at best an unfilled promise and at wo...
Family
Newly Relocated Family Law Information Center Empowers the People
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - It took Bobby Hardy, a housekeeping aide at a Los Angeles hospital, almost no time to get lost in the...
Dicta Column - By Barbara Lewis and Dan Otto, We are fast approaching the deadline for law firms to restate their pension plan...
Natural Resources
Supreme Court Denies Review Of Endangered Species Ruling
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider whether the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service acted legally in list...
Forum Column - By Robert S. Borton, As we enter another new year, we continue to face the problems of poverty, discrimination,...
LOS ANGELES - Valley Lawyer Pleads Guilty to Mail Fraud A San Fernando Valley real estate attorney pleaded guilty Friday in U....
Judges and Judiciary
Commission Considers Settlement With Judge
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
INDIO - The Commission on Judicial Performance on Friday called off a hearing originally scheduled for this week on charges ag...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Presides Steadfastly In Contentious Courtroom
By Tamara Scott
PASADENA - Sometimes things get ugly in Judge Joseph F. De Vanon's courtroom. De Vanon, 51, presides over a criminal trial cou...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate court has reinstated - again - a police brutality lawsuit against North Coast authorities ...
SAN FRANCISCO - There wasn't much law discussed at the annual convention of the American Historical Association, held in San F...