Neutral L. Therese White, former big-company accountant, is soft-spoken and articulate. A regular churchgoer, she often conduc...
Cathay Bank learned the hard way recently not to underestimate Curtis Jung. In the 40-year-old attorney's opinion, bank offici...
Developed over centuries, the common-law doctrine of "sovereign immunity" provided that "you can't sue the king." This basic d...
LOS ANGELES - The city of Los Angeles will appeal a federal judge's order barring enforcement of an anti-panhandling ordinance...
These questions and answers regarding developments in employment law in 2001 were presented at the SHRM 2001 annual conference...
LOS ANGELES - A Monterey Park attorney and his female co-defendant pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court to...
LOS ANGELES - In the eyes of members of corporate boards across the nation, a few California-based law firms are among the cre...
Properly used, a convenor can streamline the procedural aspects of ADR that cause delays and aggravation. When advocates come ...
In a group discussion hosted by Los Angeles mediator Jeff Kichaven, plaintiffs' counsel John B. Marcin, defense counsel Fred B...
Appellate Practice
Excessive Verdicts Affect Both 'Real People' and 'the Powerful'
By Columnist
During his campaign for president in 2000, Al Gore boiled down his message to the slogan "the people vs. the powerful." That s...
Criminal
Riverside County OKs Plan For Conservatorship Cases
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Two years after a San Francisco lawyer's investigation sparked criticisms about the way Riverside public defender ...
LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge on Tuesday set aside involuntary-manslaughter convictions in a five-defendant murder case...
LOS ANGELES - Defense attorneys for accused bombing conspirator Sara Jane Olson will ask a judge next week for yet another del...
SAN BERNARDINO - A judge has blocked the attempt of a teen-age girl to hold a group-home operator vicariously liable for the a...
VENTURA - Stricken with mental illness, David A. Culp went from the life of a successful attorney to that of a virtual hermit ...
LOS ANGELES - Gilbert Murchinson was detained, searched and videotaped because security guards said he looked like a gang memb...
SAN JOSE - Ending speculation that they might seek a deal in the controversial case against a Russian programmer accused of ci...
SACRAMENTO - Millions of dollars for urine testing under Proposition 36, the treatment initiative for drug offenders, would be...
LOS ANGELES - For law-firm associates, 2001 has been the year of the nonraise. In its 2001 Associate Salary Survey, the Washin...
SAN FRANCISCO - A retired Air Force veteran's jackpot of $508,000 in annual California lotto payments turned into a tax nightm...
Many lawyers perceive California to be a hostile forum for an employer trying to protect its customer contacts and other trade...
Litigation
Court Reporter's Error Helps Overturn Conviction
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN FRANCISCO - A U.S. District judge was right to overturn the murder convictions of two San Bernardino men based on a findin...
The report of the California State Bar's task force on multidisciplinary practice has arrived with something less than a bang....
When trial approaches, one question that trial attorneys must consider relates to what evidence they would like to have admitt...
The right to work and support oneself and one's family: what could be more basic? Most of us take that right for granted, but ...
A court need not retain jurisdiction or provide for return jurisdiction when there is no indication that the defendants will e...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County prosecutors Monday asked the state Supreme Court to halt efforts by a Superior Court judge to...
SANTA ANA - A local campaign-finance reform activist asked the Orange County grand jury Monday to investigate two prosecutors ...