The significance of the 'Musser' decision is that it creates uncertainty that did not previously exist. ...
WASHINGTON - Federal judges and legal experts are concerned about a new White House effort aimed at increasing federal gun-cri...
Two appellate decisions suggest that notwithstanding Cornette , design immunity may at last fall firmly within the public enti...
Recently, the public got a rare glimpse at the Draconian measures that our government is taking in a desperate effort to make ...
LOS ANGELES - Elliot J. Safirstein, the well-known external relations assistant to Dean Karen Lash of the University of Southe...
LOS ANGELES - It wasn't the most formal trial that acting Judge Janet Jackson had ever seen. The defense attorney was decked o...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles-based Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher plans to open an office in Munich, joining the growing number of l...
SAN FRANCISCO - Muslim inmates at a California prison cannot be punished for missing work to attend Friday religious services,...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Thursday scheduled an Aug. 13 contempt hearing for a prosecutor after lear...
SAN FRANCISCO - Anyone willing to endure a political campaign in San Francisco, sighed one lawyer thought to be an early conte...
SAN FRANCISCO - In one of the first interpretations of state immunity from federal disability law, a federal judge has ruled C...
SAN FRANCISCO - Overruling a San Francisco judge's novel and significant reduction of a prison sentence, a federal appeals cou...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Litigation Partner Leaves Wilson Sonsini
By Toni Vranjes
LOS ANGELES - A litigation partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati said this week that she is leaving the Palo Alto fi...
VICTORVILLE - On June 20, Carl Williams and his wife, Kathy Williams, ran out of patience with the local school district he ca...
LOS ANGELES - After 23 years of repairing and renting musical instruments out of her home, a disabled Laguna Hills woman may h...
Judges and Judiciary
Traffic Judge, Business Expert Becomes High-Court Candidate
By David Houston
In a recent ruling, U.S. District Judge Bernard A. Friedman issued a lengthy opinion declaring that the admissions policies at...
On the day that it left Washington for its summer recess, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in a case that has occupie...
State Bar & Bar Associations
ABA Vows at Conference to Vet Nominees, Come Rain or Shine
By Don Debenedictisn
CHICAGO - When the Bush administration in March snatched away the American Bar Association's 50-year-old job of rating potenti...
The prayer for relief - you all remember it as one of those building blocks in civil procedure. A true vestige of English hist...
SACRAMENTO - A bill to create a groundbreaking program to help California's troubled lawyers, particularly those addicted to d...
SACRAMENTO - A task force on the multi-jurisdictional practice of law tentatively recommended Wednesday that in-house counsel ...
Solo and Small Firms
Bad Economy Doesn't Restrict Successful IP Boutique
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - So you want to open a law firm in a down economy? Have you lost your mind? Where are you going to find clients...
SAN FRANCISCO - The names of four seemingly moderate judges with little appellate experience were submitted to a State Bar com...
What duty do adults owe to teen-agers whom they invite into their homes to supervise and protect them against sexual assault ...
Personal Injury & Torts
Lawyer's Novel Theory Sways Jury in Baby-Shaking Lawsuit
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - Grant Saucier was just 6 months old when the woman responsible for watching him at a San Bernardino County da...
Real Estate/Development
Battle Heats Up Between Developer and San Diego
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Lawyers for the city of San Diego will get their final chance this month to convince an Orange County judge to thr...
LOS ANGELES - The federal court in Los Angeles announced plans Wednesday to reappoint two full-time and two part-time magistra...
"If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed." Supreme Court Jus...
Consumers who sue under a breach of warranty theory to recover damages for the cost to repair or replace defective products ne...