LOS ANGELES - Denise Hart grinned, showing missing front teeth. It's part of the price she's paid as a former junkie who has s...
Criminal
Court Requires Delivery of Signed Deposition Transcript for Perjury
By Gina Keating
LOS ANGELES - In a Clintonesque opinion that parses the meaning of "it," a state appellate court has ruled that a witness has ...
LOS ANGELES - A lawyer who allegedly sent more than 100 menacing e-mails to opposing counsel after losing an egg price-fixing ...
If the conduct did not walk like harassment, or quack like harassment, Breeden enjoyed no legal protection in her complaint ac...
There's a Credence Clearwater Revival line about "some folks inherit star spangled eyes, they'll lead you down to war, and whe...
On May 29, the U.S. Supreme Court swung the disability pendulum again - this time toward the disability community, or at least...
SAN FRANCISCO - Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe has created a new practice group at the intersection of financial services...
In Ferguson v. Moore, 98 Tenn. 342, 39 S.W. 341 (1897), Judge John S. Wilkes found the following for the court, in pert...
Attorney-client agreements should describe how documents will be returned or destroyed once a matter is concluded. ...
SANTA ANA - For Sharon Hiser, an $8.7 million jury verdict against Bell Helicopter is bittersweet. The award means justice to ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Superior Court Reaches Accord With Most Staff
By Donna Huffaker
LOS ANGELES - Paralegals, court clerks and judicial assistants for the Los Angeles Superior Court will receive raises up to 18...
Labor/Employment
Jury Awards Fired Psychiatrist $1.5 Million
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - A jury has awarded $1.5 million to a psychiatrist who alleged he was fired because he refused to prescribe ge...
SAN JOSE - Larry Ellison will get to land his personal jet at San Jose International Airport, according to a federal judge's r...
SAN FRANCISCO - California police officers retain the unique statutory right to sue citizens who file false complaints against...
SAN DIEGO - A Superior Court judge on Wednesday ordered California's long-term electricity contracts made public, but she ques...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judicial panel has tapped a Washington state judge with a long antitrust resume to preside over laws...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Press Club has honored several of the Los Angeles Daily Journal's reporters and editors with top...
SAN FRANCISCO - Once, while honoring a class of fungi that grows in the dark under piles of manure, the Morgan Hill Mushroom F...
SAN FRANCISCO - A nasty Mendocino County union battle that became a factor in the 1998 election defeat of former District Atto...
SAN FRANCISCO - Opening its first West Coast bankruptcy practice, Chicago's Kirkland & Ellis has acquired Century City ba...
LOS ANGELES - Articles in two New York-based magazines about supposed links among Los Angeles Police Department officers, L.A....
SAN FRANCISCO - "Pearls Before Swine" is a deceptively simple comic strip about a megalomaniacal rat and a slow-witted pig. Th...
LOS ANGELES - Growing up, Eric M. George thought he wanted to be a doctor until he realized he liked the blood and guts of pol...
Judges and Judiciary
Judicial Council Rejects Proposal for Retention Elections
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - The state Judicial Council voted Wednesday to oppose a proposal to eliminate contested elections for trial jud...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Minnesota company trying to enforce a contract clause forbidding an employee from taking a job with a compet...
In their May 9, 2001, article "Eye-Balling It," James P. Barber and William J. Baron argue that Cottle v. Superior Court
To understand and control trial preparation, counsel must develop a strategic plan. The plan should address staffing the case,...
SAN FRANCISCO - Gary Bruhns, a young real estate lawyer who recently made partner, died at Stanford University hospital Monday...
Robert J. Vars, sole practitioner in Encino, won a $267,000 jury verdict in a premises liability case, Ghavifekr v. Prezzo<...
It may have been greed or power or lies. Any one of these could have trapped Helene Singer. But it was actually five large box...