The proper use of the GHAD law can open up previously undevelopable areas to development.
The California Supreme Court gave no obvious hints during oral arguments how it will rule on the constitutionality of a statut...
Attorney Ronald S. Katz struck fear in the hearts of opposing witnesses in a recent trial. In fact, after watching Katz tear a...
When I was a young media lawyer, the United States Supreme Court decided Gertz v. Robert Welch Inc., 418 U.S. 323 (1974), and ...
Once you accept the job offer of your dreams, you must gracefully transition from your current employment to your new venture....
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled that California appellate courts have misinterpreted California law on th...
A useful new technique for arguing noneconomic damages has emerged recently that turns trial challenges into big results. ...
In August, the Census Bureau released population data announcing that California is now a "minority-majority state." The censu...
When examining a non-English-speaking witness, keep questions simple and short in order to be fully understood by the interpre...
The last man MGM owner Kirk Kerkorian wants to see won't be showing up in the United States any time soon. ...
Over the last 12 years, David Armstrong has developed a reputation for fairness and generosity in mediating construction dispu...
The defendants and their insurance companies agree to fund a program to clean up large-scale soil and groundwater contaminatio...
Since the California Legislature amended Code of Civil Procedure Section 437c in 1990, California courts have grappled with th...
SAN FRANCISCO - Meet Bruce Wayne Morris. The 43-year-old death row inmate may have been sentenced to death because the word "w...
Law Practice
Constitutional Rights Group Elects Sartain as President
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - Julianne Sartain, a partner at the Irvine law firm of Snell & Wilmer, has been elected the new president of th...
Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti, seeking his third term of office, received the endorsement Thursday of a ke...
A Los Angeles judge side-stepped the sticky issue of whether or not attorney Robert W. Hirsh is a vexatious litigant and allow...
Disgraced former Los Angeles police Officer Rafael Perez's alleged refusal to testify about a former lover's claims he murdere...
The Los Angeles office of Chicago-based Sidley & Austin launched a pro bono program at a reception Wednesday to celebrate ...
RIVERSIDE - A former Houston police sergeant has been selected to run Riverside's first commission to review citizen complaint...
The 9th Circuit has chosen the minority view on the liability of passive intervening owners. ...
Judges from Santa Clara, San Bernardino and Los Angeles spoke out Thursday against a state ballot measure that would require d...
The painfully thin African-American woman standing in the courtroom couldn't stop trembling. Soon, the young mother, a victim ...
In a fast-food-restaurant parking lot on Vermont Avenue in 1996, former Los Angeles Police Department Officer Rafael A. Perez ...
Law Practice
Legal Community, Chapman Establish New Inn of Court
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
ORANGE - More than eight centuries ago, young lawyers in England began joining Inns of Court to brush up on the law and get me...
Family
Judge Criticizes County for Not Notifying Mom of Kids' Adoption
By Daniel Evans
Finding that the Orange County Social Services Agency made a halfhearted attempt to inform a mother of a hearing that put her ...
The Los Angeles police officer's union has sued the department over a 2-year-old practice of sending so-called "Brady letters"...
With county workers back at work thanks to the divine intervention of Cardinal Roger M. Mahoney, county and union attorneys ag...
SAN DIEGO - A jury's $13 million punitive damages award to the Fresno Unified School District in a bad-faith insurance lawsuit...
The court said that the electronic bulletin board was no different from a wood-and-cork bulletin board. ...