Belmont Allegations Could Jar Cooley's Road to Re-Election
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Fresh allegations that Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley bungled the Belmont school project inv...
FTC Urges Radical Changes in System
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal regulators have fired a warning at companies and individuals who might unscrupulously use the patent ...
Fires Close Big Bear Courthouse
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - A wildfire roaring through the San Bernardino mountains forced the closure Tuesday of the Superior Court in B...
Two New Backers For Fazio
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Jeff Brown and Peter Keane, two well-regarded local legal figures, said Tuesday that they will endorse Bill F...
Modesto Judge Has Deep Roots in Area
By Tyler Cunningham
MODESTO - Walking around downtown Modesto, Judge John E. Griffin is clearly at home. On one corner, he points out the site of...
Playing Chicken With the Apocalypse Provides Food for Thought
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams As much as I love living in California, there are times when I wish the state would quit playing chick...
Conflagration Forces Judges Out of Homes
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - Wildfires ravaging San Bernardino County forced at least five Superior Court judges to evacuate their homes ...
Fires Cause Shutdown Of San Diego's Courts
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - To help keep roadways clear for emergency crews battling destructive wildfires, court officials shut down the nat...
New Law Allows Employees to Sue for Labor Code Violations
By Columnist
Focus Column Employment Law By Michael D. Singer Among the flurry of bills that Gov. Gray Davis signed into law on his way ou...
Court Clears Cooley, Chair Of Conflicts
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Cooley Godward and its chairman were cleared by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday of claims the...
Ruling Could Limit Visitors to Yosemite Park
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - The annual flood of visitors to Yosemite National Park, or at least some of the most heavily used portions of...
Litigator Wrote Briefs for Desegregation Case
By Eron Yehuda
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles attorney Stuart Kadison, a distinguished civil litigator, bar leader, law-school professor and huma...
Cops in Beating Case Will Go to Trial
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - The three off-duty San Francisco police officers charged with beating two men last year will stand trial in t...
Panel Defers Decision On Online Law Schools
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - The state Committee of Bar Examiners this weekend put off a decision on accrediting online law schools, saying ...
Senate Confirms L.A. Federal Judge
By Brent Kendall
LOS ANGELES - The Senate on Monday confirmed Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Dale S. Fischer for a newly created federal jud...
Judge Not Biased Against Tenants
By Karen Coleman
OAKLAND - An Alameda County Superior Court investigation into allegations of bias against law-and-motion Judge James Richman ...
Gold-Plated Opinions
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - In more than 25 years of practicing patent law, longtime law partners Michael Pollock and Michael Stallman ha...
John Hart Ely, 64, Was an Author, Stanford Law Dean
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - John Hart Ely, one of the most important constitutional scholars of the 20th century and dean of Stanford Law...
Landlord Must Pay $2.5 Million to Burned Boy
By Erica Williams
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles landlord must pay $2.46 million to a 9-year-old boy who severely burned himself on a stovetop bur...
Ruling Could Cut Visitors To Yosemite To Save River
By Dennis Pfaff
The annual flood of visitors to Yosemite National Park, or at least some of the most heavily used portions of it, could be re...
Potential for Conflict Isn't Disqualifying
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Defendant Jess Rodrigues smelled a conflict of interest. His law firm, Cooley Godward of San Francisco, emplo...
Lap-Dance-Ban Foes File Petitions
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Opponents of Los Angeles' lap-dance ban collected nearly twice the number of signatures needed to force the Cit...
Justice Denied
By Columnist
Forum Column By Fred Silberberg Mediation is quickly catching on in the family law community, and the courts are doing whateve...
Most Lawyers Agree Blogging Can Be Relatively Free of Risks
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - To blog or not to blog? That is the question for some lawyers, who wonder whether blogging will leave them ex...
Dewey Ballantine Decides Two Can Co-Chair the Firm
By Liz Valsamis
By Liz Valsamis New York's Dewey Ballantine has elected Sanford Morhouse and Morton Pierce as co-chairmen of the firm, effect...
New City Gaining Popularity
By Olivia Loy
BY OLIVIA LOY CREJ Staff Writer Maybe it has something to do with its recent induction into cityhood. Or maybe it was just a ...
Glacier Water Services Buys Water Island for $5.9 Million
By Toni Vranjes
By Toni Vranjes Glacier Water Services Inc., an operator of water-vending machines, has acquired privately held Indianapolis ...
Smart Growth, Latino-Style
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Managing Editor California's growing Latino community should be the darling of the urban planning se...
Tweaks to CEQA Could Stymie Project Approvals
By Olivia Loy
BY OLIVIA LOY CREJ Staff Writer For the first time in five years, substantial revisions have been proposed for the guidelines...
'2 Percent' Decision May Worsen State Deficit
By Columnist
BY ROBERT C. BARNES Just when Californians thought that the state's fiscal health couldn't get any worse, a case working its ...