Group Takes Early Stand Against Possible Appeal-Bench Nominee
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - A liberal judicial advocacy group took the unusual step Tuesday of announcing its opposition to a conservative le...
Ryder Case Shows Affluent Thieves Need Help With Their Shoplifting
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - LOS ANGELES - "Shoplift here! We Won't Prosecute!" This is the sort of sign that may be displayed - i...
Russian Defendant Unapologetic
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Elcomsoft engineer Dmitry Sklyarov, who designed a software program prosecutors say violated a 1998 federal law in...
Immigrant Customers Sue Toyota Dealer
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - An Alhambra Toyota dealership was sued Monday by a group of Mandarin-speaking customers who claim they were defr...
Court Rules Paralegal Excuse Is a Good One
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Saying "the paralegal did it" is a good excuse for attorneys who want to reverse default judgments against their...
Agency Censures Former Judges
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - The California judicial watchdog agency on Monday publicly censured two former state judges who resigned under f...
Appeals Court Reverses $24 Million Fraud Verdict
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - An Orange County appeals court has reversed a $24 million fraud verdict against a local aerospace company, sayin...
Serial Rape Suspect Says DNA Shouldn't Be in Database
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - The state Department of Justice has improperly included juvenile offenders in its DNA databank of convicted felo...
Husband and Wife Must Live Apart to Be Legally Separated
By Columnist
Focus Column - Family Law - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and Steven R. Landes - The second item on a petition for dissolution of marr...
Round Trip
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - It was like a building possessed. The Coudert Brothers law firm moved its San Francisco offices a year and a ...
Panda Litigation Not Black or White
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Two new immigrants to the Midwest in 1988 instantly became celebrities. The arrival in Toledo, Ohio, of Le Le ...
Panel Upholds Woman's Alien-Slavery Conviction
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - A federal appellate panel Monday upheld the eight-year prison sentence of a Woodland Hills woman with family tie...
Voir Dire Begins in Testy Date-Rape Trial
By Matthew Heller
VENTURA - Defense counsel has called the prosecution "felons, pure and simple." A prosecutor has suggested that the defense co...
Justices Let Stand Ruling On Suspicionless Searches
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - In a case from Southern California, the Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider whether police officers may ...
Bar, Union Try to Avert Strike
By Don De Benedictis
SAN FRANCISCO - The State Bar and its union begin talks today with a federal mediator after six months of intense negotiations...
Poisoning Intellectual Property
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Tom Giovanetti - If the study of public policy teaches us anything, it is that political solutions usually h...
Justices Let Stand Ruling On Suspicionless Searches
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - In a case from Southern California, the Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider whether police officers may ...
Legal, Business Consultant Takes Practice to La Bella & McNamara
By Staff Writer
SAN DIEGO - After working as an executive for two San Diego sporting goods firms and as a legal and business consultant, Andre...
Cross-Complainants Win $1.55 Million in Fraud Case
By Christina Landers
SANTA ANA - In an unexpected turn of events for the original plaintiffs in the suit, a unanimous Santa Ana jury on Nov. 2 awar...
Another Tough Break for UCLA
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor When it comes to college rivalries, few are as storied or impassioned as the crosst...
Attorney Settles Anti-SLAPP Suit For $51,000 Fee
By Eron Yehuda
SACRAMENTO - A Sacramento lawyer reached a $51,000 settlement last month with the city of Benicia, which he accuses of filing ...
Mr. Insolvency
By Toni Vranjes
NEWPORT BEACH - Many powerful businessmen have found themselves inside William Lobel's fifth-floor, corner office in Newport B...
Wishing for a Walgreens
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor There is one retail tenant with the power to make just about any property owner gr...
Orrick Herrington Adds Attorney to Growing European Presence
By Staff Writer
LONDON - Bodo Schaar is the newest attorney to join Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's growing European presence. The firm a...
Baby Steps Toward Smart Growth
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor With nowhere else to go, the city of Los Angeles continues to look inward to solve...
California Lawyers Clinch $453-Million Deal
By Toni Vranjes
SANTA CLARA - California lawyers from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, and Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison recently h...
Orrick Helps Impac Make Nasdaq Debut
By Toni Vranjes
MOUNTAIN VIEW - Impac Medical Systems Inc. of Mountain View made its well-received debut on the Nasdaq market last month, repr...
Davis Names to Alameda Court First Chinese-American Woman
By Staff Writer
ALAMEDA - Gov. Gray Davis has appointed the first Chinese-American woman to the Alameda County Superior Court. Lo-Lynne Q. Lee...
Toxic Mold Is Not the Problem
By Columnist
BY MICHAEL D. GEYER AND KENNETH V. LA CONDE Toxic mold has grabbed its share of news headlines in the last few years. Dozens ...
Hard Times Don't Dissuade Gray Cary From Washington
By Joel Rosenblatt
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Gray Cary is upping its bet on battered East Coast technology companies by transplanting partner Margaret H...