Westerfield's Lawyers Seek Sentencing Delay
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Lawyers for David A. Westerfield, the convicted murderer of 7-year-old Danielle van Dam, are seeking postponement ...
Family, Friends Mourn Two Lawyers' Deaths
By Stefanie Knapp
PASADENA - Services will take place Nov. 30 for Pasadena attorney David C. Haber, one of two lawyers killed Saturday in an aut...
Troubles Reported All Round
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Embattled Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison plans more layoffs and partner sacrifices to help it survive into 20...
Big Trade Secrets Case Settles
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Concluding an epic battle over stolen technology, Cadence Design Systems and Synopsys Inc. have settled their long...
Remembering Mildred Lillie
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Earl Johnson Jr. - Justice Mildred L. Lillie was the very best colleague that any appellate judge could hope...
Panel Approves Bush Nominees
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee - still under Democratic control during a rare, lame-duck session of Congress - ap...
Remembering Mildred Lillie
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Melanie E. Lomax - An examination of the life of Justice Mildred L. Lillie illuminates her determination, de...
Killer of CIA Agents Faces Execution Tonight
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - Mir Aimal Kasi, the Pakistani man who murdered two CIA officers and wounded three others in 1993, and FBI Special...
Inflammatory Election Fliers Haunt Sender
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - Ricardo Anthony Torres II is the first to admit he's no political professional. The Alhambra personal injury and...
Female Judicial Pioneers on the Silver Screen
By Karen Coleman
OAKLAND - The latest offering from Albany lawyer-turned-filmmaker Abby Ginzberg includes moments from the profound to the pros...
Under California Law, Employer Isn't Liable for Nonemployee Harassment
By Contributing Writer
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Harold M. Brody and Gloria C. Jan - Employers certainly should not construe Salazar as a pr...
FBI Agent, Condemned Killer Form Unlikely Bond
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - Mir Aimal Kasi, the Pakistani man who murdered two CIA officers and wounded three others in 1993, and FBI Special...
Predatory Lending Hurts Poor
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Joy A. Simmons - In low income and minority neighborhoods, particularly South Central and East Los Angeles, ...
Baca Withdraws His Support for Pacheco
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - Attack leaflets from a longtime ally of Nick Pacheco cost the incumbent councilman the endorsement Wednesday of ...
Pollution Suit Is Tossed by Court for Lack Of Standing
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Environmental groups seeking to reduce auto-related air pollution in the Bay Area do not have the right to att...
Cooley Directives Support Media
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve Cooley on Wednesday ordered prosecutors to stop seeking search warrants for news media o...
Time Bomb
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Leslie T. Thornton - Because of the behind-the-scenes maneuvering by the Bush administration, the president ...
Hell in Los Angeles: A Witness Stand in a Case With Money to Burn
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Lawyers who think they have a good idea of what Hades will be like when they finally get there should...
Homebuilder Loses Lawsuit to Spellings
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - The president of a construction company cannot sue TV producer Aaron Spelling, his wife or his lawyers for malic...
Large Punitive Award Won't Automatically Be Reduced
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Michelle A. Reinglass - The decision to let stand a $290 million punitive damages award was...
Court Passes on School Race Ratios
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court refused Wednesday to help a federal appeals court decide whether a policy that a...
Bring on the Tort Reformers
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Bruce Brusavich tackles his breakfast much the way he confronts a product liability case or legislation: He gets ...
Killer's Attorneys Want Bench Officer Removed
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for a man convicted of murder and facing the death penalty in Imperial County moved Wednesday to disqu...
Brobeck Manager Quashes Merger Rumors
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Rumors of an impending Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison merger were exaggerated, according to William Sullivan,...
Hallucination Merits Lesser Murder Term
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A prison inmate who stabbed his cellmate in both eyes and then strangled him to death has won a reduced senten...
Judge Dismisses Stock Lawsuit
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - In a key victory for the state Judicial Council, a federal judge Tuesday dismissed a suit filed by two stock m...
Let Market Regulate, Not State
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Eric Goldman - In introducing yet another online privacy bill, Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) claimed that "p...
Monster-Movie Guru Wins Appeal
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Monster-movie guru Forrest Ackerman, also known as "Dr. Acula," can keep a $518,000 judgment he won from his for...
Jurist Revives Suit by Clinton's Ex-Lover
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - A skeptical and sarcastic Judge Alex Kozinski and two colleagues Tuesday revived part of Gennifer Flowers' 199...
Does Internet Act Violate Library Users' Rights?
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Returning to the issue of pornography on the Internet, the Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to consider whether th...