Steinhart to Merge With Piper Rudnick
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Steinhart & Falconer, a small but nationally recognized San Francisco business and litigation firm, will ...
Lawyer Previews His High-Court Cases
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Seth P. Waxman has had some remarkable experiences at the Supreme Court arguing 37 cases in the last decade. In D...
Wal-Mart Takes on Inglewood for Store
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - A 60-acre dirt lot in Inglewood has become the latest front in the fight between the world's largest retailer an...
DAILY DEALS: Transactions for Dec. 24
By Angela Gottula
LOS ANGELES COUNTY WESTLAKE VILLAGE - A 6,616-square-foot area of Westlake Plaza I, the 2801 Townsgate Road business developme...
MTBE Settlement
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
Big-name oil companies will spend almost $313 million to remove the gasoline additive MTBE from Santa Monica's groundwater und...
Jury Deadlocks in Handgun Design Case
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - A retrial of a case that has drawn the attention of the nation's gun makers and their opponents ended in a mis...
Beretta Gun Case Ends in Mistrial
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - A retrial of a case that has drawn the attention of the nation's gun makers and their opponents ended in a mi...
On or Off, Controller Calls Car Tax Legal
By Philip Carrizosa
Reporter's Notebook - By Linda Rapattoni - SACRAMENTO - One month California's car tax is tripled. Five months later the incre...
Fixed-Workweek Rule Costs State's Employers Millions
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Steven B. Katz - The Division of Labor Standards Enforcement has pulled the rug out from under practitioners...
Federal Haze
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Richard Glen Boire - Last week, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that federal criminal laws again...
'Stone' Proves Family Limited Partnership Is Alive and Well
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Focus Column - Tax Law - By Bruce Givner - The Nov. 7 decision in Estate of Stone , T.C. Memo. 2003-309 (Nov. 7, 2003), confir...
Nearing Retirement, Judge Looks to Youth
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - As a seasoned criminal court jurist with retirement on the horizon, Sacramento County Superior Court Judge James ...
Boren Will Lead Court of Appeal
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES-Presiding Justice Roger W. Boren will take over as new administrative presiding justice of the 2nd District Court ...
Partner Led Heller Ehrman to Silicon Valley
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES-Funeral services were held Monday for Michael J. Cullen, a former Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe partner cred...
Liberty Mutual Settles Quadriplegic's Lawsuit
By Erica Williams
LOS ANGELES - A bitter battle over collecting a $12.8 million insurance judgment awarded to a 28-year-old quadriplegic and his...
Oakland Police Miss Reform Deadlines
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - A group monitoring the Oakland Police Department as part of the Riders civil settlement reported Tuesday that ...
Judges Offer To Share the Pain of Cuts In Sonoma
By Donna Domino
While the state budget crisis has forced courts throughout California to close periodically and send their employees home on u...
New Judge Loves Being a Problem Solver
By Sarah Garveyn
LOS ANGELES - Judge Paul A. Bacigalupo is new to the Los Angeles Superior Court, but he's been presiding over disputes for muc...
Access to Arnold
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Litigation is a slow process, and sometimes the quickest way to accomplish something is to head straight for the ...
State High Court to Decide on Oakland's Lending Ordinance
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to hear a challenge by a bankers' group to an Oakland ordinance ai...
Court Upholds Provisions for Tribal Gaming
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - A federal appeals court on Monday upheld the constitutionality of the state's voter initiative and compacts that...
Troubled Tenet Picks New General Counsel
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Tenet Healthcare Corp. has hired E. Peter Urbanowicz as its new general counsel, the embattled hospital operator...
Commissioner Lets Pro Pers Air Their Cases
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
TEMECULA - Riverside Superior Court Commissioner Barry Riemer can't help but smile at some of the defenses he's heard while de...
DAILY DEALS: Transactions for Dec. 23
By Angela Gottula
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BENICIA - Bobbi Geyer and Nannette Hardy have sold their salon and spa at 190 W. J St. to Siau-Way Liew fo...
U.S. Health Care Repair
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Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - The national issue of health care reform was brought into public debate by two recent even...
Panel OKs Convicting Two for Identical Crime
By Riley Guerin
SAN JOSE - Two people can be convicted, at separate trials, for the same offense, a divided panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Cou...
Many Remedies Not Available For Infringement Outside U.S.
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Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Christopher Van Gundy and Robert Matz - Practitioners may encounter difficulty obtai...
Police Didn't Plant Too Much Coke
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court refused Monday to give a break to three convicts who accused Los Angeles police o...
Two Men's Conviction for Single Act OK'd
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Two people can be convicted, at separate trials, for the same offense, a divided panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Cour...
Time Runs Out on Libel Suit
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A witness in the O.J. Simpson murder case waited too long to file a suit against an ex-boyfriend, a prosecutor...