Lawyer Will Plead Guilty to Tax Charges for Money From Trusts
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - A Pasadena trusts and tax attorney who worked for some of the Southland's most prominent families has agreed to...
Court Revives Asbestos Suit, Debunking Discovery Myth
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - An asbestos case that fell prey to a civil discovery "urban legend" should be revived, the 1st District Court...
Garment Suit Settles
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Garment workers ended a lawsuit and a three-year boycott of Forever 21 Inc. Tuesday with an out-of-court settle...
Panel Will Mull Whether Disabled Foster Child Can Sue
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - An appellate court will hear arguments today over whether a disabled foster child can sue the Los Angeles Count...
George Cites Progress in 'Dysfunctional' Capital Appeals
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - If and when the death verdict against Scott Peterson becomes final, he will have to contend with a capital ap...
Vexatious Litigant Will Meet the Chief
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - A prolific pro se has taken his beef all the way to the top. Chief Justice Ronald M. George remains a defenda...
Judge Boosted U.S., UCLA, Superior Court
By Don Ray
LOS ANGELES - Jurists, lawyers and others who knew Judge Alan G. Buckner will gather on Friday to honor and remember the popul...
Daily Deals -- Transactions for Dec. 14
By Joseph Pimentel
INDUSTRIAL ORANGE - Crystal Cathedral Ministries signed a five-year, $2 million lease for a 42,918-square-foot industrial bui...
Death and Distortion
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - When the jury of six men and six women sentenced Scott Peterson to death Monday, at the very least they demon...
Bush Must Continue to Name Strict Constructionists to Bench
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Hirbod Rashidi - I always thought if I got to meet President Bush before the election and he tried to convin...
Sarbanes-Oxley Helps Firms Cut Off Frivolous Allegations
By Columnist
Focus Column - Litigation - By John S. Adler - The first federal court challenge to the constitutionality of the Sarbanes-Oxle...
Cop's Porn-Video Ruling Returns Sanity to 9th Circuit States
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Charles S. Doskow - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals frequently is beaten about the head and ears on ac...
Pretrial Hearing in Runion Case Focuses on New DNA Testing
By Dan Evans
SANTA ANA - The reliability of relatively new DNA tests took center stage as pretrial hearings opened Monday in the Samantha R...
Mutual Fund Companies Settle With SEC
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Two subsidiaries of Franklin Resources Inc., one of the nation's largest mutual fund companies, have agreed t...
Lambda Names New National Legal Director
By Eron Yehuda
LOS ANGELES - Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund on Monday named Jon W. Davidson its national legal director. Davidson, ...
Mahony Misspoke on Abuse, Lawyers Allege
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony didn't tell the truth six years ago when he testified in court that he was una...
Alameda County Veteran Proves Fearless Under Fire
By Dennis Opatrny
HAYWARD - Alameda County Superior Court Judge David Hunter still recalls with amusement the day he refereed a dispute between...
Challengers Fail to Oust Union Board
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - The leadership of Santa Clara County's Government Attorneys Association has survived a challenge from a group of d...
DA's Unit To Focus on Child Abuse
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris announced Monday the creation of a new child assault unit that w...
Justices Find Police Officer Immune From Suit for Wounding Fleeing Felon
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday summarily reversed the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a pol...
Panel Cites Sixth Amendment in Reversing Drug Conviction
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - A customer of the notorious Santana Block Crips cocaine ring in Compton won reversal of his drug trafficking ...
Ruling Curbs Damages Liability of Law Enforcement in Making Arrest
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Curbing the damages liability of police officers over an arrest, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that ...
State's Budget Woes Threaten to Tarnish Governator's Magic Luster
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - They're back, like that horde of freeloading, genetically aberrant relatives who exist solely on a ...
Concession of Guilt Doesn't Affect Rights
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - A Florida death-row inmate was not denied his Sixth Amendment right to counsel when his attorney conceded his gui...
Union Diverted Millions From Benefit Plans, U.S. Says
By Eron Yehuda
On its Web site, Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa in Kelseyville, a hundred miles north of Sacramento, is billed as "120 pine-stu...
Attorneys' Space Needs Keep San Francisco's Office Market Churning
By Contributing Writer
By John McCloud CREJ Contributing Writer Where would San Francisco be without the law? More to the point, where would its off...
Justices Will Examine Hotel's 'Takings' Claim
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Supreme Court has stepped into an 11-year battle between the city of San Francisco and a local hotel...
Daily Deals -- Transactions for Dec. 13
By Joseph Pimentel
INDUSTRIAL LAKE FOREST - William and Darlene Clark purchased a 10,268-square-foot industrial building at 26902 Vista Terrace ...
Liability Tango
By Contributing Writer
Closer Column - By A. Barry Cappello and Troy A. Thielemann - Economic cycles always bring changes to law firms and their area...
University of San Diego Follows Counsel
By Lorelei Laird
When the University of San Diego decided this fall to change its outside general counsel, one thing stayed the same: the prese...