Orange County Taps Firm to Respond to DA Probe
By Jenna Bordelon
SANTA ANA - A San Leandro municipal law firm was selected Tuesday to conduct the delicate task of crafting a response to a gra...
Cooley Snubs Board's Call to Discuss Inglewood
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve Cooley snubbed the county Board of Supervisors Tuesday, failing to show up to answer que...
Tempting Offer
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By Daniel Yankelevits - All lawyers seem to want to practice entertainment law. Entertainment lawyers, however,...
Candidates Willing to Curtail Speech
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Do we really want judicial candidates to sling campaign promises like political hucksters? Or do we want voter...
Paper Fortress
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Mel Opotowsky - It was an open-and-shut case: Someone from the U.S. attorney's office opens an envelope, stu...
Could 9th Prove One Circuit, Indivisible, After All?
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - When the Pledge of Allegiance ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals came down last month, some Republic...
Trial Judge Slashes Punitives in Harassment Suit Against Ralphs
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Lawyers for six women who won a record $30 million sexual harassment verdict against Ralphs Grocery Co. only to se...
Two Tracks for Disqualification Result in Redundant Litigation
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Marshal A. Oldman and Susan J. Cooley - The California Supreme Court has construed the limits of disqualifi...
Client, 1, Attorney, 0, in 10-Year Battle
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A vicious, 10-year battle between a former civil rights lawyer and his one-time client finally may be over, now...
Tempting Offer
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By Daniel Yankelevits - All lawyers seem to want to practice entertainment law. Entertainment lawyers, however,...
Client, 1, Attorney, 0, in 10-Year Battle
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES -A vicious, 10-year battle between a former civil rights lawyer and his one-time client finally may be over, now t...
Two Tracks for Disqualification Result in Redundant Litigation
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Marshal A. Oldman and Susan J. Cooley - The California Supreme Court has construed the limits of disqualific...
Oakland Architects Lose Award
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court Monday threw out the remaining $900,001 from the original $41.8 million jury verdict a...
Ben Burch Likely Aide To Ryan
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Charles "Ben" Burch, a respected prosecutor with more than 24 years in the U.S. attorney's office, has been na...
Knoller Is Sentenced and Taken to Prison
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Marjorie Knoller tried to skirt responsibility for her dangerous dogs by repeatedly committing perjury during ...
Church Defense Highlighted Lawyer's Career
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Stanley R. Rader, a Jewish lawyer from White Plains, N.Y., who found fame, fortune...
Tobacco Pact Yields Large Fees
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - An attorney involved in the massive tobacco litigation for which lawyers were awarded $1.25 billion in fees by a...
Still One Circuit, Under God
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN DIEGO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals opened its three-day judicial conference Monday with a bit of irony. Everyon...
In Land of Apocalypse, Inglewood Police Beating Fits Like Glove
By Martin Bergn
Column by Garry Abrams - Sometimes, the amusement factor of living in the Los Angeles region wears pretty thin - and that old ...
Trial Attorney Vernon Goodin, 87
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - Vernon Goodin, former managing partner at the now defunct San Francisco firm of Bronson Bronson & McKinnon...
Win For Public Disclosure
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - A government agency faced with a request for public records cannot run to the courts for declaratory relief to av...
9th Circuit Begins Conference With Pledge
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN DIEGO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals opened its three-day judicial conference Monday with a bit of irony. Everyon...
Public Interest Law Provides Indigent People With a Voice
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Lew Hollman - More than a generation ago, the U.S. Supreme Court determined that due process of law required...
County Counsel Office Promotes Firm for Job
By Jenna Bordelon
SANTA ANA - The Orange County counsel's office is recommending three out-of-county law firms - one in Santa Rosa, one in San D...
Protecting the Shore
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Harold Johnson - The California Coastal Commission is constructed in a way that threatens freedom by defying...
Knoller Gets Four-Year Sentence in Dog Mauling
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Marjorie Knoller tried to skirt responsibility for her dangerous dogs by repeatedly committing perjury during ...
Prop. 65 Trumps Federal Law
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal law governing the safety of food, drugs and cosmetics does not preempt California's Proposition 65, a ...
Marin Taliban Gives Up the Fight
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Who came out on top in John Walker Lindh's surprise plea bargain Monday - federal prosecutors or San Francisco...
Various Defenses of Immunity Often Surprise Plaintiff Counsel
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Stuart Miller - Defenses based on various immunity doctrines arise in innumerable civil rights cases against...
Name Partner Helped Develop Commercial Code
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Business and banking lawyer George R. Richter, the last living member of the Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampt...