Private Suit Against Tobacco Giant Still Proceeding in S.F. Courtroom
By Patricia Jacobus
SAN FRANCISCO - Amateur country-western singer Patricia Henley said she became hooked on cigarettes after smoking one for the...
Davis Set to Slash State's Spending on Trial Courts
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis' first trial court budget proposal likely will provide no money for new judgeships or increased ...
Three Indicted for Scheming to Steal Law School Admission Test
By Michael Harris
Prosecutors said Thursday that Danny Khatchaturian and Dikran Iskendarian must have really wanted to get into law school. The...
Court to Examine Restraints on Ads of Professionals
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court next week will consider whether the Federal Trade Commission has jurisdiction over nonprofit p...
Senators Vow to Render Clinton Impartial Justice
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - The fate of Bill Clinton's presidency officially changed hands Thursday, from those of the House to the Senate, ...
Akin Gump Adds Five-Lawyer Health-Care Group
By Pearl Piatt
Significantly adding to its health-care practice, Washington, D.C.-based Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld has lured a fi...
Ventura Defense Attorneys Fear Dependency Court System Unfair
By Amy Bentley
VENTURA - Defense attorneys say parents accused of abusing or neglecting their children in Ventura County may get inadequate ...
SEC Settles Suit Stemming From the O.C. Bankruptcy
By Martin Bergn
Concluding one of its first enforcement actions against municipal bond counsel, authorities said the Securities and Exchange ...
Retired Brobeck Partner Recalled For Talent, Wit
By Pamela Mc Clintock
Robert S. Daggett, a prominent and much-loved San Francisco litigator who filled the city's courtrooms with masterful oratory...
L.A. Will Pay $1.1M to Settle Defamation Suits
By Lauren Blau
The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to settle four defamation and civil rights lawsuits for $1.1 million filed by me...
Will Voters Break the Charter Stalemate?
By Lauren Blau
In stark contrast to its elected counterpart, the appointed charter reform commission voted unanimously Wednesday to adopt a ...
Road to Nowhere
By Don De Benedictis
Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Burbank, has introduced a bill to restore the State Bar of California, but the bill offers virtually no c...
Kissing Off DA Doesn't Stand in Way of Promotion
By Michael Harris
Since first being elected in 1992, Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti has been accused on occasion of taking r...
It's a Dangerous, Litigious World, Disney Suit Says
By Denise Levin
It's a dangerous world after all, claims a Los Angeles woman who says she suffered a brain hemorrhage while riding the Indian...
A Simple Plan
By Chris Ford
It seems like a simple matter, really. The Los Angeles Superior Court's rule on footers, which became effective Friday, says ...
Heller Firm Hires Two in San Diego
By Pearl Piatt
Heller Firm Hires Two in San Diego Significantly bolstering its San Diego presence, San Francisco's Heller Ehrman White &...
Bank of Americas In-House Group Hit by Big Withdrawal
By Vivien Chen
SAN FRANCISCO - Two of Bank of America's top in-house attorneys are leaving in the wake of the bank's recent merger with Nati...
The King May Be Dead, But His Hideaway Can Rock
By Mathew Heller
PALM SPRINGS - The city of Palm Springs has abandoned its legal effort to bar the owner of Elvis Presley's Honeymoon Hideaway ...
MoFo Expands Its Sacramento Office
By Leslie Gordon
Charles S. Farman, a corporate and securities lawyer, has joined Morrison & Foerster as a partner in the firm's Sacramento...
County Tackles Questions of Childrens Privacy
By Cheryl Romo
How to safeguard an abused child's privacy in the computer age - particularly when multidisciplinary teams from different gov...
Commission Finds Judge Unqualified
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - A State Bar panel announced Tuesday it had found one of former Gov. Pete Wilson's 11th-hour judicial appointment...
San Bernardino Court Plan Draws Criticism
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - Officials in several high-desert communities are balking at a $240 million plan to combine San Bernardino Co...
Molina Seeks Fiscal Fix-It Plan for DA
By Lauren Blau
Concerned about lax financial procedures in the district attorney's office, Los Angeles County Supervisor Gloria Molina intro...
Rent Control Is Not a Taking, Court Decides
By Philip Carrizosa
Narrowly rejecting an innovative attack on rent control, a closely divided California Supreme Court ruled Monday that a landl...
West Salesman Claims Spurned Boss Fired Him
By Anne La Jeunesse
Legal publishing giant West Group and its parent company, the Thomson Corp., are being sued by an Orange County man who claim...
Skadden Arps Awards Public Interest Fellowships
By Stephanie Francis Cahill
Carrying on a tradition begun in 1989, the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom on Monday awarded 28 public i...
Superior Court Violated Clerks' Rights, Judge Rules
By Denise Levin
An Orange County Superior Court judge has ruled that the Los Angeles Superior Court violated state law by denying certain dep...
A Question of Credit
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Contention over credit for a seminal U.S. Supreme Court antitrust case argued 40 years ago has embroiled two ...
County to Settle Officer's Suit, Plus Another Claim
By Lauren Blau
A Los Angeles police officer who hurt his neck and back when he slipped at a court facility where he was serving as a court l...
Quentin Kopp Takes on New Role as Jurist
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Judge Quentin L. Kopp, following his swearing-in Jan. 2 as San Mateo County's newest Superior Court jurist, s...