LOS ANGELES - BH Properties LLC announced April 11 the formation of a new company, Excess Property Acquisitions LLC. ...
Redlands attorney Richard D. McCune Jr., right, is representing Joshua Endres in his lawsuit against Wells Fargo to stop the b...
Securities
$4 Million Paid to Fired Man Seals the Deal for No Appeal
By Anne Marie Ruff
Anthony Person spent two years crafting a deal to buy the commercial security company Brassfield Communications, for which fin...
Focus Column - By Carol Rene Brophy - Whether California's recent raft of climate change legislation will preserve the ice cap...
LOS ANGELES - Retired attorney William J. Gargaro Jr., who spent the bulk of his 40-year legal career as a medical-malpractice...
SAN FRANCISCO - The world's largest air cargo carrier has agreed to pay nearly $55 million to end a racial discrimination clas...
Forum Column - By Rachel S. Kronowitz - The Supreme Court's recent ruling on global warming will have profound effects on dire...
WASHINGTON - Senate confirmation is usually a formality for U.S. attorney nominees. That's about to change. ...
LOS ANGELES - The continuing political firestorm over the dismissals of eight U.S. attorneys has helped restore power to a loc...
SAN DIEGO - A bankruptcy judge Wednesday told lawyers for the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego to provide the court with al...
Marin County Commissioner Beverly Wood is remarkable in her enthusiasm for fixing the modern-day woes in family law court. ...
Stanislaus County Superior Court Judge Ricardo Cordova, who testified in Scott Peterson's murder trial, empathizes with witnes...
An Arizona-based Internet adoption agency says it cannot be forced to provide services to gay couples. But a California feder...
SAN FRANCISCO - Wal-Mart, a giant retailer known for closely guarding its secrets, had an oops moment in Alameda County Superi...
SAN FRANCISCO - An Alameda judge has ruled that Berkeley Unified School District's plan for assigning students to elementary s...
Forum Column - By Jeffrey L. Fazio - A plaintiffs' class-action lawyer isn't happy with a Forum article's characterization of ...
Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - As detainees are being tortured in Cuba, the Legislature needs to step in and do what the Su...
Environmental
Water Agency’s Plan to Fix Fish-Kill Permits Draws Criticism
By Keith Bowersn
SACRAMENTO - State officials Tuesday outlined a strategy for responding to a judge's ruling that threatens to shut down the ma...
SAN FRANCISCO - As soon as David R. Stewart reported for duty at Seattle-based RealNetworks Inc. in 2001, the general counsel ...
An unusual constellation of 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judges Tuesday "sorrowfully" dissented from the court's decision...
Stanford Law School students concerned about the potentially brutal first years in the profession formed a group and wrote to ...
Judges and Judiciary
State Legislative Panel Will Consider Sentencing Proposal
By David Houstonn
SACRAMENTO - A controversial proposal to revise the state's complex sentencing structure by creating a commission gets its fir...
LOS ANGELES - The law firm Reed Smith announced Monday the addition of two partners and a counsel, all hailing from different ...
Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - The 10-year rule for spousal support is irrational and unjust and should be abolished. ...
Judges and Judiciary
Court Provides Guidance on Admitting Hearsay Evidence
By Meagan Yellottn
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court gave long-awaited guidance Monday to criminal courts deciding when hearsay eviden...
Deals Column - By Jason Song - Attorneys are hoping there's light at the end of the tunnel better known as Sarbanes-Oxley, the...
LOS ANGELES - At the scene of a burglarized trucking business, Los Angeles police found small drops of blood staining the shar...
Focus Column - By Michael R. Morris - New legislation provides significant tax breaks for songwriters. ...
Forum Column - By Peter Scheer - Before the Legislature gets much more excited about the U.S. attorney scandal, it should cons...
WASHINGTON - A California lawyer hoping to change the way presidential elections are decided is one step closer to achieving h...