Industry Watch - By Jason Song - LOS ANGELES - Adam Grant didn't have to go far when he merged his firm with Encino-based Alpe...
Forum Column - By Rees Lloyd - Nonviolence was a credo of famed labor leader Cesar Chavez, honored Saturday by a state holiday...
Industry Watch - By Emma Dewald - LOS ANGELES - Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner, which has made news in recent months ...
Industry Watch - By Drew Combs - LOS ANGELES - Former presidential aide Kenneth L. Khachigian has joined the Santa Barbara-bas...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has blocked a Bush administration rule overhauling the management of all 192 million acres of ...
When attorney Reed Kathrein heard a colleague's idea to sue Juniper Networks over its backdated stock options, he scratched hi...
LOS ANGELES - Turns out, the defeat of Proposition 90 in November marked only the beginning of the political fight over eminen...
Disciplinary Actions - Disbarments, Resignations, Suspensions
On the Move - By Alexa Hyland
Victor Wright became a judge to make a difference in people's lives, and he uses patience, listening and attention to detail t...
Judge Frederick Rotenberg is motivated by a desire to help people, and in his courtroom, everyone gets the chance to be hear...
The former Justice Department official who oversaw the firing of San Diego U.S. Attorney Carol Lam denied before Congress Thur...
Criminal
Hope of Practicing After Prison Dims for Former S.F. Prosecutor
By Amy Yarbroughn
SAN FRANCISCO - Former prosecutor Robert W. Roland hoped that by copping to lesser charges in a drug scandal last year he migh...
Verdicts
Wrongful-Death Suit Is Settled Over Medical Care at L.A. Jail
By Jennifer Hammn
LOS ANGELES - Attorney Robert Berke says he hopes a $475,000 settlement against Los Angeles County he won on behalf of a beatn...
SAN FRANCISCO - A settlement among Genentech, Tercica and Insmed earlier this month resolved the patent infringement litigatio...
Employment Column - By Daniel A. Crawford and Robert J. Drexler Jr. - Everyone knows that California is the place to be if you...
Forum Column - By Jonathan Shapiro - A former prosecutor says Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has set himself up for a wire-...
Law Practice
Lawyer Must Face Sanctions for Appeal Tactics, Panel Says
By Laura Ernden
A Sacramento lawyer who got in trouble last year for "an appeal run amok" faces sanctions and a possible State Bar suspension....
SAN FRANCISCO - A jury has awarded more than half a million dollars to a woman bitten by a pit bull during a 2005 attack as sh...
A vote set for Friday on whether to create a new .xxx suffix for sexually explicit Web site addresses has both the adult enter...
On the downslope of his 30s, San Rafael neutral Hadden W. Roth found his seat on the Marin County Municipal Court bench too co...
The California Supreme Court Thursday made it tougher for criminal defendants to claim prosecutors violated their speedy trial...
Litigation
Rift Emerges Between U.S., Local Authorities in Video Case
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - Despite a recent setback, San Francisco police say they are trying to make new arrests stemming from a violent...
LOS ANGELES - A recent proposal to give Internet domain-name owners greater privacy rights in divulging their personal informa...
Judge Linda McFadden urges the youngsters before her to face the truth of their behavior so that they will never return to h...
Peter Mixon, general counsel for the nation’s largest public pension, is sending a message to the SEC: We demand tighter regul...
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld a lower-court ruling allowing a man convicted wrongly of murder to s...
Focus Column - By C. Matthew Schulz and Mechal Perl - The filing deadline is almost here for the few visas available permittin...
Forum Column - By Joseph E. Herman - The Employee Free Choice Act is anything but what its name implies. ...
Litigation
Judge Denies Retrial to Accomplice Serving Longer Sentence Than Shooter Did
By Susan Mcraen
LOS ANGELES - Despite testimony that a defense lawyer refused to engage in plea bargaining, cursed the prosecutor during trial...