Judges and Judiciary
State Senate Judiciary Led by A Freshman - in Name Only
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Longtime lobbyists from the legal establishment know Ellen Corbett as the chair of the Assembly Judiciary Committ...
'20 to Watch' List Is Cast From a White, Male Mold ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge seemed skeptical Wednesday of a bid by defense attorneys to dismiss the bulk of indictments ag...
SAN FRANCISCO - Bernard Knapp, a civil litigator most recently with the Contra Costa county counsel's office, has been named a...
Judges and Judiciary
Editor of California Lawyer Will Leave for State Courts
By John Roemer
Peter Allen, who as California Lawyer magazine's longtime editor-in-chief led the monthly to win numerous prizes for editorial...
Corporate
Branching Out: Crisis Management Finds Home in Defense Firms
By Jennifer Hammn
LOS ANGELES - For some corporate law firms, the days of just saying no to the media are over. Full-service practice groups tha...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court voted Wednesday to go back to the drawing boards following January's bombshell ru...
FORUM COLUMN - By Elaine Elinson - Nearly a century before Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus, Charlotte Brown ...
Judges and Judiciary
Last-Minute Negotiations Close Courts' Security Gap for Now
By Jennifer Hammn
LOS ANGELES - Though an immediate crisis has been averted, rising security costs could pose a serious problem for the Los Ange...
SAN JOSE - Hewlett-Packard's purchase of a company whose executives were accused of backdating stock options has killed a shar...
Securities
Attorney Questions Mail-Fraud Charges Facing Former Brocade Chief
By Craig Anderson
SAN JOSE - The lawyer defending the former chief of Brocade Communications Systems Inc. against criminal options-backdating ch...
Law Practice
Next Big Thing: Smaller, Less-Legal, More-Portable Libraries
By Emma Dewaldn
LOS ANGELES - The law library isn't what it once was. It's smaller: Digital formats have reduced the vast expanse of books. ...
Government
Justice Official Testifies Prosecutors Were Ousted for Performance
By Hurley
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration tried again Tuesday to put an innocent spin on the recent resignation of seven U.S. attor...
The largest certified class of workers in history can go forward with a sexual discrimination lawsuit against the world's larg...
LOS ANGELES - With the federal criminal investigation into misdated stock options at KB Home continuing, former CEO and Chairm...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Thomas P. Krzeminski - Before you or your client call your friendly newspaper reporter to talk about a pendi...
Citing the large-scale failure of anti-piracy technology, Apple CEO Steve Jobs urged the major record labels Tuesday to licens...
FORUM COLUMN - By Andrew J. Guilford - It just ain't fair. Maury Wills was the greatest star the Dodgers ever had, and he's no...
Success playing hockey led Hector M. Guzman indirectly to his new role as Superior Court judge, where he is learning when to p...
Mayor Gavin Newsom, who issued an emotional public apology last week for having an affair with the wife of a former aide, may ...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge ruled Tuesday that confidential files belonging to a dead priest accused of molesting minors...
Law firms with a large presence in the nation's capital are set to cash in as the new Democratic-controlled Congress steps up ...
Judges and Judiciary
Senate Unanimously Approves Three California Federal Judges
By Hurley
The U.S. Senate confirmed three nominees for California federal judgeships last week. ...
A Sherman Oaks divorce lawyer will get a new trial on charges that she went to criminal lengths to stalk and intimidate a fost...
LOS ANGELES - The Anthony Pellicano wiretapping saga began in 2002 with a scene straight out of pulp fiction, with a warning d...
FORUM COLUMN - By Peter Scheer - Say it ain't so. Say that local governments aren't secretive. Not only is a First Amendment a...
John Milwitt didn't go to law school, but that did not stop him from advertising his "legal services" in the Yellow Pages. ...
DEALS COLUMN - By Jason Song - When Delaware-based Babcock & Brown Renewable Holdings Inc. wanted to acquire an equity int...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Michael G. Lufkin - Before global warming submerges the world's major cities, the SEC should start regulatin...
LOS ANGELES - Though trial may be theater, few attorneys give thought to a compelling set design. But when a judge nixed Depu...