LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles police officials deny critics' contention that they are fabricating the number of beds available on ...
Law Practice
Riverside's District Attorney Will Join Best, Best & Kreiger
By David Houstonn
SANTA ANA - Grover Trask, Riverside County's district attorney for a quarter of a century, will join Best, Best & Kreiger ...
LOS ANGELES - Catholic Church officials have agreed to pay $10 million dollars to seven men and women who said they were sexua...
David Eric Brockway, 59, Marina del Rey (Sept. 7) - In a Review Department opinion, Brockway was suspended for two years and p...
WASHINGTON - Joseph W. Cotchett is in good spirits as the 2006 congressional elections approach. ...
While Nancy Pelosi frantically raises cash from California attorneys who are loyal Democrats, a Republican lawyer from Sacrame...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Retailers Sue San Francisco Over Its Ban on Bisphenol-A
By Donna Dominon
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco's newly approved ordinance that bans the substance bisphenol-A, which is used to make baby bottl...
FORUM COLUMN - By Jeremiah Reynolds - In recent years, attorneys' free speech rights have been curtailed by ethical rules and ...
FORUM COLUMN - By Joseph Sorrentino - Prosecutors face legal and ethical challenges at numerous stages of a criminal action, b...
Intellectual Property
New Rules Provide Businesses Little Aid With Privilege Issues
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Joseph S. Wu - One of the key drivers of today's high-cost electronic discovery is the need to preview recor...
SAN FRANCISCO - The respective chairmen of San Francisco-based Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe and New York's Dewey Ballanti...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Tobacco Tax Measure's Antitrust Provision Stirs Debate
By Anne Marie Ruff
LOS ANGELES - The highly publicized Proposition 86 would raise an additional $2.60 in taxes for every pack of cigarettes sold ...
LOS ANGELES - David P. Conn, the dashing deputy district attorney credited with rescuing the Menendez brothers' prosecution af...
Government
After Election, Litigators May Get Leverage but Not Results
By Aris Davoudiann
WASHINGTON - If the Democrats win control of the House of Representatives on Election Day, trial lawyers will have new leverag...
LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors across the state may be forced to adjust their public-records policy in light of an attorney general...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Bar Group Leader Says She Plans to Step Down
By Jim Adamekn
IRVINE - Donna Fouste, a leader among bar association executives in California and nationally, will retire after 15 years over...
A Bay Area lawyer was wrongly convicted of making a criminal threat when he unleashed an angry tirade against a bail bondsman,...
PLACERVILLE - Peering from a window in Judge James Wagoner's dark-wooded chambers, a visitor can look down on Main Street and ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Californians soon could prevent government from carrying out many of its current functions by passing a ballot...
Judges and Judiciary
'Larger-Than-Life' Judge Rode Motorcycles, Had Black Belt in Karate
By Donna Dominon
Santa Clara Superior Court Judge Robert L. "Bud" Ambrose, a 16-year bench veteran who rode motorcycles and had a black belt in...
Civil Rights
Ladies' Night Suits: The Latest Abuse of Consumer Protection Laws
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Julie J. Bisceglia - You want to treat your mother to a special brunch or dinner on Mother's Day, to show yo...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Changing Eminent Domain: Five Laws vs. Proposed Initiative
By Eric Berkowitzn
FOCUS COLUMN - By John C. Murphy and Bradford B. Kuhn - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the California Legislature have boarded...
LOS ANGELES - After an hour of sharp debate Tuesday, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously agreed to add inv...
Constitutional Law
Congress Should Adopt Immediately a Federal Shield Law for Journalists
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Erwin Chemerinsky - The outrage of putting two reporters in jail for 18 months for keeping their sources con...
SAN FRANCISCO - Silicon Valley firms have a more diverse mix of attorneys than those in any of California's other major urban ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The founder of prominent plaintiffs' firm Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein is relinquishing his status a...
LOS ANGELES - The attorney for a Palmdale PONY League baseball player will try to persuade an appellate panel to toss out her ...
SAN FRANCISCO - When Superior Court Judge Anne Bouliane approved a $1.5 billion civil judgment against Bank of America two yea...
The courtroom of San Bernardino Commissioner Charles Bradley might seem a scene from bedlam, but the jurist is firmly in comma...
SAN FRANCISCO - Sacramento atheist Michael Newdow - well known for trying to get the words "under God" pulled from the Pledge ...