Administrative/Regulatory
Lawyer's Leniency Bid Compares Sex Trade to Day Labor Industry
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - Someone who harbors an undocumented alien who works in San Francisco's sex industry is no different than a day...
HONEST MISTAKE - A dog-bitten juvenile prisoner got a break this week on a deadline missed by his lawyer's secretary. The 3rd ...
DISBARMENTS Creque, George Anthony , Willow Springs Shalant, Joseph Leib , Los Angeles Smith III, Frank Leonard , High Springs...
SACRAMENTO - A San Diego man who spent 21 years in prison after being wrongly convicted for the death of his girlfriend's todd...
NEWPORT BEACH - Julie McCoy became a pilot because of an Orange County Bar Association charity event. Now she is one of a hand...
SAN FRANCISCO - An attorney nicknamed "Hurricane" conjures up all kinds of courtroom caricatures, from a wild-eyed orator to a...
Focus Column - By Phillip R. Maltin - May a defendant present evidence that a plaintiff in a quid pro quo sexual harassment ca...
"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing," wrote the Greek poet Archilochus. From this insight, histor...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Gibson Dunn Guides Radio Advertising Company's Sale to Google
By Geneva Whitmarsh
LOS ANGELES - Gibson Dunn & Crutcher attorneys in three California offices helped Newport Beach-based dMarc hammer out it...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court unanimously agreed Wednesday to decide whether an anonymous tip justifies a warra...
LOS ANGELES - The Trevor Law Group may be dead, but the legacy of its abuse of the state's Unfair Competition Law lingered la...
Judges and Judiciary
Persnickety Indio Bench Officer Carefully Considers Each Case
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
INDIO - He describes himself as persnickety. Lawyers who have appeared before Riverside County Superior Court Judge Thomas N. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The attorney for an allegedly corrupt prosecutor has subpoenaed the San Francisco District Attorney's Office a...
LOS ANGELES - There's an old legal maxim that says, If you stack lawsuit money high enough, they will come ... even after the ...
LOS ANGELES - Trevor Law Group may be dead, but the legacy of its abuse of the state's Unfair Competition Law lingered Wednesd...
LOS ANGELES - Criminal defendants rarely request a public defender by name. One would think this maxim would be especially tru...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Justice Mustn't Spare the Rod if Slumlord Spoilage Is to Be Fixed
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Rocky Delgadillo - This week, the slumlords who own the Morrison Hotel will be brought to answer for crimes ...
Labor/Employment
Clinton Jencks Was a Singular Force Who Earned Freedoms for All
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - Legendary labor organizer Clinton Jencks, who led mineworkers in New Mexico in a strike depi...
Focus Column - By Jennifer George - All countries in the European Union and the European Economic Area were required to implem...
Forum Column - By Edward H. Telfeyan - "Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why'; I dream of things that never were and ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer and local prosecutors have reached a $25 million settlement with AT&T resolv...
LOS ANGELES - Corporations planning a joint venture may have to think twice before signing on the dotted line. At least that'...
Criminal
Sexual-Abuse Trial Begins for Former Priest
By Sandra Hernandez And Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Jury selection began Tuesday in the Los Angeles trial of a former priest accused of sexually abusing a boy for f...
LOS ANGELES - A group of Holocaust survivors can proceed with a war-profiteering lawsuit against the Vatican Bank and a Cathol...
Judges and Judiciary
Showing Compassion, But Respecting the Rule of Law
By Anna Oberthurn
SAN FRANCISCO - When two seriously ill women asked permission in San Francisco federal court to smoke and grow marijuana witho...
SAN FRANCISCO - State labor unions won a rematch Tuesday. California's legislative effort to prevent businesses from spending ...
LOS ANGELES - Hours before a federal judge was set to decide whether a rural California high school could teach intelligent de...
Administrative/Regulatory
State Likely to Pay Man for Years as Inmate
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A San Diego man is in line to receive the largest payment in state history to compensate him for spending 21 year...
Judges and Judiciary
Constant Reader Is Known for Wit He Brings to Bench
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Paul A. Turner knew in the third grade that he wanted to be a lawyer and pursued that dream throughout high scho...
WIRELESS TOWERS OK'd - A city may not deny a telecommunications company a permit to construct and install a wireless antenna b...