SAN FRANCISCO - After a seven-year legal battle, a gay immigrant who was beaten unconscious by police outside a gay bar in his...
Construction
Panel Refuses to Extend Statute Of Limitations in Building Case
By Blair Clarkson
LOS ANGELES - Chalk up a major victory for home builders in construction-defect litigation. In a harsh blow to homeowners who ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A unanimous California Supreme Court declined to advance the corporate responsibility trend Thursday when it r...
LOS ANGELES - When supermodel Anna Nicole Smith arrived in a Houston probate court in 2001, some jurors thought she probably d...
SAN FRANCISCO - Many may believe that tempers flair most often in family law court over issues involving money. Not so, said ...
LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Supreme Court's sweeping decision affirming the right of local governments to seize private property fo...
OFFICE SAN RAMON - Elsevier MDL is moving its regional headquarters to 65,000 square feet of Class A space in Bishop Ranch 6. ...
LOS ANGELES - As a teenager in Ohio in the early 1970s, Linci Comy remembers how unwanted teenage pregnancies were handled bef...
Civil Rights
Not Much Has Changed in Black L.A. Since Watts Riots 40 Summers Ago
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - The young National Guard officer curtly and sternly ordered my high-school buddies a...
Forum Column - By Leonard Edwards - This month, the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges published "The Juveni...
Focus Column - Family Law - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and David L. Marcus - A married couple's estate plan may intentionally or un...
Law Practice
Hard-working Family Commissioner Remembered for Generosity
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - One of the El Dorado County bench's most beloved and esteemed jurists, Commissioner William H. Bradley, died ...
Judges and Judiciary
Judiciary Chair Sticks to Party Line on Papers
By Lawrence Hurleyn
WASHINGTON - In a letter citing law and precedents, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday sided with th...
LOS ANGELES - Zachary Turke recalls the day a partner at Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton asked whether he had a passpor...
LOS ANGELES - Scott Burkholder was 6 when he made his stage debut in a play written and directed by his 11-year-old sister. "W...
LOS ANGELES - Law students know that long hours and often-mundane cases can make summering at a large firm no trip to the beac...
WASHINGTON - A John Roberts attack ad charging that the Supreme Court nominee supported violent anti-abortion activists has co...
LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court on Wednesday spurned a last-ditch effort by plaintiffs lawyer Pierce H. O'Donnell's...
Column - By Garry Abrams - Notorious runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks has been pushing a lawnmower under the Georgia sun this w...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court Wednesday waded into a snarling controversy - dogs on the beach - and overturned a cit...
Judges and Judiciary
Same-Sex Marriage Case Won't Bypass State Court of Appeal
By Amelia Hansen
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court ducked the state's most controversial political issue Wednesday by rejecting plea...
By Robert Friese - Until the recent past, when one spoke of "parallel proceedings" in the securities law context, the referenc...
By Susan S. Muck and Tanya Herrera - On May 31, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously reversed the conviction of Arthur Andersen ...
By William F. Sullivan and Tracey L. DeLange - For decades, federal securities class actions have imposed heavy costs on corpo...
SAN FRANCISCO - Environmentalists and commercial fishing groups Tuesday launched a federal court challenge to government plans...
By Sarah A. Good - These days, directors and officers of public companies face increased risk of personal liability for their ...
MULTIFAMILY SAN MARCOS - A 72-unit apartment complex at 201-21 W. San Marcos Blvd. is off the market for $15.6 million. John L...
By Patrick J. Coughlin and Reed R. Kathrein - The plaintiffs bar can rightfully claim victory in the 9-0 opinion of the U.S. S...
By Nina "Nicki" Locker and Peri Nielsen - Section 304 is the provision in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act that requires CEOs and CFOs t...
By Jeff Westerman, Ann Lipton and Kristen McCulloch - As Chief Judge William Young of the District of Massachusetts recently n...