PENSION CHARGES - An attorney for San Diego's municipal pension system and four other overseers of the retirement fund were in...
LOS ANGELES - Morrison & Foerster has announced that seven California-based attorneys have been elected to the firm's part...
THE PRICE OF IMPATIENCE - A judge's effort to kick-start a slow-moving arbitration cost a Hollywood actor and his attorney a $...
RIVERSIDE - Bryan Gonzalez's life ran aground about two years ago. That's when he lost custody of his 7-year-old son. His ex-g...
HOSPITALITY CARLSBAD - Burnham Real Estate's Capital Markets Group arranged a $35.51 million permanent loan for the refinancin...
Focus Column - By Mark Goldowitz - Last year, new amendments to the California anti-SLAPP law were enacted and took effect. Th...
SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez tapped San Jose federal prosecutor Christopher Sonderby on Thursday to ...
Forum Column - By Peter Scheer - For years, the Legislature, under pressure from special interests, has carved out exceptions ...
Labor/Employment
Key Employment Law Resolutions Will Reduce Firms' Legal Exposure
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Employment Column - By Karen L. Gabler - With the advent of the new year, individuals and businesses alike resolve to improve ...
Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - Any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires - a wireta...
Judges and Judiciary
Four Veteran San Bernardino Judges Retire
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - Four of San Bernardino County's most experienced Superior Court judges are retiring, a development that is e...
LOS ANGELES - A San Joaquin judge may have gotten carried away with quadrupling damages against an apple and cherry orchard th...
LOS ANGELES - Robert S. Mann is not a contractor by trade. He is a lawyer and a neutral. But he recently served as the general...
LOS ANGELES - A Santa Clarita attorney was ordered to stand trial on charges he persuaded a 15-year-old girl to masturbate ove...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles family won a $20 million product-defect settlement after a stovetipped and a pot of stew catapult...
LOS ANGELES - The district judges of the Central District of California have tapped a federal prosecutorand a federal public ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Securities and Exchange Commission finally has announced its guidelines for seeking monetary penalties aga...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Regulatory Hair-Splitting Saps State Warnings on Mercury
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - For all of its reputation as a bad actor promoting mental illness, birth defects and cancer, mercury has prove...
Judges and Judiciary
Attorneys Appreciate Having Their Feet Held to the Fire
By Don Ray
ORANGE - Probate attorneys who often appear before Orange County Superior Court Judge Marjorie Laird Carter know that the odds...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court ruled that a convicted robber who is black may have gotten an unfair trial when his Lo...
Entertainment & Sports
Jury Will Hear Case on Name of Baseball Team in Anaheim
By Don De Benedictis
SANTA ANA - Was it the best of contracts or the worst of contracts? That is the issue an Orange County jury must examine in t...
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger laid out a 10-year strategic growth plan for California Thursday in his annual state-o...
CRIME PAYS, FOR CHP - Motorists arrested on suspicion of drunken driving can be forced to pay the hourly wages of California H...
SAN FRANCISCO - Carol A. Corrigan, who promised "a fair and honest evaluation of each case, informed by reason and common sens...
RETAIL CHULA VISTA - Fremont Investment & Loan provided a $51.5 million retail construction loan to an affiliate of Sudber...
LOS ANGELES - The assignment was to write about Christmas. But the response was anything but jovial. "I ain't goin' be here C...
Focus Column - By Kirk A. Pasich - During 2005, the California Supreme Court and the state appellate courts rendered a number ...
Forum Column - By Michael M. Rosen - The latest collision of patent and antitrust law has rocked the foundations of a 58-year-...
LOS ANGELES - An appellate court on Wednesday reinstated a would-be class action alleging that a major office supply retailer...
LOS ANGELES - Claiming that the lawyer representing an individual indicted in connection with a criminal probe of class-action...