Administrative/Regulatory
Release of Class Information Requires Individual Consent
By Columnist
Focus Column - Consumer Law - By Gordon Bosserman - The recent spate of unauthorized releases of private information by compan...
Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - The writer Isak Dinesen once said, "To be a person is to have a story to tell." Touch...
SANTA ANA - Larry B. Bruce, an offbeat public defender turned criminal defense lawyer who fought to keep his clients off deat...
WASHINGTON - Two journalists facing jail time in the case of outed CIA official Valerie Plame on Tuesday asked the Supreme Cou...
LOS ANGELES - Andrea Ramos will take over next week as the directing attorney of Los Angeles-based Public Counsel's children'...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court panel took a skeptical view Tuesday of United Parcel Service's blanket ban on hiring ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Contra Costa court officials acknowledge black residents are underrepresented on juries. But officials argue ...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge on Tuesday dealt an early blow to the defense of David Rosen, the fundraising director for Hilla...
Judges and Judiciary
Contra Costa Judge Earns Praise From Lawyers After Contentious Start
By Dennis Opatrny
PITTSBURG - Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Cheryl Mills had a rocky first year on the bench. The public defender's ...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a split decision Tuesday, a San Francisco jury convicted one defendant of felony murder in the robbery of ...
Criminal
Riverside DA Investigator. Five Others Found Shot to Death
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - An investigator for the Riverside County district attorney's office was found dead of a gunshot wound Tuesday whil...
WASHINGTON - As the Senate inches closer to a possible "nuclear" showdown over President Bush's stalled judicial nominees, it...
MULTIFAMILY LOS ANGELES - Holliday Fenoglio Fowler LP arranged a $36 million construction loan for Villa Verona, a 234-unit ap...
LOS ANGELES - Former Los Angeles police officer Rafael Perez, whose confessions of lying and abuse exposed corruption within ...
Focus Column - Family Law - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - In a blow to romantically inclined, gene...
Forum Column - By Clay Calvert - Solo-flying Eagle Don Henley scored a hit single in 1983 with "Dirty Laundry." The song raked...
SAN FRANCISCO - Michael McCabe has lured three of his former partners from Preston Gates to Reed Smith's San Francisco office...
SAN DIEGO - Reversing its earlier ruling, a federal appellate court on Monday reinstated a state law requiring towing companie...
SAN FRANCISCO - Patricia Gillette booked $6 million in business last year. She's the co-chairwoman of Heller Ehrman's labor a...
SAN FRANCISCO - Longtime Silicon Valley boutique Ritchey Fisher Whitman & Klein has struck a deal to join Dorsey & Wh...
Administrative/Regulatory
Finally, a Name-Dropping Trial That Doesn't Involve Jackson or Blake
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - What could be both the biggest New York and the most gigantic national political trial of the year ...
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County District Attorney George Kennedy announced a reshuffling of management responsibilities Monday i...
LOS ANGELES - The mother of a 13-year-old suspected car thief shot and killed in February by a Los Angeles police officer will...
Staff at the Transgender Law Center have made it their mission to speak for those who don't have a voice. Their advocacy will ...
EXTRA Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - Timing and the question of who goes first are important aspects of negotiating the com...
Criminal
Lawyer Leads Successful Mayoral Recall Effort
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
MURRIETA - Lawyer Edward J. Faunce has taken his courtroom-honed skills of persuasion into the political arena - and won. The...
A three-member panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently rejected the defense of qualified immunity for Placer C...
Steel manufacturer Earle M. Jorgensen Company's initial public offering fell on the market's worst day since the 2004 presiden...
INDUSTRIAL ESCONDIDO - California Cooling Supply Co. Inc. signed a five-year, $880,338 lease for 20,000 square feet of indust...
When Los Angeles attorney Sandy Passman cross-examined an officer during a police misconduct trial last month, the courtroom a...