SAN FRANCISCO - Bolstered by its new status as a two-continent operation, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham will op...
SAN FRANCISCO - A woman who suffered a broken nose when a Texas Rangers pitcher threw a folding chair into the stands at McAfe...
SAN FRANCISCO - They are accused of robbing a burger joint, fleeing at high speed with an officer in hot pursuit and possibly ...
LOS ANGELES - An Iranian man suing an Armenian bone marrow bank for rejecting his blood donation can sue under the state's ci...
INDUSTRIAL SANTA ANA - Douglas and Helen Wheeler purchased a 26,658-square-foot industrial building at 3020-3022 Hesperian Wa...
LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge on Wednesday blocked Los Angeles prosecutors' latest attempt to get access to files the ...
Forum Column - By Stephen R. Barnett - My incoming mail was upgraded last week by an official letter from the grandly named Su...
Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Laura W. Brill, Wendy Marantz Levine, Christopher M. Newman, Jennifer E. Rothman and Ted M. ...
Law Practice
Litigator Relished Making Personal Connections With Clients
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A memorial service will be held Friday for San Jose attorney David A. Hardin, one of the few attorneys in the Sout...
Judges and Judiciary
Retired Judge Remembered for His Decency and Warmth
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Retired Alameda County Municipal Court Judge Vernon A. Moore, who was well regarded by attorneys and his coll...
Administrative/Regulatory
Supreme Court Will Decide Prop. 64 Retroactivity
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - The state Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether courts can apply Proposition 64 retroactively to d...
LOS ANGELES - A 15-year-old donation Los Angeles Mayor James K. Hahn made to the local ACLU chapter, and his brief stint as a ...
LOS ANGELES - Fairness and equal access to justice have long been cornerstones of the legal and judicial communities, but wit...
LOS ANGELES - Food services company Sodexho Inc. has agreed to pay an $80 million settlement to black employees who say the co...
SANTA ANA - A jury began deliberating the fate of Alejandro Avila on Wednesday after prosecutors urged them to "follow the ev...
Government Contracts
County OKs New Contract for Problematic Foster-Care Agency
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - A private foster-care agency accused of misspending funds and paying an excessive salary to its executive direc...
SAN FRANCISCO - David Wendel, a leader in Oakland's business and legal communities and the longtime managing partner of Wende...
LOS ANGELES - Courts have spent countless hours and thousands of dollars trying to make jury service a more-inviting prospect...
Government
Schwarzenegger Has Surprising Knack for Sparking Action Against Him
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Washington, D.C., public relations guy and former Capitol Hill staffer John Edgell says he's consti...
WASHINGTON - Several U.S. Supreme Court justices expressed skepticism Wednesday over whether accounting firm Arthur Andersen s...
Judges and Judiciary
After-Hours Barriers Increase Security in Hall of Justice
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - Beefing up security at the San Francisco Hall of Justice following a series of attacks on judges in other sta...
Criminal
L.A.'s Girardi Will Lead International Academy of Trial Lawyers
By Ryan Oliver
LOS ANGELES - Thomas V. Girardi, dean of the state plaintiffs' bar, on Saturday was elected president of the 500-lawyer Intern...
SANTA MARIA - Brian Oxman was sanctioned by the judge early in the Michael Jackson trial, often napped in court and recently g...
INDUSTRIAL COSTA MESA - Voit Development Co. purchased the 49,218-square-foot Hyland Plaza industrial building at 3525 Hyland...
SAN JOSE - While much of the attention in the battle between Apple Computer and the bloggers who write about the company has ...
Public Interest
Preschools Keep Kids Out of Legal System -- For The Long Term
By Contributing Writer
Forum Column - By Daniel Grunfeld and Melissa Lawton - Across California's wide political spectrum, there is at least one area...
Letter to the Editor - I have three observations concerning the diatribe written by William J. Becker Jr. in the April 25 Dail...
Focus Column - Corporate Law - By Peter M. Stone, Jay C. Gandhi and Johanna S. Wilson - Perjury charges have already reaped gu...
SAN FRANCISCO - Former federal prosecutor John Potter, who joined Covington & Burling in San Francisco three years ago to...
SANTA MARIA - In occasionally contentious testimony Tuesday, a travel consultant said she was asked to book one-way tickets t...