SAN FRANCISCO - Family law? What a drag! Or so thought Evelio Grillo. Appointed to the Alameda County Superior Court in 2003, ...
LOS ANGELES - Public relations giant Fleishman-Hillard agreed Tuesday to pay $5.7 million to settle a civil fraud lawsuit file...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a cautionary tale for lawyers who steal from their clients, a Russian immigrant who toiled as a farm labore...
LOS ANGELES - A Glendale man accused of practicing law without a license for three decades must stand trial for stealing $100,...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Earns Respect Through His Sense of Dignity
By Blair Clarkson
LOS ANGELES - Between the drawn-out hearings, emotional family disputes, bickering lawyers and unpleasant public displays of p...
INDUSTRIAL NEWPORT BEACH - James Parr purchased a 21,729-square-foot research-and-development building at 20341 Birch St. fro...
LOS ANGELES - Nobody likes losing at the racetrack. Especially on a pre-race favorite that may not have been healthy enough to...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Terri R. Brown - Most of us are repelled by mold. And for good reason. Active indoor mold growt...
Judges and Judiciary
Judicial Council Honors Court Innovations From Across State
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Superior Court's multilingual information center and the Los Angeles court's new judge orie...
LOS ANGELES - The lead attorney for embattled French billionaire Francois Pinault on Monday compared Insurance Commissioner J...
Appellate Practice
Justices Will Review Church Use of Hallucinogenic Herbal Tea
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - In a case that pits religious freedom against the nation's drug laws, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to ...
WASHINGTON - California's attempt to sue major electricity wholesalers for violations of the state's unfair-business-practices...
Judges and Judiciary
U.S. District Judge Baird Retires From Bench to Join JAMs
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - A year after assuming senior status, Lourdes Gillespie Baird has left the U.S. District Court bench in Los Angel...
SAN FRANCISCO - Cooley Godward has snagged credit finance attorney John Hale from DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary. Hale, who star...
SACRAMENTO - A state senator said Monday she has introduced a bill to lift the 10-year statute of limitations on rape so that ...
Criminal
Tabloid-Tainted Michael Jackson Trial Pushes Outer Limits of Bizarre
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - It's a trial. No, it's a circus. No, it's a train wreck. OK, it's a circus train wreck in a courtho...
LOS ANGELES - Convicted Caltech whiz kid William "Billy" Cottrell joked in a taped jailhouse telephone call to his mother tha...
SAN FRANCISCO - Twenty-four World War II concentration camp survivors will get another chance to prove that the Vatican Bank ...
Bankruptcy
Judge Tosses Brobeck Partners' Lawsuit Against Morgan Lewis
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Employees of the defunct Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison cannot pursue allegations that Morgan, Lewis & B...
Judges and Judiciary
Justices Frown on State's Peremptory Challenge Rule
By Contributing Writer
WASHINGTON - U.S. Supreme Court justices Monday appeared inclined to strike down the tough California rule that can protect p...
Duane Morris may be based in Philadelphia, but intrastate rival Buchanan Ingersoll wasn't feeling the brotherly love in San Di...
After seven years at Los Angeles' O'Melveny & Myers, patent litigator Bill J. O'Brien jumped to 92-lawyer Alschuler Grossm...
The divorce of the Walt Disney Co. and Miramax creators Bob and Harvey Weinstein, whose groundbreaking film company spawned aw...
For the third time this year, the San Diego office of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker lost a group of intellectual prope...
Among the glitzy boutiques of Beverly Hills' world-famous Rodeo Drive shopping district sits David Orgell, purveyor of jewelry...
Intellectual Property
Judge Orders Sony to Pay Video-Game Firm $90 Million
By Draeger Martinez
San Jose-based video-game company Immersion received an eye-opening power-up from a federal court in Oakland, which ordered en...
Being chosen for a top-10 list is usually a compliment. But two candidates for seats on the Hollister City Council didn't feel...
SAN FRANCISCO - A long line of judges, court administrators, sheriff's deputies, litigants and disabled people testified to wo...
Dominique Shelton says it's no surprise to her that college classmate and longtime friend of 20 years, Nawal Nour would have b...
Two attorneys from different sections of the legal world will get an opportunity to bring their unique perspectives, skills an...