SAN FRANCISCO - For an ex-prosecutor to confess that he cheated to win a death sentence is virtually unheard of in the annals ...
SAN JOSE - The attorney representing a Fremont company has asked a Santa Clara County jury for more than $1 billion in damages...
Bankruptcy
Brobeck Estate, Former Client Taking Fee Fight Before Judge
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - According to their lawyers, the only reason Tickets.com executives signed a disputed 2001 fee arrangement with...
INDUSTRIAL COMMERCE - CBB Group Inc. purchased an industrial building at 2747 Malt Ave. from Nishimoto Trading Co. for $7.5 m...
Forum Column - By Guy Houston and Diann Rogers - Restaurants should not be held liable simply because people gain weight over ...
Forum Column - By Sanford Jossen - No one seems to like lawyers. There are more lawyers than ever and it seems that they are u...
Labor/Employment
Follow Rules About Background Checks to Hire Wisely, Avoid Liability
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Mark E. Terman - While conducting a computerized legal database search, your firm stumbles upon three u...
Law Practice
Prosecution 'Hall of Famer' 'Saw What a Case Was Worth'
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - Peter Aviles, a retired pioneering consumer fraud prosecutor with the San Francisco district attorney's office...
Judges and Judiciary
Hearing Ordered Into Alleged Juror Misconduct in Murder Case
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court has ordered a hearing into whether a famous female impersonator committed miscond...
SAN JOSE - Last weekend, former Santa Clara Superior Court Judge William Danser shared a beer with his father upon his release...
LOS ANGELES - Immigration officials have freed four Iranian brothers, jailed three years for allegedly supporting terrorists, ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A rejected candidate for U.S. attorney in Los Angeles has lost another round in his legal crusade to force sel...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo spent $1.27 million in a virtually unopposed re-election victory just...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Jury Will Get Antitrust Suit by Makers of Medical Equipment
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - Masimo Corp.'s antitrust case against rival medical-equipment maker Tyco Healthcare Group was expected to reach ...
Judges and Judiciary
Compton Judge Lives, Dies for Lakers, Fighting Injustice
By Don Ray
LOS ANGELES - The lone picketer outside the Great Western Forum was undaunted. Not even free tickets to the Lakers game could ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Edwards Talks Politics and Law to BASF Lunch Crowd
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - John Edwards brought his populist message to several hundred sympathetic San Francisco lawyers Thursday, decl...
LOS ANGELES - The case had long been known in the district attorney's office as "Cooley's O.J.," prosecutors said Thursday. An...
Environmental
Oil Giant Settles Two Air Pollution Suits for $81 Million
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Southern California air pollution regulators Thursday said they settled a pair of lawsuits against an oil com...
SAN FRANCISCO - The chairman of a San Jose Catholic parish knew about a pastor's pedophile tendencies and failed to do anythin...
SAN FRANCISCO - For an ex-prosecutor to confess that he cheated to win a death sentence is virtually unheard of in the annals ...
Discipline
Some See Ethical Quandary for Justice Chin in Alameda Case
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Thomas Orloff and Ming Chin go way back, to 1970, when they each landed their first jobs out of law school as ...
LOS ANGELES - A Moorpark couple who allegedly concealed their ownership of an escaped tiger that terrorized the Southland were...
INDUSTRIAL LOS ANGELES - Aerovironment signed a five-year, $2.5 million sublease for an 83,356-square-foot industrial building...
Administrative/Regulatory
1st DCA Falls Out of Step With Voters, Intent of Prop. 64
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Michael A. S. Newman - In 1795, Congressman Fisher Ames, speaking to the House of Representatives, likened a...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Case Fuels Tug-of-War Over State, Federal ADR Handling
By Columnist
Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Michael G. McGuinness and Adam J. Karr - Arbitration of employer-employee d...
Administrative/Regulatory
Attempt to Cap Contingency Fees Threatens More Than Plaintiffs Bar
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Charles B. Parselle - Proposition 202 is now on the ballot. It is called the Lawyer Contingent Fee Limitatio...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Marvin H. Zinman, who practiced law in Los Angeles for half a century. Zinman, who...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge John Shea. Shea died Feb. 19 of a stroke...
SAN BERNARDINO - At a time cash-strapped counties across the state are holding off hiring new lawyers, San Bernardino County i...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Alameda County Sheriff's office has dropped its lawsuit against the county Superior Court and State Judic...