SAN FRANCISCO - The "C" word is so controversial that the local plaintiffs lawyers who wrangled more than a billion dollars wo...
SAN BERNARDINO - Gerald Farber, a longtime chief deputy public defender for the county, has been tapped to fill the office's t...
LOS ANGELES - You may never have purchased that bastion of textbook journalism, The National Enquirer, but standing in line at...
LOS ANGELES - State Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has reached a settlement "in principle" with French bank Credit Lyon...
SACRAMENTO - First Amendment advocates, lobbyists and others in recent weeks have begun openly challenging the California judi...
INDUSTRIAL CHULA VISTA - Sweetwater Union High School District purchased the 389,000-square-foot Chula Vista Commerce Center a...
Focus Column - Litigation - By James W. Denison - Picture this: You've just inherited a case from some other counsel, and you ...
Forum Column - By Deborah Wald - On Jan. 1, the California Domestic Rights and Responsibilities Act of 2003 went into effect. ...
FULLERTON - Western State University College of Law has received provisional accreditation from the American Bar Association,...
LOS ANGELES - The 2nd District Court of Appeal on Tuesday blocked a judge from personally determining the value of priest sex...
SAN FRANCISCO - Environmental organizations moved Tuesday to block plans to increase pumping from the state's two major water ...
Judges and Judiciary
ABA's 12-Person Civil-Jury Proposal Worries Plaintiffs' Lawyers
By Don De Benedictis
SALT LAKE CITY - Leaders of the American Bar Association have recommended that juries in civil cases have 12 members and vote...
LOS ANGELES - Urging the audience to help fulfill his goal of providing equal access to justice to all Californians, state Chi...
Environmental
Developer Uses RICO Against Opposition Environmentalists
By Liz Valsamis
Each winter, 20 bald eagles set up house in the forest bordering Big Bear Lake in the San Bernardino Mountains northeast of Lo...
SAN FRANCISCO - A chance meeting with a Nigerian TV sitcom creator years ago launched San Francisco lawyer Cindy Cohn on an un...
LOS ANGELES - The deadly Los Angeles Metrolink derailment in January was staged deliberately by Juan Manuel Alvarez to get his...
SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided Monday to re-examine whether a capital defendant can blame his ...
INDUSTRIAL COSTA MESA - John Saunders purchased a two-building project at 3030 and 3080 Airway Ave. from Cigna for $15.8 mill...
SAN FRANCISCO - If San Francisco Superior Court fielded a baseball team, Commissioner Sue M. Kaplan would be a natural utility...
Intellectual Property
Meaning of Creativity Takes Center Stage in Poetry Case
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Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Jennifer Small - By combining discrete and sometimes-disparate sources of informatio...
Constitutional Law
Churchill Matter Exposes Inequity That Activist Is Trying to Correct
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Forum Column - By William J. Becker Jr. - Lamenting his failure as First Lord of the Admiralty in the infamous Gallipoli campa...
Forum Column - The following is a letter from Greg Lukianoff, director of legal and public advocacy for the Foundation for Ind...
SAN FRANCISCO - Local rock 'n' roll legend Journey will hit the stage at Oakland's Paramount Theatre on Sunday, Feb. 27, to r...
SAN FRANCISCO - In October 1950, 15 years before he became staff director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, William Tay...
LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court Monday dismissed a lawsuit by a self-described "battered husband" who said 10 women's s...
Judges and Judiciary
In Speech to ABA, Hatch Defends Lawmakers Who Oppose 'Activist' Judges
By Don De Benedictis
SALT LAKE CITY - Sen. Orrin Hatch gave judges and members of the American Bar Association what they didn't want Saturday: a br...
SAN JOSE - Memorial services will be held Thursday for Lewis L. Fenton, co-founder of one of the South Bay's oldest law firms,...
Government
Group's Suit Strives to Save Governator From Annoying Funding Restraints
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - If you've ever wanted to see Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger rip off a fig leaf and dance naked on a big...
LOS ANGELES - Throw a rock in downtown Los Angeles, and you'll likely hit one of the attorneys or law firms involved in the pa...
LOS ANGELES - After nine years at the helm of the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, Bruce Iwasaki announced last week that ...