LOS ANGELES - A state appellate panel Thursday sidestepped a decision on whether a voter initiative sharply curtailing state u...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge With B-Ball Past Scores on Mental Health Court
By Melissa Onstad And Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - After one year on the bench, Judge Drew E. Edwards has moved into what is considered by some to be the underappr...
SAN FRANCISCO - "If we cannot execute a mentally retarded person, what about a person who had severe brain damage in a car ac...
SAN FRANCISCO - Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati will pay generous bonuses to its associates for work done in 2004 - the...
Judges and Judiciary
U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Will Become True Guides, Not Mandates
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Michael J. Proctor and Michael V. Schafler - The day after the U.S. Supreme Court announced its decision in ...
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Michael M. Rosen - Can you imagine living without your BlackBerry? You may have to, ...
LOS ANGELES - A memorial service for Anthony J. Sousa, a veteran Los Angeles County prosecutor, will take place Feb. 5 in Sant...
LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court Wednesday upheld a $306,000 award for a man who claimed he missed out on millions coming...
SAN FRANCISCO - One day after news broke that Pillsbury Winthrop and Shaw Pittman were in advanced negotiations to merge, Sha...
INDUSTRIAL SAN DIEGO - Jamco International signed a five-year, $648,972 lease for 22,051 square feet of industrial space in Pa...
SAN FRANCISCO - Retired Judge Martin E. Rothenberg, a longtime lawyer, jurist and public servant in Contra Costa County, died...
SAN DIEGO - A lawyer who failed to tell his client that he faced possible disbarment on a laundry list of disciplinary charges...
SAN FRANCISCO - The securities fraud trial of McKesson Corp. former Chief Financial Officer Richard Hawkins got under way Wed...
SAN FRANCISCO - An aspiring hair model will get an audience with the state's highest court to argue she's entitled to $15,000...
Media
'Spin City': Political Clarity Eludes Capital of Illusion and Make-Believe
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - The powers that be in Los Angeles are all tangled up like a bundle of warring snakes in a scandal o...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge on Wednesday agreed to move Fleishman-Hillard's upcoming civil fraud trial to another county...
LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge has shot down a plan to try as test cases a few of the 550 sexual-abuse cases pending aga...
SAN FRANCISCO - A joint venture of two of the nation's largest chemical companies will plead guilty and pay an $84 million cri...
SAN FRANCISCO - Pillsbury Winthrop and Shaw Pittman are in advanced merger talks that could make good on Pillsbury's 4-year-o...
INDUSTRIAL SAN JOSE - Propel Software signed a lease for a 41,901-square-foot, research-and-development property at 1010 Rinco...
SAN FRANCISCO - Former Stanford Law School Dean Kathleen Sullivan has joined Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, wher...
Letter to the Editor - Attorney William J. Becker Jr.'s screed against perceived bias by a liberal press, CBS and its story of...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Mark Goldowitz - Last year, a significant amendment to the state anti-SLAPP law took effect, an...
Criminal
Plethora of Procedural, Substantive Flaws Plagues Execution in State
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Forum Column - By Stephen F. Rohde - Barring a last-minute stay, by the time you read this, the state of California will have ...
Forum Column - By Patrick Mattimore - In the case of In re Lisa G. , 2005 DJDAR 311 (Cal. App. 4th Dist. Jan. 10, 2004), a thr...
SAN FRANCISCO - An Oakland lawyer who trumpeted a court victory against a drug store chain in a press release Tuesday lost he...
LOS ANGELES - Days after the first federal indictment in the city's pay-to-play scandal, Los Angeles City Controller Laura Chi...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Westlaw's Parent Buys Legal Consulting Firm Hildebrandt
By Lorelei Laird
LOS ANGELES - Legal management consulting group Hildebrandt International was acquired Tuesday by information company Thomson ...
Judges and Judiciary
Sheriff Blames Judiciary for Violent Man's Early Release
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Sheriff Leroy Baca said Tuesday that a judge or prosecutor should have intervened to order domestic-violence tre...
SANTA ANA - A Tustin-based company that markets vitamins and other supplements has agreed to pay $3.6 million in mostly civil...