SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate court decision may help guarantee a payday to attorneys in environmental disputes, even if...
SAN FRANCISCO - The former Guantanamo Bay translator who once faced the death penalty on suspicion of spying was handed a bad-...
SAN FRANCISCO - In or out? Two conservative religious law firms have been fighting California's same-sex marriages since rough...
Employment Column - By Charles S. Doskow - A police officer markets a video of himself, masturbating, on the Internet. Should ...
Intellectual Property
'Knorr-Bremse' Tackles Simple Part of the Willfulness Problem
By Columnist
Focus Column - Patent Law - By Robert P. Taylor - A year ago, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ordered supple...
Forum Column - By Vincent Imhoff and Claudia Rosenbaum - Recently, the Due Process Clause guarantees afforded by the U.S. Cons...
SAN FRANCISCO - A deal's a deal, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali ruled in denying a Los Angeles law firm's request to boo...
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for families suing over the Santa Monica Farmer's Market crash cannot release an accident report on th...
Judges and Judiciary
Three Judges Campaign for Assistant Presiding Judgeship
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Three judges have nominated themselves to serve as San Francisco Superior Court's next assistant presiding jud...
LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve Cooley on Thursday opened an "inquiry" into possible violations of the state's open-meet...
SAN FRANCISCO - There's a steep price to pay for standing up the state's highest court. On Thursday, the California Supreme Co...
SAN FRANCISCO - After less than one month of partial darkness, courtrooms at San Francisco's Civic Center courthouse will agai...
LOS ANGELES - A man caught on television cameras shooting a lawyer outside the Van Nuys courthouse last Halloween is not menta...
SACRAMENTO - The plaintiffs' bar is on the defensive. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed one of two bills the Consumer Atto...
WASHINGTON - A three-paragraph statement on Wednesday from the Justice Department signaled the end of the government's three-y...
SACRAMENTO - Liane Randolph, head of the Fair Political Practices Commission, said she learned early to adapt to whatever situ...
LOS ANGELES - Judith Seeds Miller, a San Fernando Valley immigration and bankruptcy attorney, soccer mom and Spanish student, ...
Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk A. Pasich - Over the past few years, many class actions have been filed against employe...
Forum Column - By Michael A.S. Newman - The experience of innumerable police states throughout history demonstrates that when ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco federal court jury - like its counterpart six years ago - was unable Wednesday to agree wheth...
LOS ANGELES -An African-American financial analyst filed a $5 million lawsuit accusing a Warner Bros. executive of barraging h...
Appellate Practice
Philip Morris Vows to Appeal Punitives to State High Court
By Blair Clarkson
LOS ANGELES -A day after a state appeals court cut its liability in half, tobacco giant Philip Morris vowed Wednesday to take ...
SACRAMENTO - Liane Randolph said that since her appointment as chairwoman, the state's Fair Political Practices Commission has...
Litigation
Candidate Calls Bankruptcy Answer to San Diego's Cash Crisis
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - City attorney candidate Mike Aguirre said San Diego's $2 billion pension and health care deficit will require debt...
SAN FRANCISCO - John Burnham Bates, a former Pillsbury Madison & Sutro managing partner and a socially prominent Bay Area ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Prop. 36 Fails Serious Drug Addicts, Says State Report
By Staff Writer
SACRAMENTO - Hard-core addicts are losing out under California's drug-treatment initiative, Proposition 36, according to a st...
Forum Column - By Mike Ancheta Nisperos Jr. - The State Bar of California Board of Governors Committee on Regulation, Admissio...
Media
What's That Smell? Rising Levels of Hypocrisy Flood Halls of Justice
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Snow fell on Colorado this week, an early taste of clean, pure winter. But Watson made it clear from ...
SACRAMENTO - Supporters of reforms to the state's unfair competition laws ballyhooed several nonprofit agencies and small busi...
LOS ANGELES - A judge on Wednesday threw out a defamation lawsuit filed by former judge and Inglewood Mayor Roosevelt Dorn aga...