SAN FRANCISCO - A plan to offer sweeter pensions to San Francisco prosecutors and public defenders could signal the beginning...
SAN FRANCISCO - An Alameda County judge has ruled that a family that owns nearly one-third of the Oakland Raiders is a "partn...
INDUSTRIAL OTAY MESA - Managing GP Inc. has purchased three finished industrial lots 4, 5 and 6 totaling 18 acres in the Gatew...
Criminal
LOS ANGELES - The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon catapulted Attorney General John Ashcr...
Forum Column - By Peter Scheer - It's hard to overstate the gravity of the threat to the press posed by the recent flurry of s...
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Michelle A. Reinglass - Politics and employment law have at least two things in common: The...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court unanimously agreed Wednesday to decide whether a man sued for allegedly infectin...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court justices on Wednesday expressed deep concern that a California inmate - and perhaps as many as ...
LOS ANGELES - Rejecting defense warnings that pretrial publicity would deny Phil Spector a fair trial, a judge Wednesday order...
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Randolf Rice remained in critical condition Wednesday in a Redwood City ho...
Appellate Practice
Panel Lets Foster Child File Molestation Suit After Deadline
By Dan Evans
LOS ANGELES - A child who allegedly was molested in a foster home can sue Los Angeles County long after the six-month statute...
SACRAMENTO - Attorneys representing injured workers petitioned an appellate court Wednesday to halt new workers' compensation...
SAN FRANCISCO - Relying on California's anti-SLAPP law, a federal judge threw out a product disparagement suit Wednesday agai...
BAKERSFIELD - Two Kern County animal shelters accused of violating animal-rights laws have been ordered to stop euthanizing do...
LOS ANGELES - The state Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to depublish a landmark 2nd District Court Appeal ruling that make...
Government
Election Protection, Bingham Ensured Legitimacy of Transfer of Power
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Jennifer Phelps - Jennifer Phelps , an associate in Bingham McCutchen's Los Angeles office, worked with Elec...
LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Judge A. Andrew Hauk died Tuesday after a 40-year judicial career marked by big-hearted decisions ...
Column - By Garry Abrams - Get us out of Houston before we're lynched. We'd look so bad hanging from trees in our double-breas...
INDUSTRIAL SANTA FE SPRINGS - Kwang Jun and Bona Seongkyu Chung have purchased a 25,782-square-foot industrial building locat...
FULLERTON - The father of an Orange County judge and dozens of other World War II veterans of Latino heritage gained special r...
Focus Column - Family Law - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - The uniqueness of family law attorney fe...
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Jeffrey S. Galvin - Starting Jan. 1, California lenders will have a stronger platfor...
Government
Civil Lawyer Learns Lessons in Civics, Patriotism, Pride, Passion
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Viiu Spangler Khare - I boarded a plane for Phoenix on Nov. 1 with high hopes, lots of enthusiasm for the el...
SACRAMENTO - Sacramento Superior Court Judge James Mize brings the fervor of a true believer to his new role as president of ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Timber companies need not study vast geographical areas for potential environmental harm from logging to win ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A former NASA employee has sued Oakland civil rights lawyer John L. Burris, alleging he failed to supervise a...
SANTA ANA - The parents of a man who was shot with police Taser gun have filed suit, blaming the electrical-shock device for t...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday tapped veteran government lawyer Raymond G. Fortner Jr. t...
LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors Tuesday outlined their case against William Cottrell, the Caltech graduate student accused v...
Column - By Philip Carrizosa - Superior Court Judge Alfred Delucchi edged out a few inches on a judicial tightrope Monday duri...