SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers in the Northern California clergy sex abuse cases will engage in a key debate today over the public's ...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday let stand a lower-court decision that upheld an antitrust challenge by a group of dr...
WASHINGTON - Individuals who win or settle discrimination cases no longer will have to pay taxes on the portions of their awar...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Enjoys His Straight-Talking, Shoot-From-the-Hip Style
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - Judge Peter H. Norell, presiding judge of San Bernardino Superior Court, admits he's controversial. But he's...
LOS ANGELES - William Cottrell, the Caltech student accused of firebombing sport utility vehicles at San Gabriel Valley car de...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear three cases dealing with highly contentious questions of religious ex...
REDWOOD CITY - For the better part of three decades, San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Phrasel L. Shelton was the first a...
Government
Court insiders at a judges' conference in Monterey say Kate Howard will step in for the retiring Ray LeBov.
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Kate Howard, an assistant to Administrative Office of the Courts lobbyist Ray LeBov, will replace LeBov upon h...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Fresno federal judge has overturned a 1983 death sentence after finding serious misconduct by the prosecutor...
Focus Column - Environmental Law - By Roderick E. Walston - Does the Clean Water Act apply to interbasin transfers of water? T...
MONTEREY - Freed from the restrictions of the State Bar, the organization formerly known as the Conference of Delegates return...
Entertainment & Sports
I Just Want to See Former LAPD Cop David Mack in Court
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - The scheduled trial of the wrongful-death suit of murdered rap star Notorious B.I.G. has been, for ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Raising new allegations that Alameda County prosecutors routinely kept Jews and blacks off death penalty jurie...
The Person to See is the go-to guy when the job absolutely, positively has to get done. Being The Person to See equates to pow...
Running late, The Scene rushed into Cicada and found the room filled with the state's hottest lawyers. The lounge at the downt...
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - State Bar By Don J. DeBenedictis In 1977, John K. Van de Kamp, the district attorney in Los Ange...
Pillsbury Winthrop celebrated 75 years in the City of Angels with a gala reception in September, held in the lush Blue Ribbon ...
A recruitment manager in the United Kingdom lost a wrongful termination suit he filed after getting pink slipped for an e-mail...
SAN FRANCISCO -- California can deny homosexuals the right to marry because the state's domestic partner laws already give th...
Saying his practice outgrew its home at Hill, Farrer & Burrill, class-action defense attorney James R. Evans Jr. joined Fu...
LOS ANGELES - October brings the start of a new Supreme Court term and, with it, law professor Erwin Chemerinsky's annual pres...
Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati reins No. 1 in the Silicon Valley for the 13th straight year, despite losing ...
When hiring a moving company, some aggravation is to be expected. The movers may not show up on time or they could damage and ...
Constitutional Law
Symbols Can't Change Past, But They Help Us Remember
By Philip Carrizosa
Column - By Philip Carrizosa - What symbols are important to you? A wedding ring? The American flag? A crucifix? The importanc...
Judges and Judiciary
Insurer's Bad Behavior May Force It to Pay Attorney Fees
By Columnist
Focus Column - Litigation - By Kirk Pasich - A prevailing party in litigation is not entitled to recover attorney fees from it...
Constitutional Law
Fraternities Must Stand Up to Schools' Squelching Free Speech
By Columnist
Column - Constiitutional Law - By Greg Lukianoff and Matthew Vasconcellos - While there is no shortage of free-speech battles ...
Jim Pooley skipped graduation ceremonies at Columbia School of Law and hopped on the first plane to California. It was about a...
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County's prosecutors and public defenders, hoping to win voter approval for a Nov. 2 ballot measure tha...
Judges and Judiciary
Patricia Esgro Went From the Projects to The Bench, and Now She Works to Inspire Underprivileged Youth
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Sacramento Superior Court Judge Patricia Esgro learned to be independent at a young age. She has held a variety o...
Litigation
DA Fires Prosecutor Who Pursued Three-Strikes Case
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - A county prosecutor who gained the national spotlight last year when he led the fight to keep a man in prison...