SAN FRANCSICO - District attorney candidate Kamala Harris must pay $34,000 to atone for failing to timely report that she brok...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Property Owners Must Study Eminent-Domain Law, Process
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Focus Column - Real Property Law - By Barry MacNaughton - As if construction, financing, tenancy and maintenance issues aren't...
Appellate Practice
Deputies Violated Knock-Notice Rule, Panel Says
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - A divided appeals panel Monday ruled that San Diego Sheriff's deputies violated the state's "knock-notice" rule ...
SACRAMENTO - Trial lawyers, who have given more than $1 million to keep a Democrat in the governor's office, said they anticip...
RIVERSIDE - A sheriff's deputy was charged Monday with drug possession and evidence tampering after authorities said he was ca...
SAN FRANCISCO - Donald J. Sullivan, a former president of the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association and former trial counsel...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court handed a defeat Monday to women's-rights and medical-professionals groups who had urged it to r...
WASHINGTON - The federal district court in San Diego will be adding two more judges with the recent Senate confirmation of nom...
LOS ANGELES - Electoral watchdogs and lawyers planned to fan out to polling places across the state today to smooth the kinks ...
Government
Anything's-Possible Political Atmosphere Has Californians Gasping
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Fellow Californians, on this recall election day we are on the brink of big changes. We could wake up...
SAN FRANCISCO - The cable television industry will have to give Internet service providers open access to their high-speed cab...
WASHINGTON - "You know, a single allegation can be most worthy of a special prosecutor." Given the myriad calls from Democrati...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court removed a barrier Monday to the execution of a death-row inmate who must take antipsychotic dru...
Government
Court Won't Remove Children, Despite Aunt's Past Child Abuse
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court has denied a petition by Los Angeles County authorities to remove three children from th...
McGrane, Greenfield, Hannon & Harrington is the latest law firm to move into the newly renovated Ferry Building. The six-l...
Santa Barbara County's alleged poor oversight of a 600-acre park is threatening the safety of federally protected birds, accor...
A study released by the San Francisco-based Equal Justice Society found that racial disparity in law-school admissions is grow...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
JAMS Shores Up Offices on Two Coasts With New Neutrals
By Eron Yehuda
Irvine-based JAMS is shoring up two coasts with newly acquired neutrals. The alternative dispute resolution provider group rec...
Victor Sherman bumped against the criminal justice system for the first time in 1964, when he was charged with inciting a riot...
Eminem catapulted into the limelight when his album "The Slim Shady LP" was released in 1999. Now, one of the songs from that ...
The Century City Bar Association honored six members of the legal profession in September during its 12th annual Criminal Law ...
Bryan Cave has agreed to settle claims of negligence over its representation of swindler Reed Slatkin. The firm will pay $650,...
Column - Litigation Strategy - By Steven S. Kaufhold - Discovery can seem deceptively simple and straightforward: You send out...
Craig Cardon thinks Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton is one of the state's go-to firms for entertainment and media law....
SAN BERNARDINO - CCI Club SB LLC purchased the 212,000-square-foot Club Center retail and industrial center at 243-269 E. Car...
Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Jeff Kichaven and Deborah Rothman - Question : What should the defense bar unders...
Three veteran trial attorneys are leaving Los Angeles' federal public-defender's office to open a private partnership concentr...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Same-Sex Couples' Real Estate Disputes Provide Niche
By Eron Yehuda
When increasing numbers of gay couples started splitting up in the early 1990s, Oakland attorney Frederick Hertz found a uniqu...
The massive blackout on the East Coast this summer uncovered serious flaws in the way energy is transmitted, says Dan Fessler,...
LOS ANGELES - Just exactly what was Tom McClintock talking about? As recall candidates Arnold Schwarzenegger and Arianna Huffi...