SAN FRANCISCO - Muslims invest billions of dollars around the world, some of it in the West. Some of them do so with at least...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Mauling Building's Landlord Cheated Tenants, DA Says
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - The owner of the Pacific Heights apartment building where giant dogs mauled Diane Whipple to death nearly thr...
LOS ANGELES - One of Los Angeles' most prestigious boutique firms, O'Neill & Sun, has decided to close its doors, with ha...
WASHINGTON - The filibuster - that legislative procedure that gives a minority of U.S. senators the ability to kill a bill or...
Government
Belmont Allegations Could Jar Cooley's Road to Re-Election
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Fresh allegations that Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley bungled the Belmont school project inv...
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal regulators have fired a warning at companies and individuals who might unscrupulously use the patent ...
SAN BERNARDINO - A wildfire roaring through the San Bernardino mountains forced the closure Tuesday of the Superior Court in B...
SAN FRANCISCO - Jeff Brown and Peter Keane, two well-regarded local legal figures, said Tuesday that they will endorse Bill F...
MODESTO - Walking around downtown Modesto, Judge John E. Griffin is clearly at home. On one corner, he points out the site of...
Government
Playing Chicken With the Apocalypse Provides Food for Thought
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams As much as I love living in California, there are times when I wish the state would quit playing chick...
SAN BERNARDINO - Wildfires ravaging San Bernardino County forced at least five Superior Court judges to evacuate their homes ...
SAN DIEGO - To help keep roadways clear for emergency crews battling destructive wildfires, court officials shut down the nat...
Labor/Employment
New Law Allows Employees to Sue for Labor Code Violations
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Focus Column Employment Law By Michael D. Singer Among the flurry of bills that Gov. Gray Davis signed into law on his way ou...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles attorney Stuart Kadison, a distinguished civil litigator, bar leader, law-school professor and huma...
SAN FRANCISCO - The three off-duty San Francisco police officers charged with beating two men last year will stand trial in t...
LOS ANGELES - The state Committee of Bar Examiners this weekend put off a decision on accrediting online law schools, saying ...
LOS ANGELES - The Senate on Monday confirmed Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Dale S. Fischer for a newly created federal jud...
OAKLAND - An Alameda County Superior Court investigation into allegations of bias against law-and-motion Judge James Richman ...
SAN FRANCISCO - In more than 25 years of practicing patent law, longtime law partners Michael Pollock and Michael Stallman ha...
SAN FRANCISCO - John Hart Ely, one of the most important constitutional scholars of the 20th century and dean of Stanford Law...
Real Estate/Development
Landlord Must Pay $2.5 Million to Burned Boy
By Erica Williams
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles landlord must pay $2.46 million to a 9-year-old boy who severely burned himself on a stovetop bur...
The annual flood of visitors to Yosemite National Park, or at least some of the most heavily used portions of it, could be re...
SAN FRANCISCO - Defendant Jess Rodrigues smelled a conflict of interest. His law firm, Cooley Godward of San Francisco, emplo...
LOS ANGELES - Opponents of Los Angeles' lap-dance ban collected nearly twice the number of signatures needed to force the Cit...
Forum Column By Fred Silberberg Mediation is quickly catching on in the family law community, and the courts are doing whateve...
By Liz Valsamis New York's Dewey Ballantine has elected Sanford Morhouse and Morton Pierce as co-chairmen of the firm, effect...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Glacier Water Services Buys Water Island for $5.9 Million
By Toni Vranjes
By Toni Vranjes Glacier Water Services Inc., an operator of water-vending machines, has acquired privately held Indianapolis ...
By Toni Vranjes Two Sunnyvale-based providers of network-security technology are joining forces. NetScreen Technologies Inc. ...
You know they're smart and powerful. And you know they're the most influential attorneys in the state.mmmm mBut you don't kno...
By Erik Cummins Robert Starzel's return to Holme Roberts & Owen is a homecoming of sorts. But it's been a while. After 27...