Judges and Judiciary
Jeans Company, Heller Ehrman Cross-Sue Over Sale to Nautica
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - When the owners of a Los Angeles women's jeans company decided to sell their prosperous business to the trendy c...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court has recognized for the first time that a half-sibling who cares for a child can be leg...
WASHINGTON - The American Bar Association on Tuesday released a "qualified" rating for California Supreme Court Justice Janice...
Judges and Judiciary
Former Air Force Captain Maintains Court Decorum
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN LUIS OBISPO - Judge John A. Trice knew it was time for a career change when, as a prosecutor, he tried a double-murder cas...
Judges and Judiciary
Legal Community's Efforts Face Threat From Prop. 54
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Proposition 54, the "Racial Privacy Initiative" being pushed by University of California Regent Ward Connerly, co...
WASHINGTON - When the hotly contested California recall election battle finally gets to the Supreme Court, it will be only the...
SAN FRANCISCO - The order to delay California's recall election appeared Tuesday to be on a fast track to the U.S. Supreme Cou...
LOS ANGELES - On a December day in 1978, a young lawyer on leave from his job at the public defender's office set out for an a...
Forum Column - By Richard E. Hasselbach - The media seem to have an almost insatiable appetite for courtroom drama. No longer ...
Law Practice
9th Circuit Decisions Deal With Bias of Administrative Judges
By Jennifer Orff
Focus Column - Administrative Law - By Stuart Miller - Although most attorneys who appear regularly at administrative hearings...
LOS ANGELES - Observers of the state's gubernatorial recall challenges called the decision by a three-judge appellate panel on...
SAN FRANCISCO - The University of California has agreed to pay nearly $1 million to avoid taking a Lawrence Livermore Nationa...
VALLEJO - Solano County Superior Court Judge Franklin Taft has always been a tinkerer. According to his older brother, Vallejo...
Reporter's Notebook - Peter Blumberg - Appellate Courts - SAN FRANCISCO - I may have started this whole mess. If called to tes...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a significant victory for the disabled, including people with AIDS, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...
Entertainment & Sports
Ex-Cop Mack Says Conscience Is Pearly White in B.I.G. Hit
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - David A. Mack, who is the former Los Angeles police officer convicted of bank robbery and a key figur...
SACRAMENTO - Lawmakers on both sides of the political spectrum say they have not given up their fight to enact significant re...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court probably will not step into the California recall election battle, veteran high-court obse...
SAN FRANCISCO - The rationale for Monday's appellate court decision delaying the October recall election six months mirrors t...
SAN FRANCISCO - They bill themselves as crusaders for the little guy. Their briefs are filled with ideas to improve class act...
Clyde Wadsworth, a veteran San Francisco litigator, says he's returning to his roots at Steefel, Levitt & Weiss. Having re...
The Santa Monica office of Greenberg Traurig has recruited its fifth tax specialist. Gordon A. Schaller, 54, joined the firm S...
After a series of setbacks, including the departure of three key partners, Leo Murphy promised good news soon for Schnader, Ha...
In 1969, Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May began to build an appellate practice. Today, the 1,000-lawyer firm known as Reed Smit...
Alyssa Polacsek called Debticated Consumer Counseling Inc. two years ago, desperately looking for help paying off $20,000 in c...
Column - Public Relations - By Elizabeth Lampert and Sheila O'Gorman - Public relations is becoming an important marketing and...
Personal Injury & Torts
Dairy Farmers Sue Power Firms Over Cows' Deaths
By Stefanie Knapp
Mike and Linda Cherniske couldn't understand why their cows seemed to die so much more easily at their new dairy farm in Delta...
Litigation
Preparing Witness Can Win Your Case Before It Begins
By Contributing Writer
Column - Trial Techniques - By Sanford Michelman - What attorney wouldn't want to win a case before it begins? While it's not ...
Morrison & Foerster real estate co-chair Donald Berger has left the firm's Los Angeles office for Latham & Watkins. Be...
A Catholic organization has sold 200 acres of undeveloped property in Northern California to a public agency whose mission is ...