LOS ANGELES - Services will take place today for M. Peter Katsufrakis, who as a Municipal Court judge turned the Los Angeles s...
SANTA ANA - Labor leaders at the Orange County Employees Association filed suit Wednesday to force court managers including Pr...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal grand jury has indicted Nikolai Tehin, the suspended San Francisco attorney, on 13 new counts of bil...
SAN FRANCISCO - A dentist who alerted a police officer's superiors that he suspected the officer was abusing painkillers did ...
SAN DIEGO - A federal judge ruled Thursday that the city of San Diego's $1-per-year lease of public parkland to the Boy Scouts...
SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Bell Internet Services, flooded with hundreds of subpoenas by the record industry and copyright enforc...
International
Unocal Must Defend Slave Suit Under State Law, Judge Rules
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - In a case with far-reaching implications for international corporations, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge...
Judges and Judiciary
Family Law Bench Officer Gets Raves From Counsel
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - For Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Luis A. Lavin, tears are part of the everyday challenges facing family law ...
SAN FRANCISCO - In another slap at aggressive police tactics, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a warrantless s...
Government
Seven Lawyers Lose Jobs in City Attorney's Office in S.F.
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - City Attorney Dennis Herrera has laid off seven lawyers, according to documents the office released Thursday....
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - The Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency thought that it had some good ideas to re...
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - Recently, in an attempt to gain support for anti-terrorism legislation, Attorney General J...
Litigation
Retroactivity Is Only One Issue Reaised By Statute of Limitations' Extension
By Columnist
Focus Column - Litigation - By Darren Le Montree - Practitioners have been talking a lot about whether the extension of the st...
Forum Column - By Nathan D. Wirtschafter - The balance of power has shifted. Since the Federal Trade Commission inaugurated it...
SAN FRANCISCO - Formal U.S. Bankruptcy Court hearings on a compromise plan to restore Pacific Gas and Electric Co. to financia...
SAN FRANCISCO - All the San Francisco lawyers and associates at the rapidly dissolving Altheimer & Gray have found new hom...
Administrative/Regulatory
Jurist Rejects Sanctions Against Zoo's Lawyers
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge Wednesday denied a motion for sanctions against lawyers representing t...
WASHINGTON - When House lawmakers voted overwhelmingly last week to gut one of the most controversial provisions of the USA PA...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley said Wednesday that he would retry former Inglewood police officer Je...
SAN FRANCISCO - Public Defender Jeff Adachi on Wednesday announced a billboard campaign to inform those accused of crimes that...
Judges and Judiciary
Reporter's Notebook: Chief Justice Prefers The Personal Touch
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Think you push a lot of paper at work? Try serving as California's chief justice, a job that requires signatur...
LOS ANGELES - It was a routine morning in Compton's delinquency court. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Charles Q. Clay...
SAN FRANCISCO - During a hastily called meeting in March, California's prison director, Edward Alameida, banged his fist on a ...
LOS ANGELES - Legal experts predict a major battle over whether the allegations of Kobe Bryant's accuser's checkered past will...
LOS ANGELES - If the evil Inspector Javert of Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables" had attended college with Judge Lisa B. Lench, he...
Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Jason J. Lee - A recurring issue in property insurance claims is the question of who is enti...
LOS ANGELES - Edwin V. Woodsome and D. Barclay Edmundson left Washington, D.C.'s Howrey Simon Arnold & White to join Orric...
SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County deputy public defender who was fired and charged with a crime for allegedly deceiving a judge ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The last legal question over the validity of San Francisco's domestic partners benefits law was answered Tuesd...
LOS ANGELES - Former veteran Los Angeles prosecutor Paul Philip Halpin was more interested in dogged work than seeking headlin...