SAN FRANCISCO - A group of Oakland renters organizations is trying to get law and motion Judge James Richman reassigned to a c...
SAN FRANCISCO - Michael Hallerud, a longtime labor and employment lawyer with Thelen Reid & Priest and Pettit & Martin...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Judith Chirlin narrowly escaped the bombing of the United Nations headquarters ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Voting procedures in Monterey County remained under intense scrutiny Tuesday even as federal officials moved c...
Constitutional Law
Few Dare to Predict Maverick's Ruling on Gubernatorial Recall
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Observers trying to predict U.S. District Judge Stephen V. Wilson's ruling, expected today in the ACLU challenge...
SAN FRANCISCO - Michael Russill Hallinan, a criminal defense attorney who switched sides later in his career to become a San F...
Judges and Judiciary
Court Referee Sees Law as Means of Improving Lives
By Sarah Garveyn
LOS ANGELES - Juvenile court Referee Steff Padilla says she's fighting to keep the children of Los Angeles alive. "Sometimes w...
SANTA ANA - A federal judge has sentenced an Anaheim Hills man to 18 months in prison for possessing marijuana, while at the s...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles family law attorneys are very disappointed with Judge Ann I. Jones' new criminal-courts assignment. ...
Focus Column - Family Law - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and Robert Burch - In re Marriage of Brown/Campos , 108 Cal.App.4th 8...
Forum Column - By Nausheen Hassan - Laws in all 50 states recognize some version of battered women's syndrome, which purports ...
LOS ANGELES - A former real estate attorney already facing federal prison for bankruptcy fraud pleaded guilty Monday to state ...
Government
State Asks Justice Department To Speedily OK Voting Process
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - A request by state officials to the U.S. Department of Justice to "pre-clear" recall election voting procedures i...
LOS ANGELES - Psychiatrists can be sued over the death of a woman murdered by a patient they had released from an involuntary ...
LOS ANGELES - Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw has lured real estate partner Dean Pappas from O'Melveny & Myers. Pappas, who wor...
LOS ANGELES - A statewide Judicial Council study of private-judge referrals, sparked by protests that sitting judges were send...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles federal judge has promised to rule by Wednesday on whether California voters can proceed with an O...
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers targeted by malicious prosecution actions got a boost Monday from the California Supreme Court when th...
Government
California Looks Pretty Cool in 'Constitutional Crisis v. Power Failure'
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Over the weekend, I had an epiphany about those dueling apocalypses, the California gubernatorial rec...
SAN FRANCISCO - Trial court lawyers are up in arms about new and increased court filing fees, arguing that their support for t...
SAN FRANCISCO - Judge John J. Conway, robed and ready for court, strikes a pugilist's pose in his San Francisco chambers. He w...
INDIO - Photographs of a pastor in a hot tub with two topless women are newsworthy, a judge has ruled in dismissing the clergy...
Daily Journal Extra Feature - In April 2002, the Los Angeles Catholic Church was getting hammered by the press, and Cardinal R...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Sheppard Mullin Advises on 'Hef's Superbunnies' Series
By Toni Vranjes
The Playboy Bunnies are revealing a side of themselves no one has seen before: the crime-fighting side. The Playmates soon wil...
Mergers & Acquisitions
MoFo Helps MarketWatch Negotiate Deal for Pinnacor
By Toni Vranjes
San Francisco media company MarketWatch.com Inc. will acquire Pinnacor Inc. in a deal valued at $103 million in cash and stock...
Litigation
Cross-Examining an Expert Need Not Be Futile Exercise
By Contributing Writer
Column - Trial Strategy - By David B. Baum - Awe and trepidation - these are the emotions typical of the trial lawyer approach...
In 2001, Lara Callas traveled to Albania to devote her legal skills to helping the Orthodox Church in Albania. Forty-five year...
Los Angeles trial consultant Richard Gabriel has a lofty goal for his one-term as president of the American Society of Trial C...
Digital River Inc., which provides e-commerce services for businesses, has raised $45 million in a stock offering. The Minneap...
After splitting from the firm he merged with two years ago, Eric Klein has found a new home in the Century City office of Katt...