SAN FRANCISCO - With only five days left in office, Gov. Gray Davis made a slew of last-minute appointments, naming legal app...
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal regulators and two environmental groups filed an agreement Wednesday with U.S. District Judge Claudia...
SAN DIEGO - Two San Diego strip clubs, where livings are made by baring all, claim that a competitor prominently named in the ...
SACRAMENTO - A contractual clause that prohibited a managed-care provider from recovering damages against the state Departmen...
LOS ANGELES - The Association of Business Trial Lawyers' dinner and reception this Saturday won't be just another lawyer event...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether amusement park rides can be held to the same ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Does one Burton and one Adachi trump one Feinstein? Tune in to the Dec. 9 runoff election for San Francisco di...
Criminal
Bert Fields, Week 1: Affair to Remember or Much Ado About Nothing?
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - The Bert Fields affair is producing two distinct camps about what it all means. The majority believe ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Mayor Willie Brown charged Tuesday that deputy city attorneys "wrote the roadmap" for Supervisor Chris Daly t...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury Wednesday recommended death for a 35-year-old woman who was found guilty last month of murder...
LOS ANGELES - In response to a scathing report on the child welfare system, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Wednes...
SAN FRANCISCO - An 11 percent spending cut for the federal judiciary that began Oct. 1 has prompted layoffs and shortened hour...
Reporter's Notebook By Peter Blumberg "If a man strikes someone with an iron object so that he dies, he is a murderer; the mu...
Intellectual Property
Dot-com Bankruptcies Spawn IP Bargains for Savvy Buyers
By Columnist
Focus Column Intellectual Property By Kevin D. DeBr Not long ago, money from venture capitalists and other investors flowed f...
Judges and Judiciary
Senate Must Reject Nominee Who Blatantly Distorts Truth
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Forum Column By Catherine Fisk In May, the Senate Judiciary Committee, over the objections of all of its Democratic members, ...
Forum Column By William D. Evers "Finders" are people who, for a fee, find sources of funding for startups and emerging compa...
SAN FRANCISCO - An East Bay judge has granted class status to discount-store employees who claim local Wal-Mart and Sam's Clu...
RIVERSIDE - A Los Angeles federal judge has rejected a $20 million civil rights lawsuit against Riverside County officials fi...
Appellate Practice
Appeals Court Gives Tribe A Say in Welfare of Infant
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - Reversing its own earlier decision, a state appeals court ruled that child welfare authorities must prove that ...
PHILADELPHIA - Web sites are easy to come by. With just a few dollars, and enough time to create and maintain some content, an...
SACRAMENTO - During the weeks before, during and after the recall of Gov. Gray Davis, the state's chief justice, legal expert...
SACRAMENTO - During the weeks before, during and after the recall of Gov. Gray Davis, the state's chief justice, legal expert...
WASHINGTON - With the Senate's marathon debate on President Bush's judicial nominees scheduled to begin today, Capitol Hill ob...
WASHINGTON - Heeding the pleas of former federal judges, prisoners of war, military officers and diplomats, among others, the...
Forum Column By William Green In January 2002, the state Legislature found that legal protections for insurance policyholders...
Focus Column Familiy Law By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer During the last few years, the relationship,...
SAN FRANCISCO - Clashes over billions of dollars that critics claim Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s corporate parent siphoned ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Outgoing Gov. Gray Davis has quietly appointed three members of his administration to judgeships on the Sacra...
SAN FRANCISCO - Terry O'Reilly, a name partner in the San Mateo law firm of O'Reilly, Collins & Danko, has been named Con...
SAN JOSE - Five candidates will compete in March for two open seats on the Santa Clara County Superior Court. Two candidates ...