SAN FRANCISCO - The steady stream of tragic stories, the constant pressure of litigation and the dingy surroundings make some ...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton's proposal to end police response to unverified burglar alarms receive...
Forum Column - By Joseph L. Sax - The doctrinal debate over "takings" seems destined to drag on endlessly, but the property-ri...
SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court heard a case Tuesday with shades of the film "Twelve Angry Men" - except that in th...
SAN FRANCISCO - Deputy City Attorney Kamala Harris leads the fund-raising pack in the race for district attorney by a wide ma...
SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court seemed Tuesday to be of two minds about mandatory arbitration. In one case they hea...
LOS ANGELES - California has made "no real progress" in improving the lives of foster-care children, a state oversight agency...
LOS ANGELES - As Earl Krugel, a former lieutenant in the once-powerful Jewish Defense League, pleaded guilty Tuesday to consp...
SAN FRANCISCO - Back in 1999, before the names Enron and Worldcom became synonymous with stock fraud and corporate corruption,...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County has followed the states of Michigan and Florida by posting the names and ages of 740 childre...
LOS ANGELES - The gape-mouthed Paul Frank monkey emblazoned on tens of thousands of T-shirts and handbags may not be grinning...
Personal Injury & Torts
Suit Over Actor's Shooting at Halloween Party Goes to Trial
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Anthony Dwain Lee was laughing, having fun at a Halloween party in Benedict Canyon with a toy gun. But Los Angel...
SAN FRANCISCO - Five days after management announced it was dissolving, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison began sending out lay...
Appellate Practice
Standards of Good Appellate Practice Are Rarely Followed
By Columnist
Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Catherine Valerio Barrad - Much has been written on the cornerstones of good appellate pract...
Intellectual Property
PTO Fee Hike Less Onerous Than Feared By Patent Bar
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced plans Tuesday to increase the costs of procuring a patent by a...
Judges and Judiciary
'Visionary' Presiding Judge Has Made Many Changes
By Anne La Jeunesse
SANTA ANA - Twenty years ago, on a sunny September Saturday, Frederick P. Horn, then a Los Angeles County prosecutor, and his ...
SAN DIEGO - In Latin America, where many view the justice systems as stacked against the underdog, costumed crusaders are tea...
LOS ANGELES - San Francisco-based Morrison & Foerster has recruited Irell & Manella entertainment and aviation lawyer...
SAN FRANCISO - Partners at recently dissolved Skjerven Morrill are splitting up largely along the lines of their practice grou...
SAN FRANCISCO - Bolstered by five of the jurors who convicted him, a courtroom full of supporters and San Francisco's distric...
RIVERSIDE - In the second case in the state to apply the U.S. Supreme Court decision banning the death penalty for mentally re...
Forum Column - By Dilan A. Esper - In Eldred v. Ashcroft , decided on Jan. 15, the U.S. Supreme Court recently issued w...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco prosecutor has been sued in federal court for allegedly embezzling funds and defrauding a for...
SAN FRANCISCO - Within hours of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's announcement last week that it would close its doors, Calif...
SAN FRANCISCO - Six prisoners linked to the Aryan Brotherhood pleaded guilty Monday to a variety of charges, including conspi...
SAN FRANCISCO - About 100 retired judges who filled trial court vacancies last year have hung up their robes, apparently reac...
Law Practice
Brobeck Dies in Avalanche Brought on by Rancorous Snowstorm
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - The collapse of San Francisco's Brobeck Phleger & Harrison is an illustration of the adage, the m...
LOS ANGELES - Phil Spector, the temperamental, reclusive Rock and Roll Hall of Fame record producer, was arrested Monday in A...
SAN FRANCISCO - Partners at Skjerven Morrill, a 62-attorney intellectual property boutique in San Jose, voted Monday to disso...
Intellectual Property
Analysis of Similarity of Marks Resists Summary Judgment
By Columnist
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Christopher T. Micheletti - In Thane International Inc. v. Trek Bicycle Corp....