SAN FRANCISCO - Two women who sued for wrongful death after Diane Whipple was mauled to death by giant dogs in her Pacific He...
LOS ANGELES - When Los Angeles Superior Court Judge H. Chester Horn Jr. was a boy growing up in Pasadena, he'd sit glued to hi...
SAN FRANCISCO - The outspoken chief bankruptcy watchdog in San Francisco, who was abruptly fired in June by U.S. Attorney Gen...
SAN JOSE - After two decades as an appellate justice, Marc Poché was supposed to be spending his days in retirement fishing an...
LOS ANGELES - While people were herded into a room, scared and crying, and led away in handcuffs on one side of the downtown L...
Product Liability
Makers of Component Parts Are Subject to Strict Liability
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Michael A. Geibelson and David Martinez - The California Supreme Court has held that manufacturers of defect...
SAN FRANCISCO - A judge ordered Wednesday that a record-setting and potentially valuable baseball be sold and the proceeds sp...
Entertainment & Sports
When Did Senator Lott Personally Become Aware of Racism's Evils?
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - What did Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott understand and when did he understand it regarding the importanc...
Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk A. Pasich - During 2002, the California courts rendered a number of decisions addressin...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury Wednesday convicted former Beverly Hills attorney Angela Wallace of stealing a $380,044 life ...
BEVERLY HILLS - The State Bar is looking into complaints of "extortion tactics" against two Beverly Hills attorneys who launch...
UC-Berkeley Chancellor Robert M. Berdahl will shake up the Boalt Hall dean search by personally choosing a replacement for th...
SAN FRANCISCO - Jim Walsh, a commercial litigator elected Wednesday to manage San Francisco's Carroll, Burdick & McDonoug...
Zoning, Planning and Use
High Court Must Simplify Law of Regulatory Takings
By Columnist
Forum Column - By John Echeverria and Bill Higgins - The law of regulatory takings has become much too complicated in Californ...
SAN JOSE - A Russian software company was acquitted Tuesday of copyright violation charges brought in the first criminal pros...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court, in a major victory for oil companies, sharply restricted the ability of plaintiffs Tues...
SAN FRANCISCO - In contemplating moving its headquarters, Fenwick & West first had to decide if its culture was best exem...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Alameda County Superior Court assignments for the coming year are the first since the state Judicial Coun...
SACRAMENTO - A federal appeals court on Tuesday reinstated a suit filed by a domestic servant against the Korean deputy consu...
SAN FRANCISCO - The defense and prosecution tables are pushed together in the center of the courtroom. Sitting in the middle, ...
Forum Column - By Robert S. Gerstein - A case pending in the California Supreme Court, Jonathan Neil & Associates Inc. ...
Government
Chaleff Will Oversee Police Handling of Consent Decree
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - It's back to Parker Center for veteran criminal defense attorney and former Board of Police Commissioners Presid...
Labor/Employment
Alternatives to Covenants Not To Compete Can Aid Employers
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Nabil Abu-Assal, Louis R. Dienes and Thomas D. Rutledge - Among the most significant differ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge appeared sympathetic Tuesday to the argument that California's 1996 medical marijuana law cre...
LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court ruled Monday that makers of Arrowhead spring water can be sued for allegedly exceeding th...
LOS ANGELES - Ventura attorney William Q. Liebmann and prosecutor Bruce A. Youth have been chosen as Ventura County Superior C...
SAN FRANCISCO - Kirkland & Ellis, a Chicago firm that opened its doors Monday in San Francisco, is another happy benefici...
SAN FRANCISCO - Having tightened the screws on corporate offices, the Securities Exchange Commission is turning its attention...
Forum Column - By James Sturdevant - Historically, corporate interests have proclaimed disclosure regulations as the panacea f...
LOS ANGELES - In an attempt to toss out the largest punitive damages verdict in U.S. history, attorneys for Philip Morris Inc....