SAN FRANCISCO - Securities and Exchange Commission rules that take effect Friday subject public companies to a previously unhe...
Judges and Judiciary
Davis Appoints Four Judges in Three Counties
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Gov. Gray Davis appointed four Southern California judges Wednesday, including Costa Mesa Mayor Karen L. Robinson,...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court voted Wednesday to decide whether cities are free to deny taxpayer subsidies to g...
SAN FRANCISCO - Dickson, Carlson & Campillo's lawyer has upped the ante in his fight with the former Brobeck, Phleger &...
LOS ANGELES - A civil claim over allegations dating back 25 years has sparked a criminal investigation that threatens to destr...
SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan is facing criticism over staff shuffling that some say has reduced the number of wome...
SIMI VALLEY - After serving only a couple of months as a court commissioner, William Q. Liebmann was appointed Tuesday to a Su...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to delay approval of the Newhall Ranch project, instru...
LOS ANGELES - A powerful talent agent clashed with Judge Elden S. Fox one day last month and discovered who holds the power at...
Trusts & Estates
Self-Canceling Installment Note Can Be Powerful Planning Tool
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Focus Column - Probate Law - By Bruce Givner - Parents commonly use self-canceling installment notes to transfer property to t...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Trevor Law Group Accuses Bar of Politics
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Three Beverly Hills attorneys accused of unethical use of the state's unfair-competition law have gone on the at...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Bar Association officials were a little embarrassed last year, after they decided to encourag...
WASHINGTON - Ruling in the case of a California death-row inmate, the Supreme Court on Tuesday continued its strict interpreta...
Forum Column - By Rodney Richard Jones - Sentences that are longer in years than a human can actually live are emblematic of t...
LOS ANGELES - With the forfeiture of the Cannabis Resource Center's $1.2 million building and other assets hanging in the bala...
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara University School of Law is launching the first law journal available exclusively online. While a half-...
SAN FRANCISCO - During a small luncheon gathering last week at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, historian David McCullou...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court ruled Tuesday that an East Bay cancer patient who won a $1.5 million fraud judgment ag...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco supervisors Tuesday backed an ambitious lawsuit by City Attorney Dennis Herrera against contract...
SACRAMENTO - California's courts are being hurt by the state's budget crisis, and lawmakers must act quickly to prevent furthe...
PRIESTS CHARGED - Two former Catholic priests and an ex-seminarian were charged late Tuesday with multiple counts of child mol...
LOS ANGELES - After the Gulf War, the first President Bush pledged to prosecute Saddam Hussein for war crimes. But he never fo...
MOORPARK - Simi Valley Harley-Davidson leased 19,000 square feet of retail space at 6190 Condor Drive from J&L Investment...
Forum Column - By Angela M. Bradstreet and Gowon Song - In 1998, two U.S. Supreme Court cases, Burlington Industries v. Ell...
International
Contesting Jurisdiction Can Be Good Way to Avoid Costly Suit
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Focus Column - International Law - By Allison S.Y. Chang - For nonresident multinational holding companies with a subsidiary o...
Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - It appears that Sen. Sheila Kuehl, D-L.A., is busy once again figuring out ways to further...
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers for four of five San Francisco police officers charged with obstruction of justice launched their att...
SACRAMENTO - The California Witness Protection Program is essential for prosecuting gang killings and should continue to rece...
SAN FRANCISCO - Thomas Igoe Jr., a former Reid & Priest chairman who led the New York firm's merger with San Francisco's ...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court Monday agreed to take another look at the authority of police officers who have stopped a vehic...