Coudert Brothers and Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton appear to be going in opposite directions, with the larger Couder...
SACRAMENTO - Some kids are raised on cartoons and frosted flakes. Ellen Corbett was raised on political slogans and envelope ...
SAN FRANCISCO - With a November election looming, San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan - not known for a stellar ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The use of "under God" in teacher-led recitations of the Pledge of Allegiance remains banned, but not without ...
SAN FRANCISCO - While courts statewide already are feeling the pinch brought on by California's ongoing budget crisis, a pote...
Focus Column - Tax Law - By Dean Weiner - On Jan. 7, President Bush proposed an economic stimulus package. On Jan. 21, the Tre...
SAN FRANCISCO - Martha Whetstone, a former regional head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and a leading Democratic ...
Personal Injury & Torts
Jurist May Cite Actor's Counsel For Disparaging His Colleague
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - A judge Friday indicated he may sanction criminal defense attorney Thomas A. Mesereau Jr. for calling a civil la...
LOS ANGELES - Pepperdine University School of Law Dean Richard Lynn is returning to the classroom after six years as dean and...
SAN FRANCISCO - Big paydays should always be so easy. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali took less than 10 minutes Friday to...
SAN FRANCISCO - Oakland Deputy City Attorney Claudia Leed, who headed the massive police misconduct suit recently settled by t...
OAKLAND - After six months of testimony from police, victims and experts on behalf of the prosecution, lawyers for the three ...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Juvenile Court referee turned down requests Friday made by two newspapers seeking access to infor...
LOS ANGELES - Erin Brockovich charged Friday that the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. improperly influenced a key scientific s...
LOS ANGELES - Washington, D.C.-based Howrey Simon Arnold & White has hired Jay S. Handlin, former executive counsel to th...
Administrative/Regulatory
Alcohol Warning Isn't Necessary, Court Says
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Twenty-three makers of liquid herbal extracts and supplements do not have to warn consumers that their products...
LOS ANGELES - If fitness star Billy Blanks wanted to sue his talent manager for violating the state Talent Agencies Act, he fi...
LOS ANGELES - Robert Blake's defense attorney contends the investigation into the murder charges against his client has been ...
Forum Column - By Bennet G. Kelley - There is almost universal agreement that something must be done about spam e-mails. Once ...
Focus Column - Tax Law - By Nathan J. Hochman - According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, $600 billion is laundered wi...
California legal observers often speak of Pillsbury Winthrop as if it's an old heirloom - a piano, perhaps, that quietly occup...
SAN FRANCISCO - While PG&E Corp. CEO Robert Glynn painted a rosy picture for stock analysts of the progress in Pacific Ga...
LOS ANGELES - Samuel Mordo Dana, former Los Angeles Trial Lawyers Association president and personal injury attorney, has die...
LOS ANGELES - What started out as a minor fender bender on a downtown street is threatening to mushroom into a lawsuit, or at...
WASHINGTON - After an acrimonious three-hour session, the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved and sent to the flo...
Employment Column By Phillip R. Maltin An ambitious senior associate in a midsize law firm rapidly established herself as ski...
Forum Column By Matthew G. Jacobs Attorney General Bill Lockyer has announced that he is investigating at least five law firm...
LOS ANGELES - Crime reports in the public record are fair game for the media, even if the law-breaking is a decade old, a sta...
SAN FRANCISCO - Judge Bruce Van Voorhis' rude, abrasive style on the Contra Costa County Superior Court bench reduced a young...
LOS ANGELES - Former Encino attorney Arden Brian Silverman was sentenced Thursday to one year in county jail for embezzling $...