SAN FRANCISCO - El Paso Corp., the nation's largest natural gas pipeline company, is headed for trial in 11 coordinated antitr...
SAN FRANCISCO - Hastings College of the Law says it may join the YMCA in an innovative plan to develop student housing, a fitn...
LOS ANGELES - Tom Mesereau spent Sunday morning doing what he does two Sundays of every month: giving free legal advice to poo...
SAN FRANCISCO - A lawsuit filed in federal court in San Francisco seeks to force the government to update air pollution standa...
SAN FRANCISCO - A lawsuit seeking up to $250 million in civil fines from Pacific Lumber Co. for alleged "fraudulent suppressio...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Court Interpreters Association sued the Judicial Council on Tuesday, claiming a recent law esse...
LOS ANGELES - The San Francisco law firm Keker & Van Nest wants out of defending Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison and two o...
SAN FRANCISCO - Do not mess with La Supremaca. Although Marilyn Hall Patel's official title is chief judge of the U.S. Distric...
Forum Column - By Bill Lockyer - California's unfair-competition law, - Business & Professions Code Section 17200 - is one...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to clarify the discretion of judges to award attorney fees in priv...
LOS ANGELES - Three bullets are expected to figure prominently in the preliminary hearing of Robert Blake's murder case, which...
SAN FRANCISCO - Placer County Superior Court Judge Joseph W. O'Flaherty has been reprimanded again by an appeal court for enco...
International
Relying on Ex-Klansman for Facts Is Not Wise Idea
By Contributing Writer
Forum Column - By Anthony J. Mohr - The setting: Thanksgiving dinner for nine in a European capital. Four Americans and a loca...
Insurance
Recent Case Shows Transfer of Insurance Policies Can Be Complex
By Columnist
Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Clyde M. Hettrick - The recent California Supreme Court decision in Henkel Corp. v. Hartf...
LOS ANGELES - He still doesn't get his $20 million verdict, but famed director Francis Ford Coppola can make his "Pinocchio" ...
WASHINGTON - Taking on a major states' rights battle, the Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether the federal gover...
LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court ruled Monday that a 11/2-year-old Orange County boy, critically injured after his father ...
Focus Column - International Law - By Mara E. Nez and Michelle B. Graham - On Jan. 14, the Internal Revenue Service announced ...
RIVERSIDE - To protesters, prosecutors and even the chief of police, the slaying of Jeffery Owens in June appeared to have all...
SAN FRANCISCO - For a state normally in the vanguard of new technology, California's courtrooms surprisingly lack the high-tec...
Forum Column - By David Lash and Lauren Saunders - As changes to California's unfair business practices law are considered, th...
SAN JOSE - For the first time in more than a decade, Santa Clara County prosecutors and deputy public defenders face layoffs a...
LOS ANGELES - Keker & Van Nest is trying to drop Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison and two of its former partners as clients...
SAN JOSE - Brian DeVries is poised to become the first convicted child molester to be released after undergoing treatment - in...
Administrative/Regulatory
County Misused Bonds, Resident's Suit Says
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County illegally diverted $16.2 million in community improvement bonds from one portion of suburban...
Judges and Judiciary
Duct Tape Follies Pale Compared With Judicial-Nominee Dunk Tank
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Which is the scariest - the prospect of sealing yourself in a room with duct tape and plastic during ...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Justices Will Look at Disabilities Act, Rehire Policies
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Taking another look at the reach of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Supreme Court Monday agreed to consi...
Two years after Robert Schroeder merged his intellectual property boutique with Christie Parker & Hale, Schroeder has left...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Cowboy Lawyers Gather, Elect New Officers, Dance
By Stefanie Knapp
Moseying into the Calamigos Ranch Feb. 8 felt like walking back in time. Men and women decked out in cowboy hats and boots, we...
A Hollywood movie mogul and his glamorous wife could hurt one of the top-selling drugs on the market. Last month, they filed t...