LOS ANGELES - After Winona Ryder was convicted of shoplifting charges Wednesday, Superior Court Judge Elden S. Fox delivered a...
SAN DIEGO - Insurance defense lawyer Richard S. Whitney apparently has defeated incumbent Superior Court Judge Geary D. Cortes...
SAN BERNARDINO - Any doubt Michael A. Ramos might have had about taking the helm of the San Bernardino County district attorne...
Judges and Judiciary
Three Criminal Prosecutors Take Close Judicial Contests
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Three veteran criminal prosecutors, Hank Goldberg, Richard Naranjo and Richard Walmark, were elected to the Los ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A clean campaign, a likable personality and endorsements from liberal groups helped place criminal defense att...
LOS ANGELES - California appellate court justices were unanimously returned to the bench by the state's voters in Tuesday's el...
LOS ANGELES - A Beverly Hills jury Wednesday convicted actress Winona Ryder of felony grand theft and vandalism for a $5,500 h...
MARTINEZ - A historically competitive and at times downright nasty campaign for Contra Costa County district attorney wound do...
SAN FRANCISCO - Ernest Sevier 1922-2002 - Ernest Sevier, a 40-year member of San Francisco's Severson & Werson, died Sunda...
SAN DIEGO - After a bruising campaign, San Diego County District Attorney Paul Pfingst trailed challenger Bonnie Dumanis on We...
SAN FRANCISCO - Hefty political connections have failed to protect California construction giant Tutor-Saliba Corp. from one o...
Civil Rights
New California Bills Protect Domestic Partners and Aid Hate-Crime Victims
By Columnist
Focus Column - Family Law - By Boyce Hinman - Several bills passed in 2002 give new rights to lesbians, gays, bisexuals, trans...
SANTA ANA - Voters in Orange County on Tuesday shrugged off a challenger's allegations and elected businessman John Adams to r...
Entertainment & Sports
Winnie-the-Pooh Case Becomes Theme Park Only Lawyers Could Love
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - It has been a busy and unusual week in Winnie-the-Pooh Lawsuit Land, a theme park for lawyers best kn...
SAN FRANCISCO - Northern California voters, either through ignorance or indifference, brushed aside the judicial misconduct of...
VAN NUYS - Dressed in a blue fleece pullover covered with miniature moose, the woman sat on the witness stand looking neither ...
LOS ANGELES - An exultant Mayor Jim Hahn called on defeated San Fernando Valley city advocates Wednesday to join him in making...
Focus Column - Real Property - By Ethan Friedman - Emeryville is a big "dig" on aggressive trial tactics common in em...
WASHINGTON - Workers sickened by exposure to asbestos who want to seek damages because they also fear that they will develop l...
SAN FRANCISCO - Newton Lam wants a bigger courtroom. But the San Francisco Superior Court judge's desire for additional space ...
LOS ANGELES - After deliberating less than a day and a half, a Pomona jury on Tuesday acquitted a Texas businessman of murderi...
One day after the U.S. Supreme Court slapped down the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for failing to defer to state court de...
LOS ANGELES - Family and colleagues of Irv Rubin said Tuesday that they want the government to produce a videotape of the Jewi...
Large Firms
Signaling the End of an Era, Cooley Leaves Sand Hill Road
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - In the latest in a series of retrenchments, Cooley Godward will close its office on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Pa...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate court ruling barring aerial pesticide spraying on Pacific Northwest forests until water po...
SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court appeared troubled Tuesday that a Los Angeles appellate court second-guessed a trial ...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday indicated it likely will rule that California's three-strikes law does not impose un...
Focus Column - Corporate Law - By Arthur F. Silbergeld and Jessica A. Mayer - The Sarbanes-Oxley Act significantly expands pro...
Forum Column - By David C. Smith - California State Water Resources Control Board officials have an opportunity this fall to r...
Reporter's Notebook By Pete Blumberg SAN FRANCISCO - San Diego law professor Bob Fellmeth is no fan of famed San Diego litiga...