SAN FRANCISCO - A man convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend cannot also be held liable for the killing of her first-trimes...
SANTA ANA - When Orange County sheriff's deputies arrested Alejandro Avila for the molestation and murder of 5-year-old Samant...
POMONA - When Judge Robert M. Martinez recalls the numerous murder trials he's presided over during the past few years, he thi...
Forum Column - By Heidi Lypps - On Nov. 4, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the case of Dr. Charles Thomas Sell, a dentis...
LOS ANGELES - Services took place for David Greenberg, a founder of the Los Angeles law firm of Greenberg & Panish, who di...
SAN FRANCISCO - The dean of the Boalt Hall School of Law has resigned after a former student accused him of sexual harassment....
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court has prohibited plaintiffs from seeking monetary damages for alleged violations of...
LOS ANGELES - Celebrity sleuth Anthony Pellicano, who has stood by embattled clients ranging from entertainer Michael Jackson ...
Litigation
Legal Fights Spawned by Troublesome Dead Royal Hit Los Angeles Court
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - In death, Diana, Princess of Wales, seems more and more like a raging brush fire than a candle in the...
LOS ANGELES - Calling the city's action "retaliatory and punitive," a Los Angeles Superior Court judge Wednesday issued a prel...
Environmental
I Think I Shall Never See, a Poem as Spiteful as a Tree
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Maliciously planted trees make spiteful fences, which make not-so-good neighbors. Or so says a Siskiyou County...
Labor/Employment
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Employment Column - By Gail N. Kaneshiro - Anyone who has ever applied for a legal job can agree on the importance of the inte...
MARTINEZ - By most accounts, the key to the recent district attorney's race in Contra Costa County was an independent committe...
SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court shut the door Tuesday on five plaintiffs firms that were attempting to get an $88.5 ...
SANTA BARBARA - An appellate court finally may have dashed a wealthy doctor's dream of turning his Montecito estate into a pub...
Focus Column - International Law - By Allan K. A. Marson and Simone W. Yew - An increasing number of U.S. companies are signin...
SAN FRANCISCO - Brobeck Phleger & Harrison is laying the groundwork for a merger with Philadelphia's Morgan Lewis & Bo...
Judges and Judiciary
Police Union Seeks Halt to City Racial-Profiling Study
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
CLAREMONT - In a potentially precedent-setting request, lawyers for the Claremont Police Department's bargaining union are ask...
SAN FRANCISCO - A quiet-hour observance will be held for Judge Kenneth Norman from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Friday at Fouche's Hudson...
LOS ANGELES - Saying that state law gives police departments a "get out of liability free card," a state appellate court Tuesd...
Forum Column - By Steven Zak - One may be tempted to believe that conservatives don't like animals. A lot sure don't like anim...
LOS ANGELES - California's recent completion of a record $11.3 billion energy bond sale required dozens of lawyers, some of wh...
SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco district attorney's office recently dismissed a murder case after learning that a partial fi...
LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court on Monday clarified the rules in the process to commit sexually violent predators. ...
LOS ANGELES - Of the 7,511 prospective lawyers who took the July State Bar Exam this year, slightly more than 50 percent breat...
SAN FRANCISCO - The judge overseeing the Pacific Gas and Electric Co. bankruptcy Monday rejected an attempt by the utility to ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Grants, Debt Relief Programs Ease Path Into Public Interest
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Law graduates with a fire in the belly to help the poor, for whom the American dream is a distant fantasy, will ...
LOS ANGELES - Actor Robert Blake may get a new legal team today to defend him against charges he murdered his wife, Bonny Lee ...
SAN FRANCISCO - It wasn't your typical contract, said Philip Feldman, who prepares wills and trusts for wealthy San Franciscan...