Civil Rights
New California Bills Protect Domestic Partners and Aid Hate-Crime Victims
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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...
SAN FRANCISCO - Cooley Godward has sparked internal controversy by laying off secretaries and paralegals in Palo Alto without...
SAN FRANCISCO - Judges Paul H. Alvarado and Robert L. Dondero have nominated themselves to be assistant presiding judge of Sa...
RIVERSIDE - Ten years ago, Riverside County sheriff's deputies found Terese Stewart, 29, dead in her mother's home, her body s...
LOS ANGELES - Jury deliberations are slated to begin today in the shoplifting trial of actress Winona Ryder, who is accused of...
A bid to have the state Supreme Court reinstate an $88.5 million class-action fee award that was rejected as grossly excessiv...
LOS ANGELES - Irv Rubin, the fiery president of the Los Angeles-based Jewish Defense League, has been hospitalized in grave co...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider what steps states can take to regulate telemarketers who seek dona...
SAN FRANCISCO - Cooley Godward has sparked internal controversy by laying off secretaries and paralegals in Palo Alto without...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Commission on Judicial Performance, the state's judicial watchdog agency, Monday released a 10-year summa...
ATTORNEY ASSAILS POT RAID - The operators of Santa Cruz's medical marijuana cooperative were not engaged in interstate commer...
Focus Column - Legal Malpractice - Law firms should do everything in their power to ensure that the information provided in th...