Morrison & Foerster corporate litigation partner Charles Patterson writes poetry. "It's something I can do while I'm waiti...
The Treasure Island Homeless Development Initiative honored the San Francisco office of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton ...
PALO ALTO - For nearly a year, Larry Sonsini, the 61-year-old chairman and chief executive of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Ro...
Fair Isaac and Company Inc. will acquire HNC Software Inc. The $810 million deal was announced April 29. San Rafael's Fair Isa...
LOS ANGELES - An award-winning documentary film depicting the atrocities of the Holocaust kept guests spellbound at the Consti...
SAN FRANCISCO - Most of the lawyers departing Skjerven Morrill's Newport Beach and Austin, Texas, offices, which Skjerven will...
Banking
Stock Option Debate May Impede Standardization of World Accounting
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Matthew J. McGinn - Business leaders, national securities regulators and the global accounting profession ar...
SAN FRANCISCO - Victim services workers at the San Francisco district attorney's office receive approximately 60 police report...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Wallace Friedman, a Burbank attorney for more than 40 years. Friedman died May 8. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers for beleaguered file-sharing software companies Grokster Inc. and StreamCast Networks have accused the...
Criminal
Congressman Plans Challenge To Rules for Terrorism Trials
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - Two years ago, a California state senator and former federal prosecutor challenged one of Bill Clinton's impeachm...
LOS ANGELES - A South El Monte attorney was arrested Friday morning on suspicion of embezzling a $25,000 insurance settlement ...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge has sentenced a Diamond Bar man to 33 months in prison for tax evasion related to a scheme in wh...
RIVERSIDE - A Riverside judge Friday denied a defense attorney's motion to sanction a prosecutor and strike the death penalty ...
SANTA ANA - After a nearly three-year prosecution and two mistrials, a Buena Park grandfather has been convicted of voluntary ...
Column by Garry Abrams - Can a defendant in a Hollywood lawsuit be regarded as less dangerous than an exploding Ford Pinto but...
Dicta Column - By Donald E. Griffith - In May comes an auspicious event as predictable as the spawning salmon or the migratin...
Dicta Column - By Robert M. Unterberger - Much of my practice is spent editing the unfortunate word choices, clauses and malap...
Forum Column - By Warren Christopher - As the old saying goes, to be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. For a l...
On Feb. 25, 2002, insurance law experts Alexandra Glickman, Linda Lasley, Royal Oakes, Kirk Pasich, Judge Raul Ramirez and Joh...
Standing naked along with other newly admitted prison inmates, Robert Kevin Moore began walking in a line heading for the show...
A former inmate's claim that a prison guard deliberately threw a tight bundle of clothes at his groin left Los Angeles attorne...
Robert L. Rediger of Sacramento's Rediger, McHugh & Hubbert won a motion for nonsuit in a wrongful termination case. To...
SAN FRANCISCO - The corpus delecti rule is alive and well in California. The truth-in-evidence rule is also alive and well. Bo...
Judges and Judiciary
San Bernardino Deputy DA Moves to the Bench
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - Deputy District Attorney Michael R. Libutti wasn't supposed to start sitting as a San Bernardino County Super...
LOS ANGELES - Following the lead of two recent lawsuits against the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, a Torrance woman who claims he...
LOS ANGELES - A funeral Mass will be celebrated Saturday for Philip M. Newman, a former presiding judge of the Los Angeles Mun...
LOS ANGELES - German banks which supported the Nazis and profited from their regime have failed to contribute all they owe to ...
SACRAMENTO - The Senate passed bills Thursday that would prohibit binding arbitration clauses in certain employment agreements...
SAN FRANCISCO - Sacramento sole practitioner Russell L. Hom, chairman of the city's human rights commission, was appointed to ...