SACRAMENTO - A state legislative proposal to authorize a study of financial privacy cleared its first committee hearing Tuesda...
SAN FRANCISCO - Maureen Kallins screamed at a state trial judge and later laughed at him, leading U.S. District Judge Thelton ...
SAN JOSE - Over the objections of attorneys representing several news organizations, Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge T...
SAN FRANCISCO - Garth Gartrell, a veteran executive compensation specialist, has left Fenwick & West to start a compensati...
Juvenile
Murder Confession Likely Won't Bring Lengthy Term
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - In the decade since Rialto police investigators found 15-year-old Rhonda Denning's lifeless, bullet-riddled b...
Forum Column - By William Wesley Patton - A 19th century echo is in the air. Delinquency and dependency court judges are invol...
SAN FRANCISCO - Howard Golub, a former general counsel at Pacific Gas & Electric in the 1980s and 1990s, has resigned from...
LOS ANGELES - California's unusually strict rules protecting attorney-client confidentiality could play a key role in the defe...
LOS ANGELES - In an unusual ruling late last week - in a case borne out of an era of misuse of informants by the Los Angeles P...
SAN FRANCISCO - A trade publication has apologized to three former reporters whom it accused of stealing trade secrets when th...
LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court has ruled that nearly two dozen lawsuits against Los Angeles area bars, accusing them of p...
SAN FRANCISCO - Los Angeles County and the county's school and community college districts are joining with a private consulta...
LOS ANGELES - After months of anticipation, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Debra Yang has been nominated as U.S. attorney fo...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal prosecutor Monday made the bases for criminal civil rights charges against two former Pelican Bay St...
SAN FRANCISCO - If you've argued a case before the California Supreme Court any time in the last dozen years, surely you remem...
Personal Injury & Torts
$33.7 Million Verdict in Asbestos Case Is a Record-Setter
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco jurors gave $33.7 million to a cancer-stricken entrepreneur and his wife last week, the largest ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Local civil rights lawyers don't deserve fees for combating an attack on their earlier victory in a long-runni...
WASHINGTON - If alleged Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui is convicted and sentenced to lethal injection in the federal ...
SAN FRANCISCO -As the rest of world watches in dread the mounting tension and bloodshed in the Middle East, local lawyers and ...
Litigation
To Be or Not to Be: A Second Term for Parks? We're All in the Dark
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - One does not have to be a fan of Los Angeles Police Chief Bernard C. Parks to wonder whether Parks is...
SAN JOSE - Attorneys for the government and a Russian software company Monday debated the constitutionality of a landmark fede...
SAN DIEGO - Judge Frank A. Brown likes to call the shots. "I get great satisfaction about putting my spin and my touch on the ...
Dicta Column - Movie Review - By Stephen Zager - "Murder on a Sunday Morning," the Academy Award winner for best documentary, ...
Dicta - By The Rodent - In law, as in sports, there is such a thing as home court advantage. Law students learn about this in ...
Forum Column - By James Acret - For two years the California Law Revision Commission has been confronting the simple propositi...
Focus Column - By David Pettit - State and local governments have enacted many laws to protect us from pollution and contamina...
Michael Delehunt , a 20-year commercial litigation partner at Oakland's 220-lawyer Crosby Heafey Roach & May , says client...
Gap Inc. closed a two-year secured credit facility worth $1.4 billion. The deal closed March 7. The lenders were Citigroup Inc...
Firm Watch
Hanson Bridgett: YOUNG LITIGATOR STEPS IN TO RUN 130-ATTORNEY SHOP
By Staff Writer
Douglas Barton has stepped down as managing partner of San Francisco's Hanson Bridgett Marcus Vlahos & Rudy , the firm ann...
The marriage between Milwaukee's Foley & Lardner and California's Weissburg & Aronson seemed like a match made in heav...