SANTA ANA - Motocross promoter Michael Goodwin said more than once that he wanted to kill racing legend Mickey Thompson, accor...
LOS ANGELES - The Fair Political Practices Commission has fined the Los Angeles plaintiffs' firm Girardi & Keese for faili...
LOS ANGELES - In an opinion that would have warmed the plastic heart of Attorney Barbie, a federal appeals court supported san...
SAN FRANCISCO - Four-year-old Raphael P. III is named after a man who isn't his biological father but has cared for him just l...
SAN FRANCISCO - A new trial date was set Monday in the five-year-old fraud litigation between the Oakland Raiders and the gove...
SAN FRANCISCO - Former Sonoma County Judge Patricia Gray, who is under investigation by the state Commission on Judicial Perfo...
SAN RAFAEL - A San Francisco prosecutor, charged by Marin County authorities with assault with a deadly weapon, stabbed a man ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court jury here became the first in the country Monday to declare gasoline containing MTBE a defect...
LOS ANGELES - It began with a vague request to write "something about Belmont.'' It ended up a 300-inch piece, penned by Los A...
Focus Column - By David S. Kupetz - It is inevitable that a significant portion of companies in new or emerging industries wil...
Forum Column - By Jean-Paul Jassy and Susan Seager - A worldwide glance since the start of 2001 reveals that some governments,...
Intellectual Property
After Fingerpainting There Will Be a Copyright Quiz
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Karen Frank's 7-year-old son, like many first-graders, loves to draw. But unlike most kids his age, the intell...
SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Daily Journal has won two awards in the Associated Press News Executives Council Newswriting...
SACRAMENTO - State Attorney General Bill Lockyer sued two power generators for antitrust violations Monday, marking the first ...
Bankruptcy
PUC Plan Sets Precedent in Bankruptcy of Public Utilities
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Public Utilities Commission on Monday went where no regulatory agency has gone before - into fe...
Entertainment & Sports
Adults' Explosive Rancor in Pooh Litigation Threatens First Amendment
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - The world is so unpeaceful these days that even Winnie the Pooh's idyllic Hundred Acre Wood has becom...
Appellate Practice
Justices Struggle With How to Apply 'Apprendi' to Drug-Case Terms
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - After Leonard Cotton and six other Baltimore residents were convicted in 1999 of conspiracy to distribute cocaine...
Dicta Column - By Kirk A. Pasich - Trials in commercial cases often involve large numbers of exhibits that require counsel to...
Cicta Column - Court Jester - In Oreste Lodi, Reversioner v. Oreste Lodi, Beneficiary, Oreste Lodi, Reversioner v. Ores...
Judges and Judiciary
Jury Service Need Not Be Disillusioning Experience
By Staff Writer
Forum Column - By Judi Birnberg - My experience as a prospective juror was an exercise in frustration and a clear illustratio...
WASHINGTON - Retired Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White, an often-blunt man who made his mark as a gridiron star, Rhodes Sch...
LOS ANGELES - Boosting its labor and employment law practice, New York-based Proskauer Rose has nabbed rainmaker Mark Theodore...
Partner Lance Kimmel led Santa Monica's Entravision Communications Corp. in its seven-year, $225 million high-yield debt offer...
Firm Watch
Higgs Fletcher: CORPORATE DUO JOIN FROM ARTER'S SAN DIEGO OUTPOST
By Staff Writer
Two corporate lawyers have parted ways with Arter & Hadden , joining San Diego native firm Higgs Fletcher & Mack . Wil...
Gov. Gray Davis appointed Frank Kaplan, partner at Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan in Los Angeles, to the California Law ...
The California Manufactured Housing Institute honored Gary Barr, name partner of Encino's Alpert & Barr, with the Jack E. ...
David Waite, partner at Los Angeles' Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro, spoke at the Urban Land Institute Los Angeles' Urban...
Anworth Mortgage Asset Corp. closed a public offering worth $37 million. The deal closed Feb. 27. The underwriters included Fr...
MaguirePartners acquired its partner's interest in downtown Los Angeles' Library Tower through a financing deal with Credit Su...
Joshua Grode of Santa Monica's Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstreif spoke at the Game Developers Conference in San Jos...