LOS ANGELES - With tight polling numbers presaging a close contest, the outcome of the Los Angeles city attorney's race may tu...
SAN FRANCISCO - As a law student two summers ago, Chris Daley spent 10 weeks studying the legal needs of transgendered San Fra...
LOS ANGELES - The California Mart spans an entire block in downtown Los Angeles' Fashion District and houses hundreds of retai...
SAN FRANCISCO - Two of the energy wholesalers accused of driving Pacific Gas and Electric Co. into bankruptcy with high electr...
LOS ANGELES - Power of Attorney, a Washington, D.C.-based organization dedicated to expanding the availability of pro bono leg...
Labor/Employment
Ex-DA Renews His Bias Suit, in Federal Court
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Patrick Dutton, a former Riverside prosecutor who unsuccessfully sued the district attorney's office for employmen...
Government Contracts
Mandatory Work Feature Taken From Pro Bono Bill
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - A bill that would have required law firms that contract with the state to also provide pro bono services for char...
The 'Brennan' case resolved a conflict among the intermediate California appellate courts. ...
A day after FBI Director Louis Freeh admitted to the House Appropriations Subcommittee that the FBI had screwed up in not coug...
The court system is an interesting locomotive of justice. Its wheels have been progressing for well over 225 years, and it has...
State Bar & Bar Associations
ABA Lauds State Bar's Efforts to Boost Legal Services for Poor
By Don De Benedictis
LOS ANGELES - The State Bar of California will receive the American Bar Association's annual award for boosting legal services...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles lawyer Robert C. Bonner received a nomination from President Bush to be commissioner of the U.S. Cus...
LOS ANGELES - Long Beach residents filed a $38 million lawsuit Thursday against the city, challenging its gas company's spiral...
SAN FRANCISCO - A California appellate court upheld a $26 million verdict against Ford Motor Company on Thursday, rejecting ar...
SAN JOSE - Attorneys sparred Thursday about whether plaintiffs should be able to expand their class action against the lead pa...
LOS ANGELES - The California Women's Law Center has named a new executive director to succeed center co-founder Abby Leibman, ...
Judges and Judiciary
AOC Names Roddy to Post As Liaison to Trial Courts
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Michael M. Roddy, executive officer of the Sacramento Superior Court, has been appointed regional administrati...
By Lee Condon DJC Bankruptcy Staff Writer LOS ANGELES - Sheri A. Bluebond, a partner at Irell & Manella, has joined the U...
SAN FRANCISCO - Handing a significant victory to landlords, a sharply divided state Supreme Court ruled Thursday that no matte...
Judges and Judiciary
Negotiator Loves His Place In Middle of Labor Battle
By Contributing Writer
LOS ANGELES - As executive director of the Writers Guild of America, West, for 13 years, lawyer Brian Walton was a lightning r...
SAN DIEGO - A federal appellate court Thursday affirmed the federal prison sentences imposed on two former Superior Court judg...
SACRAMENTO - A consumers group on Thursday accused Assembly Speaker Robert Hertzberg of killing a bill that would have prohibi...
SAN FRANCISCO - A plaintiff wins a discrimination case and the judge issues a large award for attorney fees. Who gets the mone...
Media
Panel Lets Little League Parents Pursue Invasion-of-Privacy Suit
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A state appellate panel has cleared the way for a potentially groundbreaking invasion-of-privacy lawsuit filed by ...
DENVER - The FBI gave itself a black eye when it withheld documents related to the Oklahoma City bombing, and Timothy McVeigh ...
For decades, two phrases that independently drove terror into the hearts of land developers have been "California Coastal Comm...
"Looking ahead I can see more and more instances where I will disagree with the president on very fundamental issues: the issu...
The parties should enter into a written agreement with a clear copyright ownership or licensing clause. ...
Recently, lawyers and the general populace have become concerned about attorneys' increasing rudeness and unduly harsh behavio...
San Diego's redevelopment agency had hit home runs in two previous eminent domain trials to acquire property for a proposed ba...