SAN FRANCISCO - Oakland resident and State Bar veteran Ann Wassam has been named executive director of the Alameda County Bar ...
SAN FRANCISCO - State Attorney General Bill Lockyer is developing a legislative proposal to overhaul the state's groundbreakin...
SAN FRANCISCO - Thomas A. Van Zandt, a Silicon Valley patent law firm associate who lives in Mill Valley, filed Thursday to ru...
Criminal
Posthumous Video Testimony Raises Issues in Murder Case
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
INDIO - Peggy Baker died of ovarian cancer more than a year ago. But last month her image filled a courtroom and jurors hung o...
Securities
Judge Quizzes Candidates for Class Action Lead Plaintiff
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge known for his hands-on interest in securities litigation held a highly unusual job interview i...
Education
State Board of Education Allows Carson to Set Up School District
By Jill Boekenoogen
LOS ANGELES - The California State Board of Education on Thursday voted unanimously to let Carson establish its own school dis...
SAN FRANCISCO - While California continues its struggle to keep the lights on, another energy battle of older vintage appears ...
IRVINE - Brobeck Phleger & Harrison's Irvine outpost has snagged the services of O'Melveny & Myers' corporate transact...
An Internet service providers' forum for the exchange of data may violate two exclusive rights of copyright holders.
SAN FRANCISCO - Littler Mendelson is double-dipping from the Pittsburgh firm that provided the partners for a recently establi...
SAN FRANCISCO - The $637.5 million fee award to California lawyers in the national tobacco settlement is either incredible or ...
"How Did You Get To Be Mexican? A White/Brown Man's Search For Identity," By Kevin R. Johnson, Temple University Press, 245 Pa...
Californians labor under one of the nation's heaviest tax burdens when local, state and federal taxes are added together. That...
Technology-augmented trials are faster and more effective than those that don't use multimedia presentations. ...
It was the best of times and it was the worst of times. The Gulf War just had come to an end, and there were "no fly zones" im...
The employer must 'either intentionally create or knowingly permit' the intolerable working conditions. ...
SAN BERNARDINO - A jury announced Wednesday that it was unable to reach a decision on the mental soundness of a man who raped ...
SAN DIEGO - State investigators have referred their findings of alleged fraud by former Deputy District Attorney Peter J. Long...
SAN DIEGO - A state appellate court has ruled that the civil code's litigation privilege that shields litigants from further l...
LOS ANGELES - In the first ruling of its kind in city history, a Los Angeles judge has declared a Venice man a bona fide membe...
SANTA ANA - Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas late Tuesday withdrew an agenda item asking the Board of Superviso...
LOS ANGELES - Two candidates for Los Angeles mayor told a gathering of lawyers Tuesday night that city government had better p...
LOS ANGELES - Say someone flattens your house - nothing left but a slab and some pipes. Do you plead theft or vandalism or som...
Constitutional Law
Justices Urged To Dump Own Precedent on Secret Mailing
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court appeared reluctant Wednesday to reverse its 1994 unanimous decision barring polit...
SACRAMENTO - California's court system is flooded with cases alleging health problems from toxic mold because there are no pub...
Litigation
Miracle Cure for Chubbiness Exercises Wine-Country Prosecutors
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Today's column is about the law of unintended consequences, prosecutorial angst and dieting. Up in the wine coun...
SAN FRANCISCO - Only a year ago, Internet patents were considered precious commodities, a must-have for every startup. Back th...
SAN FRANCISCO - Handing a significant tax victory to the restaurant industry, a split federal appeals court on Wednesday inval...
Employers used to working under federal law must develop strategies for dealing with the new, more liberal California law.
The economic damages expert is retained to value "hard-to-value" items. His opinion provides the trier-of-fact with a yardstic...
