The following is a recapitulation of a recent foray made into one of the local courts adjacent to the desert high country. Ple...
In today's job market New Economy employees are as mobile as the phones and personal digital assistants they create. At least ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Prominent attorney Guy Rounsaville Jr., has returned to his in-house roots and taken a position as executive v...
Ever since 1986, the U.S. Supreme Court has reassumed its role as the defender of property rights guaranteed by the Fifth Amen...
LOS ANGELES - Oakland-based Crosby Heafey Roach & May launched a Southern California intellectual property practice this w...
As Napster heads to court - again - today, the music industry has vowed to present itself a united front against its so-called...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Pelican Bay inmate implicated in the notorious San Francisco dog mauling case was granted phone privileges T...
Technology & Science
'Equal Opportunity Satirist' Pours Hot Water on Almost Everything
By Contributing Writer
San Jose attorney Ray Bilbeaux once tried doing stand-up comedy during open-mike time at Los Angeles comedy clubs, but he deci...
LOS ANGELES - Dick Goldberg, a veteran television newsman and former reporter and columnist for the Los Angeles Daily Journal,...
SAN DIEGO - A public-private partnership on Wednesday launched one of the nation's largest programs to help domestic violence ...
LOS ANGELES - A young intellectual-property attorney and his wife have received nearly $200,000 in a settlement after their we...
SAN FRANCISCO - When he was first appointed to the bench, Ronald Evans Quidachay was in demand. Ethnic, political and communit...
Criminal
Jury Deciding Man's Fate Won't Know He Raped His Own Mother
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - Four days after he finished a prison term for murder, Steven Daniel Matthews raped his own mother. But the ju...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Thursday reaffirmed its zero-tolerance policy for attorneys who commit crimes ...
LOS ANGELES - Lewis Feldman, rainmaker and head of the structured-finance practice group at Cox Castle & Nicholson, has le...
SAN FRANCISCO - The old boys' club atmosphere at a small San Francisco firm doomed female attorneys to failure, a former assoc...
It is no longer sufficient to justify government action that favored constituents would benefit. ...
LOS ANGELES - A woman injured on the job at a La Salsa restaurant unsuccessfully petitioned a state appellate court in Los Ang...
You are in court. Your client is with you. The judge takes the bench. "The judge is wearing a pony tail," your client observes...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge David S. Wesley, assistant supervising judge of the county's criminal courts, h...
LOS ANGELES - John F. Walker Jr., former Latham & Watkins chair and one of the most high-profile partners in the firm's Lo...
The California Supreme Court has recently ruled on a federal civil rights case in the contentious area of rent regulation. In ...
SAN DIEGO - An appellate court in San Diego has ruled that a penal-code section that prevents criminal defendants from appeali...
SAN FRANCISCO - Jury selection in the infamous "Pink Tarantula" case is set to begin Monday. Two men are charged in the action...
LOS ANGELES - Rock star Courtney Love filed a cross-complaint Wednesday against UMG Recordings, alleging that the recording co...
SACRAMENTO - Despite laws beefing up protections for whistleblowers, workers may be reluctant to report alleged misdeeds becau...
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for six African-American men may depose eight security guards accused of beating the men as they shopp...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Board of Education has authorized a $3.5 million reorganization of the massive school district's...
Law Practice
Former Fiancée Files $5M Suit Against Baseball Player Justice
By Donna Huffaker
LOS ANGELES - The former fiancée of New York Yankee David Justice filed a $5 million lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court Wed...
LOS ANGELES - Trial will start Monday for former attorney James H. Davis and his wife, Gilda Mejia Davis, who are accused of b...