Large Firms
MoFo Expands Its Sacramento Office
By Leslie Gordon
Charles S. Farman, a corporate and securities lawyer, has joined Morrison & Foerster as a partner in the firm's Sacramento...
Juvenile
County Tackles Questions of Childrens Privacy
By Cheryl Romo
How to safeguard an abused child's privacy in the computer age - particularly when multidisciplinary teams from different gov...
Judges and Judiciary
Commission Finds Judge Unqualified
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - A State Bar panel announced Tuesday it had found one of former Gov. Pete Wilson's 11th-hour judicial appointment...
Judges and Judiciary
San Bernardino Court Plan Draws Criticism
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - Officials in several high-desert communities are balking at a $240 million plan to combine San Bernardino Co...
Government
Molina Seeks Fiscal Fix-It Plan for DA
By Lauren Blau
Concerned about lax financial procedures in the district attorney's office, Los Angeles County Supervisor Gloria Molina intro...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Rent Control Is Not a Taking, Court Decides
By Philip Carrizosa
Narrowly rejecting an innovative attack on rent control, a closely divided California Supreme Court ruled Monday that a landl...
Labor/Employment
West Salesman Claims Spurned Boss Fired Him
By Anne La Jeunesse
Legal publishing giant West Group and its parent company, the Thomson Corp., are being sued by an Orange County man who claim...
Large Firms
Skadden Arps Awards Public Interest Fellowships
By Stephanie Francis Cahill
Carrying on a tradition begun in 1989, the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom on Monday awarded 28 public i...
Government
Superior Court Violated Clerks' Rights, Judge Rules
By Denise Levin
An Orange County Superior Court judge has ruled that the Los Angeles Superior Court violated state law by denying certain dep...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
A Question of Credit
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Contention over credit for a seminal U.S. Supreme Court antitrust case argued 40 years ago has embroiled two ...
Environmental
County to Settle Officer's Suit, Plus Another Claim
By Lauren Blau
A Los Angeles police officer who hurt his neck and back when he slipped at a court facility where he was serving as a court l...
Judges and Judiciary
Quentin Kopp Takes on New Role as Jurist
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Judge Quentin L. Kopp, following his swearing-in Jan. 2 as San Mateo County's newest Superior Court jurist, s...
Discipline
Public Angrily Reacts to Lawyer's Actions
By Amy Bentley
VENTURA - In 25 years of practice as a prosecutor and criminal defense attorney, Louis "Chuck" Samonsky said he has never see...
Civil Rights
Restroom Taping Exposes Firm To Claim of Ruined Relationship
By Mathew Heller
RIVERSIDE - Among the barrage of privacy lawsuits filed against Consolidated Freightways since video surveillance cameras wer...
Securities
Securities Fraud Actions Allowed Under State Law
By Pamela Mac Lean
Keeping alive more than 50 pending California state securities fraud cases, the state Supreme Court on Monday ruled that out-...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Silicon Sizzle Defines Year in Dealmaking
By Tom Orewyler
California law firms were among the beneficiaries of $307 billion in California deals last year - a significant number of whi...
Tax
The 1099 Nightmare
By Don De Benedictis
A year after a new tax law specifically targeting lawyers took effect, the Internal Revenue Service has yet to issue regulati...
Elder Law
Annuities Settlement Will Help Educate Seniors
By Don De Benedictis
The multimillion-dollar settlement last week between the state attorney general's office and an Ohio-based life insurance comp...
Government
Justices Let West Hollywood Gun Ordinance Stand
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - In a sharp defeat for the gun lobby, the California Supreme Court refused Tuesday to consider a challenge to ...
Criminal
Report on Prosecutor's Conduct Urges Reversals
By Marty Graham
SAN DIEGO - A Superior Court judge recommended that the 4th District Court of Appeal grant a habeas corpus motion filed by fo...
Criminal
Law Will Help Boot Drug-Dealing Tenants
By Lauren Blau
A new law that will go on the books in January will help Los Angeles evict suspected drug dealers from their apartments, and ...
Judges and Judiciary
'Gentleman' Judge Philip Cox Dies at 69 at His Virginia Home
By Tori Richards
SANTA ANA - Services are pending in Virginia for former Orange County Superior Court Presiding Judge Philip E. Cox. Cox died ...
Judges and Judiciary
Ontario Officials Lobby for New Courthouse
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
ONTARIO - Building new courthouses in San Bernardino, the High Desert and Rancho Cucamonga were among options presented to Sa...
Government
Kolkey, Other Nominees Confirmed for Appellate Bench
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - Daniel M. Kolkey, Gov. Pete Wilson's legal affairs secretary, has been confirmed as a justice on the 3rd Distric...
Criminal
S.F. Prosecutor Lashes Out at Superior Court Judge
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Superior Court Judge William Cahill recused District Attorney Terence Hallinan and his entire office Monday fr...
Criminal
'Strikes Man' Gets a Second Long-Shot Defense Victory
By Michael Harris
In an extremely rare, if not unprecedented, occurrence in California's criminal courts, a convicted two-strike defendant has ...
Litigation
Lawyer Is Liable for Malpractice; Jury Splits on Harassment Claim
By Anna La Jeunesse
A Pasadena attorney who initially was accused of raping a client and mishandling a civil lawsuit against her company has been...
Judges and Judiciary
Judges Dedication Is Admired
By V. H. Jolly
SAN DIEGO - It's 7 a.m. and Superior Court Judge Terry J. Knoepp has been in chambers for almost an hour, poring over court do...
Appellate Practice
Molester Can Be Denied Sexually Oriented Matter
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court has ruled a convicted child molester may be barred from possessing "sexually stimulat...
Law Practice
Pillsburys Firing Of a Passionate Partner Is Upheld
By Anna Marie Stolley
As affairs between lawyers in the same office go, it wasn't the most chivalrous breakup. Besides calling his ex-lover a "gutt...