A Littler Mendelson lawyer accused of posing as opposing counsel to obtain confidential information from witnesses in a wrong...
Government
Possible Candidates to Unseat S.F. District Attorney Discussed
By Laura Impellizzeri
SAN FRANCISCO - With three months left before the deadline to declare for district attorney, the names of at least eight San ...
The Commission on Judicial Performance's newest and youngest member also has a Hollywood connection - and becomes the fourth ...
Intellectual Property
Judge Denies Genentech Motion For Mistrial Over News Stories
By Pamela Mac Lean
On the fourth day of Genentech's Protropin patent infringement trial, a federal judge rejected the biotech firm's request for...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Attendees at the American Bar Association's Ninth National Conference on Children and the Law shared their...
Environmental
Farmers Challenge EPA Right To Regulate Runoff Into Rivers
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Farm and timber interests have launched a major court challenge of the federal government's authority to regu...
Government
Jury Clears San Bernardino in Administrators Harassment Suit
By Matthew Heller
INDIO - In a stunning conclusion to an eight-year legal battle, a jury has cleared the county of San Bernardino of failing to...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court announced Wednesday that it will decide the constitutionality of a term-limits i...
In an unusual request, Los Angeles County prosecutors have asked the judge in the upcoming murder retrial of a personal injur...
A special master has ruled that Los Angeles city officials and the attorneys who gave them advice about a federal overtime la...
Los Angeles native Tamiko S. Brown is not only the first member of her family to attend college, she also is the first to hav...
SACRAMENTO - The Association for California Tort Reform will change its name to Civil Justice Association of California, effe...
SAN FRANCISCO - David Coleman has been named the new public defender in Contra Costa County, making him the first black publi...
RIVERSIDE - When she attended a Riverside County day-care center for senior citizens in the mid-1990s, Aurelia Solano apparen...
Judges and Judiciary
Villaraigosa Adds Crystal Lui to Judicial Agency
By Jean Guccione
Crystal Lui, the wife of retired Los Angeles Court of Appeal Justice Elwood Lui, has been named to the Commission on Judicial...
WASHINGTON - Portraying himself as a proud foot soldier following the well-intentioned but misguided marching orders of the s...
Calling allegations of misconduct against Appellate Justice J. Anthony Kline "legally unsound," the California Judges Associa...
SAN FRANCISCO - Trading the bright lights of San Francisco for the somewhat more subdued glow of the state capital is against...
After prosecutors told jurors Tuesday that defendants in Operation Casablanca willingly participated in a massive money-laund...
Judges and Judiciary
Senate Judiciary Committee Passes Electronic Filing Measure
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - E-mail and Web pages could become standard tools for lawyers and consumers who use the civil justice system, und...
Former Menendez brothers prosecutor David Conn has filed suit against his ex-boss, Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil G...
Criminal
Legislature Takes a Step Toward Narrowing Felony-Murder Rule
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - A half-dozen young men get into a brawl over a drug deal gone bad. One of the four buyers stabs the two dealers....
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
There's Something Unorthodox About Legal Malpractice Claim
By Denise Levin
A legal malpractice lawsuit between attorneys who are active in the Orthodox Jewish community has pitted religious law agains...
If Roman M. Silberfeld were to list his victories during 25 years of practicing law, his resume of mass tort and personal inj...
SAN FRANCISCO - With hundreds of millions of dollars on the line, the long-delayed Genentech patent infringement trial opened...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Milberg Weiss Pays $50M to Settle Lawsuit
By Tom Orewyler
A day after being tagged with a $45 million verdict for allegedly trying to destroy the reputation of a high-profile law and ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Lawsuit Questions Neutrality of Arbitrator
By Denise Levin
A law firm has been sued for allegedly failing to tell its client, a jewelry company, that the neutral arbitrator presiding o...
Judges and Judiciary
Authorities Request Help in Jurists Shooting
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - San Bernardino County Sheriff's officials said Monday they are seeking further information about a vehicle a...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Judge Grants Retrial in Rent Control Case
By Patricia Jocobus
SAN FRANCISCO - Landlord attorneys who thought they'd scored a landmark victory when a jury ruled against the tenants in an E...
A little fish that could be the subject of a big legal dispute has won a round with a federal judge's ruling that authorities...