Nursing mothers are now welcome to breast-feed their babies at Borders bookstores in California under terms of a settlement a...
Public Interest
For Foster Kids, Emancipation Often Leads to Homelessness
By Cheryl Romo
He's a bright kid with a refreshing sense of humor who has lived in foster care since he was 7 years old. Child advocates say...
Although there are a variety of transitional housing programs for foster youth in Los Angeles County, each has its own entran...
Large Firms
After Defections, Graham & James Sues Oppenheimer for 'Conspiracy'
By Leslie Gordon, Jennifer Byrd & T. Scott
SAN FRANCISCO - Graham & James has filed a suit against Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly and three of its partners, allegi...
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis is expected today to announce a resolution of the legal battle over Proposition 187 that substan...
The Los Angeles County prosecutor who angered his bosses by questioning in open court whether they had granted leniency to a ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Sticking to California's strict rule of automatic disqualification in conflict-of-interest situations, the Ca...
Law Practice
Local Court Reporting Firms Disappear as National Names Move In
By Martin Kruming
^^San Diego Watch / Martin Kruming^^ Court reporting firms in San Diego are feeling the pinch these days, and it's coming fro...
By Ralph O. Williams III and Michael P. King Litigators and mediators are sometimes confounded by the oxymoron of court-order...
By Mike Horner Defying all logic or pretense of acting for the greater common good, California's personal injury lawyers and ...
SAN DIEGO - A 68-year-old documentary filmmaker and ex-convict who is accused of dangling big dreams to lure $400,000 from tw...
Despite protests from community activists and a state senator, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously ...
Communications
San Francisco Board Delays Decision On Open High-Speed Internet Access
By David Kravetz
SAN FRANCISCO - Inside the Board of Supervisors chamber, where the fire alarm buzzed from the body heat of too many onlookers...
Government
Caltrans Settles O.C. Motel 6 Lawsuit for $1.4M
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - Caltrans has awarded a $1.4 million settlement to the owner of an Orange County Motel 6 - an action coming after ...
SAN JOSE - After winning a federal patent infringement lawsuit, Intel Corp. turned the tables Tuesday and filed a malicious p...
Rasheda Daniel will be a senior at Inglewood High School this fall. A straight-A student, she feels she is not given the same...
IRVINE - Irvine-based investment bank Cruttenden Roth Inc. has filed a lawsuit against its founder and former president, cont...
SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Supreme Court reporter Lyle Denniston of the Baltimore Sun threw down the gauntlet to judges early at th...
Gerald Chaleff, a partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and a longtime criminal defense lawyer, was unanimously elect...
SACRAMENTO - Nearly seven months into his tenure as governor, Democrat Gov. Gray Davis has repeatedly dodged the legal contro...
Constitutional Law
Press, Public Win Broad Access to Court Hearings
By Anna Marie Stolley
In a meticulous, sweeping opinion applying both California statutory law and the First Amendment, the California Supreme Cour...
MONTEREY - A panel of judges, academics and legal journalists, appearing at the annual 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judi...
SAN FRANCISCO - Odd as it may sound to anyone who hasn't toured the Tenderloin recently, the gritty San Francisco neighborhoo...
By Douglas G. Carnahan In the humorless 1980s, the California Commission on Judicial Performance published in one of its annu...
Race to Judgment Preparation, a good reputation and community involvement are essential to the judicial appointment process B...
By Kim Quackenbush Lawyers' increased dependence on e-mail has changed the face of law firm communication (as well as expande...
By Peter S. Selvin Foreign litigants often view U.S. courts as an attractive venue for disputes against U.S. companies, espec...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
County Will Pay $475,000 For Botched Medical Care
By Anna La Jeunesse
The county of Los Angeles Claims Board recommended Monday that the Board of Supervisors pay $475,000 to the survivors of a wo...
OROVILLE - Anthony Melton got off easy. After spending 23 days in custody during his extradition from Missouri to Northern Ca...
SAN FRANCISCO - Brobeck Phleger & Harrison has lost two of its most prominent corporate lawyers to Palo Alto-based Wilson...