SEC Settles Suit Stemming From the O.C. Bankruptcy
By Martin Bergn
Concluding one of its first enforcement actions against municipal bond counsel, authorities said the Securities and Exchange ...
Retired Brobeck Partner Recalled For Talent, Wit
By Pamela Mc Clintock
Robert S. Daggett, a prominent and much-loved San Francisco litigator who filled the city's courtrooms with masterful oratory...
L.A. Will Pay $1.1M to Settle Defamation Suits
By Lauren Blau
The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to settle four defamation and civil rights lawsuits for $1.1 million filed by me...
Will Voters Break the Charter Stalemate?
By Lauren Blau
In stark contrast to its elected counterpart, the appointed charter reform commission voted unanimously Wednesday to adopt a ...
Road to Nowhere
By Don De Benedictis
Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Burbank, has introduced a bill to restore the State Bar of California, but the bill offers virtually no c...
Kissing Off DA Doesn't Stand in Way of Promotion
By Michael Harris
Since first being elected in 1992, Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti has been accused on occasion of taking r...
It's a Dangerous, Litigious World, Disney Suit Says
By Denise Levin
It's a dangerous world after all, claims a Los Angeles woman who says she suffered a brain hemorrhage while riding the Indian...
A Simple Plan
By Chris Ford
It seems like a simple matter, really. The Los Angeles Superior Court's rule on footers, which became effective Friday, says ...
Heller Firm Hires Two in San Diego
By Pearl Piatt
Heller Firm Hires Two in San Diego Significantly bolstering its San Diego presence, San Francisco's Heller Ehrman White &...
Bank of Americas In-House Group Hit by Big Withdrawal
By Vivien Chen
SAN FRANCISCO - Two of Bank of America's top in-house attorneys are leaving in the wake of the bank's recent merger with Nati...
The King May Be Dead, But His Hideaway Can Rock
By Mathew Heller
PALM SPRINGS - The city of Palm Springs has abandoned its legal effort to bar the owner of Elvis Presley's Honeymoon Hideaway ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 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-...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...