Champagne Toast Unlikely At Gathering On Indicators
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - To hear the U.S. government tell it, the Europeans want to take away your trusty green can of Kraft Parmesan ...
Attorney Harry Wartnick
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney Harry Wartnick, a pioneer in asbestos litigation, died Monday after a long history of heart problems...
Curbing Poor Driving Habits
By Mark Cromer
SANTA ANA - As the mother of a teenager who soon will drive and with the memory of her own spotty record during her youthful ...
Ashcroft, Mexico AG Announce Drug Charges
By Claude Walbert
LOS ANGELES - Officials said Tuesday they are seeking lesser charges against alleged high-powered Mexican drug lords in an ef...
Lockyer Renews Attack on 17200 Firms
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Stepping up efforts to curb alleged abuses of California's unfair business practices law, state Attorney General...
Expungements of Past Convictions Mount
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Elaine is a woman with a past. And it almost cost her her job. The child-care worker in San Diego ran afoul of th...
Family Law Judge Keeps His Cool
By Claude Walbert
VISTA - When Steven R. Denton became a Superior Court judge two years ago after decades as a civil litigator, he was assigned ...
Chinese Pair Win Asylum Hearing
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court agreed Monday to reconsider political asylum for an unmarried Chinese couple that fle...
Case of Fertility Clinic Mistake Addresses Issues of Parentage
By Columnist
Focus Column - Family Law - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - Developments and advances in fertility s...
Equal Opportunity
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Mary L. Smith - The U.S. Supreme Court just reaffirmed that equal opportunity in higher education remains ce...
Battle for Bonds' Baseball Enters Extra Inning
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - When the judge's gavel fell last December, it resolved the fight over the ball. When the auctioneer's gavel f...
Panel Narrows Suit Against Media
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - A doctor who says he lost his medical practice as a result of a television expos can sue the station for secretl...
PG&E Is Granted More Legal Fees
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Expenses and fees for attorneys and consultants in the Pacific Gas & Electric Company topped $100 million ...
Key Vote Looms on Pick for Claims Court
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The Senate will vote today on a motion to allow for a final up-or-down vote on a nominee for the U.S. Court of Fe...
OSHA Doesn't Apply at Home
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - In a ruling that prevents some claims by unlicensed contractors injured on the job, the California Supreme Court ...
DCA Rules In Probation Staff Ruckus
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court has upheld a $20,000 verdict against Alameda County and controversial former probation...
Delivery Drivers Sue Orange County Register
By Mark Cromer
SANTA ANA - The Orange County Register was slapped with a class action Monday alleging that the newspaper company classifies i...
Jet-Crash Victims' Families Settle for $11.7 Million
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - The families of three of the 18 people who died in a 2001 charter jet crash in Aspen agreed Monday to a last-min...
Judge in Pot Case 'Looking for a Hook' to Help Collective
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A federal judge sympathized with the operators of a Santa Cruz County cooperative seeking an injunction to grow med...
Lawyer's Motion to Withdraw From Pooh Case Is Official Secret
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - It may be a cold, blustery, nasty, very expensive day in Winnie the Pooh Litigation Land before the n...
9th to Rehear Asylum Case Over China's Family Policy
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court agreed Monday to reconsider political asylum for an unmarried Chinese couple who fled ...
Counsel Uses Novel Tactic in Wrongful-Death Suit
By Matthew Heller
SAN LUIS OBISPO - Attorney James McKiernan is taking a novel approach in an attempt to obtain compensation for the death of a ...
Ball Litigant Has Blown Save
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - When the judge's gavel fell last December, it resolved the fight over the ball. When the auctioneer's gavel fe...
Equal Opportunity
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Reid Alan Cox - The U.S. Supreme Court has spoken, and according to a five-justice majority in Grutter v....
Signs of Optimism Might Replace Those Saying 'For-Rent' in Bay Area
By Contributing Writer
BY JIM EMERSON CREJ Staff Writer Cautious optimism is creeping back into the office sector in the San Francisco Bay area, des...
Navigating Turbulent Waters of Historic Preservation
By Columnist
BY MONICA WITT California is running out of available open land to develop. This lack of space has spurred many people to move...
Defending State Supreme Court Puts Pro in Spotlight
By Joan Osterwalder
It's not every day that your client is the California Supreme Court. But Nancy Pritikin of San Francisco's Littler Mendelson r...
Pharmaceutical Firms Will Join Forces
By Toni Vranjes
In another massive biotechnology deal, Biogen Inc. and Idec Pharmaceuticals Corp. have agreed to merge in a multibillion-dolla...
IP Litigator Joins His Friends At L.A.'s Palmer & Lombardi
By Liz Valsamis
Sean Kneafsey has left Hennigan, Bennett & Dorman to get in at the ground level of Los Angeles' Palmer & Lombardi. Kne...
Macquarie $773 Million Deal Paves Way for New Toll Road
By Toni Vranjes
Australian bank Macquarie Infrastructure Group has closed a $773-million financing deal that paves the way for construction to...