Orrick Will Leave the Old Fed to Take SOMA Building
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe is moving its San Francisco headquarters out of the Financial District to ...
Judge Upholds State's Rules for Diverting Delta Water
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A Sacramento Superior Court judge, in what is being called one of the most significant water rulings in years...
Fees Top $88 Million In PG&E Bankruptcy
By Tina Spee
SAN FRANCISCO - Big paydays should always be so easy. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali took less than 10 minutes Friday t...
Mentally Ill Drifter Will Stand Trial for Murder
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A mentally ill drifter will stand trial for the 1998 slaying of 12-year-old Stephanie Crowe after a San Diego Cou...
High Court Uncovers Naked Truth About Sex Shop Name
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Acting on a trademark suit brought by lingerie maker Victoria's Secret, the Supreme Court Tuesday ruled that a t...
Church Tackles Self-Improvement
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - Washington power lawyer Robert Bennett has stood up to special prosecutors and defended a sitting U.S. presiden...
Court Affirms Asset Freeze in Fraud Case
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court has upheld a freeze on the assets of a Beverly Hills woman whose ex-husband was ordered...
In the Dark
By Columnist
Forum Column By Kevin B. Zeese Marney Craig is a middle-class Caucasian woman with a good job, fine family and clear sense of ...
Court OKs Longer Quake Deadline
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court Monday upheld the constitutionality of a state law that extended the deadline for victi...
Jurist's Conduct Left Officials No Choice But to Act
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Laurie L. Levenson - It makes prosecutors nervous when judges go outside their traditional roles. Therefore,...
Panel Lets Sci-Fi Writer Sue for Film Profits
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Television director and science fiction film writer Ib Melchior can continue to fight New Line Productions Inc....
Justices Ponder Officer's Liability for Defective Warrant
By David Pike
By David F. Pike Nevada Journal Staff Writer WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether law enforcem...
Lawyer Wants Gun Charges Against Sleuth Tossed
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - The lawyer for private investigator Anthony Pellicano said Monday that gun charges against his client should be...
DA Is Defiant On the Eve of S.F. Officers' Arraignment
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan on Monday invoked his past as a civil libertarian and his current role as t...
Bill Fazio, the Once and Future Rival, Wants to See Hallinan in Court
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Criminal defense lawyer Bill Fazio, a longtime rival for San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan's jo...
Court Hints It Won't OK Suing Telemarketers
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Weighing a major consumer-protection issue, the Supreme Court justices indicated Monday that they will not allow...
Qwest for Excellence: Feds Give Voice Lessons on Corporate Squealing
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Roll over and squeal. No, this is not a line from the movie "Deliverance." It's part of the federal g...
Copycat Criminals
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - The acquittal of a Russian software company of copyright violation charges under the Digital Millennium Copyright A...
Moral Wrangling
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Stephen Yagman - California Attorney General Bill Lockyer wants 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Alex...
Nothing Substitutes for an Expert's Practical Experience
By Columnist
Focus Column - Legal Malpractice - By Alec H. Boyd - In negligence and breach-of-fiduciary-duty cases arising from an attorney...
Toxic Tort Plaintiffs' Loss Contains a Big Win for the Future
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The world's largest defense contractor won tactical victories in two California Supreme Court decisions Monday...
San Diego DA Makes Changes In Leadership
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO -District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis on Monday began putting her stamp on the department she wrested from Paul Pfingst...
Justices Ponder Officer's Liability for Defective Warrant
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether law enforcement officers can be held liable for damages if...
Deadline Arrives to Introduce Legislative Proposals
By Columnist
BY REX HIME To date, nearly 2000 bills have been introduced. Legislation of interest to CBPA members just introduced include: ...
Local Chief Wants Legal Marketers' Day in the Sun
By Stefanie Knapp
Teachers expect juicy red apples on Teacher Appreciation Day. Secretaries get special attention - probably a large vase of flo...
Johnson & Johnson Will Buy Biotech Firm
By Toni Vranjes
Johnson & Johnson has agreed to buy Sunnyvale's Scios Inc. for $2.4 billion in cash to enhance its biotechnology arsenal. ...
Small-Town Sale Inspires Another Internet Auction
By Wire
ASSOCIATED PRESS CARLOTTA - Taking a cue from Bridgeville, the small Northern California town sold on the Internet auction blo...
Fee Hike Could Jeopardize Apartment Construction in Goleta
By Wire
ASSOCIATED PRESS GOLETA - Builders say there's a chill in Goleta. Higher development fees for bigger roads, bike routes and m...
Sales Talk
By Stefanie Knapp
Milton Stewart decided early last year that his firm needed to do a better job developing new business. The economy was in the...
Market Mavens
By Toni Vranjes
It's not the stuff of "Joe Millionaire," "Survivor" or the myriad other reality shows flooding America's television sets, but ...