SAN FRANCISCO - After 50 years of the California Judges Association rendering ethics opinions to the state's judges, there's a...
Focus Column - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and Karen Brown - Two recent 6th District Court of Appeal decisions are changing the sta...
Large Firms
Lerach Says He Will Retire at End of Week to Resolve Investigation
By Gabe Friedmann
William S. Lerach, the controversial plaintiffs’ lawyer who helped transform private-shareholder litigation into a major field...
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney General Jerry Brown, fresh from a bruising fight with Republican lawmakers over his office's environm...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Bush Justice Department's Civil Rights Claims Don't Withstand Scrutiny
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - Despite boasting of legal breakthroughs, the administration has witnessed an increas...
Government
Tort Reformers Withdraw Initiative From Ballot as Strategic Move
By David Houstonn
SACRAMENTO - Tort reformers and the business lobby have withdrawn a June ballot proposal that would have made it difficult for...
SAN JOSE - For the first time, the Securities and Exchange Commission has charged an in-house counsel in connection with backd...
Focus Column - By Kenneth M. Walczak and Ernest Galvan - The state of paralegal billing may not be as perilous as you've been ...
Lewis Davis' hobby of deciphering American Indian petroglyphs is a natural offshoot of the Contra Costa judge's analytical jur...
Judicial Profile
Most Lawyers Never See Jurist They Consider No. 1 in Post-Judgment Matters
By Jennifer Hammn
LOS ANGELES - Even after Los Angeles County Superior Court Commissioner Murray B. Gross granted a bank's motion to assign righ...
In the end, legal experts say, the resignation of U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was inevitable. The new consensus is ...
SYDNEY, Australia - Challenger Financial Services Group Ltd. announced that the company has entered into an agreement with Col...
Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Cheryl Mills has been taken off two cases after a public defender complained of bias....
After months of speculation, 2nd District Court of Appeal Justice Vaino Spencer announced her retirement Monday, ending a 46-y...
Deals Column - By Jason Song - Jeffrey Kaye gets to the office around 2 p.m. "It's an advantage of working from home," he sai...
Forum Column - By Dennis Fernandez, Jeff Hunt and Raymond Ibon - If Microsoft and a handful of other major corporations get th...
Corporate
Former Brocade CEO Says Conflicting Theories Prove Need for New Trial
By David Houstonn
SAN JOSE - To obtain a conviction, prosecutors argued that the former CEO of Brocade Communications Systems Inc. "deceived" hi...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Bush Administration Breaking Vow to Strengthen Children's Health Care
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - During the 2004 election, the president promised to expand health care to more children. T...
Web Exclusive - Nationally prominent constitutional law professor Erwin Chemerinsky has emerged as one of two leading contende...
LOS ANGELES - After quashing indicted Hollywood private eye Anthony Pellicano's subpoena for a journalist's telephone records ...
LOS ANGELES - New York's Dewey Ballantine announced Monday it is in final talks to merge with fellow New York powerhouse LeBoe...
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger delivered a swift kick in the butt to Attorney General Jerry Brown for suing local gov...
SAN FRANCISCO - Anaheim may be home to the happiest place on earth, but things could get acrimonious there next month when the...
LOS ANGELES - Facing criticism for talking big about critical issues while allowing personal problems and legal setbacks to cl...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Court Protects Public's Right to Information
By Laura Ernden
The public's right to know trumped the privacy rights of public employees in two cases decided Monday by the California Suprem...
WASHINGTON - With the slow summer months quickly coming to a close, U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement, the government's lawy...
RIVERSIDE - Police on Monday were investigating a threat, possibly gang-related, against Riverside County's district attorney,...
Focus Column - By Christopher H. McGrath and Oleg Cross - The growing use of "pre-emptive sweeps" has the potential to make l...
Litigation
Class Action Could Be One of the Last Dot-Com Bust Trials
By Gabe Friedmann
A federal judge in Oakland has cleared the way for one of the largest securities-fraud trials in Northern California. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Silicon Valley legal star Larry Sonsini and two other former Brocade Communications Systems Inc. directors wil...