SAN FRANCISCO - Federal prosecutors will try today to persuade U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer not to dismiss the first cr...
SAN FRANCISCO - Perkins Coie's San Francisco commercial litigation practice has landed Geraldine Alexis, former co-chair of Bi...
Senior 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Stephen S. Trott and his nationally known folk band, The Highwaymen, entertaine...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Simpson Trial Continues to Affect Racial Decisions in the Courts
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - A decade after O.J. Simpson was acquitted of murder charges, his impact on race rela...
Focus Column - By Ken Moscaret - Lawyers need not settle for low rates in cases in which they are defending corporate clients ...
Judges and Judiciary
Retired Justice of the Peace Is Remembered by All as Selfless
By Pat Alston
LOS ANGELES - A memorial celebration of life will take place in October for Alan E. Ellis, a former Tuolumne County justice of...
Forum Column - By Daniel G. Emilio - California has a future full of mediocre state judges if it doesn't start getting serious...
LOS ANGELES - A well-known DUI defense lawyer is accused of sexually harassing his former female staff attorney over the cours...
Web Exclusive - Santa Clara County prosecutors withheld a tape recording of an arrest, and now a murder conviction is undone o...
A state appellate court on Tuesday upheld the San Francisco 49ers' right to frisk ticket holders on game days. ...
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for Dow Chemical may not have had any choice in where their client would face toxic-tort claims from N...
SAN FRANCISCO - From the steps of the Hall of Justice on an October morning in 2003, Bill Fazio pledged to live in San Francis...
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers in the Los Angeles county counsel's office often ignored procedures designed to limit its multimillion-d...
Judge Joseph Kalin, an old hand at complex litigation, relishes complicated cases that come his way. ...
Law Practice
Nonagenarian Jurist Has Plenty of Ideas for Access to Justice
By David Houstonn
Retired Judge Julius M. Title was recently appointed to the State Bar Commission on Access to Justice by the governor. At 91, ...
SAN DIEGO - The Urban Land Institute San Diego/Tijuana District Council is offering a new program for public agencies and nonp...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Justices: Grossly Negligent Acts Invalidate Liability Waivers
By Max Follmer
Brushing aside concerns from a host of sports and recreation providers, including the health club industry and NASCAR, a sharp...
Forum Column - By Natalie Prescott - The EU is attempting to adopt American-style consumer protection without its attendant li...
Government
Judges Weighing Prison Cap Could Tackle Sentence Reform, Some Say
By David Houstonn
SACRAMENTO - As two federal judges decide whether to create a panel of jurists to cap the inmate population in California's ov...
The Daily Journal has won two first-place awards for the newspaper from the California Newspaper Publishers Association. ...
Focus Column - By Michael C. McMahon - A high-profile case involving the NFL has big implications for juror misconduct law. ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Lawyer Gets Suspension in Settlement Dispute
By Amy Yarbroughn
SAN FRANCISCO - The State Bar Court has recommended a San Francisco attorney be suspended, saying he twice tried to sneak thro...
John Hession, a Boston-based emerging companies and venture capital partner who's been lawyering for a quarter-century, said h...
LOS ANGELES - A team of two dozen attorneys from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom's Los Angeles office represented IHOP ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Momentum Grows for Opening High Court to Servicemembers
By Laura Ernden
SAN FRANCISCO - Unlike criminal defendants, members of the military who are court-martialed are not allowed to ask the U.S. Su...
Plaintiffs’ attorneys Paul Kiesel, left, and Ray Boucher rally outside the Los Angeles County Courthouse Monday with Lee Bashf...
The California Supreme Court on Monday unanimously refused to dismiss a malicious-prosecution lawsuit against a once-successfu...
Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo has faced a string of personal embarrassments of late, but some point out that he h...
Charlotte Jean Orcutt had her eye on the prize at a young age. 'I always knew I wanted to be a judge,' said the San Joaquin ...
LOS ANGELES - Today, the Writers Guild of America, West, sits down with television and film producers to begin hashing out b...