Angela Bradstreet, a politically active labor attorney who became one of the Bay Area’s first female managing partners, has be...
Ventura Judge Patricia Murphy, who wanted to be a prosecutor since she was 12, has cemented her reputation for preparation an...
Entertainment & Sports
Shapiro's Boxing Match Gives New Meaning to 'Charity Case'
By D.Heimpel
It will be age versus rage tonight when litigator Robert Shapiro, left, boxes disc jockey Danny Bonaduce to raise money for Vi...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority must pay $14 million to a man who was partially par...
Assailants with alleged Taliban ties charged with beating an Afghan expatriate in West Sacramento must stand trial for assault...
Industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - LOS ANGELES - Dickstein Shapiro lured business litigation attorneys James Turken and Amy ...
Focus Column - By Jeff Kichaven - Jeff Kichaven offers a few suggestions to make insurance mediation a more amicable process. ...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Family Ties Should Not Bind Those Who Craft Employment Law
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By Frances Rogers - Frances Rogers uncovers the downside of workplace anti-discrimination proposals. ...
SANTA ANA - A man who killed a young South Orange County lawyer by injecting her with a cocaine overdose will spend the rest o...
Industry Watch - By Peter B. Matuszak - LOS ANGELES - After finishing his work as second chair to Kenneth Starr, arguing Morse...
Industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal expanded its presence in San Francisco's life-sciences-...
Industry Watch - By William-Arthur Haynes - PALO ALTO - Boston-based Goodwin Procter launched its Palo Alto office last week, ...
It’s been two years since prosecutors failed to get convictions for the three Oakland police officers known as the “Riders,” w...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Head Criminal Judge Gets Reassigned
By Donna Dominon
SAN FRANCISCO - The Superior Court's head criminal judge, James J, McBride, has been reassigned to civil court following a man...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Lawyers Bash Proposed Rule on Disclosure
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Attorneys and advocacy groups throughout the legal spectrum are voicing strong objections to a U.S. Supreme Court...
Bankruptcy law was in the throes of change when Geraldine Mund was appointed judge in 1984, a period in the judiciary she late...
With Honors
Resignations, Suspensions, Ethics Suspensions and more.
On the Move
Supporting his reputation for meticulousness, Fresno County Judge Wayne R. Ellison has compiled four volumes of notes on the...
Commissioner Robert Fracchia says he is fascinated by juvenile dependency, but it's his broader legal background that he think...
Attorney Bill J. Sayed of Tarzana is one of a growing number of lawyers nationwide who is using online software through Cybers...
LOS ANGELES - William S. Lerach likely will leave the San Diego plaintiffs' firm he co-founded within six months, a senior par...
SAN FRANCISCO - Robert W. Tarun graduated from Stanford University in 1971, and he's been looking for an opportunity to return...
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys continue to jockey for position to represent a class of 300,000 BAR/BRI bar-review course takers weeks...
Owners and managers of more than a dozen Los Angeles rental properties have agreed to notify tenants of potentially dangerous ...
Focus Column - Rochellen Spandorf examines new Federal Trade Commission regulations for franchises. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A veteran Contra Costa judge credited with getting a new courthouse built and breathing new life into voir dir...
Judges and Judiciary
California Judges Association Selects Leader From Plumas
By Donna Dominon
Plumas County Superior Court Presiding Judge Ira R. Kaufman, a former public defender, will be the new president of the Califo...
Forum Column - Judge Lynn Duryee has a hilarious take on questions that judges aren't asked ... but should be. ...