Web Exclusive - The latest new documents from the Justice Department do not make the case that White House officials orchestra...
LOS ANGELES - In the courtroom, it would have been a hung jury. But on Monday night, superstar litigator Robert Shapiro was co...
Forum Column - By Jill A. Singer - Workers' compensation reform has gutted the injureds' ability to take care of themselves. ...
Focus Column - By Roderick Walston - Congressional legislation involving America's waterways would dramatically increase the p...
SACRAMENTO - Superior Court Judge James Henke, a vociferous critic of trial-court unification and advocate for small court bra...
LOS ANGELES - Six months after Broadcom Corp. released the findings of an internal investigation that revealed widespread stoc...
The infant daughter of dead starlet Anna Nicole Smith appears more likely to inherit her mother’s legal bills than a multimill...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Court Opinion Becomes Cause for Congress
By Hurley
WASHINGTON - Members of Congress aren't shy in letting the Supreme Court know when they don't like one of its rulings. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Opponents of a redevelopment plan for the Bayview-Hunters Point area who gathered signatures for a ballot refe...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
In Superfund Shift, High Court OKs Voluntary-Cleanup Suits
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Reaching a different conclusion than it did three years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that a private p...
Focus Column - By Gordon McAuley - Gordon McAuley examines the implications of more-stringent antitrust laws for the trucking ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Justices Take Bias Case on Testimony
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider an employment-discrimination case to decide whether judges must ...
LOS ANGELES - An attorney who defrauded clients of $293,000 in a variety of investment schemes was sentenced Monday to four ye...
Forum Column - By Barbara J. Cox - Barbara Cox celebrates the 40-year anniversary of the Supreme Court decisions that legalize...
Transactions
Electronic Arts Gets Into the Asian Game With Chinese Investment
By Jason Songn
Deals Column - By Jason Song - Marketing the world's most popular sport in the world's most populous country seems like a natu...
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Monday to force federal officials to help locate ...
Republicans are getting all the heat over firing and hiring of U.S. attorneys, but Democrats are no strangers to finding strat...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Court Agrees to Take Case on Sentencing
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Wading into the controversy over federal penalties for crack-cocaine offenses, the U.S. Supreme Court announced M...
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, ...