Forum Column - By Jeff Adachi - San Francisco's public defender isn't impressed with state Senate Bill 40, which would make it...
LOS ANGELES - Appellate lawyer Patricia Lofton, who became a lawyer after a career in the performing arts, has died after a lo...
A federal appeals panel ruled Friday that U.S. District Judge A. Howard Matz of Los Angeles applied the federal Medicaid Act i...
Industry Watch - By Andrew Harmon - Intellectual property attorney Steven Weinberg recently traded one Greenberg for another. ...
Focus Column - By Ronald A. Hartmann - A new decision treads the bumpy ground of court-ordered mediations. ...
WASHINGTON - Democrats in Congress and Republicans in the White House have spent the last week staring each other down over wh...
WASHINGTON - In 14 detailed, bullet-pointed pages, investors who lost money in telecommunications specialist Tellabs Inc., pai...
Industry Watch - By Emma Dewald - LOS ANGELES - Networking events don't always involve crowded Westside bars with $10 cocktai...
Judicial Profile
State's Longest-Serving Judge Casts a Wise Eye on Defendants
By Jennifer Hammn
SANTA BARBARA - When Joseph L. Lodge was elected to the bench in 1958, judges didn't have to be attorneys and the right to be ...
On the Move
Whether serving as 'air-traffic controller' for the North Justice Center or presiding over a DUI Court pilot project, Judge Do...
Recently elected Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Bobbi Tillmon, a family-law commissioner for 12 years, finds that muc...
Stanford intellectual property expert Lawrence Lessig brokered a settlement between James Joyce’s heirs and a university colle...
Forum Column - By Elizabeth Byrne Debreu - A Superior Court judge got it all wrong in ruling that a historic-preservation ordi...
Focus Column - Unless a court order imposes a limitation, a litigant has the right to discover any nonprivileged relevant mate...
The city of Modesto has settled one gender-discrimination lawsuit but faces a similar legal battle in a suit that is set for a...
SAN JOSE - For the state attorney general's office, a Santa Clara County judge's decision last week to effectively kill its pr...
SAN FRANCISCO - The first time Alameda County held a civil domestic violence court, Chief Assistant District Attorney Nancy O'...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco jury has awarded $23 million in damages to a woman who suffered permanent brain damage when sh...
SAN FRANCISCO - When a major pharmaceutical company reached a settlement with about a million consumers who felt misled by a c...
SAN FRANCISCO - Not so fast, the California Supreme Court has warned banks that dip into customers' accounts to hold Social Se...
Judges and Judiciary
Prosecutor of Controversial Cases Loved Mountain Biking and Classical Music
By Jennifer Hammn
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Jeffrey Semow, the prosecutor who tried Whitewater scandal figure Su...
LOS ANGELES - A judge on Thursday turned down a request by a man who was wrongly convicted of murder to see the transcript of ...
Employment Column - Employment litigation just got a lot tougher. A specialist provides guidance for defense counsel on how to...
Judges and Judiciary
U.S. Attorney Under Reagan Is Most Well-Known Candidate for S.F. Post
By Amelia Hansen
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco's U.S. attorney during the Reagan administration is ready again to serve at the pleasure of the ...
In summer 1994, a smokestack on a Unocal Corp. oil refinery in San Francisco's East Bay spat a dirty chemical into the air and...
SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has named a gang prosecutor to the San Bernardino County Superior Court, one of the...
NORCO - State authorities are investigating a Norco grandmother for posting signs in her front yard protesting a next-door gro...
SAN FRANCISCO - California coastal regulators on Thursday charted a collision course with the U.S. Navy over the state's abili...
LOS ANGELES - David L. Neal, a former Los Angeles lawyer, has been named top U.S. immigration judge, ending speculation over w...