FORUM COLUMN - By Anne Colby and William Sullivan - Breaking news: Law schools relegate ethics to the back burner, creating a ...
Environmental
Liability Ruling Opens New Route to Recovery for Pollution
By Dennis Pfaffn
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge's recent decision could boost the fortunes of some cities trying to find deep pockets to...
WASHINGTON - Noncitizens who aid and abet a crime of theft can be deported for it, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday, rev...
SAN FRANCISCO - After three years of secret grand-jury investigations, the California Department of Justice plans soon to arre...
Hurricane Katrina destroyed his home, and the exodus from New Orleans drained his client pool. So plaintiffs' attorney Gary Ro...
LOS ANGELES - An environmental law group has sued the Southern California Gas Co., alleging that cancer-causing chemicals leak...
Kevin Ryan of San Francisco and Carol Lam of San Diego on Tuesday became the latest U.S. attorneys to resign, prompting Sen. D...
Firm Watch
Heller Ehrman Setting Sights on Sites for Its Britain Invasion
By Anna Oberthurn
SAN FRANCISCO - In a move that would place a Heller Ehrman office on European soil for the first time, the San Francisco-based...
WASHINGTON - In a setback for Pacific Gas & Electric Co., the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to review a 9th U.S. C...
WASHINGTON - Wrestling with a closely watched business case, the U.S. Supreme Court expressed concern Tuesday about a plaintif...
An Ohio man is entitled to inherit from a biological father he never met face-to-face, a state appellate court ruled Tuesday i...
FORUM COLUMN - By Tony West - A lawyer for John Walker Lindh, the "American Taliban," knows something about defending prisoner...
SAN FRANCISCO - A judge Tuesday put on hold, possibly for months, an automobile-industry lawsuit challenging California's land...
A long-running fight over plans to redevelop a 52-building apartment complex in Venice enters a new phase today when a Malibu ...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Rod S. Berman and Brian W. Kasell - The Supreme Court just spoke on a thorny procedural issue in patent liti...
SAN FRANCISCO - About 30 organizations that provide legal services and education to California's diverse population will get a...
Discipline
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Appeals Court Rules SFPD Waited Too Long to Discipline Officers
By Laura Ernden
Four San Francisco police officers who shot and killed a teenager riding in a fugitive's car in 1998 cannot be disciplined bec...
WASHINGTON - The White House appeared to back down Tuesday night over a territorial fight with California's senators concernin...
Intellectual Property
Game Producers Negotiate to Put Music in More Ears
By Rebecca Beyer
LOS ANGELES - If you were a kid in the '80s, had a kid in the '80s or acted like a kid in the '80s, you remember the sound Sup...
A top Bush administration official has touched a raw nerve by condemning major law firms for representing terrorism detainees....
A divided federal appeals court Tuesday vacated the 22-year sentence of an al-Qaida terrorist who planned to blow up Los Angel...
SACRAMENTO - A nonprofit child advocacy group proposed Tuesday that the state contribute more financial assistance to help fos...
FORUM COLUMN - By Mark Harrington - Who knew there were so many ways to aggravate in-house lawyers? The general counsel of Gui...
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys who have appeared before veteran Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Brett C. Klein have decidedly...
Sylvia Resnick considers herself "a pretty peppy person," despite her senior-citizen status. So it took a serious back spasm f...
LOS ANGELES - Miriam A. Vogel grew up under a billboard. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - International litigation firm Howrey kicked off 2007 by adding six attorneys to four of its offices, including...
WASHINGTON - For the third time this term, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circu...
SAN JOSE - A Colorado man's guilty plea to federal conspiracy and aggravated identity-theft charges in the Hewlett-Packard spy...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Robert L. Eisenbach III - What if you ship goods to a company that goes bankrupt? Some recent legal developm...