SAN FRANCISCO - Harvard Law School and Stanford Law School both recently announced ambitious plans for altering their curricul...
Environmental
Environmental Groups, Agribusiness Oppose Pesticide Rule
By Dennis Pfaffn
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal rule declaring that pesticides used in some common circumstances are not water pollutants has provok...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether gays and lesbians have the right to marry in t...
It's always something. The scandals are new, but the faces of the lawyers handling them are familiar. The state's rainmakers s...
SANTA ANA - Not many judges can examine an expert witness, off the cuff, about covalent ions. ...
Some attorneys attest to the notion that government lawyering offers young practitioners unique and beneficial experience in a...
LOS ANGELES - Though the legal profession's lack of racial diversity is well-documented, the imbalance is even more pronounced...
Editor's Note
A lawsuit challenged approval of a 1,500-house project in Banning, claiming automobile traffic generated by the residents will...
IRVINE - Scott J. Ferrell seems like the sort of lawyer who would hope most of his cases go to mediation.
SAN FRANCISCO - Relief for California electricity ratepayers allegedly gouged during the 2000-2001 energy crisis may be closer...
Born and raised 40 miles west of Belfast, the daughter of one of the early civil rights activists, Pamela Ferguson grew up in...
LOS ANGELES - Janet Slick was 16 and very nervous the first time she went to court. ...
He gave up on a case. Then he was sued for legal malpractice. And he lost. But when the Santa Barbara County lawyer's former c...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Superior Court has opened a new legal self-help center at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse. ...
LOS ANGELES - With less than two weeks to go before Los Angeles federal courts switch to a new mandatory criminal e-filing sys...
FORUM COLUMN - By Kara Dansky - California needs a new approach to criminal sentencing. We need a reliable system for collecti...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Redevelopment Opponents Challenge S.F. City Attorney Opinion
By Donna Dominon
SAN FRANCISCO - Opponents of a redevelopment plan for San Francisco's Bayview-Hunters Point area have filed a lawsuit calling ...
Law Practice
Even Santa Needs a Lawyer - Gift Giving Raises Knotty Issues
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Peter M. Walzer - Long ago, the Scrooge of the law of transmutation intruded into the sanctity of gift givin...
Ronald Goldman's father sued O.J. Simpson in U.S. District Court on Tuesday, seeking any money the former NFL star received fo...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City attorney's office filed a complaint with the California State Bar Tuesday against well-know...
LOS ANGELES - Michael Nash, presiding judge of the Los Angeles County Juvenile Court, said this week he is confident Children'...
NAPA - It took some coaxing by the Napa Women Lawyers to get Francisca Tisher to consider leaving her family law and bankruptc...
Judicial Profile
Marshaling His Military, Civilian Past for Unique 3rd District
By John Roemer
SACRAMENTO - Justice Fred K. Morrison of the 3rd District Court of Appeal made plenty of friends in 1998 when he ruled that th...
Transactions
During Holiday Cool-Down, Speculation About Intel Deal Heats Up
By Rick Kennedyn
DEALS COLUMN - By Rick Kennedy - The holidays are is a season rife with speculation. As mysterious gifts pile up under the Chr...
Construction
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Jury Finds Tutor-Saliba Liable in MTA's False-Claim Case
By Max Follmer
LOS ANGELES - Construction giant Tutor-Saliba Corp. filed false claims and overbilled the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Tran...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Grateful Dead, Carlos Santana and former members of Led Zeppelin and The Doors are suing an online purveyo...
SAN DIEGO - Faced with unresolved questions of California constitutional law, a federal appellate court on Monday asked the st...
Psychodrama Method Uses Role Playing to Create Emotional Connections at Trial
LOS ANGELES - The nine lawyers at Los Angeles litigation boutique O'Brien Abeles will join Arent Fox, establishing the first W...