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...
The California Supreme Court on Monday vindicated a former Los Angeles attorney who offered no defense at trial for a client f...
Discipline
Lockyer Puts Lawyer on Oversight Agency
By Linda Rapattoni And Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - In a last appointment, Attorney General Bill Lockyer selected a veteran political-law attorney from his office fo...
George Hamilton Link, a former managing partner of the now-defunct San Francisco firm Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, died Th...
Judges and Judiciary
After Leaving Bench, Ex-Superior Court Judge Was a Mediator
By Alexa Hylandn
LOS ANGELES - Services for retired Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Norman R. Dowds will take place Friday in San Gabriel.
SUSPENSIONS
SAN FRANCISCO - Unless California switches to a one-drug sedative for executing death-row prisoners, it will remain vulnerable...
LOS ANGELES - Goodwin Procter took advantage of the uncertainty surrounding Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan to net Rachae...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - When a hotly contested child custody dispute spills o...
Law Practice
After 40 Years, Lawyers in B-Ball League Still Playing Hard
By Noah Barronn
LOS ANGELES - The Suns' Tony Brown of Selman Breitman drives low under the hoop and calls for the ball.
Government
Lawyers on Lockyer's Staff Will Stay With Him
By Linda Rapattoni And Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Outgoing Attorney General Bill Lockyer is taking several of his key staff with him to the state treasurer's offic...