Government
Continuing Three Generations of Political Activism
By Linda Rapattoni And Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Politics have run in Dave Jones' family for three generations. He has vivid memories as a boy campaigning with hi...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Christopher H. McGrath and Oleg Cross - While headlines focus on the stock-option backdating scandals at man...
SAN FRANCISCO - Employment and securities class-action partner Jim Finberg is leaving his post at Lieff Cabraser Heimann &...
SAN FRANCISCO - Should nonprofit corporations that provide legal services be regulated like their for-profit counterparts?
Juvenile
Treat Emancipated Foster Kids as Well as Parents Treat Their Own
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Melanie Delgado and Robert C. Fellmeth - In the first part of this two-part exposition, we showed that today...
Immigration
Supreme Court's Stay Adds to Debate on Immigrant Deportations
By Sandra Hernandezn
LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Supreme Court has stepped back into the immigration fray blocking a Pakistani man's deportation and ren...
SANTA MARIA - Criminal attorneys in Santa Maria can be forgiven if they didn't notice Judge James E. Herman's first day on the...
OAKLAND - Though John O'Toole is a lifelong peacenik and self-described "product of the '60s," his 25 years directing the Nati...
LOS ANGELES - Claude Parker founded the Los Angeles firm now known as Parker, Milliken, Clark, O'Hara, Samuelian in 1913, 20 ...
McDonough Holland & Allen announced the addition of David A. Wolf as shareholder to the firm's Oakland and Sacramento offi...
SAN FRANCISCO - The efforts of a former CEO to defraud a competitor out of millions of dollars afflicted not only the victims ...
Family
Emancipation Leaves Foster Kids Trapped in Poverty and Despair
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Melanie Delgado and Robert C. Fellmeth - When children in America turn 18, they "emancipate" into adulthood....
LOS ANGELES - As school districts and parks departments look for ways to meet a growing demand for nighttime sports games, som...
LOS ANGELES - Fleeing an uncertain atmosphere marked by failed merger talks and a planned split, transactional attorney Louis ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Hank Barry re-entered private practice at Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin last week after a se...
LOS ANGELES - Growing up in the Davy Crockett National Forest in east Texas, Genie Harrison wanted a horse so badly it was the...
Judges and Judiciary
Jury Says Officer Not Negligent In 2004 On-Duty Car Accident
By Rebecca Beyer
LOS ANGELES - This fall, the city of Los Angeles offered to pay $2 million to the family of a woman in a vegetative state sinc...
LOS ANGELES - A name partner at Milberg Weiss said Friday he intends to resign, sparking speculation that he is cooperating wi...
In a win for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's policy agenda, a Sacramento appellate panel has ruled that the state's political wat...
SAN FRANCISCO - Nixon Peabody finally landed its sought-after West Coast life sciences and biotechnology partner last week in ...
FOCUS COLUMN - By David S. Gehrig - In June, the California Supreme Court issued its decision in Michaelis v. Superior Court, ...
RICHMOND - It's not often that a lifelong Democrat and "do-gooder" from the public defender's office gets elevated to the benc...
MURRIETA - She might be sentencing someone to life in prison, but Judge Judith Clark does it so politely that some attorneys s...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Justices Will Review Antitrust Cases in Banking and Fashion Industries
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether the nation's leading investment banks should be immune from two class ...
FORUM COLUMN - By Claudette G. Wilson, Michael S. Kalt and Krista M. Cabrera - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's post-election comm...
Verdicts
Neutral Prefers a Subtle Touch in Guiding Parties to an Agreement
By Craig Anderson
SAN JOSE - Margaret Kemp has made a smooth transition from a career as a San Mateo County Superior Court judge to her new job ...
LOS ANGELES - When Donna Durando and her husband, James Durando, decided to start a family 25 years ago, they began by adoptin...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
No Horsing Around: Legal Nonprofit Uses TV Show to Teach Kids Mediation
By Susan Mcraen
LOS ANGELES - Attorney Bert Deixler has a knack for bringing people together.
SAN FRANCISCO - A fifth death penalty case has been marred by the work of a former San Francisco private investigator under su...
SAN BERNARDINO - San Bernardino County has agreed to pay a developer $102 million to settle a fierce and lengthy legal fight o...