LOS ANGELES - A Highland Park man, whose murder conviction was tossed out by the state appellate court, has moved a step close...
SAN JOSE - A 6th District Court of Appeal panel appeared dubious of Apple Computer's demand to subpoena a news site's e-mail s...
Constitutional Law
Panel Denies Student the Right to Wear an Anti-Gay T-Shirt
By Leslie Simmonsn
A San Diego student has no First Amendment right to wear an anti-gay T-shirt at his public high school, a split federal appeal...
Law Practice
Whistle-Blower Protection Depends on Who Hears Whistle
By Tamadhur Alaqeeln
LOS ANGELES - Stephen Heller, a temporary worker for Jones Day in Los Angeles, was alarmed by what he heard on an audiotape he...
SAN FRANCISCO - The state Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a sexual harassment suit against a television studio filed by a...
RIVERSIDE - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday elevated Douglas Miller, a former Riverside County Superior Court presiding...
Judges and Judiciary
Lawyer Says Retired Judge's Title Shouldn't Be in Ballot Pamphlet
By Donna Dominon
SAN FRANCISCO - Retired San Francisco Superior Court Judge Lillian Sing shouldn't be allowed to use the title "judge" in ballo...
SANTA ANA - The middle-aged woman needed to escape her gambling, jail-bird husband, but she spoke only Vietnamese, and the par...
L.A. Judges Vote in New Commissioners -- Appeals Court Justice Will Join ADR Group
LOS ANGELES - Brad D. Brian's friends and adversaries agree he is not afraid to get his hands dirty in the service of a case o...
SAN DIEGO - Neptune Hospitality Advisors arranged $49.05 million in senior financing for a 672-room Pinnacle Hotels USA Portfo...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Firms Enjoy Upswing in First-Quarter M&A Deals
By Tamadhur Al Aqeel
LOS ANGELES - When it comes to mergers and acquisitions, the bigger-dollar deals are still ironed out by New York-based lawyer...
Focus Column - By Linda Bulmash - Prior to the popularity of mediation as a dispute-resolving tool, litigators often had diffi...
Immigration
Illegal Immigration Isn't an Easy Issue for Blacks in America
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - Two things happened within a day of each other this month that rammed race back into...
Forum Column - By Dale A. Baich - One concept both sides of the death-penalty debate can embrace is this: If America continues...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a case involving alleged medical abuse of puppies by scientific researchers who lied about their project to...
SAN FRANCISCO - Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman announced Wednesday it has added another seasoned partner to the firm's financ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Former San Francisco District Attorney Joe Freitas, whose civic career crashed after a jury convicted politica...
Administrative/Regulatory
Hidden Fetters Keep Aryan Defendants in Close Check
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Can invisibility help keep justice blind? That's a question that keeps bugging me about the curren...
LOS ANGELES - Calling the treatment of youthful offenders in county juvenile halls and camps "inhumane and illegal," reform ad...
LOS ANGELES - Another botched photo lineup. Another reversed conviction. Less than a week after a state blue ribbon commissio...
Insites
Stantec Acquires Dufresne-Henry, Adding to East Coast Operations
By Aubrey Poolen
NORTH SPRINGFILED, Vt. - Stantec's acquisition of multidiscipline design firm Dufresne-Henry closed on Monday. The acquisition...
SAN FRANCISCO - Fans of "Star Wars" know Sith Lords as extraterrestrial warriors dedicated to the dark side. But when CEO Patr...
MARINA DEL REY - George H. Mitsanas, principal of Newmark Realty Capital Inc., arranged $40 million of leasehold financing for...
Constitutional Law
Lobbyists Struggle to Revive an Organization of Their Own
By Jennifer Hammn
SACRAMENTO - As the nation's capital reacts to lobbyist scandals with reforms, some California lobbyists are laboring to rejuv...
Focus Column - By Mark E. Harrington - Are you a "caveman lawyer" or a "millennium litigator?" Much as the dinosaurs used to ...
Forum Column - By Michael F. Ball - "No, really, this is when you are supposed to thank and excuse me!" This is what I though...
LOS ANGELES - High-profile entertainment and business litigators Dale F. Kinsella and Howard Weitzman opened a boutique firm i...
There's no verdict yet on whether anyone in a San Francisco investors group tried to sabotauge a drug company's success on the...
Judges and Judiciary
Surfacing to Take on Management Challenge in Court
By Paria Kooklann
LOS ANGELES - When she's not in her courtroom, Judge Beverly Reid O'Connell often can be found under water. An avid scuba div...