SAN FRANCISCO - Former telephone technician Mark Klein is neither a plaintiff nor a defendant in the recently filed class acti...
SAN FRANCISCO - Insurance giant AIG has agreed to a $567 million settlement with the now defunct Kaiser Aluminum & Chemica...
Judges and Judiciary
Sensitive 'Outsider' Believes in Rehabilitation and Hope
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Cynthia L. Loo's life these days is a contrast in emotional extremes uF8E7 from presiding over heart-wrenching ...
LOS ANGELES - Boston-based Goodwin Procter is opening offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco and eyeing partners at several ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Museums Turn Tables, Sue to Retain Nazi Art
By Peter Zuckerman
LOS ANGELES - The figures are distorted and disturbed: faceless heads, blurred hands, wavy legs. Men drive shovels into the di...
LAND BEAUMONT - Seneca Investments sold 954 lots of land in the Seneca Springs planned community to homebuilders KB Homes , B...
Forum Column - By Tamara Lange - Unprotected. Homeless. Incarcerated. Invisible. For too many lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans...
Real Estate/Development
Poorly Drafted Trust Could Become Subject to IRS Lien
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Bruce Givner - A parent may want to give assets to a child in connection with the parent's own estate tax pl...
Real Estate/Development
Late Fees in Residential Leases Are Questionable as Legal Remedies
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Forum Column - By Kenyon Dobberteen - Are late fees permissible in residential leases and rental agreements? As is discussed b...
SAN FRANCISCO - A jailhouse informant who has agreed to testify against suspected cop killer David Hill has an offer from pros...
Appellate Practice
Panel Lets Kin of Man Killed By Police Sue in State Court
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Despite losing in federal court, the family of a man fatally shot by Pomona police can proceed with a state laws...
SAN FRANCISCO - The American Taliban's defense lawyer, James Brosnahan, is now playing offense for civil liberties in the war ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Nonagenarian Still Practices After All These Years
By Tamadhur Al Aqeel
LOS ANGELES - Joseph Lewis has a family, a law career, dabbled in politics, written several books, tried cases of historical i...
MULTIFAMILY BEVERLY HILLS - Kennedy Wilson Multifamily Management Group and its joint venture partner, Wachovia Securities , ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Scholar Tackles Civil Rights Issues With Thought, Eloquence
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Book Review - By Harvey Gee - With the release last year of the film "Brokeback Mountain," which focuses on a romance between ...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Probation Department chief Paul Higa has died after suffering a stroke a week ago. He was 53....
LOS ANGELES - The Commission on Judicial Appointments on Monday confirmed the appointment of U.S. District Judge Nora M. Manel...
Forum Column - By Areva D. Martin - In the famous story "Rashoman," published in 1915 by Japanese author Ryunosuke Akutagawa, ...
Focus Column - By Henry Z. Carbajal III Trade secret misappropriation litigation presents a paradox. To mount a defense, a d...
Corporate
Small Capital Lobbying Firm Signs Up Drug Giant Pfizer Inc.
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - A small lobbying firm has picked up a big pharmaceutical company as a client. Kathleen Mossburg & Associates...
SACRAMENTO - Fresno County Superior Court Judge Carlos A. Cabrera vividly recalls his life as a young boy in a small Mexican t...
SAN DIEGO - A San Diego County man who hoped to cash in on the popularity of Nascar racing says a Colorado company gummed up h...
LOS ANGELES - It was a weekend that saw 17 former inmates solemnly tell audiences about their wrongful convictions and their h...
Immigration
Congressional Break Leaves Mixed-Status Families in Limbo
By Sandra Hernandezn
LOS ANGELES - While immigration reform is stalled in Congress as lawmakers take a two-week holiday break, time is running out ...
SAN FRANCISCO - History books say most civilized countries abolished debtors' prisons in the 19th century. But lawyer and Bay...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Sentencing Commission has taken the unusual step of removing language from corporate sentencing guidelin...
LOS ANGELES - It could be weeks before the case or cases to be tried in California's Vioxx liability trials are set as both si...
LOS ANGELES - No committees. No bureaucracy. No hands-on all-partners meetings. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Chris Clay, a consultant to the state Assembly's Insurance Committee, considers his license to practice law "a...
SAN DIEGO - Hart Realty Advisers purchased the 110,994-square-foot Hibiscus Plaza at 9350 Waxie Way from Japan-based Hibiscus ...