RESIGNATIONS Casey, John Chittenden , Oakland Dahlz, Justin B. , South San Francisco Jarboe Jr., Hilmer Ula , West Harrison, I...
CHANGE OF VENUE - Former UCLA law-school dean Susan Westerberg Prager was named president of Occidental College, the board of ...
SAN FRANCISCO - With San Francisco's political leaders scrambling to fight violent gang crime, City Attorney Dennis Herrera do...
Judges and Judiciary
Three Named to Hear Discipline Case
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
VENTURA - A former state Supreme Court candidate and two other judges will serve as special masters in a re-hearing next month...
Focus Column - By Richard S. Rosenberg and John J. Manier - Under the common-law doctrine of respondeat superior, employers ar...
Forum Column - By William Phelps - Did Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. make a proposal with respect to marriage a week after...
WASHINGTON - If colleges and universities choose to accept federal funds, their law schools cannot deny military recruiters eq...
SAN FRANCISCO - People can argue all they want about whether oral sex with a willing minor is more corrupting than sexual inte...
SAN FRANCISCO - The second half of a bifurcated San Francisco federal criminal trial kicked off Monday when prosecutors told a...
LOS ANGELES - Former state Supreme Court Justice Armand Arabian thinks it stinks that the Santa Barbara County district attorn...
LOS ANGELES - A man whose murder conviction was reversed after he spent 24 years in prison can sue former Los Angeles County D...
WASHINGTON - A California development agency suffered a setback Monday in its battle with United Airlines over the carrier's f...
Criminal
High Court Tosses Triple-Murderer's Death Sentence
By Anat Rubin And Itir Yakar
LOS ANGELES - The state Supreme Court overturned the death sentence Monday of a man convicted of a triple murder during a 1990...
LOS ANGELES - Want more noir? Can't get enough of the bleak, sinister side of the city, that urban purgatory where Mary Poppin...
LOS ANGELES - Unhappy people come through Commissioner Ronald J. Slick's arraignment and early disposition court each day, but...
WASHINGTON - There are some things money can't buy. Asbestos litigation reform, apparently, is one of them. Big business has s...
ANAHEIM - Greenlaw Partners and Guggenheim Real Estate purchased a 129,600-square-foot property at 605-611 E. Cerritos from Ha...
SAN FRANCISCO - California Lawyer magazine handed out its 10th annual Attorney of the Year awards Thursday night during a cock...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Phillip R. Maltin - James E. Files claims he shot President Kennedy from the grassy knoll in Dallas. Files, ...
FORUM COLUMN - By Robert D. Richards and Clay Calvert - Underneath the high umbrellas of the garden terrace restaurant at Holl...
LOS ANGELES - Gary S. Raskin saw a need: Although entertainment attorneys provide legal advice, they often fail to mention th...
LOS ANGELES - UC Davis has one of the top agricultural studies programs in the country, situated in the heart of the nation's ...
LOS ANGELES - Davis Wright Tremaine announced the appointment of Mary Haas to partner-in-charge of its Los Angeles office. Haa...
SAN FRANCISCO - The election season in Mendocino County promises to be a long and colorful one, thanks to its ever-provocative...
Judges and Judiciary
Reality-Show Star Knows How to Keep Juries Alert
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - The couple's murder trials were seen across the nation on NBC's "Crime and Punishment," a reality spin-off from "L...
SAN FRANCISCO - Asbestos plaintiffs' attorney Steven Kazan is based in Oakland, but when election season rolls around, he writ...
Shulman Hodges & Bastian has named John Mark Jennings a partner in the firm's Foothill Ranch office. His practice focuses ...
CHULA VISTA - Fremont Investment & Loan closed a $51.5 million acquisition and construction loan to an affiliate of Sudber...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Accord Did Not Constitute Surrender of Police Power
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Daniel J. Curtin Jr. and Bryan W. Wenter - In a recent case, the 1st District Court of Appeal held that a se...
Labor/Employment
'L'Oreal' Permits Retaliation Claims That Employers Know Nothing About
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Karen L. Gabler - In the rapidly changing environment of sexual-harassment and discrimination lawsuits,...