SAN FRANCISCO - The best advice for lawyers appearing before San Francisco County Superior Court Judge A. James Robertson II i...
LOS ANGELES - The number of California children entering foster care declined for the first time since the state system was e...
Environmental
Groups Attempt to Pare EPA Exemptions on State Refineries
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal pollution regulators have failed to update standards to reduce public exposure to dangerous airborne ...
SAN JOSE - Eleven months after losing a key pretrial battle in federal court, Sony Electronics gave up its battle against a p...
Criminal
Hot on Steroid Trail, U.S. Attorney Continues BALCO Investigation
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - When critics sneered at the four-month prison sentence handed to BALCO owner Victor Conte for providing stero...
Judges and Judiciary
Bush Taps Magistrate Judge for One of Five Open Bench Posts
By John Hanusz
LOS ANGELES - President Bush nominated 41-year-old Stephen G. Larson on Thursday to one of five vacant seats on the U.S. Dist...
Corporate
Grand Jury Indicts Ralphs in Market Strike
By John Hanusz And Geneva Whitmarsh
LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury in Los Angeles handed down a 53-count indictment Thursday that accuses Ralphs Grocery Co. o...
SAN DIEGO - A federal grand jury in San Diego has indicted the heads of eight anabolic steroid makers in Mexico and 23 distri...
JUDGE REBUFFED - Rejecting allegations that her case was "irrevocably tainted," the state Commission on Judicial Performance d...
SAN FRANCISCO - In the waning days of the Ottoman Empire, Iraq's press was one of the most vibrant in the Middle East. In the...
SAN DIEGO - Corus Bankshares Inc. provided a $76.95 million loan to The Sickels Group to acquire and convert to residential co...
Criminal
Too Often, Informants' Lies Poison Justice With Wrongful Convictions
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Katie York - The first documented wrongful conviction in the United States occurred in 1819, as a result of ...
Government
In Support of Tookie: Distortions of Fact, Distortions of Justice
By Columnist
Forum Contributions - Los Angeles - There was a serious historical error in Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's statement denying Sta...
Intellectual Property
Fees and Subject Factor Into How to Foreign-File Patents
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Rajiv P. Patel and Neil F. Maloney - In today's global marketplace, patent protection continues to be an imp...
Administrative/Regulatory
City Attorney Gives Slumlords Free Pass in L.A.
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Tai Glenn - Unsafe and unhealthy housing conditions affect us all. Children - unable to sleep at night becau...
LOS ANGELES - Gibson Dunn & Crutcher has held steadfastly to a single-tier partnership over the years while similarly size...
LOS ANGELES - Can a former fighter jock who was winged death to North Vietnamese MiGs and a former pest exterminator who battl...
SAN FRANCISCO - The son of Siberian exiles got shoddy advice from two Southern California lawyers - including an order to lie ...
FULLERTON - At the end of the day, Orange County Superior Court Judge Tam Nomoto Schumann leaves the rituals of contemporary A...
SUPERMARKET JOBS - The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to prevent merging supermarket chains from firing employees fo...
LOS ANGELES - Brooks Allen went back to school last year. The American Civil Liberties Union staff attorney has the unusual jo...
SAN RAFAEL - It's the Wednesday morning sentencing calendar in the courtroom of Marin County Superior Court Judge Kelly V. Si...
OFFICE CENTURY CITY - Stonefield Josephson leased 25,000 square feet of space on the fourth floor at 2049 Century Park East To...
Letter to the Editor - Regarding the story "Internal Split Develops Over Direction Taken by ACLU Executive Director" (Dec. 9 D...
Focus Column - By Robert C. Barnes - A standard real estate due diligence tool, the Phase I environmental site assessment, is ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Paramount Pictures Swoops In, Sweeps DreamWorks SKG Off Its Feet
By Geneva Whitmarsh
LOS ANGELES - Paramount Pictures sealed a deal over the weekend to buy DreamWorks SKG for $1.6 billion, thwarting rival NBC-U...
OROVILLE - Butte County Superior Court Judge Stephen E. Benson has the lanky frame of a basketball player, the rsum of a histo...
Law Practice
DA Picks Veteran Prosecutor Spillane to Be His Chief Deputy
By Ryan Oliver
LOS ANGELES - John K. Spillane, a veteran prosecutor who has held several top positions in the Los Angeles County district att...
LOS ANGELES - Public Defender Maria E. Stratton has for a dozen years been a quiet but ubiquitous presence in the Los Angeles ...
LOS ANGELES - Business trips usually are reserved for networking with potential clients. But for 27 members of the Beverly Hil...