OAKLAND - Oakland City Attorney John Russo, flanked by politicians and housing advocates, announced Thursday the city is filin...
Animal rights activists who targeted employees of a Bay Area pharmaceutical company for scary nighttime home visits cannot hid...
SAN JOSE - The mushrooming stock options backdating scandal has claimed the job of another general counsel. ...
WASHINGTON - Wednesday's U.S. Supreme Court argument over the constitutionality of California's criminal sentencing system was...
An appellate panel Wednesday struck a blow to prosecutors testing a new legal theory to crack down on elder abuse. ...
Entertainment & Sports
Government Shows Its Hand in Legislation to Curb Internet Gambling
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Tony Young - The virtual landscape of the $12 billion online gaming industry may have changed during the ear...
Judges and Judiciary
Button Case Reaches Top Court and 9th Circuit's Authority Is Questioned
By Peter Blumbergn
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed inclined to reverse a high-profile ruling from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court o...
The California Supreme Court turned down Cardinal Roger Mahony's request Wednesday to unseal confidential records filed by all...
LOS ANGELES - The line between advertising and entertainment is being blurred thanks to branded entertainment, a gray area whe...
LOS ANGELES - Pacing before the crowd, Daniel Petrocelli, lead attorney for Enron's former CEO Jeffrey Skilling, found an audi...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Paul A. Blumenstein and Sanjay M. Shirodkar - A recent decision by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Am...
LOS ANGELES -Robert Kwan, deputy chief of the Los Angeles U.S. attorney's tax division, has been appointed to the Bankruptcy C...
SAN FRANCISCO - Merger talks between Stoel Rives and Sacramento-based Weintraub Genshlea Chediak, which started earlier this y...
SAN FRANCISCO - The executive board of the California Judges Association has decided to back a proposal that could help end mo...
SAN BERNARDINO - In what appears to be the state's largest medical malpractice verdict this year, a 7-year-old cerebral palsy ...
Judges and Judiciary
While Fine Cheeses Age Well, Trademark Disputes Do Not
By Anna Oberthurn
SAN FRANCISCO - The longtime maker of the ubiquitous Tillamook cheese "has a beef" with a smoked meats and jerky seller from t...
Judges and Judiciary
Convicted Killer Wants Retry-or-Free Order Enforced
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - At Pelican Bay State Prison, convicted murderer Aldridge Currie has a federal judge's order, signed in July, s...
WASHINGTON - Wednesday's U.S. Supreme Court argument over the constitutionality of California's criminal sentencing system was...
WASHINGTON - It has been eight months since the U.S. Supreme Court cast a shadow over California's criminal justice system whe...
VALLEJO - Defense lawyer Daniel Russo cuts a strange figure as he walks around Vallejo, home to Six Flags Marine World, a shut...
FORUM COLUMN - By Ellen Aprill - The IRS is investigating whether a sermon given at All Saints Church here in Pasadena shortly...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Fred Silberberg - It has become commonplace for judicial officers to appoint counsel for minor children in c...
SANTA ANA - Ronald L. Bauer knows that many lawyers supported his application to be an Orange County Superior Court judge 15 y...
Firm Watch
S.F. Boutique Senn Meulemans Joins With Armstrong Teasdale
By Jennifer Hammn
LOS ANGELES - The partnership at the San Francisco litigation boutique Senn Meulemans took a good look at itself earlier this ...
SACRAMENTO - The winning candidate for California attorney general in November's election will be stepping into an office with...
Judges and Judiciary
State Appellate Justice Appreciates Biography of Earl Warren
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Richard M. Mosk - There have been a number of biographies of Earl Warren. ...
Government
L.A.'s Homeland Security Chief to Return to Private Sector
By Robert Iafollan
LOS ANGELES - After 16 months as Los Angeles' first deputy mayor for homeland security and public safety, Maurice Suh is will ...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Wants Supreme Court to Toss Superior Equities Doctrine
By Laura Ernden
An appellate judge Tuesday urged the state's highest court to do away with a 68-year-old doctrine that he argued can be used t...
Judges and Judiciary
9th Circuit Says UPS Must Give Deaf Workers Chance to Drive
By Amelia Hansen
United Parcel Service cannot deny deaf employees the opportunity to work as package-vehicle drivers, a federal appeals court r...
SAN DIEGO - He's headed the organization for only a year. But that's all the time Kevin Keenan needed to rekindle a fire in th...