SAN FRANCISCO - Hoping to grab a slice of the West Coast's venture-backed technology market, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal...
Judges and Judiciary
Paper Must Pay $3 Million for Libel
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - A San Bernardino judge Friday awarded a sheriff's counselor $3 million for her claims that the publisher of a...
SAN FRANCISCO - The president's use of executive authority to indefinitely extend the enlistment of National Guard members ser...
Judges and Judiciary
Commissioner Sees Her Role as Public Relations for Courts
By Don Ray
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Carol J. Hallowitz says her job is more than just handing out fines for ...
MULTIFAMILY SACRAMENTO - A 272-unit apartment community at 2300 Innovator Drive sold for $37.5 million. Stanford Jones, Gary ...
Law Practice
Client Sees No Conflict With Murder Case of Attorney's Wife
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - The Orinda woman whose high-profile murder trial has been delayed by the slaying of her attorney's wife said T...
Forum Column By Edward H. Telfeyan President Bush revealed far more about himself than he and his advisers ever would have wa...
SAN FRANCISCO - You might call the case a yawner. A San Benito County prosecutor and defense attorney say a sitting judge and ...
Constitutional Law
Constitution is No Cure-All for Society's Ills
By Contributing Writer
Letter to the Editor - I write in response to the column by John Martinez, "Constitution Will Exist Only as Long as the Living...
Administrative/Regulatory
DA's New Investigation Chief Brings Political Savvy
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris announced Thursday that she has hired Chris Cunnie, the former p...
Government
Failure to Pay Bar Dues Raises More Questions About Miers
By Lawrence Hurleyn
WASHINGTON - Failure to pay bar dues is not an uncommon slip-up, especially among nonpracticing attorneys. But word that Harr...
SAN FRANCISCO - Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton dodged a bullet Thursday when a San Francisco-based appellate panel toss...
WASHINGTON - Congress agreed Thursday to legislation broadly shielding weapons makers and sellers from lawsuits stemming from...
SACRAMENTO - Kern County sends 13 defendants to prison for life under the state's "three strikes" law for every one defendant...
LOS ANGELES - Emotions run red hot when a couple divorces. But a recent marriage dissolution burned more viciously because the...
SAN JOSE - The transition from attorney to judge is not always a smooth one, as Carrie A. Zepeda, a well-regarded Santa Clara ...
LOS ANGELES - USC Gould School of Law Dean Matthew L. Spitzer is resigning his administrative post but will remain at the scho...
LOS ANGELES - Thirteen-year-old Daun'ne M. Land doesn't want to look like everyone else at school. But spiked hair or "Gothic...
Judges and Judiciary
Breyer Patch of Jurisprudence Focuses on Pragmatism
By Brent Kendall
Supreme Court Notebook - Brent Kendall - Justice Stephen G. Breyer says the title of his new book, "Active Liberty," captures ...
LOS ANGELES - When an apartment building in the blighted MacArthur Park section of Los Angeles burned last year, 60 residents...
SUSPENSIONS Kotto, Natasha Anke , Encino McGhee, Wendy Ann , Chula Vista Milner, Dennis Vance , Dublin Noble, John Robert , Ir...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
It's High Time for State Bar to Regulate Attorney Mediators
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Mary B. Culbert - In California, there are no institutional boundaries on what a mediator may or may not do ...
Judges and Judiciary
Roberts' First Case Is Significant to Labor Act
By Contributing Writer
Letter to the Editor - It is simply not true that, as your Oct. 4 article about Justice [John] Roberts' first day of oral argu...
WASHINGTON - Citing a lack of information about Supreme Court nominee Harriet E. Miers, Democrats and Republicans on the Senat...
SAN FRANCISCO - Reciting prayers from the Quran, dressing like a Muslim and fasting during the school lunch hour are merely fu...
LOS ANGELES - Don't call it just another whale lawsuit. The Natural Resources Defense Council says it is ready to deliver the...
Corporate
Sony BMG Used Payola to Fend Off Competitors, Lawsuit Says
By Draeger Martinez
LOS ANGELES - Two Los Angeles attorneys have filed an antitrust suit against Sony in federal court, accusing the music industr...
A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel Wednesday ordered a San Diego federal judge for the second time to be careful about...
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal law bars an attempt to impose health warnings on canned tuna under California's Proposition 65, an ind...
International
Play About First War-Crimes Tribunal Opens in Costa Mesa
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - As Saddam Hussein's trial got under way Wednesday in Baghdad, a dramatization of the first war-crimes tribunal ...