SAN FRANCISCO - One of the nation's former top health officials Tuesday ripped a state-proposed warning that would advise cons...
LOS ANGELES - Television networks could face a slew of lawsuits from cable channels claiming breach of contract now that NBC ...
LOS ANGELES - This week, four South Los Angeles tenants took their landlord to court, accusing him of a series of violations d...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals won one and lost one Tuesday at the U.S. Supreme Court, with the just...
LOS ANGELES - Autonomy Corp., whose software helps businesses keep track of data, agreed to buy competitor Verity Inc. for $50...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether President Bush has the authority to establish militar...
INDUSTRIAL CORONA - Star Pipe Products purchased a 110,752-square-foot industrial building at 1223 Sherborn St. for $8.4 milli...
Focus Column - By Thomas C. Klein - In September, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law SB 439, which amends the Californ...
Forum Cloumn - By Richard Mac Bride - A few months ago, on the morning of July 26, federal authorities raided the Petit Jean P...
Family
Pro-Father Columnist Has a Point But Misses Bigger Picture
By Contributing Writer
Letter to the Editor - The collective well-thought-out, reasoned and articulate response by Paul J. Fink, Judge Sol Gothard an...
Forum Column - By Areva D. Martin - The Select Committee on Special Issues, a bipartisan committee led by Assemblyman Mervyn D...
SAN LUIS OBISPO - When Gov. Gray Davis appointed Judge Charles Stevens "Steve" Crandall to the San Luis Obispo County Superior...
LOS ANGELES - The Internet file sharing outfit Grokster Ltd., in a surprise announcement Tuesday, said it would pay $50 milli...
LOS ANGELES - Richard A. Foxx, a prominent Los Angeles trial lawyer and co-founder of the American Board of Trial Advocates, ...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles neutral Lee Jay Berman recently returned from India with a bronze statute of Buddha, a symbol of kno...
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court has overturned an immigration judge's denial of asylum to a Chinese Christian, saying th...
SAN FRANCISCO - Ian Ballon, a leading commentator on the intersection of Internet, entertainment and intellectual property la...
Government
Thumbs Up to Thumbs Off: Justice in America Goes Under the Knife
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Flamboyant Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman caused a stir last week when he declared that surgery should be enliste...
THREATS POSE NO CONFLICT - You can still get a fair trial in Los Angeles even if you threaten a trio of judges, a federal appe...
SAN JOSE - Attorneys on Friday asked a federal judge to block a growing trend in which county jails are closing their law lib...
SAN FRANCISCO - John Bullock left San Francisco's Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass in 2002 in pursuit of writing the great Ame...
SAN FRANCISCO - From the point of view of some of California's rarest creatures, home might appear to be getting a lot smaller...
SAN FRANCISCO - To kick-start a public dialogue about poverty in California's Central Valley, UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall has con...
MULTIFAMILY HUNTINGTON BEACH - Portico Seashore LLC sold the 64-unit Seashore Apartments at 19822 Brookhurst St. to the Von G...
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - A strange thing happened to the city of Malibu. It thought it had settled years of conte...
Letter to the Editor - This is a comment on the Nov. 1 letter to the editor ("Union Reforms in Prop. 75 Benefit Members) writt...
Focus Column - By Jens B. Koepke - A fairly new and little-known statute provides that a plaintiff asserting a trade secret cl...
Labor/Employment
Union Initiative Upsets Balance of Rights, Inviting Legal Challenge
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Ruben J. Garcia - Imagine that you are on the board of an organization dedicated to broadening access to pre...
SAN FRANCISCO - Sideman & Bancroft, a boutique litigation firm in San Francisco, has brought on partners Emily Kingston, ...
LOS ANGELES - Robert R. Jesuele has joined the Century City office of Hogan & Hartson as a partner. Jesuele comes from th...