LOS ANGELES - Bolstering a small town's efforts to keep ber-retailer Wal-Mart from opening another megastore in its burg, a s...
SAN FRANCISCO - Programs aimed at reducing juvenile violence, helping self-represented litigants and preventing elder abuse w...
Administrative/Regulatory
Governor Vetoes Bill Making Temps Staffers
By Draeger Martinez
LOS ANGELES - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill Wednesday that would have turned temporary workers in the Los Angeles S...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State's Judges, Lawyers Meet Concurrently
By Kenneth Davis
LOS ANGELES - For the first time, the State Bar of California, the Judicial Council's Statewide Judicial Branch and the Calif...
LOS ANGELES - Public defender Laura Hymowitz and retired Municipal Court Commissioner John M. Murphy have been elected Los Ang...
LOS ANGELES - A Texas jury's recent decision to award $253 million to a Vioxx user's widow caught the attention of legal obse...
State Bar & Bar Associations
New State Bar Head Brings Plans
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - James O. Heiting's personal battle with the bottle spawned his passion for helping other attorneys cope with the ...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge's Sense of Humor Keeps Lawyers as Fans
By Contributing Writer
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Joseph S. Biderman knows he cannot possibly please every attorney with every d...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Wednesday rejected an appeal from Erik and Lyle Menendez, the Beverly Hills brothers w...
SAN FRANCISCO - Third-year Tulane law student Robin Fitt woke up last Saturday morning at her apartment in New Orleans thinki...
Judges and Judiciary
Hustler Opinion Illustrates Rehnquist Enjoyed a Joke
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - This country's plentiful hordes of U.S. Supreme Court critics might fault Chief Justice William H. ...
Judges and Judiciary
President, Others Remember Rehnquist as Renaissance Man
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - President Bush and leaders of all three branches of government joined the family and friends of William H. Rehnq...
Law Practice
Scientific Value Aside, Bits of Corn DNA Don't Get Patents
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - In its guidelines for patent applications, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states unequivocally that inve...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco federal judge expressed relief Wednesday that the U.S. Justice Department is investigating whe...
WASHINGTON - In his 33 years on the Supreme Court, William H. Rehnquist went from frequently being a lone conservative dissent...
INSTITUTIONAL LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Unified School District executed a 10-year, $25 million lease with Bristol Group I...
LOS ANGELES - California legal community is moving to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina, which likely killed thousands of...
Focus Column - International Law - By Peter J. Engstrom - In an increasingly globalized economy, issues of personal jurisdict...
LOS ANGELES - In November, when German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom faced 2,100 claims that it had inflated its...
SAN FRANCISCO - Even violent radicals can become good citizens, a federal appeals court concluded Tuesday In a unanimous en b...
Judges and Judiciary
Surfing San Diego Biker Presides Over Family Law Cases
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Commissioner Adam Wertheimer is an admitted thrill seeker, equally fond of surfboards and his Harley. But when he...
Judges and Judiciary
Ryan Rebuilds U.S. Attorney's Office After Brain Drain
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Turnover is the talk of Kevin Ryan's tenure. More than 40 prosecutors have left since Ryan came aboard as the ...
SAN FRANCISCO - H. Joseph Escher, best known for his work representing tobacco companies such as R.J. Reynolds in litigation ...
SACRAMENTO - California's courts and the State Bar would gain more authority to stop nonattorneys from practicing law under a ...
LOS ANGELES - San Diego has hired a Philadelphia-based law firm to represent the city before the Securities and Exchange Commi...
INDUSTRIAL SANTA CLARA COUNTY - FirstCal, a joint venture between First Industrial Realty Trust Inc. and the California State ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Right out of the gate in 2002, Northern California's top federal prosecutor scored some impressive victories. ...
Forum Column - By Terri R. Brown - Hurricane Katrina's fury showed no mercy to numerous lawyers, law offices and courthouses i...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Association of Legal Administrators will hold its 7th Annual Community Challenge Weekend Oct. 14-16. ...
Zoning, Planning and Use
City, County General Plans Rule in Land-Use Disputes
By Columnist
Focus Column - Land Use Law - By Daniel J. Curtin Jr. - For the last three decades under California land-use law, basically al...