Focus Column - Family Law - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - Often in child custody litigation, the c...
Letter to the Editor - In my view, the Violence Against Women Act should be taken as a wake-up call for children and fathers. ...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Leonard Allen Goldman, a longtime Los Angeles lawyer and philanthropist. Goldman ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Statue of Liberty. Mount Rushmore. The Liberty Bell. The landmarks inspire patriotism, but few can say the...
LOS ANGELES - Two blind public bus riders filed a civil rights class action against the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transp...
Corporate
FedEx Employees Get Class Status Over Alleged Unpaid Work
By Geneva Whitmarsh
LOS ANGELES - A class action alleging that FedEx Express failed to pay its employees adequately has paved the way for as many ...
Civil Rights
Despite London, Patriot Act Faces Tough Times in Congress
By Lawrence Hurleyn
WASHINGTON - The bombings in London last week may have re-energized the war on terror, but efforts to reauthorize some contro...
Judges and Judiciary
Governor Appoints New Judges in San Mateo, Santa Clara Counties
By Donna Domino
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed three new Bay Area judges Tuesday, including San Francisco federal prosecut...
SAN FRANCISCO - Black business owners in Oakland have filed a federal class action charging that the city's contracting, hiri...
Corporate
UnitedHealth Pays $8.1 Billion For PacifiCare Health Systems
By Geneva Whitmarsh
LOS ANGELES - UnitedHealth Group, the nation's second-largest health insurer, has agreed to pay $8.1 billion for rival Pacifi...
Criminal
Defender Denies Las Vegas Lobbyist Made Illegal Contributions
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A Las Vegas lobbyist accused of scheming with two San Diego city councilmen to repeal a profit-cutting strip-club ...
SAN FRANCISCO - California park officials have agreed to spend millions of dollars in the next 11 years to make parks across ...
International
9th Circuit Will Hear Appeals In Nicaraguans' Pesticide Case
By Dan Evans
LOS ANGELES - Three years ago, a group of plantation workers won a $489 million judgment against the Dole Food Co., Dow Chemic...
Judges and Judiciary
Straightforward O'Connor Gave Attorneys an 'Anchor'
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - While it remains to be seen how Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's retirement will alter the ideological balance of t...
SAN FRANCISCO - Bungling lawyers have gotten little sympathy from Sacramento appellate justices so far this month. Over succe...
Judges and Judiciary
Survey Probes Ways Counties Hold Mental-Health Hearings
By Dan Evans
LOS ANGELES - Every year, in little-understood court proceedings called Riese hearings, hundreds of Californians are medicate...
LOS ANGELES - A group of young designers sporting flashy tattoos recently walked into Morrison & Foerster partner Henry F...
INDUSTRIAL RIALTO - MGA Entertainment purchased a 435,000-square-foot industrial building in the Rialto Commerce Center on Ced...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Moe Keshavarzi - In 1982, in Keating v. Superior Court , 31 Cal.3d 584 (1982), the California S...
Administrative/Regulatory
Gonzales' Appointment Is Tempting for Bush, Scary to Others
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - With the unexpected resignation of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, George Bush finds himself on...
Litigation
Hold Your Popcorn: 'Grokster' Misses Key Point, Begs for Sequel
By Columnist
Forum Column - By James D. Nguyen - Every summer, I marvel as the motion picture industry goes into high gear to promote its "...
LOS ANGELES - Zions Bancorp, which operates in eight Western states, has agreed to purchase Amergy Bancorp, the third-largest...
SAN DIEGO - A lawyer for a San Diego city councilman on trial on public corruption charges said Monday that campaign funds giv...
SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County judge has rejected a Fremont technology company's bid for a sweeping injunction that would ha...
LOS ANGELES - Not many lawyers have killed a partner or taken down an entire drug ring on their list of things to do. But whe...
LOS ANGELES - After five years, Los Angeles County supervisors, responsible for appointing an inspector general to issue repo...
LOS ANGELES - Seasoned attorneys offer one piece of advice to lawyers making a first-time appearance before Los Angeles Superi...
SAN FRANCISCO - Cooley Godward is preparing to open an office in the nation's capital with the help of three partners it has ...
RICHMOND - Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Barry Goode knew before he claimed his bar card that he wanted to be a li...
SAN FRANCISCO - In two rulings Monday, U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer upheld the California attorney general's authority t...