FOCUS COLUMN - By Phillip R. Maltin - James E. Files claims he shot President Kennedy from the grassy knoll in Dallas. Files, ...
FORUM COLUMN - By Robert D. Richards and Clay Calvert - Underneath the high umbrellas of the garden terrace restaurant at Holl...
LOS ANGELES - Gary S. Raskin saw a need: Although entertainment attorneys provide legal advice, they often fail to mention th...
LOS ANGELES - UC Davis has one of the top agricultural studies programs in the country, situated in the heart of the nation's ...
LOS ANGELES - Davis Wright Tremaine announced the appointment of Mary Haas to partner-in-charge of its Los Angeles office. Haa...
SAN FRANCISCO - The election season in Mendocino County promises to be a long and colorful one, thanks to its ever-provocative...
Judges and Judiciary
Reality-Show Star Knows How to Keep Juries Alert
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - The couple's murder trials were seen across the nation on NBC's "Crime and Punishment," a reality spin-off from "L...
SAN FRANCISCO - Asbestos plaintiffs' attorney Steven Kazan is based in Oakland, but when election season rolls around, he writ...
Shulman Hodges & Bastian has named John Mark Jennings a partner in the firm's Foothill Ranch office. His practice focuses ...
CHULA VISTA - Fremont Investment & Loan closed a $51.5 million acquisition and construction loan to an affiliate of Sudber...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Accord Did Not Constitute Surrender of Police Power
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Daniel J. Curtin Jr. and Bryan W. Wenter - In a recent case, the 1st District Court of Appeal held that a se...
Labor/Employment
'L'Oreal' Permits Retaliation Claims That Employers Know Nothing About
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Karen L. Gabler - In the rapidly changing environment of sexual-harassment and discrimination lawsuits,...
Employee Benefits
Changes to Family Leave Act Will Add Hardship to Workers in Tough Times
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Ruth Silver Taube - The amended California Family Rights Act of 1991 and the federal Family and Medical Leav...
LOS ANGELES - Services for Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert J. Sandoval will take place Wednesday at Forest Lawn Memori...
WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously endorsed the nomination of Stephen G. Larson to be U.S. District Judge...
LOS ANGELES - It was an impossible case to settle. The two sides in a medical malpractice claim couldn't agree on an amount to...
SAN FRANCISCO - A former San Francisco building department official will be tried on felony bribery charges for allegedly shak...
LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Sunday for longtime Los Angeles attorney Marceline A. de la Poterie. De la Poterie, wh...
SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed Assistant U.S. Attorney John Laettner to Contra Costa County Superior Cou...
Real Estate/Development
Condo Owners May Benefit From Appeal for Free-Speech Rights
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - A groundbreaking New Jersey court decision if affirmed on appeal would give California homeowners a new tool to ...
SAN FRANCISCO - If immigration authorities are going to take an illegal immigrant into custody and question him extensively ab...
SAN FRANCISCO - Immigration authorities are free to tell illegal immigrants facing deportation it is tough luck if they have t...
SAN FRANCISCO - Longtime Silicon Valley attorney Richard Allan Horning, who found a niche helping Swedish companies get into t...
LOS ANGELES - Janice C. Croft had spent 11 years handling personal injury and probate cases when then Gov. George Deukmejian a...
LOS ANGELES - If anybody can claim the system failed them, it's Gregory Gayton. An Orange County appellate court has issued a ...
WASHINGTON - Supreme Court specialist Thomas C. Goldstein is leaving the litigation boutique he formed six years ago to estab...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Bar-Group Chief Resigns After 'Buckwheat' Remark
By Savannah Blackwell
SAN FRANCISCO - He says it was just a slip of the tongue but the racially insensitive remark made by veteran civil litigator a...
SAN FRANCISCO - Advocacy groups that file amicus briefs in appellate cases should not be ordered to pay their opponent's fees ...
SAN DIEGO - Veralliance Properties purchased a corporate office and laboratory portfolio from Equity Office Properties -Indust...
LOS ANGELES - As the Senate takes up immigration reform today, sharp divisions have re-emerged between those who support a Ho...