Struggling computer maker Sun Microsystems Inc. has announced plans to buy partner Storage Technology Corp. for $4.1 billion i...
Telling mall security and a restaurant employee that "a very creepy guy was just outside looking at me; he's gone now," isn't ...
LOS ANGELES - Attorney Jeffrey S. Kravitz rarely wants the judge who presides over a civil dispute to run the pretrial settlem...
In their heyday, the raucous 1980s, few bands better epitomized the reckless abandon of the head-banger lifestyle than Motley ...
A Chico man caught yelling racial epithets and beating three Hmong men to the ground will pick up the tab not only for the vic...
INDUSTRIAL SAN DIEGO - Interocean Industries signed a five-year, $952,523 lease for 14,951 square feet of research-and-develop...
Networking is everything. Just ask Philip Graves. The intellectual property litigator jumped to the Los Angeles office of Squi...
Administrative/Regulatory
Proposition 64 Doesn't Hurt Enviromental Suits
By Contributing Writer
Letter to the Editor - The California Legislature has wisely tabled the bill Sean B. Hecht touted in his recent Forum article ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Solutions to Pot Ruling Lie in New Legislation, Medical Research
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Allen Hopper - On June 6, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in the medical marijuana case Gonzales ...
For the Record - A front-page brief Thursday, "Fleishman Plea," incorrectly reported that former Fleishman-Hillard executive D...
EXTRA Feature - In the late '90s, top brass at Los Angeles' Loeb & Loeb came to junior partner Adam Streisand with a propo...
Administrative/Regulatory
Petition Demands Recall of District Attorney
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Opponents of San Benito County District Attorney John Sarsfield turned in what they said were more than 7,000 sign...
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Rene Navarro is one of the stalwarts of the Hall of Justice. He has preside...
LOS ANGELES - A delay appeared to be in the works for the trial, slated to begin Tuesday, of the high-profile wrongful-death ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Terry B. Friedman, a former state assemblyman, has been elected the 74th pre...
LOS ANGELES - A gay associate in the Los Angeles office of White & Case has filed a sexual-harassment and discrimination l...
Criminal
Secretary Accused of Theft Says Judge Asked Too Much of Her
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - A secretary accused by a federal judge of stealing more than $452,000 from his personal accounts has in turn accu...
LOS ANGELES - A month after he was fired from Los Angeles County's Children's Law Center, setting off an impromptu public prot...
LOS ANGELES - Meredith Blake was always socially conscious, but poring over textbooks in law school, she never imaged she'd on...
INDUSTRIAL CARLSBAD - Chuao Chocolatier signed a five-year, $496,163 lease for 9,270 square feet of industrial space at 2345 ...
Judges and Judiciary
Blackmun: Philosophical Shift Hurt U.S. Jurisprudence
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Roderick Walston - Linda Greenhouse, the Supreme Court reporter for The New York Times, has just written a b...
Litigation
Trade-Secret Plaintiffs' Challenge: Revealing Only Necessary Details
By Columnist
Focus Column - Litigation - By Jason T. Anderson - Before commencing discovery, a California plaintiff claiming trade secret m...
Labor/Employment
Court Allows Chargebacks From Employee Commissions on Sales
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Jacqueline Cookerly Aguilera and Roxanne Torabian-Bashardoust - In an unanimous opinion that recently w...
Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Ray Jurado - Recently, the California Supreme Court clarified that case law had set too high ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Management Changes for Santa Clara County Counsel
By Columnist
SAN JOSE - Top managers in the Santa Clara County Counsel's office are coming and going this week. Bob Campbell, a former chi...
Judges and Judiciary
Peterson Murder Prosecutor Makes Judge in Stanislaus
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Stanislaus County prosecutor Joseph "Rick" Distaso, famed for winning first-degree murder convictions in the ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate court panel split Thursday over how many death threats it takes to qualify a Filipino ref...
Judges and Judiciary
Brown Successor Not Likely To Be Chosen Before Fall Session
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court will probably not have a permanent successor for Justice Janice Rogers Brown bef...
SAN FRANCISCO - A California Highway Patrol officer, fired for keeping a contraband machine pistol in his garage, must get hi...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge in Santa Monica Gives Attorneys Valuable Feedback
By Ryan Oliver
LOS ANGELES - At times, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Terry B. Friedman's work isn't unlike that of the two public-school ...