LOS ANGELES - Food services company Sodexho Inc. has agreed to pay an $80 million settlement to black employees who say the co...
SANTA ANA - A jury began deliberating the fate of Alejandro Avila on Wednesday after prosecutors urged them to "follow the ev...
Government Contracts
County OKs New Contract for Problematic Foster-Care Agency
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - A private foster-care agency accused of misspending funds and paying an excessive salary to its executive direc...
SAN FRANCISCO - David Wendel, a leader in Oakland's business and legal communities and the longtime managing partner of Wende...
LOS ANGELES - Courts have spent countless hours and thousands of dollars trying to make jury service a more-inviting prospect...
Government
Schwarzenegger Has Surprising Knack for Sparking Action Against Him
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Washington, D.C., public relations guy and former Capitol Hill staffer John Edgell says he's consti...
WASHINGTON - Several U.S. Supreme Court justices expressed skepticism Wednesday over whether accounting firm Arthur Andersen s...
Judges and Judiciary
After-Hours Barriers Increase Security in Hall of Justice
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - Beefing up security at the San Francisco Hall of Justice following a series of attacks on judges in other sta...
Criminal
L.A.'s Girardi Will Lead International Academy of Trial Lawyers
By Ryan Oliver
LOS ANGELES - Thomas V. Girardi, dean of the state plaintiffs' bar, on Saturday was elected president of the 500-lawyer Intern...
SANTA MARIA - Brian Oxman was sanctioned by the judge early in the Michael Jackson trial, often napped in court and recently g...
INDUSTRIAL COSTA MESA - Voit Development Co. purchased the 49,218-square-foot Hyland Plaza industrial building at 3525 Hyland...
SAN JOSE - While much of the attention in the battle between Apple Computer and the bloggers who write about the company has ...
Public Interest
Preschools Keep Kids Out of Legal System -- For The Long Term
By Contributing Writer
Forum Column - By Daniel Grunfeld and Melissa Lawton - Across California's wide political spectrum, there is at least one area...
Letter to the Editor - I have three observations concerning the diatribe written by William J. Becker Jr. in the April 25 Dail...
Focus Column - Corporate Law - By Peter M. Stone, Jay C. Gandhi and Johanna S. Wilson - Perjury charges have already reaped gu...
SAN FRANCISCO - Former federal prosecutor John Potter, who joined Covington & Burling in San Francisco three years ago to...
SANTA MARIA - In occasionally contentious testimony Tuesday, a travel consultant said she was asked to book one-way tickets t...
LOS ANGELES - A former Silicon Valley executive charged with plotting the murder of a San Francisco federal judge qualified f...
Environmental
Jury Deliberations to Begin in Humboldt Pepper Spray Case
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - If environmental protesters finally win their 8-year-old police brutality case against Northern California of...
SAN FRANCISCO - Seven former California State Automobile Association insurance sales agents who worked primarily with non-Eng...
SANTA ANA - DNA belonging to 5-year-old Samantha Runnion found inside Alejandro Avila's car is all the jury needs to convict t...
SAN FRANCISCO - A former Sonoma County commissioner has sued the court, saying judges there discriminated against him on the ...
Judges and Judiciary
Career Prosecutor Surprised Himself by Becoming Judge
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Superior Court Judge Frederick Maguire had collected some odd cases during his 16 years as a county prosecutor, bu...
Government
Judicial System Was Built To Withstand Today's Wave of Criticism
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Charles Parselle - In a speech in Michigan on Jan. 7, President Bush linked lawsuits with job losses: "In or...
INDUSTRIAL VISTA - Marabella Properties LLC purchased a 12,016-square-foot industrial building at 1280 Liberty Way from the D...
ROSAMOND - Dee Rogers, a longtime member of the First Baptist Church in this High Desert community 55 miles northeast of Los A...
LOS ANGELES - The widow of a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy filed late Monday the first of what's expected to be many law...
LOS ANGELES - Brian Oxman, a latecomer to Michael Jackson's sexual abuse defense team, mysteriously has left the case. Oxman, ...
Focus Column - International Law - By Allison Chang - Plaintiffs suing in the United States against a foreign defendant have t...
Letter to the Editor - Dan Rhoads and Vince Imhoff suggest that the presumption of innocence lacks force against charges of do...