LOS ANGELES - A federal magistrate judge on Friday blocked attorney Stephen Yagman's attempts to depose a Daily Journal report...
SAN FRANCISCO - California's Insurance Commissioner is looking for an angle to appeal a court ruling that leaves California t...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Officer Discovers Her Aptitude for Criminal Cases
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - While teaching U.S. Supreme Court case law to her class of 16-year-old high-school students in Connecticut, Holl...
Administrative/Regulatory
FBI Needn't Rush to Turn Over Details of Probe
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - The FBI need not expedite the release of documents explaining its investigation of hundreds of Muslims and in...
SAN FRANCISCO - When attorneys Michael Mendelson and Wayne Lesser tipped off San Francisco officials in 1992 that a major pro...
Judges and Judiciary
9th Circuit Votes to Review Sentencing Question En Banc
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - The turmoil over federal sentencing guidelines took a new turn late Friday with an announcement by the 9th U.S...
INDUSTRIAL STOCKTON - Fleenor Co. Inc. signed a 10-year, $3.1 million lease for 130,200 square feet of warehouse space at 4201...
LOS ANGELES - Do you want fries with that lawsuit? To the chagrin of late-night snackers, club-goers and other lovers of egg-t...
Forum Column - By Ray Jurado - A prosecutor's job is to represent the people - and to do justice. Doing justice means that the...
Labor/Employment
Plaintiffs' Boilerplate Pleadings Come Back to Haunt in SLAPP Case
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Martin L. Pitha - When we last heard about them, a group of people who anonymously posted negative rema...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Gregg A. Farley and Kimberly H. Clancy - In the unending battle to keep guns out of the hands o...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for G.G. Baumen, a Los Angeles sole practitioner for six decades. Baumen died of hear...
Criminal
San Bernardino Prosecutor Dies in Head-On Car Collision
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - Jennifer L. Brooks, a San Bernardino deputy district attorney and daughter of an Orange County Superior Cou...
SAN FRANCISCO - After nine years at the helm of Farella Braun & Martel, tax and business attorney William Schlinkert has a...
LOS ANGELES - A federal magistrate judge will hear arguments today about whether civil-rights attorney Stephen Yagman can ques...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca has settled a lawsuit over a lay chaplain's expulsion from county jail by a...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Oakland Diocese could be forced to pay much higher damage awards to victims of priests' sexual abuse as a ...
LOS ANGELES - As both trial lawyer and manager at Los Angeles' Morrison & Foerster, Maren E. Nelson spent the last dozen y...
SAN FRANCISCO - In two terms on the Santa Cruz Board of Supervisors, Jeff Almquist developed a reputation as an environmentali...
LOS ANGELES - Jesse James Hollywood was "polite, respectful and concerned" following his capture in Brazil and his transfer to...
SAN FRANCISCO - A judge has thrown out a lawsuit against San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera that accused him of breach...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Superior Court Judge Mary Morgan issued a tentative order Thursday providing greater transparenc...
SAN FRANCISCO - When the 700 lawyer Pillsbury Winthrop announced it would merge with the 300 lawyer Shaw Pittman, leaders of b...
LOS ANGELES - A San Diego entrepreneur and stem-cell supporter on Thursday offered $1 million to a Florida man to keep his bra...
INDUSTRIAL MANTECA - Holliday Fenoglio Fowler LP arranged a $13.2 million construction loan for Hunsaker Development's Manteca...
LOS ANGELES - With attorney Bob Hertzberg's defeat Tuesday in the Los Angeles mayoral race, his many backers in the legal comm...
Labor/Employment
'Lyle' Portends Life Without Freedom, 'Friends,' 'Seinfeld'
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Greg Lukianoff - Every year when I attend a national conference of administrators for America's colleges and...
Judges and Judiciary
High Court Justices Should Heed: 'Tis Better to Give Than Receive
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Pierce O'Donnell - A recent newspaper headline caught my attention: "Gifts Accepted by Supreme Court." My fi...
Focus Column - Cyberlaw - By Andrew B. Serwin - California has long been at the forefront of regulating Internet and privacy i...
SAN DIEGO - After weathering 16 years of legal challenges, a historic cross standing on public land atop a hill in La Jolla wi...