SANTA MARIA - Prosecutors began winding down their case against Michael Jackson this week with surprise testimony from the si...
LOS ANGELES - The U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles raised the stakes in one of the region's biggest corporate-fraud scand...
SAN FRANCISCO - California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown might never have imagined a fellow judge campaigning on t...
Administrative/Regulatory
Context, Atmosphere Figure In Determining Misconduct
By Columnist
Focus Column - Litigation - By Michael Paul Thomas - Attorney misconduct during trial has been defined as a dishonest act, or ...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Unusual High-Court Spread Has Takings Litigants Holding Their Breath
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Forum Column - By Ronald A. Zumbrun - The right to own and reasonably use private property is a cornerstone of the U.S. Consti...
Labor/Employment
Employee Health Issues: Timing of Knowledge, Action Matters
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Employment Column - By Karen (Fine) Gabler - In today's environment of rising health care insurance and workers' compensation ...
SAN DIEGO - In a rare move, attorneys for two City Council members facing strip-club corruption charges have asked a judge to ...
SANTA MARIA - Stunning prosecutors who put her on the stand, Michael Jackson's ex-wife heaped praise on the singer Thursday, t...
SACRAMENTO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer withdrew Thursday from the race for governor, saying he will run for state treasur...
LOS ANGELES - A former civil engineer has sued Costco, claiming the popular wholesaler negligently allowed cardboard boxes to...
Large Firms
New York's Fried Frank Will Shutter Its Los Angeles Office
By Lorelei Laird
LOS ANGELES - New York-based Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobsen will close its doors in Los Angeles on June 30. The...
SAN FRANCISCO - Bolstered by its new status as a two-continent operation, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham will op...
SAN FRANCISCO - A woman who suffered a broken nose when a Texas Rangers pitcher threw a folding chair into the stands at McAfe...
SAN FRANCISCO - They are accused of robbing a burger joint, fleeing at high speed with an officer in hot pursuit and possibly ...
LOS ANGELES - An Iranian man suing an Armenian bone marrow bank for rejecting his blood donation can sue under the state's ci...
INDUSTRIAL SANTA ANA - Douglas and Helen Wheeler purchased a 26,658-square-foot industrial building at 3020-3022 Hesperian Wa...
LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge on Wednesday blocked Los Angeles prosecutors' latest attempt to get access to files the ...
Forum Column - By Stephen R. Barnett - My incoming mail was upgraded last week by an official letter from the grandly named Su...
Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Laura W. Brill, Wendy Marantz Levine, Christopher M. Newman, Jennifer E. Rothman and Ted M. ...
Law Practice
Litigator Relished Making Personal Connections With Clients
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A memorial service will be held Friday for San Jose attorney David A. Hardin, one of the few attorneys in the Sout...
Judges and Judiciary
Retired Judge Remembered for His Decency and Warmth
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Retired Alameda County Municipal Court Judge Vernon A. Moore, who was well regarded by attorneys and his coll...
Administrative/Regulatory
Supreme Court Will Decide Prop. 64 Retroactivity
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - The state Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether courts can apply Proposition 64 retroactively to d...
LOS ANGELES - A 15-year-old donation Los Angeles Mayor James K. Hahn made to the local ACLU chapter, and his brief stint as a ...
LOS ANGELES - Fairness and equal access to justice have long been cornerstones of the legal and judicial communities, but wit...
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...