Bankruptcy lawyers are closely following what many consider a chilling reform bill that could hold them liable for mistakes in...
Intellectual Property
Antitrust Tying Claim Enjoys Market Power Presumption
By Contributing Writer
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Henry C. Su - U.S. antitrust laws forbid a seller from requiring a buyer who wants t...
Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - For those of you who read last month about covenant marriage ("No Wedding Bells: Covenant ...
Juvenile
SF Judge's Ruling Makes Clear: All Families Have Right to Family Values
By Contributing Writer
Forum Column - By Judy Appel - Last week a California judge issued a ruling that offers hope to our children for a future free...
SANTA ANA - Two-and-a-half years after the nude body of 5-year-old Samantha Runnion was discovered in mountains 50 miles from ...
There you sit, staring at the cards, wondering which to hold and playing the odds. One bad move and you bust. But how do you d...
SAN DIEGO - A San Diego congresswoman is trying to open the door to the U.S. Supreme Court for a man who has long insisted tha...
SAN FRANCISCO - For an ex-prosecutor to confess that he cheated to win a death sentence is virtually unheard of in the annals ...
SAN JOSE - The attorney representing a Fremont company has asked a Santa Clara County jury for more than $1 billion in damages...
Bankruptcy
Brobeck Estate, Former Client Taking Fee Fight Before Judge
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - According to their lawyers, the only reason Tickets.com executives signed a disputed 2001 fee arrangement with...
INDUSTRIAL COMMERCE - CBB Group Inc. purchased an industrial building at 2747 Malt Ave. from Nishimoto Trading Co. for $7.5 m...
Forum Column - By Guy Houston and Diann Rogers - Restaurants should not be held liable simply because people gain weight over ...
Forum Column - By Sanford Jossen - No one seems to like lawyers. There are more lawyers than ever and it seems that they are u...
Labor/Employment
Follow Rules About Background Checks to Hire Wisely, Avoid Liability
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Mark E. Terman - While conducting a computerized legal database search, your firm stumbles upon three u...
Law Practice
Prosecution 'Hall of Famer' 'Saw What a Case Was Worth'
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - Peter Aviles, a retired pioneering consumer fraud prosecutor with the San Francisco district attorney's office...
Judges and Judiciary
Hearing Ordered Into Alleged Juror Misconduct in Murder Case
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court has ordered a hearing into whether a famous female impersonator committed miscond...
SAN JOSE - Last weekend, former Santa Clara Superior Court Judge William Danser shared a beer with his father upon his release...
LOS ANGELES - Immigration officials have freed four Iranian brothers, jailed three years for allegedly supporting terrorists, ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A rejected candidate for U.S. attorney in Los Angeles has lost another round in his legal crusade to force sel...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo spent $1.27 million in a virtually unopposed re-election victory just...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Jury Will Get Antitrust Suit by Makers of Medical Equipment
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - Masimo Corp.'s antitrust case against rival medical-equipment maker Tyco Healthcare Group was expected to reach ...
Judges and Judiciary
Compton Judge Lives, Dies for Lakers, Fighting Injustice
By Don Ray
LOS ANGELES - The lone picketer outside the Great Western Forum was undaunted. Not even free tickets to the Lakers game could ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Edwards Talks Politics and Law to BASF Lunch Crowd
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - John Edwards brought his populist message to several hundred sympathetic San Francisco lawyers Thursday, decl...
LOS ANGELES - The case had long been known in the district attorney's office as "Cooley's O.J.," prosecutors said Thursday. An...
Environmental
Oil Giant Settles Two Air Pollution Suits for $81 Million
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Southern California air pollution regulators Thursday said they settled a pair of lawsuits against an oil com...
SAN FRANCISCO - The chairman of a San Jose Catholic parish knew about a pastor's pedophile tendencies and failed to do anythin...
SAN FRANCISCO - For an ex-prosecutor to confess that he cheated to win a death sentence is virtually unheard of in the annals ...
Discipline
Some See Ethical Quandary for Justice Chin in Alameda Case
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Thomas Orloff and Ming Chin go way back, to 1970, when they each landed their first jobs out of law school as ...
LOS ANGELES - A Moorpark couple who allegedly concealed their ownership of an escaped tiger that terrorized the Southland were...
INDUSTRIAL LOS ANGELES - Aerovironment signed a five-year, $2.5 million sublease for an 83,356-square-foot industrial building...