LOS ANGELES - A former executive with Vans Inc. seemed to have a good defense to federal bribery charges when e-mails surfaced...
SAN BERNARDINO - Less than a week after hiring a lawyer convicted of paying jail inmates to garner clients, San Bernardino Pub...
SAN FRANCISCO - Judge JoAnn Remke quickly signaled that she had heard enough from a prosecutor appearing before her. "I hate ...
Government
Judge Sanctions County $54,000 for 'Ineptitude' in Turning Over Evidence
By Ryan Oliver
LOS ANGELES - In a scathing ruling, a judge sanctioned Los Angeles County $54,000 on Monday for "ineptitude" in failing to tu...
LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court has handed a victory to backers of a public corruption initiative blocking public offic...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that Oakland's predatory lending law cannot stand because it confli...
Litigation
Write-In Voters' Rights Were Violated, Attorney Tells Judge
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A lawyer for supporters of mayoral write-in candidate Donna Frye told a judge Monday that votes for Frye were tre...
SANTA MARIA - While throngs of fans, ringed by cameras, cheered Michael Jackson at the start of jury selection for his child-m...
SAN FRANCISCO - An undocumented immigrant who was deported to Mexico while awaiting a hearing for his asylum petition was den...
Criminal
L.A. Mouthpieces Uncharacteristically Clam Up With Prosecutors
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Legally speaking, who's tougher, the New York Mafia or the Los Angeles power elite? ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp., China's leading semiconductor manufacturer, will pay Taiwan ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The sole black woman on the California Supreme Court said Monday that the court may have erred 20 years ago w...
Morrison & Foerster's securities litigation practice got a boost this month with the acquisition of Sean Prosser and Kimbe...
When Rob Feldman and Keiko Johnson launched Juris Productions in 2002, they staked their experience as KNBC-TV news producers ...
And the Winner Is... Pharmaceutical companies didn't grab all the big defense verdicts in 2004. From obtaining the only win a...
After three years of fighting for the civil rights of girls and women as a staff attorney at the California Women's Law Center...
SACRAMENTO - Taking aim at the critics who have ruled him out of the 2006 race for California attorney general, state Sen. Jo...
Five litigators from San Francisco's C.W. Wood & Associates have joined McKenna Long & Aldridge. Steering the group is...
After spending 11/2 years at the attorney general's office in Los Angeles, Kate Kenealy says the stellar reputation of litigat...
An African-American shopper says she's speaking out against retail discrimination to prevent it from taking others by surprise...
EXTRA Closer Column - LAW FIRM MANAGEMENT - By Robert W. Cullen - Whether a corporate client hires a lawyer for litigation or ...
Sid Israels, a longtime Central Valley transactional and real estate attorney, has joined Oakland's Wendel, Rosen, Black &...
More than a year after his death, millionaire Stanley Yager's family found themselves in a courtroom brawl over two wills and ...
INDUSTRIAL SANTA FE SPRINGS - L.A.R.D. Investments LP purchased a 106,993-square-foot industrial building located at 13635 Fr...
Forum Column - By Mark Ridley-Thomas - Congratulations to new homeowners in this New Year. It is truly a triumph that homeowne...
Intellectual Property
'Knorr-Bremse' Assists With Patent-Infringement Defense
By Columnist
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Robert P. Andris - At the end of the liability phase in most patent-infringement tri...
Contracts
'Nipplegate' Raises Specter of Implied Pact Between Viewers, Networks
By Columnist
Forum Column - By James D. Nguyen - This month, we celebrate the one-year anniversary of Janet Jackson's infamous breast-beari...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council approved a $450,000 settlement with a gay LAPD officer who claims he was harassed a...
EXTRA Feature - By Eron Ben-Yehuda - In many ways, Michael Tyus is the worst nightmare for Merck & Co. The pharmaceutical ...
WASHINGTON - The American Bar Association is trying to make it easier for judges and judicial candidates to know what they can...