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
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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...
SANTA ANA - A jury has awarded a San Clemente business owner $6.2 million in compensatory damages, finding the man's sister an...
SAN FRANCISCO - Palo Alto will likely within days drop its appeal of the Pacific Gas and Electric Co. bankruptcy reorganizatio...
SAN FRANCISCO - The racial and political strife that spilled from the streets into the courts in the 1970s is captured in news...
SAN FRANCISCO - Will Stern, a recognized authority in California's Unfair Competition Law, has joined San Francisco's Morrison...
LOS ANGELES - A malicious prosecution suit rooted in a 1993 Michael Jackson concert can go forward under a ruling Wednesday f...
SAN FRANCISCO - The decades-long battle over oil drilling off the California coast heated up Wednesday, with opponents filing...
SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dived deep into stormy international political waters churned by violent...
INDUSTRIAL SAN MARCOS - PG Acquisitions LLC purchased an 80,000-square-foot industrial property at 237 Via Vera Cruz from Ami...
RIVERSIDE - In the first trial of its kind in the Inland Empire, a Riverside jury began hearing arguments this week from lawye...
Criminal
Sometimes, Execution Is Best for Worst of Worst, Even Young Killers
By Columnist
Forum Column - By William J. Becker, Jr. - There were veeks and ptitsas laying on the ground screaming for mercy and I was sme...
Administrative/Regulatory
Listen Up: Quasi-Judicial Hearings Require Attention
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Focus Column - Administrative Law - By Daniel J. Curtin Jr. - In the landmark administrative law case of Morgan v. United Stat...
Constitutional Law
Theory of Juvenile-Death Case Should Apply to Minors' Sex Crimes
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Timothy Rote and Claudia Rosenbaum - In deciding that the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punish...
SANTA ANA - Orange County has agreed to pay the father of a 5-year-old murder victim $375,000 to settle a civil lawsuit alleg...
LOS ANGELES - A state appellate panel Tuesday refused to reinstate a lawsuit filed by a former city employee who claimed that ...
LOS ANGELES - The San Diego office of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe scored a hat trick Tuesday with the acquisition of a...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Lets His Decisions, Cooking Simmer to Perfection
By Don Ray
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge David L. Minning believes that litigation can be a cathartic experience. "Peopl...
Entertainment & Sports
Hollywood Waits for 9th Circuit 'Pitch' Ruling
By Blair Clarkson
LOS ANGELES - Movie moguls these days are nervously awaiting a court ruling that could drastically alter the art of the Hollyw...
Personal Injury & Torts
Tort Reformer Calls Kaiser Pill-Splitting Suit Frivolous
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - One of the state's top tort reformers has accused the head of the state's plaintiffs lawyers group of pursuing a ...