SAN FRANCISCO - The people who crowd the court of Contra Costa County Superior Court Commissioner Lowell Richards tell tales ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal prosecutors say former McKesson Corp. executive Richard Hawkins took part in a scheme to inflate sale...
LOS ANGELES - In a rare move, a retired Los Angeles Superior Court judge has freed a man facing capital charges for gunning d...
LOS ANGELES - Friends and colleagues know him as the master storyteller who keeps them laughing. The chocolate lovers who work...
Transportation
Victims May Not Succeed in Suits Against Metrolink, Cities
By Blair Clarkson
LOS ANGELES - Victims of the deadly commuter train disaster last week could have a hard time holding Metrolink or surrounding ...
Administrative/Regulatory
1930 Map of Green L.A. Inspires Urban Vision
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - In 1930, Central Park designer Frederick Law Olmsted presented officials with a map showing a green Los Angeles ...
INDUSTRIAL CARLSBAD - THQ Inc. signed a five-year, $629,100 lease for 9,412 square feet of research-and-development space in ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a fleeing suspect whose reckless driving kills a bystander c...
SAN JOSE - The defense attorney in the politically charged manslaughter proceedings against a state drug agent who shot to de...
Letter to the Editor - Your article " Prosecutors' Broad Immunity Shield Protects Former DA" (Jan. 18, Daily Journal) "Hallina...
Forum Column - By Reed Brody - The conviction this month of Spc. Charles Graner for atrocities committed at Abu Ghraib prison ...
Labor/Employment
Include Sex-Offender Web Sites in Background Checks on Applicants
By Columnist
Employment Column - By James J. McDonald Jr. and Sharon Ongerth - Suppose a car salesman sexually assaults a young woman while...
Focus Column - Family Law - By Peter M. Walzer - The year 2005 is well under way, happily for some and not so happily for othe...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco jury hit a commercial mortgage company with $33 million in punitive damages Wednesday, saying...
SAN FRANCISCO - Retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge John D. Harris, seeking to preserve his "impeccable reputation," ins...
LOS ANGELES - Southwestern University School of Law has tapped Bryant G. Garth, the former director of the American Bar Found...
LOS ANGELES - In an unusual move, District Attorney Steve Cooley has targeted the man accused of causing the nation's deadlie...
SAN FRANCISCO - A split federal appeals panel ordered a new trial Thursday for a convicted armed robber whose lawyer failed t...
Litigation
Tossing Write-In's Ballots Violated Voters' Rights, Lawyer Says
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Rejecting ballots for a write-in candidate in November's mayoral election may have upheld state election rules but...
SAN FRANCISCO - Environmental groups filed suit in federal court Thursday to block a government plan they said would allow ex...
SANTA ANA - As Christopher Hammer and Arthur Smelt looked on, their attorney argued in federal court Thursday that laws prohib...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Ex-Fiancé Must Return Most Of $14.9 Million Award He Won
By Dan Evans
LOS ANGELES - The ex-fiancé and lawyer of billionaire newspaper owner Wendy McCaw must give back most of a $14.9 million arbit...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Montana pedophile justly defied federal officials who tried to coerce him into confessing past crimes as pa...
SAN FRANCISCO - Kathleen Fisher, a longtime Morrison & Foerster trial lawyer and one of the firm's top rainmakers, has te...
INDUSTRIAL SAN DIEGO - An affiliate of Westcore Properties LLC sold a 34,357-square-foot research-and-development building lo...
SAN FRANCISCO - Seeking to avoid the grim prospect of being removed from the bench for fixing traffic tickets, Yuba County Su...
SAN JOSE - The state's tepid economy has cooled the once red-hot legal battles between California companies and out-of-state ...
Focus Column - Tax Law - By M. Katharine Davidson and Mark A. Saulino. - On Oct. 22, 2004, President Bush signed into law the ...
LOS ANGELES - In a victory for California cities battling risqu behavior at strip clubs, a federal appeals court on Wednesday...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has refused to reinstate a lawsuit against the Walt Disney Co. in a closely w...