Henry Su is the latest partner to join Howrey Simon Arnold & White's intellectual property practice in Menlo Park. Su, who...
WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee may have convened Thursday to approve chief justice nominee John G. Roberts Jr., ...
SAN JOSE - Aaron Persky, a psychiatrist's son who was assigned last fall to be a judge in Santa Clara County's drug court, ha...
Criminal
Not All Constitutional Violations Justify Suppressing Evidence
By Staff Writer
Forum Column - By Devallis Rutledge - It's been a hundred years since the Supreme Court created the federal exclusionary rule ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a San Francisco man can be convicted of three diffe...
Personal Injury & Torts
'Recovering Trial Attorney' Switches to Neutral
By Geneva Whitmarsh
LOS ANGELES - Richard Coleman jokingly calls himself a "recovering trial lawyer." But get the 70-year-old mediator talking, an...
LOS ANGELES - If you passed the bar in 1998 or later, Eliot Disner probably wants to represent you. Disner's behind of a pair...
LOS ANGELES -Federal prosecutors decided earlier this week not to seek the death penalty against four alleged gang members ac...
LOS ANGELES -MacLaren Children's Center, the home for abused and neglected children that was shuttered two years ago followin...
SACRAMENTO - The price of inaction is going up. Starting in 2006, inactive members of the California State Bar will see their...
Focus Column - Tax Law - By Boyd D. Hudson and Robert A. Yahiro - Business owners frequently own real estate and other busines...
Public Interest
Lawyers Train Others to Help Victims of Hurricane Katrina
By Draeger Martinez
LOS ANGELES -A group of lawyers has joined forces with the American Red Cross to teach other lawyers and law students how to ...
OFFICE SAN FRANCISCO - In a joint venture, Lexington Corporate Properties Trust purchased a Class A office building in the Sou...
Labor/Employment
Courts Shouldn't Permit Discretionary Review of Denial of Benefits
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Ruth Silver Taube - Congress enacted the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 29 U.S.C. Sec...
OFFICE PASADENA - Broadreach Capital Partners LLC purchased Pasadena Tech Center, a 231,000-square-foot office building at 46...
SAN FRANCISCO - It didn't take long for a lawsuit to catch up with Fremont police when a suspect died after repeated blasts fr...
Forum Column - By Richard Mac Bride - According to recent polls, a majority of Californians are worried about illegal immigrat...
Focus Column - Corporate Law - By Jeffrey M. Rawitz and Alexander Frid - Hardly a week passes without a news story about theft...
SAN FRANCISCO - Eleven companies that allegedly helped create one of California's oldest Superfund sites have agreed to pay m...
LOS ANGELES - Hoping to get a jump on insurance carriers who might deny Hurricane Katrina-related claims, lawyers have filed ...
SAN FRANCISCO - People accused of killing white people are more likely to be sentenced to death in California than other homi...
LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury in Los Angeles handed down a three-count indictment late Wednesday against an owner of a ch...
WASHINGTON - Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., announced Wednesday that she will join the growing ranks of Democrats who plan to ...
Column - By Garry Abrams - "You're poor, Patty. You're poor." With those chilling words allegedly uttered by her mother, Barba...
Constitutional Law
Panel Denies Exception for Driver's License Photograph
By Ryan Oliver
LOS ANGELES - A member of a Russian Orthodox order whose adherents forbid pictures of themselves must be photographed to obtai...
Intellectual Property
Inventors Can Pool Patents And Stay Within Antitrust Law
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Inventors can pool together their patents and license them as long as the patent holders don't force buyers t...
SAN FRANCISCO - An Alameda County judge has awarded $3.5 million in fees to attorneys who defended a former Lawrence Livermor...
OFFICE SAN DIEGO - CarrAmerica Realty Corp. purchased Chancellor Park, a two-building, 195,733-square-foot, Class A office pr...
WASHINGTON - As President Bush considers whom to nominate to replace departing Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, his ...
Judges and Judiciary
Roberts Would Move Supreme Court Dramatically to the Right
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - The Senate Judiciary Committee hearings demonstrated that John G. Roberts Jr. should not be ...