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...
WASHINGTON - Attorney general nominee Alberto Gonzales came one step closer to confirmation on Wednesday, winning approval fro...
LOS ANGELES - A split state appellate court Wednesday affirmed the nearly four-year sentence of a methamphetamine user, saying...
LOS ANGELES - Smartly dressed in a suit and tie, Gabrielino High School Junior Steven Tan walked to the podium, peered at the...
SAN FRANCISCO - A former deputy county counsel has sued Alameda County claiming she was denied promised assignments and raise...
Personal Injury & Torts
Derailment Is Likely to Spawn Much Litigation
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - The deadly Metrolink derailment caused by a suicidal man early Wednesday that killed 10 commuters likely will sp...
LOS ANGELES - A church law expert says a judge wrongly relied on his writings to order the Los Angeles Roman Catholic Archdio...
SAN FRANCISCO - John Hemann, the former prosecutor of Enron CEO Andrew Fastow, will leave the U.S. attorney's office in San F...
Entertainment & Sports
'Dune' Writer's Estate Claims Game Maker Took Advantage of Giant Worm
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Nobody gets off this planet without paying more royalties. The 1965 science fiction novel "Dune" by...
INDUSTRIAL SORRENTO MESA - Alexandria Real Estate Equities purchased Nancy Ridge Research Center, a two-building, 87,298-squa...