SAN FRANCISCO - Three San Francisco assistant U.S. attorneys - George Bevan Jr., Lewis Davis and Michael Li-Ming Wang - have ...
SACRAMENTO - Former Assembly Judiciary Committee Chairman Darrell Steinberg will join Hanson, Bridgett, Marcus, Vlahos and Ru...
LOS ANGELES - After helping build the Los Angeles office of Howrey Simon Arnold & White, veteran white-collar criminal def...
State Bar & Bar Associations
County Bar Association Lures New Director From Arizona
By Blair Clarkson
LOS ANGELES - Change is coming to the Los Angeles County Bar Association. Stuart Forsyth, the former executive director of the...
SACRAMENTO - An appellate court Thursday rejected a petition on behalf of several injured workers who sought to block the sta...
Judges and Judiciary
Commission Finishes Misconduct Proceedings Against Judge
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Misconduct proceedings wrapped up Thursday against Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Kevin A. Ross, who is accuse...
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court agreed Thursday to an en banc rehearing of a racketeering claim against the Los Angeles...
LOS ANGELES - Defense attorneys for alleged double agent Katrina Leung have accused federal prosecutors of serious misconduct...
Litigation
Garamendi Sues Four Insurers For Paying Kickbacks to Broker
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi sued four leading insurance companies Thursday, alleging that they paid kick...
SACRAMENTO - A state appeal panel ruled Thursday that unrecorded oral statements made by trial witnesses to criminal defense ...
LOS ANGELES - A high-profile Maryland laboratory, which conducted DNA tests for the O.J. Simpson trial and the JonBenet Ramse...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Department of Justice was wrong to eliminate due process safeguards in cases where immigrants are deporte...
SAN JOSE - Say you're redecorating and want to shop online for new curtains. So you run a Google search for a company you've h...
INDUSTRIAL SAN DIEGO - Jerome's Furniture Warehouse has purchased a 394,072-square-foot warehouse located in the 4S Ranch at 1...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Wendy L. Kohn ran her fingers through her short, dark hair and peered down at t...
Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk A. Pasich - When insurance carriers assume their duty to defend an insured, they often ...
LOS ANGELES - California is at the forefront of public-private coordination in helping foster children find adoptive parents, ...
WASHINGTON - While the Supreme Court has yet to issue its much-anticipated ruling on the constitutionality of the federal Sent...
LOS ANGELES - The state Supreme Court granted habeas corpus hearings Wednesday to two men on California's death row. Alfredo V...
LOS ANGELES - By the time police arrived at his Santa Barbara home, Daniel Thompson was passed out drunk in his own bed. Alert...
SAN FRANCISCO - The state Supreme Court granted habeas corpus hearings Wednesday to two men on California's death row. Cliffor...
Judges and Judiciary
Critics Say Attempt to Recall Judge Is Partisan
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Two trial judges uphold domestic partnership rights for same-sex couples. One - appointed by a Democrat - is the ...
LOS ANGELES - A man accused of contracting to kill his sister can be changed with attempted murder, even if the hit man he hir...
WASHINGTON - The federal judiciary has slashed 1,350 jobs in the past 12 months as it dealt with a continuing budget crunch, t...
SAN FRANCISCO - It wasn't fair for a judge to stop an accused Montana pot dealer from confronting a snitch, so a federal appel...
LOS ANGELES - Caltech graduate student William Cottrell proclaimed his hatred of SUVs on the witness stand Wednesday, but he d...
Intellectual Property
'The Incredibles': Studios, Justice Urge Students to Just Say No to Piracy
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - The Motion Picture Association of America and the U.S. Department of Justice apparently hope to add i...
SAN DIEGO - The League of Women Voters of San Diego filed suit Wednesday seeking an order requiring the registrar of voters to...
SAN FRANCISCO - Calling the state's prison guard discipline system "broken to the core," U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson...
Civil Rights
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Award-Winner Isn't Appropriate for Broadcast
By Contributing Writer
Letter to the Editor - I find it interesting that [Garry Abrams] identifies the objections of "conservative groups" as a signi...