Personal Injury & Torts
Lockyer Says Proposition 64 Would Hurt Californians
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer and environmental groups Thursday launched a spirited defense of the state's Un...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Diego attorney apparently overwhelmed by a family crisis is now facing discipline for abandoning a death...
Criminal
AG Agrees to Prosecute Judge For Campaign Fund Violations
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA MARIA - Despite initial reservations, the California attorney general's office has agreed to prosecute Santa Barbara Cou...
LOS ANGELES - Santa Fe Springs attorney Joel Beckman refers to his most memorable matter before Los Angeles Superior Court Jud...
Personal Injury & Torts
'Campbell' Provides Road Map For Appealing Punitive Award
By Columnist
Focus Column - Litigation - By Laura Grisolano and Catherine Barrad - For defendants hit by big punitive-damages awards, the U...
Criminal
Privatizing State's Prisons Will Lower Costs, Improve Rehabilitation Efforts
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Alexander Tabarrok - It's going to take more than a giant garage sale to balance California's budget. In one...
LOS ANGELES - Defense attorney M. Gerald Schwartzbach asked a judge Wednesday to let him present evidence in Robert Blake's u...
SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' Web site offered a new service Wednesday, allowing easy public access t...
SAN FRANCISCO - A team of lawyers from Morrison & Foerster won a $145 million patent settlement for client Nikon Corp. of ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Placer County judge who told potential jurors to lie if they harbored racist sentiments so they could be exc...
LOS ANGELES - A Loyola Law School symposium that is designed to "get beyond the sound bite" will feature an array of experts a...
SAN FRANCISCO - John Rossi, a veteran assistant clerk and administrator at the California Supreme Court in San Francisco, will...
Technology & Science
Rescuing Broadband in America Requires Following New Path
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Reza Dibadj - U.S. broadband policy is broken. Increasingly falling behind a number of European and Asian co...
Judges and Judiciary
Judicial Nominees Should Apply Law, Not Impose Beliefs
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Timothy J. Dowling - Advocates across the political spectrum, from the Family Research Council to the Allian...
SAN FRANCISCO - In an effort to raise public awareness of a growing international problem, U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan announced ...
LOS ANGELES - The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles and the local chapter of the St. Thomas More Law Society have rej...
Litigation
Officials Agree to Cover Courthouse Inscription
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Bowing to pressure from a civil-rights group, officials have decided to cover up an inscription in Riverside's cou...
Government
Devil's in Details: Presidential Candidates Fear Their Own Free Speech
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Nobody's saying so, but the intent behind the controversial 32-page agreement on the three presidenti...
SAN FRANCISCO - When San Francisco plaintiffs lawyer Nikolai Tehin learned from his office manager in 2002 that his client tr...
SAN FRANCISCO - A lawyer featured as one of the poster boys in the Proposition 64 campaign to restrict consumer protection law...
LOS ANGELES - Two decades after the court fight began, a federal judge in Los Angeles has ordered the FBI to turn over the rem...
Judges and Judiciary
David Ballati Is Elected S.F. Assistant Presiding Judge
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - The judges of the San Francisco Superior Court have elected David L. Ballati the court's next assistant presid...
SAN FRANCISCO - A disgruntled former client of Johnnie Cochran's who was ordered by a Los Angeles judge in 2002 to stop picket...
LOS ANGELES - As soon as juvenile law attorney L. Ernestine Fields began to realize her dream of providing every foster kid in...
Intellectual Property
To Receive Damages, Link Lost Profits to Infringement
By Columnist
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Donald M. Gindy - In a long-running squabble with Timex Corp., Montana-based film co...
Public Interest
Public-Interest Pledge May Keep Law Students on Right Path
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Forum Column - By Paul Von Blum - In a few days, the fall quarter at UCLA begins and, with it, a new season for the law-school...
SAN FRANCISCO - Citing the government's recent agreement to release another American-born "enemy combatant," the lawyer for Jo...
LOS ANGELES - Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. remained hospitalized Tuesday at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he was u...
SAN FRANCISCO - Barbara Hou is beginning her second year on the idyllic, leafy campus at the University of Michigan Law School...
SAN FRANCISCO - Ross Nadel, chief of the criminal division under U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan, stepped down abruptly Tuesday from ...