SAN FRANCISCO - The college application process is an overwhelming task for just about any kid. But for students at San Franc...
Administrative/Regulatory
Fundraiser's Acquittal Is Best of All Possible Outcomes
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Certain major national politicians almost surely slept peacefully and dreamlessly over the Memorial...
SAN FRANCISCO - Plaintiffs attorney Rick Simons often comes to court looking worse off than his clients. He's handled auto ac...
INDUSTRIAL FULLERTON - Thomas and Mary Stangl have purchased two industrial condominiums totaling 4,844 square feet at 578 and...
SAN DIEGO - When lawyer James W. Huston steps into a courtroom, he knows he's in for an adrenaline rush. It's not unlike, Hust...
SAN FRANCISCO - Pat Burdick began representing Volkswagen, his first German client, more than 30 years ago in product liabilit...
SAN FRANCISCO - Corrections officials signaled Tuesday they will not put up a big fight to stop a federal judge from taking a...
INDUSTRIAL CITY OF INDUSTRY - Four Seasons General Merchandise signed a $20 million lease for a 613,375-square-foot industrial...
SAN FRANCISCO - John D. O'Connor, a veteran trial lawyer and partner with San Francisco's Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, F...
Judges and Judiciary
High Court's Takings Decision Marks Restoration of Logic
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Timothy J. Dowling - Just three years ago, things looked bleak and uncertain for those who defend health, sa...
Judges and Judiciary
Though No Blockbuster, 'Lingle' Disentangles Takings, Due Process
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - When it issued its recent decision in Lingle v. Chevron U.S.A. Inc ., the U.S. Supreme C...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Peter Lengsfelder - "Trials are too important to be left to juries," jury consultant Rankin Fit...
Criminal
You Can Expect Privacy in Bed, Even if It's Near the Front Door
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - A man's bed does not a threshold make, even if its occupant can open the front door while lying down in it, t...
LOS ANGELES - Antelope Valley family law attorney David W. Bianchi has been elected the newest Los Angeles Superior Court Com...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to decide the constitutionality of Kansas' death-penalty law. The justi...
LOS ANGELES - U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Arthur M. Greenwald retired on Tuesday, finishing a 17-year stint on the bankruptcy court...
LOS ANGELES - Mortgage provider Countrywide Home Loans has reached a $30 million class settlement with 400 California-based c...
Constitutional Law
Justices Lift Injunction Barring Talk About Cochran, Law Firm
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down a permanent injunction barring a disgruntled former client of John...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Referee's Knack for Reconciliation Serves All Well
By Amy Spees
Among the austere, dark-suited ranks of her mediator counterparts, Catherine Yanni's pixie-cut blond hair and appreciation for...
Vince Herron and Mike Abelson really, really liked working at Latham & Watkins. So when they left to open business litigat...
When The Scene recently told a friend about the National Center for Lesbian Rights anniversary dinner May 14, the response was...
LOS ANGELES - Freddy Miranda grew up in the juvenile system. By 9, he had been arrested twice for petty theft. At 11, he got c...
EXTRA Column - Securities Litigation - By Richard Johnson - When a public company discloses that it must "restate" audited fin...
Securities
ScanSoft Buys Nuance Communication in $221 Million Arrangement
By Geneva Whitmarsh
In 1995, Bill Gates wrote in his book "The Road Ahead" that in 10 years, computers "will be able to read your lips and listen ...
It's been a busy month for Los Angeles' Musick, Peeler & Garrett. The firm added two partners and an associate to its thre...
At the Harriett Buhai Family Law Center's 21st annual theater benefit on May 7, guests sat down to a performance of playwright...
Daniel Morris, a former partner at Carr, McClellan, Ingersoll, Thompson & Horn in Burlingame, has put his trusts in San Jo...
INDUSTRIAL SANTA MONICA - Brentwood Equities LLC purchased a 26,564-square-foot industrial building at 1610 Colorado from Sie...
The family of Gordon Willingham, who died at age 78 while receiving medical treatment at USC Kenneth Norris Cancer Hospital, r...
The San Francisco office of Heller Ehrman has snagged partners Karen Dempsey and Nora Gibson for the firm's corporate securiti...