SAN FRANCISCO - Clifford Chance will close its doors in San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego tonight, leaving only its fou...
LOS ANGELES - A Newport Beach man won an $11.9 million jury verdict in a wrongful-termination suit against his former employer...
A state appellate court Tuesday struck down the sentence in a drug treatment case, saying that under Proposition 36 a judge ca...
HAYWARD - An Alameda County judge Tuesday rejected prosecutors' arguments that the lead attorney in the Riders police corrupti...
LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in the Alvarez-Machain case left in doubt the future of a series of lawsuits fil...
Column By Philip Carrizosa - Back in 1986, the late Supreme Court Justice Stanley Mosk testified before the state Assembly Com...
SAN FRANCISCO - A three-attorney arbitration panel has awarded the bankruptcy estate of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison $8 mil...
LOS ANGELES - The Roman Catholic church has filed a legal challenge to a California law that opened the door to hundreds of se...
Government
Trial of the Century: Saddam's Top Ten Alibis for Getting Off Scot-Free
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein will be turned over to the custody of the new government of Iraq...
WASHINGTON - Handing a defeat to Congress and the Bush administration, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the free-speech ri...
WASHINGTON - In a decision that offered a victory to the Bush administration and to victims of human rights abuses, the Suprem...
SANTA ANA - Each day of their eight-week gang-rape trial, the baby-faced, neatly dressed trio sat with their hands folded. The...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Communications Decency Act shields makers of spam-blocking software against suits by commercial e-mailers ...
Focus Column - Business Law - By Margaret Mann and Joanne Doughty - Because of well-publicized corporate scandals and misdeeds...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Archdiocese will join Roman Catholic officials from Iowa in a major legal challenge to the Calif...
SAN FRANCISCO - When Matthew Powers started a three-lawyer patent litigation practice in Silicon Valley for Weil, Gotshal &...
Forum Column - By Matthew S. Steinberg and Linda M. Hoos - The decision in Jarrow v. La Marche, 310 Cal.4th 728 (2003),...
Administrative/Regulatory
Animals in Shelters Deserve Simple Protections Provided by Legislation
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Forum Column - By Taimie Bryant and Vicki Steiner - Six years ago, state Sen. Tom Hayden introduced a complex animal shelter-r...
Focus Column - Law Practice - By Gerald G. Knapton - Does your existing retainer agreement have a provision for a lien to secu...
LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Senate has confirmed former Los Angeles Superior Court Judge George P. Schiavelli for a district court ...
LOS ANGELES - A defense attorney on Monday disputed police accounts that his client was carrying a pair of wire cutters when h...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider the contentious issue of whether federal law enforcement officials ca...
SAN DIEGO - Hoping to resolve a 15-year-old controversy, City Attorney Casey Gwinn on Monday said the fate of a 45-year-old co...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco jury Monday absolved two Northern California law firms of malpractice claims stemming from a 1...
Government
Politicians' Sex Lives: Stranger Than Fiction, Or At Least More Widely Read
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - In thrillers such as "The Manchurian Candidate," the novelist Richard Condon often dreamed up as char...
SAN FRANCISCO - The loquacious lawyers defending three allegedly corrupt Oakland police officers in the Riders case retrial wi...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday issued a trio of historic decisions striking a balance between national security and ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court unanimously held Monday that there's nothing cruel or unusual about forcing a def...
The U.S. Supreme Court threw a bone to both prosecutors and defense attorneys on Monday with two separate rulings interpreting...
WASHINGTON - Acting quickly in response to last week's landmark Supreme Court ruling on sentencing, members of the U.S. Senten...