SAN FRANCISCO - An appellate justice, two trial court judges, a court administrator and a former president of the State Bar wi...
SAN FRANCISCO - A no-pets clause added by a condominium homeowners' association after new buyer Paula Terifaj moved in with he...
Forum Column - By Elliot S. Berkowitz - There is an old Chinese curse: "May you live in interesting times." Workers' compensat...
Focus Column - Employment Law - By David F. Faustman - The California Fair Employment and Housing Act has been amended to incl...
SAN FRANCISCO - Defense lawyers in the case against alleged Guantanamo Bay spy Ahmad I. Al Halabi have accused authorities of ...
SAN JOSE - A superior court judge enjoys broad discretion to review a colleague's ruling on a summary judgment motion, even if...
An employee who quits because her workplace has become a sexual-harassment Hades can sue, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday....
Civil Rights
Court Will Weigh Education Gender-Bias Retaliation Suit by Third Party
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider whether the federal law banning sexual discrimination in schools...
LOS ANGELES - Tensions erupted Monday outside the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Ronald Lew after the jurist tossed out a pl...
SACRAMENTO - Michael A. Newdow must pay about $24,000 in attorney's fees to Sandra L. Banning, the mother of his child, a Sacr...
Criminal
Wild West Shooting Offers Justification for Actions in War on Terrorism
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - The legal underpinnings of the war on terrorism feature a precedent stemming from a fatal Wild West c...
Judges and Judiciary
Governor Will Forgo Judicial Appointments Secretary
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will rely on his legal affairs secretary and chief of staff to scrutinize candidates f...
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for sexual abuse victims and the Roman Catholic church struggled into the evening Monday to beat a deadl...
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court Monday ordered an immigration court to reconsider asylum on political or humanitarian gr...
Personal Injury & Torts
State's Energy Price-Gouging Suit Gets Bad Reception
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - California's lawsuit seeking tens of millions of dollars from 11 wholesale energy sellers and traders accused ...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court had several compelling reasons Monday for ducking the issue of whether the words "under Go...
Column - Adviser - By Linda C. Fritz - The decision to mediate was an easy choice. It was faster, more expedient and less expe...
Even into his third decade of "retirement," former Riverside Superior Court Judge Elwood M. Rich can't stay away from the cour...
Intellectual property litigator Jimmy Shin left Shearman & Sterling as an associate in May to join McDermott Will & Em...
The Anti-Defamation League was founded in 1913 to fight anti-Semitism and other forms of racial, religious and ethnic bigotry....
California truly is the Golden State. According to sources inside and outside the firms, these 192 mega-rainmakers brought in...
SACRAMENTO - Peter Siggins is a political rarity, a lawyer who has been promoted to the highest levels of state government by ...
Law Practice
Volunteer Work in Africa Refreshes Lawyer for New Job at Bingham
By Erik Cummins
Paul Allen left Morgan Stanley's San Francisco office last year to volunteer for the Mona Foundation, a nonprofit organization...
Environmental
Neighbors Sue to Stop School's Plan to Install Artificial Turf
By Eron Yehuda
A plan to replace a grass field with artificial turf at a Santa Cruz middle school has sprouted a lawsuit. Neighbors of Missio...
Kirkpatrick & Lockhart has snared two Cooley Godward partners in as many weeks - landing antitrust and trade regulation la...
Victor Strong used to be a Los Angeles Dodgers fan. But now he's not eager for another trip to the ballpark. Strong's family t...
A popular Hispanic radio host cannot be held liable for referring listeners to unlicensed medical professionals who prosecutor...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Superior Court Judge Richard A. Kramer, who recently ruled that a series of lawsuits regarding t...
Former record company executive and longtime music industry attorney Richard Leher became a partner at Miami-based-Greenberg T...
Forum Column - By Anthony Paul Farley - Two million people are imprisoned in the United States. The majority of them are black...