Employment Column - By Lin M. Meyer - With many firms experiencing layoffs due to work shortages, the question of whether to p...
Real Estate/Development
Year in Review: 2003 Yields Some Noteworthy Legislation
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Focus Column - Land Use Law - By Daniel J. Curtin Jr., Cecily T. Talbert and Charles J. Higley - With all of the attention giv...
LOS ANGELES - CitiMortgage Inc. has agreed to pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit the city of Los Angeles filed over several pr...
LOS ANGELES - Ralphs Grocery and a Los Angeles-area bakery will split a $5 million verdict that a jury awarded an East Los Ang...
LOS ANGELES - African-American activist Najee Ali is free on $90,000 bail after being charged with trying to steal the identit...
SAN FRANCISCO - The University of California has agreed to pay record damages of nearly $10 million to resolve a class action ...
SAN JOSE - A 21-year-old former De Anza College student could face an extra 50 years in prison after a 6th District Court of A...
Constitutional Law
Reporter's Notebook: State Supreme Court Braces for Church-State Collision
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Thus far, the California Supreme Court has avoided the sensational tug of war in Alabama over placing a giant ...
LOS ANGELES - When William N. Sterling got to New York University School of Law, he thought he had stepped into the story line...
SAN FRANCISCO - Buford Furrow's victims in a 1999 Los Angeles-area shooting rampage can sue the gunmakers whose weapons he use...
SAN FRANCISCO - Like many of his colleagues in copyright law, Stanford Law School professor Paul Goldstein has had to answer, ...
LOS ANGELES - Five years ago, Paul Boland was ensconced in his courtroom at Central Civil in downtown Los Angeles, where he ex...
Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - On Sept. 19, Gov. Gray Davis signed into law AB205, the "California Domestic Partner Righ...
Judges and Judiciary
Ads Criticize Candidate for Opposing Judicial Nominee
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Wasting no time in injecting the issue of judicial nominations into the 2004 presidential race, a conservative gr...
SAN JOSE - A San Jose attorney's objection to a $29,000 award granted to his former office manager in a bankruptcy case was so...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal grand jury has indicted San Jose lawyer Owen George Fiore, a State Bar certified tax specialist, for...
LOS ANGELES - Prominent Los Angeles defense attorney Mark Geragos negotiated Wednesday for pop star Michael Jackson's surrende...
LOS ANGELES - After nearly four years of a legal marathon, non-English speaking welfare recipients are ready to claim victory ...
SAN FRANCISCO - An investigator for San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan who is on the city payroll has allegedly ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Yet another strange twist in the case of accused murderer Larry Joe McDougal means that prosecutors may be for...
HAYWARD - In January, Alameda County's judicial team will have a new general manager. Assistant Presiding Judge Barbara Miller...
SAN FRANCISCO - A State Bar committee is advising attorneys to resist what the panel considers efforts by federal regulators t...
LOS ANGELES - A change in California law since Michael Jackson first was accused of child molestation a decade ago could allow...
Government
Customer Complains About Pellicano: Too Expensive, No Broken Legs
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - "It's the dirty little secret of lawyers - private eyes." So said a source this week of the illegal w...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a "slam dunk win" for California, a federal appeals court held Wednesday that bankrupt Pacific Gas and Elec...
LOS ANGELES - A jury Wednesday handed a $33 million verdict to a black surgeon who claimed he was roughed up by the Los Angele...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Board of Supervisors has agreed to present voters with a charter amendment that would provide prosecutors,...
BEVERLY HILLS - The Bank of America Building at 9440 Santa Monica Blvd. in the Golden Triangle has sold for $21.9 million to I...
LOS ANGELES - To some, Deputy District Attorney Steven Ipsen is a bold crusader for the rights of Los Angeles County prosecuto...
Administrative/Regulatory
Applying Law on Agency Due Process Is Difficult for Courts
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Focus Column - Administrative Law - By Stuart Miller - Two recent Court of Appeal decisions address some of the complicated pr...