CORONA - One of the largest home-improvement companies in the nation has agreed to pay $1.2 million to settle a class action i...
OAKLAND - City Attorney John Russo has closed the books on his second full fiscal year as Oakland's city attorney. Even though...
Mergers & Acquisitions
VLG's Don Keller Joins Heller With Rest of Firm
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - Concluding months of gamesmanship between San Francisco's most powerful law firms, Heller Ehrman White & M...
SAN FRANCISCO - A man's recent conviction for burglarizing the home of San Francisco Superior Court Judge Robert Dondero has a...
Labor/Employment
L.A. Jury Awards $2 Million To Muslim in Bias Lawsuit
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Two years to the day after the Sept. 11 attacks, a Los Angeles jury slapped a Torrance laboratory with a $2.15 m...
Judges and Judiciary
Traffic-Court Jurist Welcomes Change From Decades as DA
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - The hustle, bustle and hum of traffic court is in contrast with Commissioner Diana Summerhayes' earlier days as ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on homosexuals looks vulnerable, thanks to a 9th U.S. Circuit Co...
SAN FRANCISCO - When a Stockton judge tentatively approved a large national settlement in a consumer fraud class action last f...
Last month's American Bar Association annual convention attracted 15,000 lawyers, judges and guests to the city for five days ...
Law Practice
Giving Legal Advice Via E-Mail May Result in Loss of Privilege
By Columnist
Focus Column - Litigation - By Norma G. Formanek - In 1999, the American Bar Association ethics committee settled a long-stand...
Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - Many articles have been written about what goes onto a winning résumé but not a l...
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - The state Supreme Court recently approved a settlement between Southern California Ediso...
Judges and Judiciary
Jurist Jailed Newsmen for Confidential Source
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Services have taken place for U.S. Magistrate Judge Hollis G. Best, a respected jurist who gained notoriety in the...
SAN FRANCISCO - John M. Forney, the former Enron manager who allegedly designed such power-trading schemes as "Death Star," ha...
LOS ANGELES - Facing a $5 million budget shortfall, the district attorney's office is contemplating deep cutbacks in its speci...
LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court Thursday ordered the postponement of a hearing set for today at which prosecutors were goi...
Technology & Science
AMD Prevails In Jury Trial Over Claim of Religious Bias
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A federal jury Thursday cleared Advanced Micro Devices of discriminating against a high-level executive who claimed...
Corporate
Reporter's Notebook: Valley Survivor Gunderson Prizes 'Grubs' and Independence
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - It's easy to play the guessing game in Silicon Valley, where conversations about the demise of formerly presti...
LOS ANGELES - An appeals court Thursday reversed a San Fernando Valley man's robbery conviction, saying his defense lawyer, wh...
Judges and Judiciary
Majority of High-Court Clerks Take Indirect Routes to Posts
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - For the second straight term, a majority of the Supreme Court law clerks have taken a nontraditional route to the...
Forum Column - By Ali Batmanghelidj - As the morning sun broke through the heavens, the ghastly sounds of collapsing steel and...
Labor/Employment
Background Checks Are a Must for Employers Evaluating Potential Hires
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Barry D. Kellman - If one subscribes to the theory that having more data contributes to mak...
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Michelle A. Reinglass - In Rivera v. National Railroad Passenger Corp.(Amtrak) , 200...
LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis announced his appointment Wednesday of a doctor and a businessman to the State Bar Board of Gove...
SAN JOSE - San Benito County District Attorney John Sarsfield said Wednesday that his predecessor failed to disclose possibly ...
SACRAMENTO - Trial lawyers have failed in a late legislative attempt to give health care providers the right to assert liens t...
LOS ANGELES - Media lawyers are expected to appeal today a judge's order sealing his decision on whether to turn over to prose...
SANTA ANA - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that the city of Anaheim and three of its police officers ma...
Judges and Judiciary
Prosecutor Remains in Family, Rises to Commissioner
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - A woman recently tried to get Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Nicholas D. Taubert to force her former hu...
LOS ANGELES - Retired Roman Catholic priest Michael Wempe, who walked out of jail this summer after the U.S. Supreme Court gut...