SAN FRANCISCO - Five California counties owe their retirees hundreds of millions of dollars in additional pension benefits, a ...
Entertainment & Sports
What Better Career For a Tired Attorney Than Interviewing Baseball Players and Legends?
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - Probably every lawyer has asked himself sometime during his career: Why do I continue to do this? Many feel bu...
LOS ANGELES - Squinting in the noonday sun, the bespectacled, gray-bearded David Marc Greenstein, toting a heavy tan leather s...
Administrative/Regulatory
Speed-Judging Wins Jurist Accolades From Attorneys
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - For Superior Court Judge Dzintra Janavs, life's been quite a journey - from displaced schoolgirl fleeing post-wa...
Forum Column - By Julie Ruiz-Sierra - Thirteen years ago, in Washington v Harper , 494 U.S. 210 (1990), a case involvin...
Constitutional Law
Justices Join Culture Wars On Side of Right to Privacy
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Forum Column - By Chris Ford - America's modern "culture war" dates to President Richard Nixon's attempt to redefine the divis...
Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Bryan D. Daly - Civil litigators frequently find themselves counseling corporate clients and ...
Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - Billing by the hour is central to private law practice today. However, using time...
LOS ANGELES - A roller-skating rink is not responsible for the 1999 deaths of two teenagers or the injuries of two others, who...
SAN FRANCISCO - Partners at Morrison & Foerster have elected Mark W. Danis as one of three firmwide managing partners for ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Randolph L. Wu, a former attorney for a ratepayer advocacy organization, was named Thursday as the chief lawye...
LOS ANGELES - Tom Warren, who successfully prosecuted former Los Angeles Superior Court Judge George W. Trammell III on corrup...
Reporter's Notebook - By Dennis J. Opatmy - When the San Francisco Superior Court's criminal division decided to consolidate i...
LOS ANGELES - The family of a infant boy whose arm was partially severed in a police chase last year have filed suit against t...
LOS ANGELES - A former Municipal Court judge and county bar president defeated six other candidates to win election from Los A...
Litigation
Trevor Law Attorneys, Facing Disbarment, Resign from Bar
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES -Three Beverly Hills attorneys targeted by authorities for misusing the state's unfair-competition law to file tho...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Fresno Court of Appeal panel gave three land use lawyers a public spanking for submitting a flawed administr...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Impasse Lifts As Sex Predator Finds a Home
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - The first person to qualify for release under California's Sexually Violent Predator Act will be sent within three ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Kamala D. Harris recalls prowling San Francisco's Tenderloin at midnight looking for an Oakland girl who had t...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge David P. Yaffe may be eligible for retirement. But that doesn't mean Yaffe's re...
Forum Column - By Rebecca K. Glenberg - Imagine living in a neighborhood controlled by a central authority that has power over...
Litigation
Much Activity Highlights This Year for Cases, Legislation on Anti-SLAPP Law
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Focus Column - Litigation - By Mark Goldowitz - Continuing a pattern from last year, much judicial and legislative activity th...
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Michelle A. Reinglass - The 6th District Court of Appeal has decided, apparently on first i...
SAN FRANCISCO - Federico Rocha, a veteran Oakland police officer with a doctorate in public administration, has been nominated...
LOS ANGELES - Mountain View's Fenwick & West is winding down operations at its Washington, D.C., office, chairman Gordon D...
SANTA ANA - A Glendora attorney was sentenced Wednesday to three years in state prison, one year in county jail and three year...
LOS ANGELES - Stephen Reinhardt and Alex Kozinski, the most outspoken judges on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, will de...
Judges and Judiciary
Senate OK Ends Partisan Battle Over Court of Claims Nominee
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Victor J. Wolski as a judge for the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, ending yet an...
LOS ANGELES - When the South Gate City Council slashed the salary of City Clerk Carmen Avalos by 90 percent in the fall, Avalo...