Following a year of constant scrutiny and rumors about its dedication to its California offices, Minneapolis' Oppenheimer Wolf...
Facing tough competition from national chains, regional linen retailer Strouds is going out of business. Strouds Acquisition C...
REDWOOD CITY - San Mateo Superior Court Judge Rosemary Pfeiffer has an unusual passion: Family law. While many members of the ...
The scourge of spam is reaching epic proportions, according to some estimates. By next month, spam, unsolicited computer-gener...
By Tony R. Skogen California courts are experiencing a rapid growth in the number of administrative claims, individual lawsui...
In a deal reportedly worth a whopping $60 million, renowned songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller have sold music catalogs...
Litigation
Despite Bad Rap, Many Say Unfair-Competition Law Helps People
By Joan Osterwalder
California's unfair-competition law has gotten a bad rap in recent months because of the highly publicized accounts of alleged...
Expanding its reach even farther around the world, New York law firm Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy has acquired a Pri...
FONTANA - Krispy Kreme Doughnut Corp. leased a 102,100-square-foot industrial building at 10846 Commerce Way from Irvine-base...
Karen Frederiksen, formerly a media partner with Seattle's Davis Wright Tremaine, has joined the Walt Disney Co. as a litigato...
A Visalia farmworker who sued industry giant Farmers Insurance Co. for not providing coverage when he faced a personal injury ...
The United States Senate recently released transcripts of secret interrogations conducted 50 years ago by notorious Sen. Josep...
Constitutional Law
State Fraud, False-Advertising Laws May Violate Constitution
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Focus Column - Constitutional Law - By Thomas H. Clarke Jr. - On May 5, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down Illinois v. Tele...
SAN FRANCISCO - A California elections statute that forbids candidates from switching political parties one year before prima...
LOS ANGELES - Over the weekend, the concert film "Wattstax" was rereleased, for the first time ever with its original "lost" e...
SAN JOSE - A Colorado engineer accused of making online criminal threats against two former Varian Associates research scient...
SAN BERNARDINO - A 26-year-old Rialto man who confessed to killing his girlfriend a decade ago could be released from custody ...
Reporter's Notebook - Linda Rapattoni - Trial lawyers originally hoped they could head off tort reformers' efforts to signific...
SAN FRANCISCO - A defendant's waiver of the attorney-client privilege as part of a habeas claim that his trial lawyer was ine...
RIVERSIDE - Deena Bennett still finds it baffling when strangers ask for her autograph. Whether it's in the grocery store or i...
WASHINGTON - The night breeze is blowing warm in my hometown of Washington, D.C., where I've traveled to learn more about the ...
Environmental
Fed Up With the Natural Resources Defense Council's Protests Over Irrigation Contracts, a Farm Group Sues
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - An environmental group that objected to the government about the terms of new federal irrigation contracts tw...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Focusing on True Interests of Parties Can Aid in Settlement
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Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Peter J. Marx - When mediation reaches, or threatens to reach, an impasse, ...
Employment Column - By Deanna Wilkinson - School is out and summer programs have begun at law firms throughout the country. Al...
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - The 1985 movie "Back to the Future" featured a crazy scientist who invented a time machi...
SACRAMENTO - A proposal to eliminate life sentences under California's three-strikes law for all but the worst offenders has ...
LOS ANGELES - The State Bar on Wednesday filed papers seeking the disbarment of three Beverly Hills attorneys suspended in May...
LOS ANGELES - The general counsel of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles resigned her post Thursday following the bi...
SAN BERNARDINO - Anything public officials say on the phone in their official capacity is a matter of public interest - at lea...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Beverly Hills attorney who has filed a string of taxpayer actions against government agencies is now facing...