Until now, anti-spam lawsuits have taken aim at advertisers sending unsolicited commercial e-mails. Microsoft Corp. blazed a n...
With the lateral hire of partner Paul Andre last month, Ed Wes, managing partner of Perkins Coie's Bay Area offices, says he's...
The bankruptcy case of Egghead.com, the online retailer with the scrambled finances, is getting closer to a final resolution. ...
One month after it acquired the remnants of Cooley Godward's shuttered Kirkland, Wash., office, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcl...
Government
Iranian Human Rights Activist's Detention Remains Mysterious
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Alireza Ghazi Zahedi had big hopes when he arrived in the United States a year and a half ago from Iran as a del...
In Closing Column - By Richard S. Levick - When Robin Hood and his Merry Men launched their first act of justice against the P...
In yet another merger in the fast-consolidating biotechnology industry, Utah biotech company NPS Pharmaceuticals Inc. has agre...
Employment and labor law boutique Littler Mendelson has closed its immigration law practice, spinning it off into a separate b...
Palo Alto's Cooley Godward has lost three business partners in as many weeks. ...
John Sargeant's wrongful-termination suit backfired. The 73-year-old insurance broker sued Costanza Insurance Agency Inc. afte...
SAN FRANCISCO - Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's liquidation committee has hired Henry Kevane and Kenneth Brown to advise th...
Environmental
8th and 10th Circuits Disagree On Issue of 'Overfiling' by EPA
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Focus Column - Environmental Law - By William D. Wick - Can the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sue a defendant for the s...
Judges and Judiciary
Surf City Isn't a Laid Back Place, Judge Finds
By Tyler Cunningham
SANTA CRUZ - Like many immigrants to Santa Cruz, Superior Court Judge Michael E. Barton was lured by the promise of sun, surf ...
OAKLAND - Less than a week after the Oakland Police Department announced it would pay $10.9 million to settle claims of widesp...
By Toni Vranjes The bankruptcy case of Egghead.com, the online retailer with the scrambled finances, is getting closer to a f...
Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - George W. Bush's war machine has propelled inexorably toward war with Iraq. The rest of the ...
LOS ANGELES - As Robert Blake's preliminary hearing on murder charges heads into its final week, people in and out of the case...
Labor/Employment
Trial Granted In Manager's Refusal to Fire Not-Hot Clerk
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Elysa Yanowitz knew better than to fire one of her cosmetics sales clerks for not looking sexy enough. But she...
When the stock market tanked three years ago, a lot of investors lost their shirts. ...
Jonathan Joseph and Forrest Hainline III could have passed each other in Pillsbury Winthrop's San Francisco lobby, as Joseph e...
SAN FRANCISCO - Former San Francisco Public Defender Kimiko Burton is scheduled to start her new job at the city attorney's o...
Pasadena-based Overture Services Inc. has inked a pair of deals to broaden its Internet search capabilities. On Feb. 25, Overt...
Irell & Manella without Morgan Chu at the top? It just doesn't seem right. The famed litigator has been the firm's co-mana...
Employment Column - By Deanna M. Wilkinson - The good news for job-seekers is that now is the best time of year to begin or re...
SAN FRANCISCO - A judge has resolved the bitter feud between San Francisco mayoral candidate Angela Alioto and Ethics Commiss...
SAN FRANCISCO -Two Pelican Bay State Prison guards must begin serving their own prison terms soon for conspiring to solicit t...
SANTA ANA - Orange County Superior Court is facing deep cuts in its operating budget, which could result in reduced court hou...
WASHINGTON - In an apparently unprecedented move, California officials have asked the Supreme Court to dismiss - three weeks b...
Forum Column - By Richard Glen Boire - What state of mind must a man have when death calls his name? This may sound like a phi...
LOS ANGELES - With further state budget cuts expected, the Los Angeles Superior Court is considering closing the Monrovia and...