SANTA ANA - Gov. Gray Davis on Thursday appointed a federal prosecutor, two attorneys and a commissioner to fill four vacanci...
SAN FRANCISCO - The lid is off campaign spending in the San Francisco district attorney's race, candidates said Thursday. Tha...
Judges and Judiciary
Former Clerks Vindicate their Boss, William O. Douglas
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Don't get U.S. District Judge William Alsup started on the recent, critical biography of Supreme Court Justic...
Firm Watch
O'Neill Lysaght Founder Leaves To Head Piper Rudnick Litigation
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Veteran trial lawyer Brian Lysaght is leaving the Santa Monica-based litigation boutique he founded in 1985 to ...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a dramatic move, the California Supreme Court refused Thursday to intervene in the recall election against...
SAN FRANCISCO - Assistant U.S. Attorney John Hemann of San Francisco has landed the plum assignment as a lead counsel on the ...
LOS ANGELES - He's not the first Los Angeles police chief to target the scratchy, enigmatic gang-related scribblings that appe...
Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - We all know that the U.S. military assassinated Uday and Qusai Hussein in a villa in Mosul, ...
Immigration
Counsel Must Attack Designation of Alien's Crime as Aggravated Felony
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Focus Column - Immigration Law - By Brian D. Lerner - Noncitizens inside the United States who commit crimes are at risk of be...
Real Estate/Development
Business Isn't Liable for Injuries Sustained After Rave
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Focus Column - Real Property - By Michael Paul Thomas - Are all-night dance parties for teenagers, known as "rave" parties, in...
Forum Column - By Gloria Allred and Ruth Graf Urasaki - In the intense media frenzy surrounding the allegations that Kobe Brya...
Reporter's Notebook By Craig Anderson SAN JOSE - The cast of characters in the legal drama surrounding Thomas Spielbauer, the...
SACRAMENTO - Superior Court Judge Steven Rodda's family goes back nearly 150 years in Sacramento, and Rodda is about as well ...
SAN FRANCISCO - As expected, a San Francisco judge Wednesday declared police Chief Earl Sanders "factually innocent" of crimi...
State Bar & Bar Associations
ABA Will Install First Minority President
By Don De Benedictis
LOS ANGELES - The American Bar Association's annual meeting, opening today in San Francisco, will be like the organization's p...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Meeting Is an Opportunity to Show Off a Bit, Host Bars Say
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - State and local bar leaders plan to make the most of their chance to show off their programs, ideas and exper...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a blistering order Wednesday, Northern California's chief federal judge threw down the gauntlet over U.S. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Barraged with lawsuits demanding urgent attention, the California Supreme Court suddenly finds itself at cent...
Forum Column By Steven Zak The tragic Laci Peterson double murder case should be about more than self-serving semantics, but ...
Appellate Practice
Post-Judgment Conduct Can Cost Party Its Right to Appeal
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Focus Column Appellate Law By James Harris and Frank Menetrez It is hard enough to get an appellate court to reverse a judgme...
SAN FRANCISCO - After eight years in crowded, temporary quarters at the War Memorial Building, the San Francisco Law Library ...
LOS ANGELES - David Casey Sr., a prominent San Diego trial attorney and the first plaintiffs' attorney elected president of t...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court told an ex-convict Tuesday that he cannot sue the federal government for scientific e...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a reshuffle of his top management team, U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan on Tuesday promoted 22-year veteran Ross ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Three prominent lawyers listed as supporters in a Terence Hallinan campaign mailer protested the use of their...
LOS ANGELES - Knocked off balance by the recall campaign against Gov. Gray Davis and City Councilman Jack Weiss' refusal to g...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge's Journey to Bench Reveals Power of Dreams
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Sometimes, Amalia L. Meza drives along Whittier Boulevard in East Los Angeles to the business where her father cr...
Focus Column Litigation By Jeff Kichaven You are at a painful point in a difficult negotiation, and your legal training hardl...
Forum Column By Tamara Lange As everyone now knows, on June 26 the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Texas' sodomy law and redre...
LOS ANGELES - In the era of instant information, it didn't take long for the name of Lakers guard Kobe Bryant's alleged rape ...