SAN FRANCISCO - George Ball, a "classic" San Francisco trial lawyer who argued more than 100 jury trials, died Saturday after ...
LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court invoked Solomon on Wednesday when it decided a custody battle between a mother forced to m...
SAN FRANCISCO - A former San Francisco Unified School District custodial supervisor and a Hayward software company have pleade...
WASHINGTON - Forty years after the Supreme Court in Gideon v. Wainright ordered the states to provide counsel to indigent def...
LOS ANGELES - Health care advocates Wednesday filed what they describe as a groundbreaking lawsuit, the second in less than a...
Reporter's Notebook - By Craig Anderson - February was a rough month for Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danse...
SAN FRANCISCO - Former Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson, who pleaded guilty in 2001 to the attempted bombing...
SAN FRANCISCO - The federal government, in a new court filing, has revealed that it may buy out three-dozen offshore oil deve...
SAN FRANCISCO - Public Defender Jeff Adachi said Wednesday he wants the Police Department or Board of Supervisors to pay for a...
LOS ANGELES - A man was convicted of murdering two people today in a case in which the former prosecutor is under investigati...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Lawyers' Punitives Before High Court
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A couple who blame their lawyers for failing to pursue punitive damages in a massive toxic tort case may be o...
Focus Column Bankruptcy Law By Don Robinson Bankruptcy law should not be a trap for the unwary, as Bankruptcy Courts are fond...
Judges and Judiciary
Members of Judiciary Signal Easy Confirmation for Jurists
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - After perfunctory questioning Wednesday by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, two Orange County Superior...
Entertainment & Sports
Suit Against HBO Lands 'Sopranos' Star in Shark-Infested Waters
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - A heavy-set, menacing man walks up to a Hollywood executive and waves a sheaf of papers in the execut...
Focus Column - Bankruptcy Law - By Don Robinson - Bankruptcy law should not be a trap for the unwary, as Bankruptcy Courts are...
Forum Column - By Steven L. Schwarcz - The government needs to balance the necessity for a rigorous standard for rating agains...
LOS ANGELES - Pittsburgh's Reed Smith Crosby Heafey has tapped Peter J. Kennedy to serve as the managing partner in its Los An...
Litigation
Tobacco-Settlement Money Follows Political Priorities
By Contributing Writer
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Modisett - Kudos to Ann Woolner for her article describing the states' raiding of the 1998 Master...
LOS ANGELES - It's not easy to catch attorney Joseph D. Mandel off guard, his friends say. "He is so cool and so poised; his f...
Law Practice
Event Honors Southland Firms For Supporting Pro Bono Plan
By Christina Landers
LOS ANGELES - The Anti-Defamation League's Pacific Southwest region will honor several individuals and a dozen law firms at i...
LOS ANGELES - Thomas C. Bennigson had just returned from a day of classes at Boalt Hall last summer when he got the telephone ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
'Little' Applies 'Armendariz' to Some Claims at Common Law
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Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By June R. Lehrman - The California Supreme Court has decided Little v. Aut...
FAIRFIELD - The courtroom of Judge Ramona Garrett is an island of civility in the rough-and-tumble world of Solano County crim...
SAN FRANCISCO - Silicon Valley investment banker Frank Quattrone, facing civil and criminal investigations for alleged "spinn...
SANTA ANA - Former Orange County Superior Court Judge Mark Soden died Friday of pneumonia, bringing to a close the final chap...
Focus Column - Family Law - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - One of the more esoteric issues of famil...
Forum Column - By Nancy Hogshead-Makar - Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, 20 U.S.C. Sections 1681-1688, the feder...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a case that could result in significantly higher electricity rates for consumers in California, a federal ...
LOS ANGELES - The family of a 16-year-old gang member gunned down on rival gang members' turf just minutes after being droppe...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider whether attorneys who represent debtors in Chapter 7 proceedings can...