Government
Right to Be Sued Will Take a Back Seat in Courts' Doomsday Planning
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Buried deep in "The National Strategy for Homeland Security" report issued by the White House last ye...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Database Fee By Realtors Is Price-Fixing, Circuit Rules
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - San Diego Realtors violated federal antitrust laws when they combined property databases, a federal appeals c...
SACRAMENTO-The head of the state's prosecutors association announced his plans Monday to resign, saying he is leaving to beco...
Criminal
Defense Attorney Charged With Giving Drugs to Client
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A Los Angeles County defense attorney has been charged with sneaking a bag of marijuana to her client during a cou...
Securities
Clinic Helps Those Whose Stock Losses Were Enough to Hurt Them but Not Enough To Interest a Lawyer
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - James Belay is neither a wheeler nor a dealer. He's an industrial painter with an eighth-grade education livi...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider whether attorneys who represent debtors in Chapter 7 proceedings can ...
Kara Blanc believed she was being chased by an alien as she ran for her life through a dark, deserted area in Los Angeles Coun...
In what appears to be a first in the legal profession, Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly has put its most profitable office on ...
What started out as a routine traffic stop in South Central Los Angeles ended with a police officer shooting to death an unarm...
After eight months of heated debate, the Education Department's commission on opportunity in athletics submitted its final rep...
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
By Columnist
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...