By Liz Valsamis Patricia Kinaga, an employment litigator and award-winning film writer, director and producer, has joined the...
By Toni Vranjes The new year brought a new owner for the 91 Express Lanes. Ownership of the toll road officially shifted to t...
Judges and Judiciary
Paulson Reporting Purchases Competitor to Run Separately
By Stefanie Knapp
Los Angeles' Absolute Court Reporting Inc. has been bought by Paulson Reporting and Litigation Service Inc. Absolute will con...
By Erik Cummins Recruiting former Bank of America associate general counsel Maureen Young was like getting the first pick in ...
Keesal, Young & Logan has added a baker's dozen, including partner Kimberly Wong, to the firm's Long Beach and San Franci...
By Toni Vranjes Natural gas provider ENRG of Seal Beach has acquired a Denver-based company to expand into new markets. ENRG ...
Judges and Judiciary
Superior Court Judge Will Retire After Marking 20 Years on Bench
By Karen Coleman
While the rest of the county was celebrating the New Year, Pittsburg Judge John Allen was looking forward to 2004. Allen, 62,...
By Eron Ben-Yehuda Within the next few weeks, Silicon Valley attorney David Bohrer expects a hearing on his request to triple...
OAKLAND - The presiding judge of Alameda County's juvenile court marked Sylvia Johnson's last day as chief probation officer ...
SAN DIEGO - It looked like a light day at juvenile dependency court for James McMahon. "I've only got six matters in the morni...
Column By Garry Abrams - Rapper Daz Dillinger has won a $25.5 million default judgment against perpetually embattled rap mogul...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate justice has criticized state Attorney General Bill Lockyer's office for trying to expand th...
LOS ANGELES - Corporate specialist Greg Morgan, a 21-year veteran of Los Angeles' Munger, Tolles & Olson, has been electe...
SAN DIEGO -- One reason for the poor results suffered by many children and parents who wind up in juvenile dependency court i...
SACRAMENTO - The state's political watchdog agency has repealed its "Itty Bitty City" exemption for officials of small cities...
LOS ANGELES - Aging writers who claim they can't get work in Hollywood can't get their lawsuit to trial, either. The writers'...
Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - In the aftermath of David Westerfield's conviction and death sentence for the kidnapping ...
Constitutional Law
Excising the Lord from Graduation Speech Probably OK
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - In a contest between free speech and separation of church and state, a federal appeals panel has suggested th...
Judges and Judiciary
Retired Judges May Either Sit On Assignment or Do Private Judging, But They Can't Do Both Anymore
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Angry at what they see as insults to their integrity, many retired jurists vow they will quit working as assi...
Judges and Judiciary
CJA Could Have Done More, Critics of New Rule Complain
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - In addition to being mad at Chief Justice Ronald M. George for banning assigned judges from acting as private...
Administrative/Regulatory
Court Urges Legislature to Act To Curb Dangerous Chases
By Columnist
Focus Column - Administrative Law - By Stuart Miller - Division 3 of the 4th District Court of Appeal has joined the crusade ...
Forum Column - By Robert S. Thompson - The granting of certiorari in Federal Election Commission v. Beaumont and the re...
Employment Column - By Luan J. McElroy - Although California has yet to see a complete economic recovery, all is not bleak for...
Labor/Employment
Court Axes Garment Workers' Lawsuit Against Their Union
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court Thursday threw out a lawsuit against the world's largest garment-workers union, ruling t...
Zoning, Planning and Use
City's Permit Approval Process Delay Isn't Temporary Taking
By Columnist
Focus Column - Land Use - By Daniel J. Curtin Jr. - A city's erroneous denial of a lot-line adjustment did not constitute a "t...
SAN FRANCISCO - Mayor Willie Brown and District Attorney Terence Hallinan clashed Thursday over the police department's inves...
SAN FRANCISCO - Andrea Wirum, a securities, finance and insolvency lawyer, is the new managing partner of Pillsbury Winthrop'...
Judges and Judiciary
Nothing Warm or Fuzzy About U.S. Judge Edward Garcia
By Pam Mac Lean
SACRAMENTO - U.S. District Judge Edward J. Garcia has come a long way for someone who traveled a very short distance. Raised i...
SACRAMENTO - As his office investigates five law firms for possible illegal activity, state Attorney General Bill Lockyer is ...