By Toni Vranjes Four months after seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, San Diego software company Peregrine Systems Inc....
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate court has upheld a decision two years ago by the crime-plagued community of Compton to di...
OAKLAND - Oakland business attorney Richard Waxman was set to become president of the Alameda County Bar Association during c...
Forum Column - By Peter J. Hammer - By default, the leading regulator of national health care markets is the U.S. Supreme Cour...
Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - Many associates want to become in-house lawyers. They believe that such a move wi...
Judges and Judiciary
Job Furloughs Foreseen as Courts Submit Budget Plans
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - A worst-case budget scenario would require San Francisco Superior Court to lock up early every other Friday, ...
BANNING - The Riverside County Courthouse in Banning will be closed until Monday because workers in the building found floor ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Three more environmental lawyers have joined San Francisco's Farella Braun & Martel, adding to a practice...
LOS ANGELES - Funeral services are scheduled today for criminal defense lawyer Stanley P. Berg, who died in his sleep last we...
Appellate Practice
Justices Rebuke Trial Judge for His Ruling of Factual Innocence
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - The Supreme Court of California ruled Thursday that a Los Angeles judge erred in making a rare finding of factua...
LOS ANGELES - San Diego's Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps has entered preliminary merger discussions with Preston Gates...
SAN FRANCISCO - Some 1,700 retired public safety officers statewide who got lower disability retirements because of their age...
Should San Francisco-based Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison seek bankruptcy protection, it wouldn't be the first law firm to do...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Cash Worries Don't Relieve County of Health Care Duty
By Columnist
Forum Column - By John A. Kotick and Kimberly Westmoreland - When a county slashes budgets and threatens publicly funded healt...
SAN BERNARDINO - In the first-known lawsuit of its kind, the American Civil Liberties Union is contending that a local counci...
LOS ANGELES - It was unusually quiet at the hospital of last resort Thursday afternoon. Security was tight as women inmates p...
Judges and Judiciary
Innovative Judge Changes Compton Court's Image
By Christina Landers
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge John J. Cheroske beams with pride as he offers a sneak peak at the newl...
Forum Column - By Eric S. Daar and Judith F. Daar - President Bush recently unveiled a timetable for vaccinating the nation ag...
LOS ANGELES - Bet Tzedek held its 15th annual dinner Saturday night, raising $2.1 million for the nonprofit firm. More than 1...
LOS ANGELES - In a stunning reversal, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison decided Thursday to close its doors and possibly seek ba...
WASHINGTON - On a straight party-line vote following a politically charged debate, the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday ...
LOS ANGELES - A Beverly Hills attorney who once represented such pop stars as Janet Jackson, Marvin Gaye and Run DMC was to be...
Forum Column - By Terri Towery - As an attorney in the Los Angeles County public defender's office who specializes in capital ...
LOS ANGELES - A former Valencia attorney who allegedly continued to practice law after resigning from the State Bar was arres...
SACRAMENTO - They've been called extortionists, pooper scoopers and two-bit legal whores. But have a group of lawyers being i...
Product Liability
Dog-Food Fight Throws Up a Big Breakfast for Legal Champions
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - The dog's breakfast has been the subject of a class settlement in Los Angeles Superior Court. It's a ...
SACRAMENTO - Five small law firms are either under investigation by the office of state Attorney General Bill Lockyer or are ...
SACRAMENTO - If only it were true. Someone with a warped sense of humor has created a convincing but fake Web site that claim...
Judges and Judiciary
Family Law Judge Says He Prefers Mediation to Litigation
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - One day family law Judge Peter J. McBrien was faced with a choice: He could hear two domestic violence cases inv...
SAN FRANCISCO - An unrepentant Vietnamese protester shouted "human rights for Vietnam" to the cheers of a packed federal cour...