The Macerich Co. has sold 15.2 million shares of common stock in a public offering, which will help the real estate investment...
An online dating service cons lonely men out of money and leaves them brokenhearted, a class action filed on behalf of a law c...
Veteran Los Angeles trial lawyer John Lawler has long wanted to open a Northern California office of Murchison & Cumming. ...
"It's not over till it's over." Attorney A. Barry Cappello's motto, made famous by baseball great Yogi Berra, rang true in a t...
One Monday morning in late October, attorney Arturo J. Gonzalez entered his office at San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster,...
A little less than a year after Laurence Pretty and his law firm Pretty & Schroeder joined Christie, Parker & Hale, he...
City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo appointed Thomas A. Russell as the managing assistant of the Harbor division of the city attorn...
In Closing Column - By Kate Fitzgerald - Come the first of the year, law firms will pour hundreds of thousands of dollars into...
Oliver "Lock" Holmes, a respected name in government contracts law, has followed two prominent figures in Bay Area politics to...
A recent ruling in an intellectual property lawsuit may signal the turning of the tide in cyberspace piracy, the plaintiffs' l...
Judges and Judiciary
Some Judges Change Courtrooms Under New Rule on Assignments
By Karen Coleman
The Alameda County Superior Court assignments for 2003 are the first since the state Judicial Council implemented a new rule ...
Upon college graduation, Wess Gates landed a dream job when Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. offered him a position as an assoc...
If the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department had better procedures for communicating with hearing impaired suspects, then 22...
Small, incremental layoffs and buyouts seem to be the thing at cost-conscious Pillsbury Winthrop, where another 12 nonlawyer s...
SACRAMENTO - Lawyers representing California's small cities want the state's political watchdog agency to amend its new confl...
LOS ANGELES - A partner at Los Angeles' Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton has been hit with a lawsuit by Mercury Air Gr...
LOS ANGELES - Isuzu Motors manufactured a defective sport utility vehicle that flipped when its driver swerved to avoid hittin...
Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - In Grutter v. Bollinger , 288 F.3d 732 (6th Cir. 2002), the 6th U.S. Circuit Court...
SAN FRANCISCO - The practice of indefinitely locking Pelican Bay State Prison inmates in their cells based on their race has ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass is leaving its office and signature rooftop bocce ball court on Kearny Stre...
Judges and Judiciary
Lawyers Entering Some Courts Can Get in Express Line
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - In today's uncertain national security climate, security has never been tighter at California's courthouses. ...
Personal Injury & Torts
Panel Lets Kin Pursue Suit Against Police Unit
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Part of a civil rights lawsuit against a special Los Angeles police unit can go forward, a federal appeals court...
Forum Column - By James C. Turner and Suzanne M. Mishkin - This fall, HALT - An Organization of Americans for Legal Reform - r...
LOS ANGELES - Part of a civil rights lawsuit against a special Los Angeles police unit can go forward, a federal appeals court...
SUSPENSIONS Germano, Richard John , Rancho Cucamonga Guzzetta, Rudy David , San Jose Honish, Kalieh Rie , Montebello Mantle, G...
SAN FRANCISCO - Skipping court while out on bail is a big no-no. That's what burglary suspect Daniel Walker found out Thursda...
SAN JOSE - The attorney representing a Russian software company accused of circumventing copyright protections admitted in cl...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Thursday upheld the largest individual second-hand smoking award in the United States...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton has recruited antitrust partner David R. Garcia from O'Melv...