Corporate
Cram-Downs Present Conflict of Interest for Interested Directors
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Robert Haymer, Eric Zabinski and Erin Chrislock - Can a director be sued personally for approving a "cram-do...
LOS ANGELES - Open-government advocates on Wednesday praised the county Board of Supervisors for approving open-meeting reform...
SAN DIEGO - An internationally recognized expert in forensic dentistry will be allowed to testify as an expert on what he says...
SAN BERNARDINO - A federal grand jury Wednesday slammed embattled San Bernardino County Supervisor Jerry Eaves and a Newport B...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Fifteen Vie for Five State Bar Board Seats
By Don De Benedictis
LOS ANGELES - Fifteen lawyers have announced they are running for five seats on the State Bar Board of Governors this year, se...
SAN FRANCISCO - Alan MacPherson has resigned from San Jose's Skjerven Morrill MacPherson amid a "divergence of opinion about t...
SAN FRANCISCO - One of the nation's chemical giants has agreed to pay about $3 million - much of it for Bay Area wetlands proj...
SAN FRANCISCO - In an opinion that appears to broaden employers' duty to accommodate disabled employees, a state appellate cou...
DAVIS - As one of the country's top experts on evidence, Professor Edward Imwinkelried of the UC-Davis Law School has weighed ...
SACRAMENTO - Big changes are afoot at California Attorneys for Criminal Justice, the state's leading criminal defense lawyers ...
LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court showed little interest Wednesday in allowing co-counsel to bring malpractice claims...
SAN FRANCISCO - City Attorney Dennis Herrera announced plans Wednesday to restructure the office. Herrera appointed Deputy Cit...
Criminal
Megaconspiracy Plot Linking Lurid Rap World to LAPD Proves Lucrative
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - Normally, Kevin Hackie, a former Compton school district cop, Death Row Records bodyguard and confide...
Judges and Judiciary
Delay Tactics Keep Qualified Picks in Nomination Limbo
By Columnist
Forum Column - By John C. Eastman - The Senate has been called the greatest deliberative body ever designed, but after the ref...
Forum Column - By Gloria Allred and R. Tomas Olmos - Should an employer who has wrongfully terminated an undocumented worker i...
Dicta Column - On the Courthouse Steps - How should we respond to the Middle East crisis? - "I think the United Nations should...
Dicta Column - Gregory C. O'Brien Jr. - Is there anyone who doubts the timeless imperfection of the human race? The Book of Ge...
Real Estate/Development
Duty to Protect Against Attacks Is Narrow But Real
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Michael Paul Thomas - Throughout the 1990s, the California Supreme Court consistently constricted the burden...
Tax
Election May Reduce Taxes on Capital Gains Under Certain Circumstances
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Stephen M. Loeb - Section 311 of the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 provides a noncodified irrevocable election...
SACRAMENTO - A bill that would exempt parole officers, probation officers and prison guards from jury duty whizzed through the...
SACRAMENTO - Seeking key evidence for their lawsuits against gunmakers, the city attorneys of San Francisco and Oakland are ba...
SACRAMENTO - A state legislative proposal to authorize a study of financial privacy cleared its first committee hearing Tuesda...
SAN FRANCISCO - Maureen Kallins screamed at a state trial judge and later laughed at him, leading U.S. District Judge Thelton ...
SAN JOSE - Over the objections of attorneys representing several news organizations, Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge T...
SAN FRANCISCO - Garth Gartrell, a veteran executive compensation specialist, has left Fenwick & West to start a compensati...
Juvenile
Murder Confession Likely Won't Bring Lengthy Term
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - In the decade since Rialto police investigators found 15-year-old Rhonda Denning's lifeless, bullet-riddled b...
Forum Column - By William Wesley Patton - A 19th century echo is in the air. Delinquency and dependency court judges are invol...
SAN FRANCISCO - Howard Golub, a former general counsel at Pacific Gas & Electric in the 1980s and 1990s, has resigned from...
LOS ANGELES - California's unusually strict rules protecting attorney-client confidentiality could play a key role in the defe...
LOS ANGELES - In an unusual ruling late last week - in a case borne out of an era of misuse of informants by the Los Angeles P...