WASHINGTON - For Sheldon Sperling, an assistant U.S. attorney for 16 years in Muskogee, Okla., the decision to accept Presiden...
SAN FRANCISCO - A settlement ending the bitter legal battle over Jerry Garcia's famed guitars divides the four valuable instru...
SAN FRANCISCO - Maritime lawyer Dennis Herrera took the helm of San Francisco's municipal law office Tuesday, becoming the cit...
LOS ANGELES - Lyle Greenberg kept his 1991 New Year's resolution to become active in some local organizations. "While it is tr...
LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury in Los Angeles has indicted a Middle Eastern pilot who made headlines recently in Arizona a...
SAN FRANCISCO - Judge Joseph Tyree Sneed doesn't have much interest in tort law, but let a slip of tax code catch his eye and ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Skadden Fellowship Foundation, a public interest law foundation created by the partners of New York's Skad...
SAN FRANCISCO - Continuing its quest to win federal protection for the medical distribution of marijuana, an Oakland cannabis ...
Forum Column - By James Acret, A harsh and dangerous new law has been unleashed on a mostly unsuspecting and unprepared constr...
SAN FRANCISCO - The state Public Utilities Commission on Tuesday demanded a voice in the reorganization of Pacific Gas and Ele...
LOS ANGELES - Insolvency expert Jeffrey Krause is returning to venerable Los Angeles bankruptcy boutique Stutman, Treister &am...
Forum Column - By Suzanne Evans, Last month, a Louisiana man who intentionally dragged a dog to death in May 2001 was sentence...
Judges and Judiciary
Booted Judge Seeks Hearing to Get His Law License Reinstated
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Former Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patrick Couwenberg, booted from the bench last year by the Commission on...
SAN FRANCISCO - The former defense lawyer for a man who has spent nearly two decades in prison for a double murder acknowledge...
Judges and Judiciary
Every Story Has Two Sides Worth Hearing, Jurist Says
By Contributing Writer
LOS ANGELES - Judge Barbara Meiers, a 20-year veteran of Los Angeles' municipal and superior courts, doesn't have to listen fo...
ADR Practitioner Column - By Richard Chernick, This is the second part of the 2001 review of significant developments in ADR p...
LOS ANGELES - In a decision long awaited by employment lawyers, the 2nd District Court of Appeal has ruled in an unpublished o...
SAN FRANCISCO - James Pooley, one of Silicon Valley's preeminent intellectual property litigators, has left the well-establish...
SAN JOSE - Bill Priest fell just short two years ago in his bid to win election to the Santa Clara County Superior Court. This...
SAN FRANCISCO - Real estate law expert Harry Miller, of Miller Starr & Regalia in Walnut Creek, died Friday after a two-ye...
LOS ANGELES - An appellate court ruled Monday that, when a defendant who is out on bail pleads guilty, the court must either c...
Appellate Practice
Fines and Fees For 10-Year Delay in Death Penalty Brief
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court cracked down hard Monday on a Sacramento civil litigator for failing for more tha...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge has ordered a halt to a state-financed program to reduce fire danger in California fores...
Forum Column - By Ruth D. Shapin - It is said that those who forget history are condemned to repeat it. In a recent article ti...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court justices on Monday indicated they will reject the claim by a group of landowners around Lake Ta...
Appellate Practice
Vengeful Pooh Torments Disney Rodent in Epic Honey-Money Dispute
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - Winnie the Pooh continues to thump the living daylights out of Mickey Mouse in their epic, largely se...
Family Law Practitioner Column - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - Marriage creates a fiduciary relat...
SAN FRANCISCO - A memorial service will be held Wednesday for Thomas Berkley, who had a long and varied career as a lawyer, pu...
Dicta Column - By Tim Hallahan - Stories try to make order out of chaos. They shape our lives. They instruct us. They connect ...
Dicta Column - By Anne Bothwell - Dear Anne: I have been given the responsibility of being marketing partner at the firm, whic...