LOS ANGELES - A former legal enforcer for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has joined the Los Angeles office of Hol...
SAN FRANCISCO - After four years of mandatory treatment, serial rapist Patrick Ghilotti was cleared this summer by a judge to ...
Judges and Judiciary
Chief Justice Wants Bond Measures for Court Upkeep
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Faced with the dilemma of paying for $5 billion worth of overdue repairs for the state's crumbling courthouses...
LOS ANGELES - Services will take place on Thursday for Abraham Gorenfeld, a lawyer known for fighting the establishment, who l...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court judges have elected Referee Mitchell Beckloff as the court's newest commissioner. Bec...
LOS ANGELES - A federal magistrate judge Tuesday granted bail for two Pakistani students who were picked up after Sept. 11 and...
SAN JOSE - San Jose has agreed to pay $500,000 to a former city attorney's office investigator and his attorneys to settle a s...
It's been another year of significant developments in ADR practice. Important court decisions have affected the confidentialit...
One year ago tonight, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its momentous decision in Bush v. Gore , 531 U.S. 98 (2000). Al Gor...
WASHINGTON - In the year since the U.S. Supreme Court decided Bush v. Gore , some states have moved toward reforming th...
LOS ANGELES - Mary L. Walker, a former partner of San Francisco's Brobeck Phleger & Harrison, was to be sworn in today as ...
CORONA - LaSalle Investment Management Inc., a Chicago-based REIT, has purchased the Country Hills Apartments, a 412-unit com...
MONTEREY - Once a year, Justice Richard D. Huffman of the 4th District Court of Appeal assigns himself to a trial court "as a ...
LOS ANGELES - Special Assistant City Attorney Ben Austin will leave his post as communications director for City Attorney Rock...
SAN FRANCISCO - Baseball is so important, a unanimous state appellate court ruled Monday, that public demand for its images, s...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Board Rejects Proposal to Cut State Bar Exam to Two Days
By Don De Benedictis
LOS ANGELES - California's wannabe lawyers will have to struggle and sweat through three days of Bar Exam for the foreseeable ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco office of Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory has hired away D. Stanley Rowland, a partn...
SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan has held conversations with the city attorney's office over the future of d...
SACRAMENTO - Following a varied legal career in Sacramento and the Bay Area, including a brief but controversial stint as U.S....
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Relishes Ability to Intervene
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - Judge Patrick Morris was waiting in a hospital cafeteria line just after the birth of his granddaughter last ...
SAN JOSE - Marking the boundaries between private computer networks and free speech in cyberspace, a state appellate court pan...
SAN FRANCISCO - Breaking into the highly specialized field of intellectual property litigation used to be like crashing an exc...
LOS ANGELES - Longtime criminal defense attorney and former Los Angeles police commission President Gerald Chaleff - fired ear...
SAN FRANCISCO - Eighty-four associates out of the 130 eligible for the buyout plan at San Francisco's Brobeck Phleger & Ha...
The holiday season has arrived, and companies and law firms will be hosting parties for employees. Leading attorneys are urgin...
Serving in the military during wartime carries many costs, including the risk of injury or death. But military service should ...
President Bush justifies his bombing of Afghanistan as a war against terror. A twin motive, however, is to make Afghanistan sa...
We have no idea whether 40 years from now we will be worried about terrorism, the Israel-Palestine conflict or the state of ed...
I vividly remember doing my first nonjury civil trial as a judge, not because the case was unique but because it taught me how...
Government
Terrorism War's Legal Conundrums Include Idealism Under Duress
By Garry Abrams
The war against terrorism is generating a cornucopia of legal conundrums. The controversies range from the heated debate about...