SAN FRANCISCO - City attorney candidate Jim Lazarus took his opponent to court Wednesday to stop him from mailing last-minute ...
LOS ANGELES - More than 50 prosecutors, police investigators, coroners and defense attorneys have been called to testify in a ...
LOS ANGELES - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo has asked city leaders to extend a temporary ban on new billboards while he finds...
Government
Aquatics Center Treads Water in Alleged Swamp of Slander and Racism
By Garry Abrams
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has greenlighted a politically charged civil rights and defamation lawsuit which alleges th...
SAN DIEGO - The City Council decided Tuesday to extend the Boy Scouts' lease of city property for 25 years, finding after four...
SAN FRANCISCO - If there were a J. Anthony Kline bumper sticker, it might read: To concur is human. To dissent is divine. "I t...
LOS ANGELES - After 20 months, the online legal referral service Sharktank.com is all washed up. The Rockland, Mass.-based com...
LOS ANGELES - A gay computer help-desk worker has sued his former employer, Countrywide Credit Industries Inc., claiming his f...
LOS ANGELES - The legal community may learn soon whether San Francisco's Brobeck Phleger & Harrison will have to resort to...
This is the time of year when new associates finally are understanding what it means to join The Firm. Fresh out of law school...
In one sense, it is unfair to blame President Bush and Attorney General John Ashcroft for their incompetent blundering in tryi...
What should a deep-pocketed American corporation do when faced with class actions of little merit but much potential to sap it...
"I see that you are a judge," my new physician said as he opened the file his nurse had created for my first annual physical. ...
Since the California Supreme Court revitalized the "economic loss" rule in its recent ruling in Aas v. Superior Court , 24 ...
Arbitration offers many advantages over litigation, including speed and cost-savings. But these advantages only flow to those ...
Defense attorney Timothy Lambirth loves a good mystery, especially lawsuits that involve fraud and forgery. ...
Sylvia Wagner and her brother Barney fought for years over money that they inherited from their father. And the battle continu...
Jurors often assess witnesses through "stereotyping," which can become the basis of the jurors' initial impression of those wi...
The case was more than complicated. It was fraught with pitfalls and filled with twists and turns including allegations of dru...
Government
Law Enforcement, Welfare Agency Tussle Over Access to Fingerprints
By Matthew Heller
SAN LUIS OBISPO - For San Luis Obispo County sheriff's investigators, the digitized images of a welfare applicant's fingerprin...
SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Co. need not file a lawsuit to prove that much of the state's authority over the comp...
SAN FRANCISCO - The legal battle over Jerry Garcia's famed guitars will play out in court after all, after settlement talks co...
LOS ANGELES - A San Fernando judge has dismissed a lawsuit that claimed better security at the North Valley Jewish Community C...
SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Co. need not file a lawsuit to prove that much of the state's authority over the comp...
Law Practice
Brosnahan Is Retained to Defend U.S. Man Fighting With Taliban
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Prominent San Francisco trial attorney James J. Brosnahan will represent John Walker Lindh, the 20-year-old fo...
SACRAMENTO - Lawyers should be able to practice law in another jurisdiction to serve a client on a temporary basis without bei...
SAN DIEGO - Over the objections of the Public Defenders Association and the Deputy District Attorneys Association, the Board o...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate court wrestled Tuesday with the First Amendment question of whether the news media should ...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved a $1.1 million contract with GKK Corp. for desig...