SAN FRANCISCO - The annual report for the U.S. attorney's office in Northern California shows that the number of criminal case...
Transactional Law Practitioner Column by Robert C. Barnes - As most transactional attorneys know, Article 9 of the Uniform Com...
SACRAMENTO - Sacramento's largest law firm, Downey Brand Seymour & Rohwer, has named litigator Stephen J. Meyer as its new...
LOS ANGELES - For the Los Angeles County district attorney's office, 2001 was the year of Steve Cooley. The veteran prosecutor...
SACRAMENTO- Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker, named Friday as the first female dean of McGeorge School of Law, said international la...
LOS ANGELES - Judge Aurelio Munoz is the last of a retiring breed. Of 25 judges selected in 1988 to pioneer the Fast Track pro...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate has approved five new judgeships sought by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., to relieve the beleag...
LOS ANGELES - A downtown jury on Friday rejected a 28-year-old quadriplegic's claim that the city's policy of paying most trip...
OAKLAND - Three East Bay advocacy groups have won a $300,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to create a project tha...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a flurry of year-end appointments, Gov. Gray Davis has elevated four Bay Area judges to the 1st District Co...
RIVERSIDE - Heating up Riverside County's race for top prosecutor, District Attorney Grover Trask is seeking an injunction to ...
Criminal Law Practitioner Column by Laurie L. Levonson - Last term, the U.S. Supreme Court held that roadblocks conducted for ...
LOS ANGELES - Two weeks after Steve Cooley took over the district attorney's office last December, he was briefed by prosecuto...
SAN FRANCISCO - Stanley Young has replaced Michael Charlson as managing partner of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe's Menlo...
LOS ANGELES - Giving up a decadelong courtroom war that drew one jury verdict of $1 billion-plus and another for hundreds of m...
SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco-based Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison has selected litigator Edward F. Fernandes to manage t...
Forum Column by John C. Eastman - It may not have been intended as a Christmas present - our national security team certainly...
Forum Column by Alex Ricciardulli - Voter-approved initiatives often are tied up in the courts for years before anyone can ma...
BARSTOW - Stopping off in Barstow is like stepping into a bygone era, with its mom-and-pop cafes, crumbling motels with neon s...
SACRAMENTO - California Chief Justice Ronald George said Thursday he hopes the governor will allow the state Public Defender's...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles civil rights attorney has alerted the county's legal watchdog agency to a string of cases that all...
SAN JOSE - Hardly anyone bothered to respond to the Santa Clara County Bar Association's bi-annual survey of local judges, acc...
Personal Injury & Torts
Store is Liable For Accidents If Inspections Were Overdue
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court made it easier Thursday for injured shoppers to win slip-and-fall tort suits. The...
SANTA MONICA - Services have taken place for George E. Sperling Jr., corporate counsel for the Carnation Co. for 34 years befo...
SAN FRANCISCO - Three hotly contested psychological evaluations of Patrick Ghilotti, a serial rapist fighting for his release ...
SAN FRANCISCO - As part of Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s effort to win approval for its $10 billion bankruptcy reorganization...
SACRAMENTO - When the state Legislature reconvenes in January, a flood of anti-terrorism bills and a return to the tough-on-cr...
Forum Column by Stephen R. Barnett - Among the operational problems of the California Supreme Court, two stand out for the ext...
Dicta Column by Ralph Bovitz - Saving for retirement from the practice of law is a little painful as it involves having to put...
Employment Column by Luan McElroy - Unless your family member is the hiring partner of a firm or general counsel of a company,...