SAN FRANCISCO - Fenwick & West, a 300-lawyer Palo Alto firm that profited mightily from the dot-com boom, has laid off 32 ...
LOS ANGELES - Civil rights attorneys reacted with shock and disappointment Thursday upon learning that the six-attorney team c...
Constitutional Law
Package of Privacy Bills Making Progress in Legislature
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Three major privacy measures moved closer to passage in the state Legislature on Thursday, including a landmark f...
SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Gray Davis now must defend his decision not to pursue construction of a low-level radioactive waste dump ...
LOS ANGELES - In a growing trend that targets manufacturers and retailers who allegedly use sweatshop labor to produce their l...
There seems to be something endemic to this kind of litigation that causes it to go on seemingly forever. ...
The 9th Circuit's recent reversal of the death sentence previously affirmed by the California Supreme Court and the federal di...
As every prosecutor knows, sometimes innocuous items become the most compelling evidence of a crime. For me, the Bruno Magli s...
Like all other employers, law firms must be proactive in their efforts to prevent sexual harassment. Recent Supreme Court deci...
It is a distinction that has muddled the brains of generations of law students. A lease of real property creates two sets of r...
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis has signed a bill that strengthens campaign finance reform by requiring earlier disclosure by can...
SAN FRANCISCO - Capping a nearly year-long feud between union organizers and management at one of San Francisco's biggest liti...
SAN FRANCISCO - The state's judicial watchdog agency has filed formal charges against San Joaquin County Superior Court Judge ...
LOS ANGELES - Health problems and impending surgery for one of two attorneys representing reputed former Symbionese Liberation...
LOS ANGELES - In a rare move, a Los Angeles judge said Wednesday that he would consider barring the public from the preliminar...
SAN FRANCISCO - Two top lieutenants of former U.S. Attorney Robert S. Mueller III have advanced to new local posts, the Depart...
WASHINGTON - FBI blunders could help Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols avoid the death penalty, thanks to the bu...
LOS ANGELES - When the State Bar was in the depths of its funding crisis in 1998-99, one of the functions that suffered most w...
Criminal
Another Casualty in Olson Case Postpones 'Trial by Actuarial Table'
By Garry Abrams
The bomb plot case against radical mom Sara Jane Olson should be moved to a hospital. A good one. Prosecutors, defense lawyers...
Intellectual Property
Journalists' Sources Are Trade Secrets, Suit Claims
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge seemed inclined Wednesday to let a trade publication pursue a novel trade-secrets case ...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County supervisors have approved the hiring of five attorneys to monitor internal investigations of ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Inmates have a constitutional right to procreate, a San Francisco-based federal appeals court ruled Wednesday ...
WASHINGTON - Women are approaching parity in the highly coveted ranks of Supreme Court law clerks, but members of racial and e...
Zoning, Planning and Use
In 'Marine Forests,' Court Weighs Form Over Function
By Columnist
The separation-of-powers doctrine was used recently to invalidate a state commission that has been operating with significant ...
Few relationships are as delicate and as susceptible to conflicts of interest as the relationship among the liability insuranc...
Many states are entertaining legislation changing the rules that govern jury deliberations, jury instructions and the entire p...
When the U.S. Supreme Court decided The Florida Star v. BJF , 491 U.S. 524 (1989), many legal commentators declared the...
In response to burgeoning caseloads, the Legislature has begun a dramatic shift in the nature of appellate review. More and mo...
California's nursing homes are an industry under siege by state and federal regulators, struggling to receive fair compensatio...
In 1974, Congress passed the Employee Retirement Income Security Act in order to protect employee pensions from corporations a...