To successfully settle a case against the state for a car collision allegedly caused by a dangerous roadway, the plaintiffs' a...
The ability of participants to report on mediation conduct in support of sanctions motions prevents the Foxgate ball from bein...
LOS ANGELES - Two weeks before the immigration summit between President Bush and Mexican President Vicente Fox, union and comm...
LOS ANGELES - Kirkland & Ellis came out expecting to win the Landau Lawyers League Coed Softball finals Sunday, and they d...
SACRAMENTO - Attorneys for injured workers will push for nearly a 15 percent increase in workers compensation benefits, the fi...
LOS ANGELES - County supervisors voted 3-1 Tuesday to approve what some called a "revolutionary" management overhaul of MacLar...
SAN FRANCISCO - Protesters can still wave signs held aloft on sticks, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday in a...
SAN FRANCISCO - Taking the legal-services establishment by surprise, a minority advocacy group in San Francisco on Tuesday cal...
Product Liability
Court Reviews $26.5M Award Issued Against Tobacco Firm
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court panel heard a lively debate Tuesday over whether to uphold a $26.5 million verdict won...
SACRAMENTO - A consumer privacy bill that would prevent financial institutions from selling their customers' personal data wit...
LOS ANGELES - When District Attorney Steve Cooley came into office eight months ago, he pledged to improve prosecution efforts...
Over the past few months, I've had the vicarious displeasure of witnessing one of the most odious types of human conflict - a ...
Personal Injury & Torts
Pioneering Black, Female Lawyer Dies of Cancer
By Contributing Writer
LOS ANGELES - Zoe Wise Ross, a woman who broke down gender and racial barriers as a personal injury attorney, died of colon ca...
LOS ANGELES - Access to family-law courts will be the subject of the upcoming Journal of the Center for Families, Children and...
"Judicial restraint isn't the stuff of academic ivory towers but respect for the rule of law that honors and protects families...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Topless Dancers Have Right to Caress Themselves, Board Finds
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A state Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control law requiring topless dancers to perform without touching themsel...
Product Liability
Bills' Proponents Push for Disclosure of Secret Pacts
By Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - When David Zuzow bought the upscale Eddie Bauer edition Ford Explorer, he did so because he thought it was the s...
SAN FRANCISCO - Praising it as "sensible" and "imaginative," a San Francisco judge on Monday approved a settlement in which fi...
SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan will not have to testify any time soon for defendants charged by his office...
SAN FRANCISCO - Parents of a 16-year-old boy who accidentally shot and killed his friend are covered by their homeowners' insu...
LOS ANGELES - It doesn't take much to get South Bay defense attorney Carl "Tony" Capozzola on a soapbox. Once he's on message,...
Civil Rights
Part of Woman's Lawsuit Alleging False Arrest Reinstated
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE -- A 60-year-old woman who was arrested and then strip-searched after a bus driver accused her of lying about her age...
Transportation
Defense Wants City Attorney Off Red-Light Camera Cases
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A lawyer for drivers ticketed through the city's red-light camera system asked a judge Monday to disqualify the ci...
LOS ANGELES - Ten women are on death row in California. Marie Elise West could become No. 11. Prosecutors have charged West wi...
Transactions
Wilson Sonsini: CIPHERGEN PLANS PURCHASE OF INVITROGEN SUBSIDIARY
By Tanya Rothman
Ciphergen Biosystems Inc. will buy BioSepra S.A., a wholly owned subsidiary of Invitrogen Corp., for $12 million in cash. Ciph...
State Bar & Bar Associations
ABA SELECTS SAN FRANCISCO PARTNER AS ITS TREASURER
By Tanya Rothman
The American Bar Association has elected a San Francisco trial attorney as its new treasurer, who will oversee the organizatio...
Transactions
Wilson Sonsini: CELL GENESYS INJECTS DRUG DEVELOPER INTO PORTFOLIO
By Tanya Rothman
Foster City's Cell Genesys Inc. has agreed to acquire Sunnyvale biotech company Calydon Inc. The stock deal is worth $17.4 mil...
SAN FRANCISCO - Several of the nation's biggest petroleum companies have agreed to settle a lawsuit demanding that they clean ...