LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge, prosecutor and defense attorney traveled to the Sacramento area Friday to preserve a dyi...
SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan's liberal views on drug laws have got him into another awkward situation. T...
SAN FRANCISCO - Insurers that fell victim to a massive fraud scam in the so-called "Alliance" scandal of the 1980s may recover...
Litigation
Phillip Morris Wants New Seeks Relief From $3 Billion Jury Award
By Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - When lawyers for Philip Morris walk out of Superior Court today, they hope to be rid of an unwelcome distinction...
Government
Holtzman Will Not Seek City Attorney Job; 5 Still in Race
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - After months of private reflection and external consultation, Jonathan V. Holtzman, a top deputy in the San Fr...
SACRAMENTO - The state Fair Political Practices Commission was created by reformers, but now the political watchdog stands acc...
The Legislature of California has made it clear that courts generally are supposed to order either arbitration or mediation....
The significance of the 'Musser' decision is that it creates uncertainty that did not previously exist. ...
WASHINGTON - Federal judges and legal experts are concerned about a new White House effort aimed at increasing federal gun-cri...
Two appellate decisions suggest that notwithstanding Cornette , design immunity may at last fall firmly within the public enti...
Recently, the public got a rare glimpse at the Draconian measures that our government is taking in a desperate effort to make ...
LOS ANGELES - Elliot J. Safirstein, the well-known external relations assistant to Dean Karen Lash of the University of Southe...
LOS ANGELES - It wasn't the most formal trial that acting Judge Janet Jackson had ever seen. The defense attorney was decked o...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles-based Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher plans to open an office in Munich, joining the growing number of l...
SAN FRANCISCO - Muslim inmates at a California prison cannot be punished for missing work to attend Friday religious services,...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Thursday scheduled an Aug. 13 contempt hearing for a prosecutor after lear...
SAN FRANCISCO - Anyone willing to endure a political campaign in San Francisco, sighed one lawyer thought to be an early conte...
SAN FRANCISCO - In one of the first interpretations of state immunity from federal disability law, a federal judge has ruled C...
SAN FRANCISCO - Overruling a San Francisco judge's novel and significant reduction of a prison sentence, a federal appeals cou...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Litigation Partner Leaves Wilson Sonsini
By Toni Vranjes
LOS ANGELES - A litigation partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati said this week that she is leaving the Palo Alto fi...
VICTORVILLE - On June 20, Carl Williams and his wife, Kathy Williams, ran out of patience with the local school district he ca...
LOS ANGELES - After 23 years of repairing and renting musical instruments out of her home, a disabled Laguna Hills woman may h...
Judges and Judiciary
Traffic Judge, Business Expert Becomes High-Court Candidate
By David Houston
In a recent ruling, U.S. District Judge Bernard A. Friedman issued a lengthy opinion declaring that the admissions policies at...
On the day that it left Washington for its summer recess, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in a case that has occupie...
State Bar & Bar Associations
ABA Vows at Conference to Vet Nominees, Come Rain or Shine
By Don Debenedictisn
CHICAGO - When the Bush administration in March snatched away the American Bar Association's 50-year-old job of rating potenti...
The prayer for relief - you all remember it as one of those building blocks in civil procedure. A true vestige of English hist...
SACRAMENTO - A bill to create a groundbreaking program to help California's troubled lawyers, particularly those addicted to d...
SACRAMENTO - A task force on the multi-jurisdictional practice of law tentatively recommended Wednesday that in-house counsel ...
Solo and Small Firms
Bad Economy Doesn't Restrict Successful IP Boutique
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - So you want to open a law firm in a down economy? Have you lost your mind? Where are you going to find clients...