SAN FRANCISCO - A lawsuit alleging that two San Francisco attorneys reneged on a surrogacy contract because the birth mother r...
SAN FRANCISCO - Robert Fram, head of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe's patent litigation practice in San Francisco, has ne...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County's mental health court occupies an old pickle factory. Department 95 of the Los Angeles Superi...
Law Practice
Experts Predict Tobacco Award, Cut to $100 Million, Will Survive
By Martin Bergn
LOS ANGELES - Legal experts agree that Judge Charles W. McCoy Jr. was on solid legal ground last week when he reduced a Superi...
SAN FRANCISCO - A judge has modified his gag order in the dog-mauling murder case, allowing witnesses to talk to the media abo...
Health Care & Hospital Law
DAs Can't Seek Indictments in Juvenile Cases
By Gina Keating
LOS ANGELES - A state appellate decision Friday strengthened criminal defense attorneys' contention that prosecutors are abusi...
In a slow job market such as this, a well-written thank-you note is important. ...
In Gilbert v. The Crystal Fountain Lodge, 80 Ga. 284 (1887), Chief Justice Logan E. Bleckley found the following for th...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge handed down almost nine decades of prison time Thursday to one of four major racketeering defe...
Securities
Report Ranks Sidley Austin No. 1 In Corporate-Financing Counsel
By Toni Vranjes
LOS ANGELES - Times have been tough in the initial-public-offerings market, but corporate debt offerings have been healthy. An...
LOS ANGELES - An employment litigator with extensive involvement in the Los Angeles legal community has joined Greenberg Traur...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a stunning blow to federal prosecutors, a significant portion of the government's primary drug-fighting sta...
SAN FRANCISCO - Caregivers cannot end an incompetent patient's life without "clear and convincing" evidence that death is his ...
LOS ANGELES - The sights and sounds of last summer's Democratic National Convention - the sting of rubber bullets, the deafeni...
SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Gray Davis appointed longtime state prosecutor David F. De Alba to the Sacramento County bench on Thursda...
SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Business Times did not libel a San Joaquin County lawyer by printing an article about his "q...
On June 28, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issued its long-awaited decision in United State...
In 1890, the average woman made 46 cents for every dollar earned by a man. Fifty-five years later, a few members of Congress r...
LOS ANGELES - Justice William A. Masterson of the 2nd District Court of Appeal has joined the Los Angeles panel of JAMS, the I...
"Even though I'm a Republican, I'm not big on individuals owning guns. I hope no one shoots me because of this. From a legal p...
LOS ANGELES - A former word processor in the Los Angeles office of Dallas-based Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has filed a...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles city ethics commission Wednesday levied an $18,500 fine against Councilman Hal Bernson and his c...
SAN FRANCISCO - Seven new members have been named to the state Judicial Council, including five judges, a San Diego attorney a...
Just like most other financial arrangements, business transactions with clients are highly regulated. And lawyers who do not f...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Gerald Solomon Tarlow, a family law specialist in Torrance for more than 30 years....
That the BAJI Committee has 'approved' its own instructions has the legal significance of Coca-Cola approving New Coke. ...
On July 30, the 2nd U.S. District Court of Appeal issued an opinion clarifying when the doctrine of "after-acquired evidence" ...
SAN DIEGO - Four day traders have won a $457,000 arbitration award that their lawyers believe was based, at least in part, on ...
LOS ANGELES - Even as a youngster in Honduras, Jose Mariano Castillo knew the law was his future career. Today, after moving t...