SAN FRANCISCO - A bid filed earlier this month with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court by one of the state's best-known utility activis...
Judges and Judiciary
Retired Probate Judge Invokes Fifth Amendment
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Retired Riverside Judge William H. Sullivan - whose handling of conservatorship cases while a probate judge is und...
Criminal
Call Prompts Revealing Probe Into Lawyer's Private Life, Assets
By Matthew Heller
BAKERSFIELD - Around the town where he practiced law for more than 30 years, Michael L. Sprague kept his life outside the prof...
LOS ANGELES - A former Beverly Hills personal injury attorney, caught trying to bring a loaded gun into the Woodland Hills ban...
In Conservatorship of Levitt and Conservatorship of Page, 2001 Cal.App.LEXIS 1170 (Cal. App. Oct. 31, 2001), the...
Will press independence become the next casualty in the war against terrorism? If the Bush Administration's penchant for using...
WASHINGTON - President Bush on Tuesday dedicated the headquarters building of the Department of Justice in memory of Attorney ...
RIVERSIDE - A complex murder case involving methamphetamine manufacturing could be headed to a retrial now that a judge has ru...
SAN FRANCISCO - As Marin County prosecutors continued to deliberate Monday whether to file charges against a San Francisco pro...
State Bar & Bar Associations
July '01 Test Produces 4,338 Potential California Attorneys
By Don De Benedictis
LOS ANGELES - Nearly 57 percent of the 7,618 people who took the California Bar Exam in July passed, meaning the state soon co...
Law Practice
Falling Axes Also Can Fell Firm Partners, Consultants Say
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Partners won't be immune from the nation's recession, law firm consultants predict. Just as associates have be...
LOS ANGELES - Mark P. Robinson Sr., whose 51-year legal career left a legacy of service to his profession and to California, h...
SAN FRANCISCO - In the 1930s, a trembling, fledgling journalist from Yale University had the temerity to visit Supreme Court J...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Debra Yang has emerged as the front-runner for the U.S. attorney post in Los An...
SAN FRANCISCO - Neil Eisenberg, the public power advocate who finished last in a field of four candidates for San Francisco ci...
Misclassifying employees as exempt from overtime, meal period and rest period rules for executive, administrative and professi...
According to news reports, authorities have detained more than 1,000 people as witnesses in the Sept. 11th attacks. Among thos...
In Paschal v. Georgia , 84 G.E. 326, 10 S.E. 821 (1889), defendant Paschal was found guilty of selling whiskey and appe...
In "Illegal Defense: Bombings Violate U.N. Charter, Destroy World Peace Rather Than Build Safe Future" (Forum, Nov. 13), Marjo...
Whether a "day planner" or loose-leaf appointment notebook is a "bound diary" may seem as arcane and inconsequential as any le...
Criminal
Flimflam Artist Could Do Time on Two Continents for Duping Hollywood
By Garry Abrams
Here's a Thanksgiving thought: If international flimflam artist Florio Fiorini is blessed with a really long life, he'll be ab...
Don't believe everything you hear about the new world order. Though amusements parks since Sept. 11 have been in the toilet an...
Firm Watch
Morris Polich: LITIGATOR TAKES HIS SHINGLE, CLIENTS FROM HAIGHT BROWN
By Staff Writer
Richard R. Castillo has joined the civil litigation firm Morris Polich & Purdy as a partner in San Diego, bringing along s...
LOS ANGELES - The attorney general's office has found that a memo sent by the executive officer of the Los Angeles Superior Co...
We have all been blessed with a world filled with risk. Life is a risky business, and baseball is rich in the lessons it provi...
Her boss raped her, and the trial court dismissed her sexual harassment case. The 32-year-old woman worried that a loss on app...
Firm Watch
Latham & Watkins: ASSOCIATE GOES OUT ON ROAD AND COMES BACK A PARTNER
By Staff Writer
He left Latham & Watkins eight years ago as an associate and returned Nov. 9 as a partner. Prodigal son John Flynn vacated...
Entertainment & Sports
WEST COAST RAPPER DOESN'T PUT MUCH TRUST IN LAWYERS
By Columnist
There are two theories on how to interview Marion "Suge" Knight of Death Row Records. In the first week of November, I was giv...
Transactions
Skadden Arps: IBEAM SELLS NEWS SERVICE TO TULSA FIBER-OPTICS FIRM
By Columnist
Williams Communications Inc. of Tulsa, Okla., has bought technology assets from Sunnyvale's iBeam Broadcasting Corp. The total...
Transactions
Latham & Watkins: CONCEPTUS OF SAN CARLOS GETS INFUSION OF CAPITAL
By Columnist
Conceptus Inc. of San Carlos completed a private placement financing valued at nearly $31 million. New York's Merrill Lynch &a...