The recent events on the East Coast have brought a tremendous focus on security. Security is designed to make us feel safe and...
LOS ANGELES - Want to know how many days Los Angeles Superior Court Judge X spent in trial last year or how Judge Y has ruled ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Morrison & Foerster, continuing to bring more government prosecutors into the fold, has recruited Tony Wes...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Prosecutor May Be Immune for Jailing
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County judge indicated Thursday she would probably dismiss a civil false imprisonment complaint again...
RIVERSIDE - A 1994 chemical explosion that killed two scientists at Rocketdyne's Santa Susana Field Laboratory in Ventura Coun...
LOS ANGELES - Erwin Supoly's apartment walls were filthy from years of chain-smoking, he didn't wash his clothes and at times ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco prosecutor and the man he stabbed in a fight last week in San Rafael both have criminal histor...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court has overturned a felony child-endangerment conviction in an unusual case in which the ...
SACRAMENTO - Five people have emerged as potential successors to state Legislative Counsel Bion Gregory, and some legislative ...
LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis announced Thursday the appointment of Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Judith Ashmann as an asso...
LOS ANGELES - Catching and prosecuting criminal noncitizens will get easier soon, with the launching this month of an interage...
SAN FRANCISCO - Richard Odom, a Los Angeles lawyer who most recently led Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's complex litigation ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Davis Names City Official to State Bar Board of Governors
By Don De Benedictis
LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis named a longtime city-government and law-enforcement official to the State Bar Board of Governor...
Lawyers call recruiters daily, asking them to find them the perfect in-house opportunity, because they are burned out in the p...
As the population grows and urban boundaries expand in California, there has been an increased interest in landowners applying...
On Sept. 11, terrorists attacked a great deal more than our New York skyline. They attacked the United States' way of life. An...
The much-touted "simplified" tax laws force everyone to plan all the time. It's no different this year for attorneys. Let's lo...
People's views, including those of legal scholars and historians, differ widely about the nature of the right protected by the...
LOS ANGELES - Two State Bar Court judges and a Superior Court commissioner are among the five lawyers who have entered the fig...
SAN FRANCISCO - David Hayes, a leading lawyer for Napster and Replay/TV in recent online copyright litigation, has agreed to s...
SAN FRANCISCO - A panel of legal experts has been named to review ethical standards for contractual arbitrators in California....
SAN FRANCISCO - Funeral services will be held today for Howard Gilbert, who in his long legal career earned a reputation as an...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court on Wednesday by a 7-4 vote upheld the use of interest from client trust accounts for l...
SAN FRANCISCO - A man who raised another's child as his own will have a chance to prove to the California Supreme Court that h...
Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech
U.S. Judge Tells Pot Clinic the DA Can See Its Patient Files
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal prosecutors can view about 6,000 client and patient files seized from an attorney-physician couple who...
SAN FRANCISCO - Rongjie Ma couldn't be happier. The gregarious, gentlemanly Chinese lawyer is busy doing what he likes best: m...
LOS ANGELES - Terry W. Bird, a top white-collar defense and civil litigation lawyer in Los Angeles, was named to a bipartisan ...
SAN DIEGO - A veteran prosecutor has filed a lawsuit alleging that he was denied a promotion and harassed after telling his bo...
LOS ANGELES - Few lawyers can recall a case in which a defendant successfully withdrew a guilty plea, but then most cases aren...