By Karen Coleman DJC Bankruptcy Staff Writer SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers representing the bankrupt firm of Graham & James con...
Judges and Judiciary
Commission Ousts L.A. Judge for Abuse of Sick Leave
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - The state's judicial watchdog agency ordered the removal of Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patrick B. Murphy...
By Pamela A. MacLean and Dennis Pfaff DJC Bankruptcy Staff Writers SAN FRANCISCO - Nine groups representing consumers, agricu...
Government
Judge Strikes Key Testimony in Murder Case, Cites DA's Actions
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge said Thursday that he will strike key testimony from a double-murder case and...
By John Roemer DJC Bankruptcy Staff Writer SAN FRANCISCO - California consumer lawyers reacted swiftly to PG&E's bankrupt...
Front Page
Utility Firms Ponder Bankruptcy While Residents Remain in Dark
By Sherri Salzman
LOS ANGELES - As light bulbs in Northern California flicker, dim and blink off, enveloping millions of energy consumers in st...
By Pamela A. MacLean DJC Bankruptcy Staff Writer SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Bankruptcy Trustee may be just days away from the s...
By Dennis Pfaff DJC Bankruptcy Staff Writer SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas & Electric Co. will formally object to the appoin...
By Pamela A. MacLean DJC BankruptcyStaff Writer SAN FRANCISCO - An electric cogeneration operator, idled for weeks due to non...
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has acquired extrasensory perception. No California court has yet addressed the applicat...
SACRAMENTO - Four bills that address a range of topics including construction defect litigation, pro-bono work, toxic mold sta...
LOS ANGELES - The Century City office of Irell & Manella has snapped up two former Lyon & Lyon partners. Christopher ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Ratepayers of Pacific Gas & Electric Co. are not legally entitled to have a formal committee representing ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A potential reprieve for cash-strapped legal aid programs arrived Wednesday when the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles office of Holland & Knight has acquired seven attorneys from local probate boutique Ross Sa...
SAN FRANCISCO - If everything that happens in court-ordered mediation sessions is secret, how is a judge supposed to find out ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Morrison & Foerster announced Wednesday that the Hong Kong Law Society has approved the firm to practice l...
Judges and Judiciary
His Clerks Want Court Building Named for Browning
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Momentum is gathering for naming San Francisco's 100-year-old federal appeals court building after Judge James...
Everyone has an opinion about whether O.J. did it. And these opinions usually are not anemic. Furthermore, there are many opin...
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys for Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel filed a demurrer Wednesday arguing that a mischievous animal st...
LOS ANGELES - Services will take place today for retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Richard C. Fildew. Fildew, former p...
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for celeb attorney Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. returned to a state appellate court this week to shake off pe...
LOS ANGELES - Justice Ramona Godoy Perez is seriously ill and is unlikely to return to the bench in the 2nd District Court of...
SANTA ANA - A federal grand jury has indicted an Oregon man who allegedly coaxed $40,000 out of an elderly Anaheim woman after...
LOS ANGELES - A veteran Los Angeles County prosecutor alleged to have altered a witness's interview statement in a murder cas...
SAN FRANCISCO - Invoking the Old Testament, public power advocate Neil Eisenberg gathered his supporters beneath the high-rise...
SAN FRANCISCO - Thomas A. Van Zandt, studying torts during his first year at McGeorge School of Law in 1993, shared a laugh wi...
LOS ANGELES - Former Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson ordered bomb-making materials allegedly found 26 years...
By Christian Boone Special to DJC Bankruptcy As a native Northern Californian, Web host Jon Nash is familiar with the kinds o...
SAN FRANCISCO - With gunshot victims and the gun industry watching, the California Supreme Court pondered Wednesday whether an...