SAN DIEGO - James Anderson Sullivan, a lawyer who spent most of his career in the Los Angeles area, died in Jacksonville, Fla....
Government
Prosecutor Will Head Sheriff's New Independent Review Office
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Michael Gennaco, who led civil rights prosecutions in the U.S. attorney's office for the past six years, was nam...
SAN FRANCISCO - Environmentalists say a Sacramento judge's ruling restores some significant clout to the state's basic statute...
FRESNO - Civil rights attorney Catherine F. Campbell and her colleagues tried to maintain a professional demeanor throughout t...
SAN FRANCISCO - Since he founded what is widely considered to be the first independent, small environmental law firm in 1976, ...
LOS ANGELES - His journey to a judgeship took more than 40 years, but at the end of that road, Superior Court Judge Richard E....
There is a story about a man looking for a dollar bill he had lost on the street. When a friend came along to help and asked w...
Another business-method patent - this one involving telephones as well as the Internet - is again raising questions about the ...
Public Interest
Legal Community Plays a Key Role in Ending Sexual Assault
By Columnist
Last year in California, more than 31,000 individuals reported being victims of sexual assault. While this number is alarming,...
It's another sweltering summer day, and California's energy crisis has caused rolling blackouts up and down the state. When th...
LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve Cooley on Thursday promoted two of his top deputies, Lawrence E. Mason and John Allen. M...
The California Court of Appeal recently issued a far-reaching employment-law decision involving wage-hour law. In Bell v. F...
If you've got some time to waste, Bay Area resident Gene Cutler can help you do it. He created a Web site, www.smalltime.com, ...
LOS ANGELES - Santa Monica's Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstreif dealt a blow to the California offices of Zelle Hofm...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge on Thursday sentenced former Mexican police officer turned hit man Marcos Ranjel to lif...
Medical malpractice suits usually are prosecuted and defended by seasoned lawyers. And invariably, medical experts will testif...
Despite the weakened economy, lawyers continue to trade in Perry Mason ambitions for Bill Gates aspirations. Just ask Glenn We...
Oops, you weren't paying attention and you woke up on the other side of 35 (the harshly arbitrary cutoff for highest reproduct...
SAN FRANCISCO - Teams of upstart young legal eagles got to practice intellectual property litigation just like the grown-ups T...
"If there was a way, and I speak only for myself, to have avoided getting involved in that difficult decision ... I would have...
SAN BERNARDINO - A teen-ager who told police she stabbed her baby moments after giving birth because it would have ruined her ...
LOS ANGELES - The endorsement sweepstakes in the Los Angeles city attorney's race continued Thursday, with office-seeker Rocka...
LOS ANGELES - Although a jury last year acquitted Los Angeles Police Department Officer Paul Harper of corruption in the Rampa...
Appellate Practice
Court Denies Lawyer's Appeal In Long-Running Murder Case
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
SANTA ANA - Affirming murder convictions in one of the longest-running criminal cases in California history, an appellate cour...
LOS ANGELES - Ronald L. Cheng has been named chief of the U.S. attorney's office criminal division. Cheng, 36, replaces John S...
LOS ANGELES - After years of complaints by immigrant advocates, Los Angeles soon will be getting a shelter to house undocument...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council has voted to pay $2.6 million to settle a case involving the New Year's Day 1999 sh...
SAN FRANCISCO - Disapproving an appellate court ruling that a 16-year-girl was an "accomplice" to incest with her father, the ...
SAN FRANCISCO - It took two small children in England to do what tobacco companies, gun makers, corporate bankers, energy baro...
SAN JOSE - On the eve of the criminal trade-secrets theft trial against Avant Corp., the Fremont-based company has quietly set...