SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court has cleared the Los Angeles firm of O'Melveny & Myers of an alleged conflict of inter...
LOS ANGELES - C. Daniel Levy, one of the country's leading experts in naturalization and citizenship law, died Friday. Levy, 4...
SAN FRANCISCO - An administrative case that pitted federal banking regulators against the top executives of the corporation th...
SAN DIEGO - A law school dean may have prestige and power, but California Western School of Law Associate Dean Barbara J. Cox ...
It is unfortunate that in this day of teacher shortages and an increasing immigrant student population, the 9th U.S. Circuit C...
Government
CIA's Reluctance to Cultivate Shady Sources Draws Criticism
By Staff Writer
WASHINGTON - While some former spies contend that U.S. policies against recruiting foreign agents with criminal backgrounds mi...
SAN FRANCISCO - Most West Coast law firms have disaster and recovery plans. Memories are still too fresh from the 1989 Loma Pr...
LOS ANGELES - Asking lawyers to show compassion and respect during this time of national mourning, the Association of Trial La...
SACRAMENTO - A pair of DNA testing bills - one benefiting prosecutors and the other assisting defendants and inmates - are on ...
Personal Injury & Torts
Queen Elizabeth, Britons, Mourn Alongside America
By Anne La Jeunesse
San Mateo aviation-law attorney Terry O'Reilly, visiting his native England on business and pleasure this week, said that Brit...
OAKLAND - In separate hearings Thursday that retired Alameda County Superior Court Judge James A. Hodge labeled a primer on a ...
It will be worthwhile for practitioners to continue to check on the health and condition of 'Pardo.' ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Did not! Did so. Did not! Did so. Did O'Melveny & Myers litigators, hired this summer to represent the sta...
Most of us believe that something truly evil happened on September 11, 2001, when terrorists attacked the World Trade Center a...
SAN JOSE - Bay Area counties have failed, for the last time, in their bid to add a public nuisance claim to a pending class a...
Judges and Judiciary
Jurist Doesn't Back Down In the Face of Controversy
By Tamara Scott
The California Teachers Association v. State Board of Education decision upholding Proposition 227's provision allowing...
SAN FRANCISCO - Alan A. Beaven, an environmental law specialist and a founding partner at San Francisco's Berman DeValerio Pea...
At noon, the Springfield Metro stop in Alexandria, Va., is generally underwhelmed by a few sleep-deprived mothers taking their...
SANTA ANA - An Orange County woman who was disfigured when a piece of a frying pan shot into her neck has filed a personal inj...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Pack-a-Day Man Seizes On Tiny Crack in Tobacco Deal
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Don Ricketts' other major lawsuit, a class action on behalf of smokers, alleges antitrust violations by city a...
LOS ANGELES - Stand-up comedian Paula Poundstone pleaded no contest Wednesday to one felony charge of child endangerment and a...
SACRAMENTO - A measure that places new restrictions on prenuptial agreements was signed into law Wednesday by Gov. Gray Davis,...
SAN FRANCISCO - Donald W. Ricketts' quixotic career as a trial lawyer could be about to pay off huge. The Santa Clarita sole p...
WASHINGTON - The nation's top federal judges were 45 minutes into their semiannual meeting here Tuesday when the terrorist att...
SAN FRANCISCO - Betty Wyman, a drug-rehabilitation specialist for Los Angeles County, was appointed to the state Commission on...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Bay Area courts that closed in response to the terrorist attacks on the East Coast were back in session We...
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for a Los Angeles County prosecutor accused of misconduct have been unsuccessful in their attempts to ...
LOS ANGELES - The terrorist attacks that hit the United States may affect the practices of attorneys in a variety of fields, i...