WASHINGTON - As governor of Texas, George W. Bush successfully fought to reform the state's tort laws. As president, however, ...
LOS ANGELES - During a noontime news conference buoyed by mariachi music, Mayor Richard J. Riordan on Thursday unveiled the fi...
The prosecution of a sensational triple homicide presents plenty of challenges in a small rural county. But in choosing wheth...
I was in front of a law and motion judge, arguing the expanded liabilities of an attorney in the role of a property manager. T...
SAN FRANCISCO - State appellate justices now have guidelines on when they should disqualify themselves from hearing cases und...
After the polls closed on Election Day, early news media projections gave Al Gore reason to believe that he had won the race f...
For 20 years, Joe Posner wrote a column in the Daily Journal that educated the bar on employment-law issues. Combining an advo...
LOS ANGELES - Seven months after the American Civil Liberties Union sued California over its allegedly shoddy school systems, ...
Labor/Employment
S.F. Judge Nixes the UPS Blanket Ban on One-Eyed Drivers
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - In a strongly worded decision favoring disabled rights, a federal judge has ruled United Parcel Service canno...
Amendments to the Fair Employment and Housing Act have expanded the scope of its protection and reversed restrictive state-cou...
Although all attorneys know that they have fiduciary obligations to clients, they may not realize the responsibilities they ow...
SAN FRANCISCO - A voter-approved ban on leg-hold traps in California does not apply to federal wildlife managers who are tryi...
SAN DIEGO - Superior Court Judge Robert J. O'Neill is retiring Dec. 31, after a 20-year career in which he became nationally k...
LOS ANGELES - The city of Los Angeles' civil liability tab for the Rampart police corruption scandal crept to $29 million foll...
LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury Wednesday indicted a former employee of the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles Wednesday...
LOS ANGELES - Three weeks after filing a federal lawsuit, 12 Latino garment workers have received a $62,000 settlement from XO...
LOS ANGELES - Sixteen-year-old Adrian R. hangs around the wrong crowd in the wrong places, according to prosecutors. Possessin...
LOS ANGELES - Services will take place today for Henry S. Rose, Los Angeles attorney and international trade specialist. Rose ...
SEATTLE - One year ago today, an Algerian-born man with a trunk full of explosives and a motel reservation near the Seattle Ce...
The U.S. Supreme Court struck a blow for literacy Tuesday night. As television correspondents, wire services and commentators ...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco public defenders are trained to battle opponents in the courtroom, but the Tuesday election vic...
Judges and Judiciary
Judgments Place Judicial Independence in Spotlight
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - In his biting dissent from Tuesday's election-ending Supreme Court ruling, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote, "Alth...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles County prosecutor reached a $480,000 deal to end a six-year legal battle she waged for being demot...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco is home to yet another newspaper controversy. The inaugural edition of "California DUI News," ex...
SAN FRANCISCO - Jim Esten's job is to talk juries out of sentencing killers to death. He likes to show them a photograph of a ...
Florida voters aren't as inept as some people think, according to Southwestern University School of Law professor Ira Shafirof...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision late Tuesday blocking a recount of Florida votes for president, and effectively ...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco litigation firm Sedgwick Detert Moran & Arnold recently elected five new partners for 2001 a...
European politicians and intellectuals recently gathered in Paris under the aegis of the Group Against the Death Penalty in th...
Less than nine months after opening a new building in San Diego, San Francisco-based Brobeck Phleger & Harrison has signed...