EMPLOYMENT COLUMN - By Peter E. Masaitis and Brian J. Bergman - Recent state and federal decisions are giving employers some r...
LOS ANGELES - Earlier this year, George J. Stephan and Todd C. Theodora sat in a courtroom together and heard a jury find that...
SAN DIEGO - Fresno schools will get more buses and classroom computers thanks to the efforts of a small San Diego law firm tha...
Indian tribes have become a powerful political force in the state and should be held accountable if they don't report campaign...
Luck never followed Rudy Roybal. Or the lawyers who took his death-penalty case. ...
LOS ANGELES - When Brian Kabateck was in college, he hosted a 4:30 a.m. radio show on Los Angeles' rock station KROQ. ...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Laura W. Brill, Katharine J. Galston, Alana B. Hoffman, Ted M. Sichelman and Jonathan P. Steinsapir - The sh...
Securities
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Lawyer for Teachers' Pension Says AOL Settled Out of Homestore Case
By Gabe Friedmann
AOL Time Warner Inc. has agreed to settle civil fraud charges brought by the California teachers' pension fund, which accused ...
Judges and Judiciary
D.A.'s Tougher Stance on Deals Increases Load for S.F. Courts
By Dennis Opatrnyn
SAN FRANCISCO - Some criminal court judges in San Francisco won't be taking as much holiday leave as they'd hoped to this year...
LOS ANGELES - Investigators are searching for a man alleged to have stolen the identity of a U.S. Army judge advocate, then us...
SAN FRANCISCO - Harvard Law School and Stanford Law School both recently announced ambitious plans for altering their curricul...
Environmental
Environmental Groups, Agribusiness Oppose Pesticide Rule
By Dennis Pfaffn
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal rule declaring that pesticides used in some common circumstances are not water pollutants has provok...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether gays and lesbians have the right to marry in t...
It's always something. The scandals are new, but the faces of the lawyers handling them are familiar. The state's rainmakers s...
SANTA ANA - Not many judges can examine an expert witness, off the cuff, about covalent ions. ...
Some attorneys attest to the notion that government lawyering offers young practitioners unique and beneficial experience in a...
LOS ANGELES - Though the legal profession's lack of racial diversity is well-documented, the imbalance is even more pronounced...
Editor's Note
A lawsuit challenged approval of a 1,500-house project in Banning, claiming automobile traffic generated by the residents will...
IRVINE - Scott J. Ferrell seems like the sort of lawyer who would hope most of his cases go to mediation.
SAN FRANCISCO - Relief for California electricity ratepayers allegedly gouged during the 2000-2001 energy crisis may be closer...
Born and raised 40 miles west of Belfast, the daughter of one of the early civil rights activists, Pamela Ferguson grew up in...
LOS ANGELES - Janet Slick was 16 and very nervous the first time she went to court. ...
He gave up on a case. Then he was sued for legal malpractice. And he lost. But when the Santa Barbara County lawyer's former c...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Superior Court has opened a new legal self-help center at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse. ...
LOS ANGELES - With less than two weeks to go before Los Angeles federal courts switch to a new mandatory criminal e-filing sys...
FORUM COLUMN - By Kara Dansky - California needs a new approach to criminal sentencing. We need a reliable system for collecti...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Redevelopment Opponents Challenge S.F. City Attorney Opinion
By Donna Dominon
SAN FRANCISCO - Opponents of a redevelopment plan for San Francisco's Bayview-Hunters Point area have filed a lawsuit calling ...
Law Practice
Even Santa Needs a Lawyer - Gift Giving Raises Knotty Issues
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Peter M. Walzer - Long ago, the Scrooge of the law of transmutation intruded into the sanctity of gift givin...
Ronald Goldman's father sued O.J. Simpson in U.S. District Court on Tuesday, seeking any money the former NFL star received fo...