SAN FRANCISCO - Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman announced Wednesday it has added another seasoned partner to the firm's financ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Former San Francisco District Attorney Joe Freitas, whose civic career crashed after a jury convicted politica...
Administrative/Regulatory
Hidden Fetters Keep Aryan Defendants in Close Check
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Can invisibility help keep justice blind? That's a question that keeps bugging me about the current...
LOS ANGELES - Calling the treatment of youthful offenders in county juvenile halls and camps "inhumane and illegal," reform ad...
LOS ANGELES - Another botched photo lineup. Another reversed conviction. Less than a week after a state blue ribbon commission...
Insites
Stantec Acquires Dufresne-Henry, Adding to East Coast Operations
By Aubrey Poolen
NORTH SPRINGFILED, Vt. - Stantec's acquisition of multidiscipline design firm Dufresne-Henry closed on Monday. The acquisition...
SAN FRANCISCO - Fans of "Star Wars" know Sith Lords as extraterrestrial warriors dedicated to the dark side. But when CEO Patr...
MARINA DEL REY - George H. Mitsanas, principal of Newmark Realty Capital Inc., arranged $40 million of leasehold financing for...
Constitutional Law
Lobbyists Struggle to Revive an Organization of Their Own
By Jennifer Hammn
SACRAMENTO - As the nation's capital reacts to lobbyist scandals with reforms, some California lobbyists are laboring to rejuv...
Focus Column - By Mark E. Harrington - Are you a "caveman lawyer" or a "millennium litigator?" Much as the dinosaurs used to r...
Forum Column - By Michael F. Ball - "No, really, this is when you are supposed to thank and excuse me!" This is what I thought...
LOS ANGELES - High-profile entertainment and business litigators Dale F. Kinsella and Howard Weitzman opened a boutique firm i...
There's no verdict yet on whether anyone in a San Francisco investors group tried to sabotauge a drug company's success on the...
Judges and Judiciary
Surfacing to Take on Management Challenge in Court
By Paria Kooklann
LOS ANGELES - When she's not in her courtroom, Judge Beverly Reid O'Connell often can be found under water. An avid scuba dive...
SAN FRANCISCO - As a child, Bonnie Sabraw sat entranced as her grandmother described fascinating lawsuits she worked on as leg...
Law Practice
Panel Says Jury Needn't Know That Wages Weren't Truly Lost
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - The jury that awarded $108,000 to a former partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman because of a motorcycle ...
LOS ANGELES - California stands to lose $60 million in federal funding in 2007 if the state does not improve its care of abuse...
WASHINGTON - The plight of a criminal defendant whose Southern California attorney was yanked off his case in a Missouri court...
Focus Column - By Don Willenburg - The "next big thing" in California law on expert witnesses will likely be the California Su...
Administrative/Regulatory
Camus Clung Desperately to the 'Law We Carry in Our Hearts'
By Amy Kalinn
Book Review - By Gerald Sato - Albert Camus (1913-1960), the Nobel Prize-winning French author, has a reputation for morality ...
Judges and Judiciary
Letting Arbitrators Decide on Class Arbitration May Be Unwarranted
By Amy Kalinn
Forum Column - By Imre S. Szalai - Almost three years ago, in Green Tree Financial Corp. v. Bazzle, 539 U.S. 444 (2003), a sha...
LOS ANGELES - Services are pending for James P. Natoli, a retired Los Angeles County Superior Court judge . ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Five federal appellate judges dissented Monday from a full-court refusal to reconsider a challenge to the cons...
WASHINGTON - Tennessee railroad worker Sheila White, the only woman maintenance employee in her Memphis rail yard, complained ...
LOS ANGELES - A prominent Hollywood director and producer charged in connection with the long-running probe of former celebrit...
Administrative/Regulatory
In 'Sisters in Law,' Women Dish Up Justice in Cameroon
By Donna Dominon
SAN FRANCISCO - A long tradition of male domination pervades the rural village in Cameroon, but a young rape victim and a long...
LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors are preparing to add tax-related charges to the indictment pending against a former enterta...
LOS ANGELES - Raised under what she considers "idyllic" circumstances in Charleston, W.Va., attorney Patricia Glaser made her ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge Monday rejected a Christian student group's claim that Hastings College of the Law must fund t...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate panel Monday clarified that criminal defendants have the right to replace their privately re...