Private engineers and architects won a victory Wednesday when a state appellate court ruled that outsourcing of government con...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Top Court to Review Fertility Doctors' Refusal to Treat Woman
By Itir Yakarn
The state Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether doctors may, based on their own religious beliefs, refuse to treat ...
LOS ANGELES - The 400-attorney San Francisco firm Thelen Reid & Priest is in talks to merge with New York's Brown Raysman ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A former local prosecutor who accepted drugs from defendants was sentenced Wednesday to six months in federal ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The exodus of high-level Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman partners continues as the chairman of the firm's inte...
Focus Column - By Laura W. Brill, Alana B. Hoffman, Ted M. Sichelman, Jonathan P. Steinsapir - Federal circuit courts in April...
Entertainment & Sports
In Flap Over Baby 'Brangelina,' Technology Blunts Copyright Claims
By Amy Kalinn
Forum Column - By Diane J. Klein and Steven Messner - If I were famous, you could already have read this article, had it been ...
Forum Column - By Peter Scheer - 'Deeply troubling." "Profoundly disturbing." "A huge disappointment." So intoned various medi...
Judges and Judiciary
Businesswoman's Defeat of Judge Is Good for the Bench
By Amy Kalinn
Letters to the Editor - My response to those in the legal community paralyzed with angst over Ms. Lynn Diane Olson ousting Jud...
LOS ANGELES - Hundreds of urban gardeners and their supporters were evicted from their South Los Angeles plots Tuesday as heli...
LOS ANGELES - When law firms venture into higher-education philanthropy, it is supposed to take the form of legal-writing comp...
State Bar & Bar Associations
For the First Time, General Counsel Leads L.A. County Bar Association
By Anne Marie Ruff
LOS ANGELES - Charles E. Michaels had two ambitions in life: to be a lawyer and to be a Marine. He did both. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera pledged Tuesday to appeal a trial judge's decision overturning a vo...
MARTINEZ - Murder defendant Susan Polk has many of the characteristics of a great defense lawyer: She is fiery, articulate and...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco Superior Court jury, in what could be an unprecedented verdict, Tuesday said two chemical comp...
Judges and Judiciary
Panel Admonishes L.A. Judge for Using Office's 'Prestige' in Personal Affairs
By Savannah Blackwelln
SAN FRANCISCO - The state's judicial watchdog agency has publicly rebuked Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Joseph E. Di...
SAN DIEGO - A class action that could end a widely used practice in the state of allowing supervisors to share employees' tips...
SAN FRANCISCO - The lawyer who won the nation's largest verdict in a workplace race discrimination case five years ago has com...
SAN DIEGO - Hoping to end the return to prison by paroled nonviolent felons, San Diego County officials announced Tuesday a pr...
LEBEC - The commercials look harmless, but the world's largest broadcasting networks are fighting to keep viewers from seeing ...
FRESNO - Fresno County Superior Court Judge Donald R. Franson Jr. insists he never tried to orchestrate his career for a seat ...
Personal Injury & Torts
Who's Most to Blame? 'Baird' Clears Way for an Answer
By Amy Kalinn
Focus Column - By Robert S. Gerber and Matthew W. Holder - Should two defendants found liable for intentionally causing a wron...
Civil Rights
1960s-Era Judge Sparked Gay-Rights Battle That Continues Today
By Amy Kalinn
Forum Column - By Robert Nakatani - San Francisco may well be the most welcoming of cities for lesbian, gay, bisexual and tran...
Civil Rights
In School Battles, Fee Recovery Helps Level Field for Parents
By Amy Kalinn
Forum Column - By Areva D. Martin - The much-anticipated decision in Arlington v. Murphy, 05-18, is expected to be issued by l...
SAN JOSE - Google Earth's popular virtual tours of landscapes around the world will not be shut down, at least for now, after ...
People suing Hollywood stars may not serve complaints on their booking agents, a unanimous state appellate panel held Monday. ...
LOS ANGELES - All lawyers are required to complete minimum continuing legal education. But some law firms are going beyond MCL...
Entertainment & Sports
Panel Says Court Is Place for Suit Over Firing
By Donna Dominon
Grammy-winning musician Carlos Santana will have to answer in court to allegations that he fired a former personal assistant b...
Entertainment & Sports
Family's Notorious Lawsuit Against City Gets Resurrected - Again
By Martin Bergn
Column - By Garry Abrams - Legal whiplash alert! In a neck-wrenching turnaround, the judge in the wrongful death case brought ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco jury Monday awarded $41,500 in compensatory damages to two men involved in a brawl over a bag ...