The California Supreme Court on Monday unanimously reversed a decade-old death sentence in a Los Angeles double murder because...
Investments
Despite Prosecutorial Background, Judicial Umpire Calls Balls and Strikes Down the Middle
By Dennis Opatrnyn
SAN FRANCISCO - When two-time California Lotto winner Jesus Figueroa invested more than $1 million of his $8 million windfall ...
Judges and Judiciary
Bipartisan Budget Panel Approves Salary Increase for Judges
By Savannah Blackwelln
SAN FRANCISCO - Judges and justices across the state are likely to get a significant raise, thanks to a decision made by a spe...
LOS ANGELES - The federal judge overseeing the Anthony Pellicano criminal wiretapping case ordered prosecutors and defense law...
Environmental
Tiny Fish's Legal Powers Are Limited in Gravel Mine Fight
By Dennis Pfaffn
SAN FRANCISCO - If Southern Californians get to drive on freeways made with inexpensive local gravel, they may have the sacrif...
Judges and Judiciary
To Tenants and Their Lawyers, Janavs' Defeat Was Justified
By Anat Rubinn
LOS ANGELES - When a less-experienced candidate defeated Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Dzintra Janavs, a chorus arose from ...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court sided with condemned inmates in two death penalty rulings Monday, allowing a challenge to ...
Lancaster Commissioner David W. Bianchi is not about to put up with any shenanigans - from pro pers or lawyers - in his family...
The state Commission on Judicial Performance on Monday issued a public admonishment to a Contra Costa County judge for what it...
SAN DIEGO - Two Superior Court commissioners with 40 years of experience between them have retired.
LOS ANGELES - Raquel Fonte isn't a fan of reality television. The 35-year-old attorney doesn't tune in to "Big Brother," chann...
Prosecutors call Pomona Judge Francis A. Gately tough; public defenders say he's compassionate. 'If he errs,' said one, 'he er...
Administrative/Regulatory
Punitives in Nortel Infringement Case? Come On!
By Amy Kalinn
Letters to the Editor - Just read your article on the $47.4 million punitive award in the Nortel copyright infringement case (...
Forum Column - By Charles S. Doskow - Moises Sanchez-Llamas, a Mexican citizen, was arrested in rural Oregon on Dec. 18, 1999,...
Intellectual Property
Decisions Support Privilege Protection for Patent Lawyers
By Amy Kalinn
Focus Column - By Edward B. Weller - Mixing technology and patent law often presents problems for courts applying the attorney...
LOS ANGELES - Thelen Reid & Priest has established a scholarship fund at the USC Gould School of Law in memory of veteran ...
LOS ANGELES - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said he will reappoint 20-year veteran Judge Dzintra Janavs to the Los Angeles Superi...
Entertainment & Sports
Muddling Tipsters Make L.A.'s Notorious B.I.G Case Hardly Confidential
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Trying to figure out who killed the rapper Notorious B.I.G. sometimes seems to me like trying to put together a...
Agriculture
Appeals Court Allows Suit by Harvesters for Alleged Forced Grape Tasting
By Jim Adamekn
Several former harvesters at one of the Coachella Valley's largest table grape vineyards will get to pursue a lawsuit on claim...
Law Practice
Winston Entices Kirpatrick Litigator to Switch Firms
By William Arthur Haynes
SAN FRANCISCO - For Jonathan M. Cohen, the most recent lateral partner acquired by Winston & Strawn's San Francisco office...
LOS ANGELES - Denver-based Brownstein Hyatt & Farber has established a California presence by opening an office in Orange ...
A groundbreaking 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that protects defendants awaiting trial from having their homes raid...
SAN FRANCISCO - Two partners from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's Silicon Valley office have left to join Ropes & Gra...
LOS ANGELES - Thelton Henderson, a U.S. District judge in San Francisco for 25 years, has long enjoyed the respect of his peer...
Personal Injury & Torts
Jury Awards $12 Million to Lawyer Injured in Train Crash
By Anat Rubinn
LOS ANGELES - A Pasadena jury awarded $12 million Friday to an attorney for injuries sustained in a Metrolink crash involving ...
Large Firms
White & Case Loses Two More Partners Who Love S.F.
By William Arthur Haynes
SAN FRANCISCO - Two more White & Case partners have decided to leave rather than move to the firm's Silicon Valley offices...
Law Practice
Roberts Court Gave Arguments More Room, and Some Fell Flat
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court are always part theater, but changes in the cast of characters on the co...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco Superior Court jury Friday delivered a major defeat to chemical manufacturers, finding a widel...
LOS ANGELES - Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati announced the addition of Renata Hesse as a partner to the firm's Reston, V...
Ming Chin, Back From Brain Surgery, Steers His Influential Course With Quiet Expertise