Judges and Judiciary
Judge Leans on Nearly 30 Years in Legal Affairs
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Soon after he passed the bar in 1976, Allen Sumner began his legal career in the top echelon of state service, w...
LOS ANGELES - Criminal defense lawyer Milton C. Grimes mounted a last-ditch argument recently after Commissioner Elizabeth Ha...
INDUSTRIAL SAN JOSE - Manufacturing Inc. leased 47,476 square feet of industrial space at 696 E. Trimble Road from F.E. Trimb...
SAN FRANCISCO - A lawyer for the Lerach firm and the attorney he said cost him a $5 million fee swapped insults Monday. Patri...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge criticized a San Francisco attorney on Monday for "plainly unethical" conduct in his representat...
Focus Column - Family Law - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and Kareen V. Akry - In California, home to one of the wealthiest population...
Intellectual Property
Tax On Dissemination of Drug Information Tramples First Amendment
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Forum Column - By James M. Wood - For decades, California has paved the health care path with incentives to prescription produ...
Real Estate/Development
Minorities, Seniors Should Cheer Predatory Lending Decision
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Forum Column - By Jan T. Chilton - Last week's California Supreme Court decision in American Financial Services Association...
HAYWARD - Glenn Oleon's best experience since taking the Alameda Superior Court bench 18 months ago was when an 11-year-old gi...
SAN FRANCISCO - For the second straight year, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will get a significant boost in its annual...
LOS ANGELES - The president of a New York financial advisory firm who appeared on TV to tout stock of a now-defunct Van Nuys c...
SAN FRANCISCO - Larry Sonsini's decision to step down as Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati's CEO after more than two decad...
SANTA ANA - A judge halted the opening arguments of a defense attorney in a gang rape retrial Monday, telling the attorney he ...
WASHINGTON - Congress should give federal judges at least a year to work with the advisory sentencing guidelines created last ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge dismissed a lawsuit stemming from a fender-bender between former District Attorney Tere...
LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge has moved the city of Los Angeles' civil fraud trial against public relations firm Fleish...
SAN FRANCISCO - An unusually bitter Proposition 65 battle in which defendants seek more than $2.4 million in fees and costs f...
Appellate Practice
Panel Dumps Attorney-Fee Award Against Plaintiffs' Counsel
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A state appellate panel in Riverside on Monday overturned a $12,000 award of attorney fees assessed against plaint...
Column - By Garry Abrams - What went down at the Pacific Dining Car in downtown Los Angeles Thursday morning? ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A wide-ranging constitutional amendment to overhaul California's court system - including state judges' terms...
LOS ANGELES - A jury Monday ordered a Manhattan Beach man to pay an eye-popping $1.8 billion in punitive damages to contestant...
SACRAMENTO - A trial court employee who sued the court for harassment and discrimination on the job but had her claims dismis...
LOS ANGELES - In a blow to labor, a state appellate panel ruled Monday that the Los Angeles Times can yank commission payments...
Los Angeles real estate attorney William Birney III says in-house jobs often lack variety. Companies are likely to ship the "s...
Angiosyn Inc., a San Diego startup working on a treatment for age-related blindness, has agreed to be acquired by Pfizer Inc. ...
Sharon Tomkins' resume may be decorated with countless awards, but the one she's most proud of is the only one not on display....
Rob Christopher, an intellectual-property and antitrust litigator from Coudert Brothers' recently shuttered Palo Alto office h...
The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area hosted a luncheon Jan. 25 to give its members a much-des...
SANTA ANA - Joe Cavallo learned early on that nothing came easy. The son of poor Italian immigrants, Cavallo shared a bed with...
EXTRA Closer Column - Mediation - By Elizabeth A. Moreno - In California, ethnic minorities constitute the majority of the pop...