One month after it acquired the remnants of Cooley Godward's shuttered Kirkland, Wash., office, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcl...
Government
Iranian Human Rights Activist's Detention Remains Mysterious
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Alireza Ghazi Zahedi had big hopes when he arrived in the United States a year and a half ago from Iran as a del...
In Closing Column - By Richard S. Levick - When Robin Hood and his Merry Men launched their first act of justice against the P...
In yet another merger in the fast-consolidating biotechnology industry, Utah biotech company NPS Pharmaceuticals Inc. has agre...
Employment and labor law boutique Littler Mendelson has closed its immigration law practice, spinning it off into a separate b...
Palo Alto's Cooley Godward has lost three business partners in as many weeks. ...
John Sargeant's wrongful-termination suit backfired. The 73-year-old insurance broker sued Costanza Insurance Agency Inc. afte...
SAN FRANCISCO - Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's liquidation committee has hired Henry Kevane and Kenneth Brown to advise th...
Environmental
8th and 10th Circuits Disagree On Issue of 'Overfiling' by EPA
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Focus Column - Environmental Law - By William D. Wick - Can the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sue a defendant for the s...
Judges and Judiciary
Surf City Isn't a Laid Back Place, Judge Finds
By Tyler Cunningham
SANTA CRUZ - Like many immigrants to Santa Cruz, Superior Court Judge Michael E. Barton was lured by the promise of sun, surf ...
OAKLAND - Less than a week after the Oakland Police Department announced it would pay $10.9 million to settle claims of widesp...
By Toni Vranjes The bankruptcy case of Egghead.com, the online retailer with the scrambled finances, is getting closer to a f...
Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - George W. Bush's war machine has propelled inexorably toward war with Iraq. The rest of the ...
LOS ANGELES - As Robert Blake's preliminary hearing on murder charges heads into its final week, people in and out of the case...
Labor/Employment
Trial Granted In Manager's Refusal to Fire Not-Hot Clerk
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Elysa Yanowitz knew better than to fire one of her cosmetics sales clerks for not looking sexy enough. But she...
When the stock market tanked three years ago, a lot of investors lost their shirts. ...
Jonathan Joseph and Forrest Hainline III could have passed each other in Pillsbury Winthrop's San Francisco lobby, as Joseph e...
SAN FRANCISCO - Former San Francisco Public Defender Kimiko Burton is scheduled to start her new job at the city attorney's o...
Pasadena-based Overture Services Inc. has inked a pair of deals to broaden its Internet search capabilities. On Feb. 25, Overt...
Irell & Manella without Morgan Chu at the top? It just doesn't seem right. The famed litigator has been the firm's co-mana...
Employment Column - By Deanna M. Wilkinson - The good news for job-seekers is that now is the best time of year to begin or re...
SAN FRANCISCO - A judge has resolved the bitter feud between San Francisco mayoral candidate Angela Alioto and Ethics Commiss...
SAN FRANCISCO -Two Pelican Bay State Prison guards must begin serving their own prison terms soon for conspiring to solicit t...
SANTA ANA - Orange County Superior Court is facing deep cuts in its operating budget, which could result in reduced court hou...
WASHINGTON - In an apparently unprecedented move, California officials have asked the Supreme Court to dismiss - three weeks b...
Forum Column - By Richard Glen Boire - What state of mind must a man have when death calls his name? This may sound like a phi...
LOS ANGELES - With further state budget cuts expected, the Los Angeles Superior Court is considering closing the Monrovia and...
Labor/Employment
Slave Labor Productions Liable for Bondage Star's Injury
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - How does a woman who models for nude photo shoots while tied up, gagged and suspended from the ceiling recove...
LOS ANGELES -The wife of a Saudi sheik has won a $216 million default judgment against the kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its ki...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Sacramento prison guard who shot and seriously wounded an inmate to break up a prison yard fight in 1995 is...