SAN FRANCISCO - Aging underworld figures, a tangled pattern of evidence, nebulous motives and DNA testing will feature in the ...
SANTA ANA - A senior assistant state attorney general confirmed Wednesday that his office is reviewing possible evidence that ...
LOS ANGELES - Veteran Los Angeles City Councilman Joel Wachs resigned Wednesday to take the top spot at the Andy Warhol Founda...
SACRAMENTO - Folks around the Capitol often talk about how term limits have made institutional memory - the recollection of pr...
LOS ANGELES - What do you do with a law degree when you realize you don't want to be a lawyer? Monica Y. Castagnasso turned he...
LOS ANGELES - In a class action filed Wednesday, a group of cancer survivors and their family members accused five of the stat...
Litigation
Stone Age Judicial Preserve Will Purify Judges for Energy-Related Cases
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Stone Age Judges, Part Deux. Today we revisit the Paleolithic legal battle over whether any federal judge in Cal...
A Prunedale man's 18-year court fight to recover his unpaid wages has finally panned out, but it took a trip through Californ...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a nationally watched right-to-die case, the California Supreme Court wrestled Wednesday with whether to pul...
LOS ANGELES - Over the past several years, an increasing number of disgruntled shareholders have accused companies of financia...
LOS ANGELES - Public schools that ignore the harassment of gay teen-agers are failing to educate these vulnerable students, ac...
SAN FRANCISCO - Employment lawyer and bicycling enthusiast Robert Sturm says Tour de France marathon cyclists are out of his l...
On May 8, Judge Charles C. Kobayashi ruled in Marine Forests Society v. California Coastal Commission, 00AS00567 (Sacra...
Doctors Hector Torres, Jay Slosar and Richard Lettieri, three clinical psychologists working from their company in Irvine, are...
SAN FRANCISCO - An 11th lawyer has resigned from the Bay Area offices of Chicago's Baker & McKenzie. Antoinette Konski, an...
LOS ANGELES - The American Arbitration Association has lost arbitrator Richard Chernick to JAMS, one of its competitors in the...
Your client may fax you something you've never seen before: a legislative subpoena. ...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge declared a mistrial Tuesday in a double-homicide case against a man whose co-...
SACRAMENTO - A legal action by the state's top lawmakers against federal energy regulators was quickly rejected Tuesday by a p...
LOS ANGELES - Maria E. Stratton will serve a third four-year term as the federal public defender for the Central District of C...
SAN FRANCISCO - A unanimous jury in Stockton has hit the state with a $5.5 million verdict, saying the Department of Motor Veh...
SANTA ANA - A former Mission Viejo High School student may proceed with a lawsuit challenging a ban on on-campus religious clu...
SAN FRANCISCO - Liebert Cassidy Whitmore took the first step Tuesday in building its Northern California school-law practice: ...
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for Sara Jane Olson filed a motion Tuesday asking a Superior Court judge to dismiss misdemeanor charge...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Justice Department attorney, claiming U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali was misled by Pacific Gas and Ele...
LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court has ordered the county to develop a system to preserve potential evidence in law-enforce...
SAN FRANCISCO - Publishing giant Random House Inc. has settled a defamation claim filed by an assistant to the controversial B...
Law Practice
February Pass Rate Is State's Lowest In More Than a Decade
By Staff Writers
LOS ANGELES - In the state's lowest bar-passage rate in 11 years, 37.2 percent of those who took the bar exam in February pass...
LOS ANGELES - Every Tuesday for the past 18 months, Sister Sharlet Wagner has been making the 160-mile round trip from Los Ang...
WASHINGTON - Dealing a blow to plaintiffs who sue under a vast array of federal civil rights and environmental laws, the Supre...