LOS ANGELES - After more than three months of delays that culminated in grand jury subpoenas, the Los Angeles Catholic Archdio...
HAYWARD - Alameda County Superior Court Judge Winifred Smith got to know the juvenile justice system well in her 26 years in t...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge tentatively ruled Tuesday that county police officers are entitled to $60 mil...
LOS ANGELES - The defense won a major round in the Robert Blake murder case Tuesday when a Los Angeles Superior Court judge al...
VENTURA - State corrections officials may hold the key to the fate of a Ventura attorney convicted of molesting a girl three d...
Litigation
ImClone Stock Flimflam, the Nadir of Scandals, Rides Backs of Dying
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - In this life, most of us expect to be cheated, lied to and flat out ripped off by a wide variety of s...
SAN FRANCISCO - Oakland attorney Paul Rein should be forgiven for feeling like someone's out to get him. Someone is. That some...
SAN FRANCISCO - Nobody knows exactly how much money waiters pocket each year in tips, but the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sai...
LOS ANGELES - A lawyer for three priests accused of sexual abuse will ask a Superior Court judge today to bar the Los Angeles ...
SAN JOSE - Attorneys for International Business Machines Corp., fighting a major toxic tort litigation case accusing the compa...
LOS ANGELES - In an opinion with potentially far-reaching consequences, the conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court on...
SAN FRANCISCO - Morrison & Foerster will be awarded one of five annual Pro Bono Publico awards for providing legal servic...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Remains in Command Of His Courtroom, Peers Say
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - The reluctant witness slouched in her seat in the Van Nuys courtroom as she snapped that she would not return to...
SAN DIEGO - On the day Danielle van Dam's parents discovered she was missing, witnesses testified Monday, David A. Westerfield...
SAN FRANCISCO - Superior Court Judge James Warren on Monday granted attorney Marjorie Knoller a new trial on her second-degree...
SAN FRANCISCO - A law aimed specifically at incest perpetrators and other so-called "resident molesters" who repeatedly abuse ...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that local governments may not require religious, political and other noncommer...
SAN FRANCISCO - A last-minute settlement could derail the high-profile Maria Teresa Macias federal civil rights trial testing ...
Forum Column - By Robert E. Hirshon - A major focus of my term as president of the American Bar Association is initiating a di...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Kern County judge unlawfully held a Fresno attorney in contempt for trying to disqualify him from a case inv...
Criminal
Conviction for Threatening DA Could Mean Life
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Eighteen months ago, Supervising Deputy District Attorney John Davis offered a Moreno Valley man a 16 1/2-year pri...
Dicta Column - By Kirk A. Pasich - A lawyer is, in essence, a storyteller. It is a lawyer's task to entertain, enthrall, and,...
Dicta Column - Court Jester - In Harrell v. Hannum & Coleman , 56 Ga. 508 (1876), Judge Logan E. Bleckley held the ...
WASHINGTON - Expanding law enforcement's ability to fight terrorism as well as more mundane crime, the Supreme Court on Monday...
Securities
Increased Disclosure for Equity Compensation Plans Is Required
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Jonathan Ocker and Michael Frank - In a Dec. 19, 2001 release, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued...
Forum Column - By Greg Meyer - Two less-lethal weapons are in the news. They are the so-called "beanbag guns" and the Taser M-...
Netflix Inc. secured more than $82 million in a May 22 initial public offering. Merrill Lynch & Co. led the offering, whil...
Solo and Small Firms
Death-Penalty Road Warrior Has Kept His Capital-Case Clients Off Death Row
By Erik Cummins
With 60 capital cases under his belt, no one Sacramento sole practitioner Kevin Clymo has represented in the penalty phase has...
The Closer - By Jeffrey Fillerup - Burned out? Thinking of leaving the legal profession? It may not be the work. It may be you...
On May 23 ESP Pharma Inc. closed its first round of funding, which brought in $28 million for the Flanders, N.J., company. The...