The Golden Gate Chapter of Lambda Alpha, the honorary land economics society, selected Joan Story as one of 22 individuals to ...
SAN JOSE - Clint Eastwood has won another small victory in his legal battle with a disabled Alameda woman who filed a civil ri...
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Hogan & Hartson: CIENA LAYS OUT $2.6 BILLION FOR PRIVATELY HELD CYRAS
By Staff Writers
Telecommunications equipment maker Ciena Corp. is purchasing Cyras Systems Inc. for $2.6 billion, comprised stock and debt ass...
LOS ANGELES - The state Senate has confirmed former West Los Angeles attorney Steven Gourley as director of the Department of ...
LOS ANGELES - Private services will be held for Robert H. Volk, attorney and former state commissioner of corporations whose r...
SAN FRANCISCO - Three corporate officers of one of the country's biggest title companies have tentatively settled an unusual f...
LOS ANGELES - California's legal community lost hundreds of practitioners and jurists in 2000. What the year will most be note...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge Friday held in contempt a whistle-blower who gave court-sealed files concerning alleged spousal ...
SAN FRANCISCO - As a true judicial insider who has worked with judges for nearly 30 years, Constance Dove has some invaluable ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Unless death row inmate Robert L. Massie has a last-minute and highly unlikely change of heart, a federal judg...
Judges and Judiciary
Contra Costa's Mark B. Simons Appointed to 1st District
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Mark B. Simons, a judicial educator and author of two legal reference...
SACRAMENTO - A constitutional challenge to a new law that extends binding arbitration to labor disputes involving police and f...
LOS ANGELES - Crosby Heafey Roach & May has recruited three of the eight attorneys at Brand Farrar & Buxbaum, a corpor...
The law is ill-equipped to deal with terrorism. Although we have strict laws against the terrorists who are caught, current la...
Labor/Employment
GOAL!! Coach Defeats Injunction Bid by Former Employer
By Craig Anderson
SAN JOSE - In Silicon Valley, there is nothing too unusual about an employer going to court to prevent a departing worker from...
LOS ANGELES - An unemployed truck driver charged in two drunken-driving accidents that claimed the lives of two people last ye...
While the value of many people's stock holdings plunged last year, insiders at technology firms sold their shares at opportune...
Two recent decisions potentially have opened the floodgates for malicious-prosecution actions arising from contractual arbitra...
The partisan cries of judicial bias that ripped through the Florida courts since the election have split the nation into two g...
A favorite topic of conversation in Silicon Valley is trying to figure out which technologies and companies will become the ne...
LOS ANGELES - The Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles Foundation will honor Mavis Leno at its annual Pathfinder Award Lun...
A recent article in the Daily Journal discusses the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision in Pacheco v. United States, 22...
In the face of a corporate-manufactured energy crisis, Gov. Gray Davis has abandoned moderate rhetoric for the first time sinc...
Luckysurf.com, a top-ranked, free online lottery, is aptly named. The San Francisco-based company has been exceptionally lucky...
Funny how, if we use large men with guns to obtain money it is extortion, but if we use large men with guns and a badge to obt...
LOS ANGELES - Chicago-based Katten Muchin Zavis has grabbed the entertainment and media practice of Troop Steuber Pasich Reddi...
SAN FRANCISCO - Bay Area law firms announced several high-profile lateral lawyer additions this week. Three firms, McCutchen D...
Litigation
Mother Sues Burger King Over Alleged Peeping-Tom Incident
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - Denise Rhoads says neither she nor her daughter will ever use a public restroom again - not after what she alleges...
SAN BERNARDINO - Moving an important step closer toward allowing California's first megatrial of a suspected serial killer, a ...
LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a drug defendant ordered into a diversion program cannot contes...