Southern District Adds Two Magistrate Judges
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A former federal prosecutor and a civil trial lawyer have been added to the ranks of magistrate judges in U.S. Dis...
Unsigned Fee-Splitting Deals Might Not Be Moot
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - There may be a silver lining for attorneys who forget to get a client's written consent when referring a case ...
Most Area Firms Report Increases in Revenues, Profits
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - After three dismal years capped by layoffs and the dissolution of major law firms including Brobeck, Phleger &...
Fee in Microsoft Case: $270M
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - The lawyers who represented 14 million Californians in a giant class action against Microsoft Corp. have petit...
Life Is Now a Mystery
By Erik Cummins
SAN MATEO - When he traveled on business as a corporate lawyer, Ed Kaufman liked to spend his off-hours unwinding in places su...
Suge Knight's Defense Attorney Gets Britney Her Quickie Annulment
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - The attorney who got Britney Spears the annulment ending her 55-hour marriage is better known to co...
Father Seeks Damages for Lost Fetuses
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco man whose wife lost twin fetuses due to a Kaiser Permanente doctor's misdiagnosis is seeking c...
Former DA Sentenced
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - A former Los Angeles County prosecutor who pleaded guilty last October to bilking her former landlords and a for...
Corrections Officials Stifle Investigators
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Department of Corrections is attempting to muffle complaints from its own internal affairs staf...
FDA's Ephedra Ban Likely Will Spark Legal Challenges
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Though Food and Drug Administration officials said last week that their decision to ban ephedra was the culminati...
Order Has Collateral Estoppel Effect on Ethical Breach Issue
By Columnist
Focus Column - Legal Ethics- By Alec H. Boyd The decision in A.I. Credit Corp. Inc. v. Aguilar & Sebastinelli, 2003...
Panel Will Review Its Ruling on DNA Samples From Parolees
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted Monday to reconsider its October decision that paroled inmates ca...
Rebuilding Iraq
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Sam Z. Gdanski - Halliburton Co. has become the lightning rod for critics of the Iraq war and rebuilding pro...
Agency Must Prove Dietary Supplement Poses Significant Risk of Illness or Injury
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Though Food and Drug Administration officials said last week that their decision to ban ephedra was the culminat...
3.5% Raise May Not Be Last Word
By Craiq Anderson
Notebook - By Craig Anderson - SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County and its salaried lawyers have settled into an uneasy truce over h...
Victims' Group Flays Church Study
By Joy Shaw
LOS ANGELES - A survey commissioned by Catholic bishops and scheduled for release today is expected to show most dioceses nati...
PG&E Plan: No Delay For Appeals
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali refused Monday to delay Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s Chapter 11 reorgan...
Landini to Be Top Investigator
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney-elect Kamala Harris is prepared to name Lou Landini, an Alameda County district attorney ins...
9th Circuit to Revisit Ruling On Collecting Parolee DNA
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted Monday to reconsider its October decision that paroled inmates can...
Back Where He Started
By Karen Coleman
OAKLAND - Judge Carl Morris is so practical and easygoing it's hard to imagine him listening to lawyers' arguments all day. "T...
Court Protects All Statements to Police
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Parting ways with most other states, a deeply divided California Supreme Court ruled Monday that people cannot...
Court Restricts Forcible Medication of Offenders
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that mentally ill criminal offenders locked up in state hospitals ca...
Defense Counsel Gather in S.F. for Holiday Meeting
By Stefanie Knapp
As holiday shoppers hustled through Union Square in San Francisco to finish their gift-buying, the defense attorneys in the cr...
Volcano Welcomes Flow of $50 Million in New Funding
By Toni Vranjes
The holiday season was bright for Volcano Therapeutics Inc. Volcano, a medical device manufacturer, has completed a $50 millio...
Identity Theft
By Contributing Writer
Focus: Law Firm Management - By Neil Shapiro - Law firm consolidations, rare just a few years ago, now occur with the regulari...
Wal-Mart Takes on Inglewood
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
BY LAWRENCE KOOTNIKOFF Los Angeles Daily Journal Writer A 60-acre dirt lot in Inglewood has become the latest front in the fi...
Bills That Failed Passage in 2003
By Columnist
The commercial real estate industry dodged a few bullets in the last legislative session, but a new governor doesn't mean tha...
Armenian Heritage Inspires Judge's Focus on Justice
By Sarah Garveyn
LOS ANGELES - In 1992, after the fall of the Soviet Union, Zaven V. Sinanian took a one-year leave of absence from his job at...
Governor Flexes Muscle to Provide Funding for Local Governments
By Columnist
BY REX HIME Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger turned to his executive branch power to ensure that scheduled payments will be made to...
Tenet Hires New Counsel To Get Through Legal Woes
By Liz Valsamis
Tenet Healthcare Corp. has tapped E. Peter Urbanowicz to steer the company through its legal troubles as its new general couns...