Numerous Provisions in Policy Offer Coverage for Fire Losses
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Focus Column Insurance Law By Kirk Pasich Insureds can look to a number of policy provisions, as well as the doctrine of miti...
Wise New Associates Should Take These Steps
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Employment Column By Deanna M. Wilkinson Autumn is always a busy time for law firms. Firms conduct on-campus interviews, stud...
State Refuses to See Big Picture in Yuba City-Marysville Flood Litigation
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Forum Column By Michael M. Berger One has to wonder what it is about large bureaucracies that makes them incapable of seeing ...
High Court Should Uphold Edict on Section 8 Housing
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Forum Column By David Pallack Section 8 tenants in California face a difficult dilemma when their landlord decides that it no...
Judge Won't Separate 3 Rookies in Brawl Case
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - David Lee likely will be the second of three San Francisco rookie police officers allegedly involved in an of...
State of Emergency: Who Can End It?
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Acknowledging that the case was moot, a state appeal court nonetheless reached out Thursday and decided one of t...
Longtime Land-Use Lawyer Moves Up
By Tyler Cunningham
UKIAH - Mendocino County Superior Court Judge Richard Henderson has joined some sizable groups in his life. He likes to say t...
Victim Lashes Out at Harris
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - A woman allegedly tortured by her boyfriend with a hot iron blasted district attorney candidate Kamala Harris...
Plan for Detainees' Release Doesn't Quiet Critics
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Critics of the Bush administration's handling of suspected "enemy combatants" at Guantnamo Bay said the governme...
Judges Want to Keep Public Out of Court Budgets
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - A proposed rule aimed at providing public access and input into trial court budgets and administration has ou...
Woman in Abuse Case Can Sue Over Home Search
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court says a woman suspected of abusing her blind 83-year-old mother should be able to sue ...
Publicly Interested
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - As a gay Latino, Anthony Romero is an important voice for a wide cross-section of minorities. To civil libert...
Prosecutor Bats .800 in Front of Bench
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - When his friends and colleagues talk about veteran prosecutor Kenneth Lamb, their minds turn to baseball. If La...
Delays in Charging of Jackson Raise Doubts About Evidence
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - When Santa Barbara County District Attorney Thomas W. Sneddon Jr., portable toilet in tow, led a posse of inves...
Adoption: 'Older' Judges Take Issue of Age Personally
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Appellate Justice Arthur Scotland may be old enough - 57 - to join the American Association for Retired Peopl...
Referee Cares About Kids Who Appear Before Her
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Kids appearing before Superior Court Referee Stephanie M. Davis in the Inglewood delinquency court may be in fo...
DAILY DEALS: Transactions for Dec. 4
By Angela Gottula
LOS ANGELES COUNTY BEVERLY HILLS - David Kaufman of Marcus & Millichap is marketing a four-story apartment building built ...
Event Marks 100th Year of Juvenile Courts
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - More than 1,500 members of the legal community will converge in Hollywood today to commemorate the 100th anniver...
Divorcing Couple's Lawyers Should Collaborate to Facilitate Peaceful Split
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Focus Column - Family Law - By Mari J. Frank - How is it possible for a divorcing couple's attorneys to facilitate a peaceful ...
Assuming Security Duty May Lead to Owner Liability
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Focus Column - Real Property - By Michael Paul Thomas - In Avila v. Jado Properties Inc., 112 Cal.App.4th 405 (2003), t...
Reforming Just-in-Time Justice
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Forum Column - By Michael S. Fields - Some of us aging attorneys recall the days when it took nearly five years to start a tri...
U.S. Probes Letters to Candidates
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Federal authorities are investigating a string of letters that threatened potential candidates with torture or d...
Lawyer Violated Conduct Rules, Panel Says
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - An attorney violated the California Bar's Rules of Professional Conduct when he sought to buy property with a cl...
Justices Likely Will Block Release of Photos
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Santa Clarita attorney Allan J. Favish ran into a stone wall Wednesday at the Supreme Court in his crusade to obt...
Leader Raised Millions for Public Counsel
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - Karen Paull, the force behind fund-raising at the nation's largest public interest law firm, has died. She was 6...
Justices Erase Punitives From Tattoo Case
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A state appellate court has upheld a jury award of $81,000 to a woman who was badly burned during tattoo removal i...
Judge Conducts Own Small-Claims Investigations
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Midway through trial in a commercial rental dispute this summer, Judge Craig D. Karlan did some research and dis...
Talking to the Enemy: Pooh Plaintiff Pours Honey on Disney Chief
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Winnie the Pooh and Mickey Mouse reportedly tried to make peace over lunch. Well, not exactly. But Pa...
Standing His Ground
By Dennis Pfaff
OROVILLE - Barely a year after winning appointment to his new job, Butte County Superior Court Judge Robert A. Glusman found h...
Ex-CFO Denies Knowing About Firm's Actions
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - The lawyer for the former chief financial officer of a Southern California computer firm told jurors in his fede...