Dobson Receives Secretary Position
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Gov.-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed Paul Dobson, a Republican and veteran deputy attorney general, as ...
Florida Federal Judge Questioned L.A. Private Eye's Expertise
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams — Early this year, a federal judge in Florida strongly questioned the federal government's choice of Lo...
U.S. Spending Quagmire Forces Court Layoffs
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - While senators held a 40-hour marathon debate last week on four stalled Republican judicial appointments, the ...
Court Opens Arguments in Church Scandal
By Joy Shaw
LOS ANGELES - Over objections from the Los Angeles Archdiocese, a state appeals court has ordered that oral arguments be open ...
Panel Burns Tobacco Firm With Opinion's Language
By Eron Yehuda
Losing an appeal is bad enough. But Los Angeles appellate-court justices burned R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and its counsel with...
DAILY DEALS: Transactions from San Diego County
By Angela Gottula
Carlsbad Corporate Center, 5818 and 5830 El Camino Real, Carlsbad CARLSBAD - In a $15.3 million transaction, two industrial b...
Critics' Denigration of Kuhl Simply Represents Payback
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Forum Column - By Steven Ipsen - Nominees for federal judgeships endure a painstakingly thorough investigation into every face...
Straightening the Bar for Diversity
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Forum Column By Hirbod Rashidi One of the most memorable moments of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' confirmation ...
Advice for Leaving Firm With Grace, Dispatch
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Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - Conventional wisdom is that one should give two weeks' notice before leaving a jo...
Private Directors and Officers Can Be Liable for CEO Actions
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Focus Column - Corporate Law - By Bruce Hurwitz - A recent federal court decision exposes directors and officers of private co...
Reporter's Notebook: Wrongful Conviction Probe Lags
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco law enforcers sent John Tennison and Antoine Goff to prison for 13 years for a murder the distri...
Davis Elevates Delinquency Jurist
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A Marine veteran of Vietnam who set his law practice aside to sit as a temporary judge in juvenile court became a ...
Erroneous Acquittal Revisited
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - If a defendant is acquitted - even erroneously - that still counts as an acquittal and the defendant cannot be...
Panel Says First Amendment Protects Lawyer's Comments
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - A state appellate panel ruled Thursday that a San Bernardino County deputy public defender was protected by t...
Exotic Reptile Smuggling Conviction Overturned
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, saying the government took too long to bring the defendant to trial, to...
Varian Foes Down, But Not Out, in 6th DCA's Ruling
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - An appellate court upheld Thursday the $775,000 libel judgment against two former Varian Associates research scient...
Senators Debate 'Round the Clock
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - In the wee hours of Thursday morning, Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., did his best Jerry Seinfeld impersonation in r...
Doing the Math
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Corporate America will ask a Fresno appellate court today to gut the record-setting punitive damage award that...
DAILY DEALS: Transactions from Orange County
By Angela Gottula
FULLERTON - In an transaction valued at $1 million, Layton-Belling & Associates leased the final space in its 280,000-squ...
Larry Feldman Joins Kaye Scholer Outpost
By Robin Davidson
LOS ANGELES - Ending weeks of speculation in the legal community, Larry Feldman said Wednesday that he is joining the Century ...
Lawyers Often Miss Target With Case Evaluations
By Melissa Onstad
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Michelle A. Reinglass - Employment lawyers don't like to admit any deficiency in evaluating...
Solitarily Confined to Despair
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Forum Column - By Stephen Yagman - An Oct. 23 Human Rights Watch report concludes that a significant part of America's 2.1 mil...
'State Farm' Decision May Apply to Emotional-Distress Damage Claims
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Focus Column - Employment Law - By Barrett K. Green - "No definite standard or method of calculation is prescribed by law by w...
Davis Selects 13 More for Judgeships
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - With only five days left in office, Gov. Gray Davis made a slew of last-minute appointments, naming legal app...
Power Plant Standards May Stiffen
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal regulators and two environmental groups filed an agreement Wednesday with U.S. District Judge Claudia...
Suit Says Cheetahs Strip Club Cheats
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Two San Diego strip clubs, where livings are made by baring all, claim that a competitor prominently named in the ...
Old Law Nullifies an Unfair Contract
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - A contractual clause that prohibited a managed-care provider from recovering damages against the state Departmen...
Business Trial Lawyers Celebrate 30 Years
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - The Association of Business Trial Lawyers' dinner and reception this Saturday won't be just another lawyer event...
Court Eyes Thrill Ride Safety
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether amusement park rides can be held to the same ...
Endorsements Enliven DA Race
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - Does one Burton and one Adachi trump one Feinstein? Tune in to the Dec. 9 runoff election for San Francisco di...