State Judge Refuses to Halt Recall Election
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Friday turned back another bid to halt Gov. Gray Davis' recall election. ...
Civil Rights Attorney Quits NAACP Over Judicial Pick
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Beverly Hills civil rights attorney Leo Terrell has quit the NAACP after a dispute with the organization over hi...
Justice Brown Hits the Books
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - It's never too late to go back to school - even for a Supreme Court justice. Which might explain why Janice R...
Who's Being Protected?
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - When does a lawyer's duty to society override his or her duties to a client? Delegates to the American Bar As...
Riverside DA Sets Sights on Africa
By Jim Adamekn
RIVERSIDE - Brian Kritz, law books and mosquito repellent packed in his suitcase, is a man on a mission. He hopped on a plane...
Critics View Ashcroft's Order as Intimidation
By Aris Davoudiann
WASHINGTON - In the wake of Attorney General John Ashcroft's mandate requiring prosecutors to report on federal judges who "d...
Juried Art
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Walk too fast through the plaza of the federal courthouse and you could almost miss them: a bear, two eagles, fo...
Companies Can Protect Assets With a Strong Patent Portfolio
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Focus Column Intellectual Property By John Carson, Eric Nelson and Nathaniel Durrance A patent portfolio can be the most effe...
Interview 'Closing Argument': Making Good Last Impression
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Employment Column By Valerie A. Fontaine Making a good last impression in an interview is almost as important to making a goo...
Jurist's Calmness, Respect For Litigants Earn Regard
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - The petitioner and the respondent sat at the counsel table, clutching tattered folders filled with handwritten ...
Time Bombs
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Forum Column By Kenneth J. Theisen The U.S. military generally has been subject to environmental-protection laws that were en...
Court OKs Youth-Sentencing Change
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
LOS ANGELES - The state Supreme Court gave the go-ahead Thursday for courts to modify the sentences of juveniles who commit a...
Bias Against Lesbians Spurs Suit
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A former employee in the San Diego office of a foster-care agency was fired because she refused to overlook discr...
Pro Se Habeas Filings Limited
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court announced Thursday that from now on it will reject habeas corpus pleadings filed by...
Davis Fills Four Seats on Orange County Bench
By Mark Cromer
SANTA ANA - Gov. Gray Davis on Thursday appointed a federal prosecutor, two attorneys and a commissioner to fill four vacanci...
The Sky's the Limit in DA Race
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - The lid is off campaign spending in the San Francisco district attorney's race, candidates said Thursday. Tha...
Former Clerks Vindicate their Boss, William O. Douglas
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Don't get U.S. District Judge William Alsup started on the recent, critical biography of Supreme Court Justic...
O'Neill Lysaght Founder Leaves To Head Piper Rudnick Litigation
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Veteran trial lawyer Brian Lysaght is leaving the Santa Monica-based litigation boutique he founded in 1985 to ...
Five Separate Legal Challenges Fall Short
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - In a dramatic move, the California Supreme Court refused Thursday to intervene in the recall election against...
Prosecutor in U.S. Attorney's Office Chosen For Enron Job
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Assistant U.S. Attorney John Hemann of San Francisco has landed the plum assignment as a lead counsel on the ...
Graffiti's Aerosol Tide Stymies City Officials
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - He's not the first Los Angeles police chief to target the scratchy, enigmatic gang-related scribblings that appe...
Killing of Saddam's Sons Violated International Law
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Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - We all know that the U.S. military assassinated Uday and Qusai Hussein in a villa in Mosul, ...
Counsel Must Attack Designation of Alien's Crime as Aggravated Felony
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Focus Column - Immigration Law - By Brian D. Lerner - Noncitizens inside the United States who commit crimes are at risk of be...
Business Isn't Liable for Injuries Sustained After Rave
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Focus Column - Real Property - By Michael Paul Thomas - Are all-night dance parties for teenagers, known as "rave" parties, in...
Accusers Deserve Privacy
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Forum Column - By Gloria Allred and Ruth Graf Urasaki - In the intense media frenzy surrounding the allegations that Kobe Brya...
Payback Denied in Court Drama
By Craiq Anderson
Reporter's Notebook By Craig Anderson SAN JOSE - The cast of characters in the legal drama surrounding Thomas Spielbauer, the...
Good Connections, Great Reviews
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Superior Court Judge Steven Rodda's family goes back nearly 150 years in Sacramento, and Rodda is about as well ...
Sanders Is Innocent, But His Lawyer Says It's Not Over
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - As expected, a San Francisco judge Wednesday declared police Chief Earl Sanders "factually innocent" of crimi...
ABA Will Install First Minority President
By Don De Benedictis
LOS ANGELES - The American Bar Association's annual meeting, opening today in San Francisco, will be like the organization's p...
Meeting Is an Opportunity to Show Off a Bit, Host Bars Say
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - State and local bar leaders plan to make the most of their chance to show off their programs, ideas and exper...