Hitchens' Plan For Calendar Should Speed Cases Through
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - Judge Donna Hitchens, the newly appointed presiding judge of the San Francisco Superior Court, has assembled ...
MoFo Appoints Litigation Chief
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Lori Schechter, a 41-year-old San Francisco trial lawyer, will lead Morrison & Foerster's 420-lawyer liti...
Court Settles With Newspaper
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - The Santa Clara County Superior Court has settled a lawsuit filed 15 months ago by the San Jose Mercury News, agre...
Environmentalists Knew It Would be Bad, But Not This Bad
By Dennis Pfaff
Reporter's Notebook - By Dennis Pfaff - The veteran eco-warriors at Earthjustice in Oakland didn't wait for George W. Bush to ...
Budget Plan to Kill Legal Panel Questioned
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - A tiny state commission charged with updating California law may be snipped out of existence this year in the mi...
Cancer Risk?
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Norman E. Kjono - Does the principle of liability for promotion of products with potentially dangerous prope...
City Delays Bratton's Plan for Alarm Response
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - Police Chief William Bratton's plans to get more officers into the street ran up against political reality Tues...
Jurist Has Tried His Hand At Prosecuting, Defending
By Christina Landers
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Arthur M. Lew got a judicial appointment when he least expected it. The news ca...
Fagan Jr. Named in Another Beating Suit
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers for an alleged beating victim of San Francisco police officers Alex Fagan Jr. and Walter Contreras sai...
A Theory by Any Other Name ...
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Idelle Clarke, a Southern California woman locked in a bitter custody dispute with her ex-husband, has not seen he...
Reed Smith Bets on Venture Capital
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - While other U.S. law firms are trimming their corporate and transactional groups through layoffs and attritio...
Services Set For Norlen Drossel, 59
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney Norlen Drossel will be remembered at a Feb. 8 service at Northbrae Community Church in Berkeley. The...
Naive Student or Internet Pirate?
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Less than two years ago, Igor Serebryany was ranked at the top of his graduating class at the Los Angeles Cente...
Rule 703 Requires Attention to Experts' Underlying Sources
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Focus Column - Litigation - By Peter Stern and Becky Kruse - In December 2000, Federal Rule of Evidence 703 was amended to clo...
Tenants Win $8 Million Settlement
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - A Glendale couple reportedly has agreed to pay $8 million to 27 tenants who sued them over living conditions, in...
Newsrack Suit Damages Are Slashed
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. District Judge William Alsup on Monday set aside $9 million of a jury's $9.8 million damage verdict agai...
PUC's General Counsel Is Leaving to Join Garamendi
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Gary Cohen, the California Public Utilities Commission's top lawyer through much of the state's energy crisis...
U.S. Businesses Should Avoid Violating Chinese Bribery Law
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Focus Column - International Law - By Winston Zee - Doing business in China frequently involves entertainment, favors and gift...
Roadside Banners Get Conflicting Readings
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - California free speech law is at a crossroads: Apparently it's OK for Santa Cruz peace activists to drape ant...
Alternative Weeklies Agree to Settlement
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - Village Voice Media and New Times Media have settled a Department of Justice antitrust complaint over the altern...
Complex-Case Judges Say They Know Hellholes and They're Not in One
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - The six judges of Los Angeles Superior Court's Central Civil West Courthouse have unanimously objecte...
Company Lets Reservist Keep Job
By Mark Cromer
SANTA ANA - When Army reservist Marc Buckler was called to active duty last month as a part of the U.S. military's preparatio...
Court Reverses Award Of $6 Million for Fraud
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles appellate court has reversed a $6 million punitive damage award against a vehicle parts manufactu...
FCC Can't Force Bankrupt Firm to Give Up Licenses
By Tina Spee
WASHINGTON - Dealing a multi-billion dollar blow to the federal government, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the Federa...
Jurist Takes Step to Toss Suits Against Mechanics
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Monday asked defense attorneys representing 2,000 Southland auto mechanic...
Vision and 'Blind Luck'
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - When Michael A. Jacobs and William I. Schwartz started Morrison & Foerster's intellectual property group ...
Hallinan Describes Grand Jury's Goal
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - Contrary to appearances that a grand jury convening today may examine a high-level police cover-up, District ...
School Admission Denied
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Forum Column - By John C. Eastman - Earlier this month, opening briefs were filed in Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bolling...
FCC Can't Force Bankrupt Firm to Give Up Licenses
By David Pike
By David F. Pike Nevada Journal Staff Writer WASHINGTON - Dealing a multi-billion dollar blow to the federal government, the ...
Court Revives Taxpayer Suit Against Prison
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court breathed new life Monday into a suit claiming that a San Diego area prison cheated not on...