Street Smarts, Bench Smarts
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - A lack of formal legal training can make jurors feel as if lawyers and judges are speaking a foreign language....
Lawyer Loses Bid to Vote in Bar Elections
By Don De Benedictis
SAN FRANCISCO - A judge Thursday rejected a claim by a lawyer who practices in Arizona but is also admitted in California that...
Lesson in Equality
Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - Few issues are more controversial or divisive than affirmative action. Opponents of affi...
Court Lays Off Guardian Of Its Past
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Michael Griffith is history. The only historian for a federal district court in the country has lost his job ...
Court Is a Gentler, Kinder Place Without Chief's Looming Presence
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - What a difference a justice makes. Especially if it's Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist. The chief was missing f...
Others' Noncompete Pacts Ruled Off-Limits
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - High-tech workers and others had better think twice about breaking job contracts in other states to come work ...
Ex-Disney Executive Jumps Firms
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Former vice chair of Walt Disney Co. Sanford "Sandy" Litvack is leaving Dewey Ballantine a year after joining t...
Wine Label Should be Read Carefully After DCA Ruling
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Napa Ridge zinfandel hasn't been made in Napa County for almost three years, but state regulators can't order...
Providing Equal Justice for Voiceless
Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky, Daniel Grunfeld and David Lash - "Equal justice under law" may be carved into the granite...
Judge Will Determine If Defendant Is Retarded
By Jeffrey Anderson
TULARE - A Tulare County judge ruled Wednesday that a defendant charged in the drive-by shooting death of a man in Lindsay wil...
Death Suits Arising From Dog Mauling Are Settled
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Two women who sued for wrongful death after Diane Whipple was mauled to death by giant dogs in her Pacific He...
Jurist Cut Teeth on 'Perry Mason'
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - When Los Angeles Superior Court Judge H. Chester Horn Jr. was a boy growing up in Pasadena, he'd sit glued to hi...
U.S. Trustee Loses Job Appeal
By Riley Guerin
SAN FRANCISCO - The outspoken chief bankruptcy watchdog in San Francisco, who was abruptly fired in June by U.S. Attorney Gen...
Front-Row Seat at the Rerun
By Riley Guerin
SAN JOSE - After two decades as an appellate justice, Marc Poché was supposed to be spending his days in retirement fishing an...
INS Detains Hundreds of Middle East Nationals
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - While people were herded into a room, scared and crying, and led away in handcuffs on one side of the downtown L...
Makers of Component Parts Are Subject to Strict Liability
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Michael A. Geibelson and David Martinez - The California Supreme Court has held that manufacturers of defect...
Baseball Suit, Unlike the Game, Ends in Tie
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - A judge ordered Wednesday that a record-setting and potentially valuable baseball be sold and the proceeds sp...
When Did Senator Lott Personally Become Aware of Racism's Evils?
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - What did Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott understand and when did he understand it regarding the importanc...
Providing Equal Justice for
Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky, Daniel Grunfeld and David Lash - "Equal justice under law" may be carved into the granite...
California Courts Addressed Coverage Issues in 2002
By Columnist
Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk A. Pasich - During 2002, the California courts rendered a number of decisions addressin...
Attorney Convicted of Stealing From Brothers
By Christina Landers
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury Wednesday convicted former Beverly Hills attorney Angela Wallace of stealing a $380,044 life ...
State Bar Probes Duo's Tactics
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
BEVERLY HILLS - The State Bar is looking into complaints of "extortion tactics" against two Beverly Hills attorneys who launch...
Berdahl Steps Into Boalt Row
By John Roemer
UC-Berkeley Chancellor Robert M. Berdahl will shake up the Boalt Hall dean search by personally choosing a replacement for th...
Carroll Burdick Under New Leader
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Jim Walsh, a commercial litigator elected Wednesday to manage San Francisco's Carroll, Burdick & McDonoug...
High Court Must Simplify Law of Regulatory Takings
By Columnist
Forum Column - By John Echeverria and Bill Higgins - The law of regulatory takings has become much too complicated in Californ...
Jury Acquits Elcomsoft, Citing Fair Use
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A Russian software company was acquitted Tuesday of copyright violation charges brought in the first criminal pros...
Chemical Migration No Violation
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court, in a major victory for oil companies, sharply restricted the ability of plaintiffs Tues...
Fenwick Makes Its Move in Style
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - In contemplating moving its headquarters, Fenwick & West first had to decide if its culture was best exem...
Assignments Set for Alameda Bench
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - The Alameda County Superior Court assignments for the coming year are the first since the state Judicial Coun...
No Immunity For Employer Of Aggrieved Chinese Maid
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - A federal appeals court on Tuesday reinstated a suit filed by a domestic servant against the Korean deputy consu...