Deaf Woman Sues Over Treatment by L.A. Deputies
By Eron Yehuda
If the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department had better procedures for communicating with hearing impaired suspects, then 22...
Pillsbury Offers Buyout Package
By Erik Cummins
Small, incremental layoffs and buyouts seem to be the thing at cost-conscious Pillsbury Winthrop, where another 12 nonlawyer s...
Old Is New Again
By Christine Malamanig
BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer The phrase "out with the old, in with the new" isn't for everyone. In downtown Sacram...
Small Cities Ask FPPC to Loosen Rule On Conflicts
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Lawyers representing California's small cities want the state's political watchdog agency to amend its new confl...
Partner for Sheppard Gets Hit With Claim
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - A partner at Los Angeles' Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton has been hit with a lawsuit by Mercury Air Gr...
SUV Rollover Case Goes to Jury
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Isuzu Motors manufactured a defective sport utility vehicle that flipped when its driver swerved to avoid hittin...
Court Should End Flawed Policy of Affirmative Action
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - In Grutter v. Bollinger , 288 F.3d 732 (6th Cir. 2002), the 6th U.S. Circuit Court...
Race-Based Lockdowns Unconstitutional
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The practice of indefinitely locking Pelican Bay State Prison inmates in their cells based on their race has ...
Coblentz Moving to Ferry Bldg.
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass is leaving its office and signature rooftop bocce ball court on Kearny Stre...
Lawyers Entering Some Courts Can Get in Express Line
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - In today's uncertain national security climate, security has never been tighter at California's courthouses. ...
Panel Lets Kin Pursue Suit Against Police Unit
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Part of a civil rights lawsuit against a special Los Angeles police unit can go forward, a federal appeals court...
Attorney Discipline
By Columnist
Forum Column - By James C. Turner and Suzanne M. Mishkin - This fall, HALT - An Organization of Americans for Legal Reform - r...
Panel Lets Kin Pursue Suit Against Police Unit
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Part of a civil rights lawsuit against a special Los Angeles police unit can go forward, a federal appeals court...
Disciplinary Actions
By Philip Carrizosa
SUSPENSIONS Germano, Richard John , Rancho Cucamonga Guzzetta, Rudy David , San Jose Honish, Kalieh Rie , Montebello Mantle, G...
Justices Split On Whether One Act Was Actually Two
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Skipping court while out on bail is a big no-no. That's what burglary suspect Daniel Walker found out Thursda...
Jurist Keeps Lawyers on Their Toes
By Craiq Anderson
Elcomsoft Case Goes to the Jury
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - The attorney representing a Russian software company accused of circumventing copyright protections admitted in cl...
Airlines Hit With Smoking Award
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Thursday upheld the largest individual second-hand smoking award in the United States...
Whose Welfare?
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - United Airlines, which has lost $4 billion since the beginning of 2001, recently was tu...
Sheppard Mullin Gets Litigator in Antitrust
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton has recruited antitrust partner David R. Garcia from O'Melv...
Critics Fault Boalt Harassment Policies, Faculty Gender Ratio
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Lack of gender balance among faculty at Boalt Hall contributed to the sexual harassment claim that led to the ...
Jurists Skirt Drug-Treatment Law, Lawyers Say
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Proposition 36, the state law that dictates treatment, not prison, for drug addicts, should have kept David Niss...
Woman's Quest for Paintings Can Proceed
By Christina Landers
LOS ANGELES - An 87-year-old woman's quest to recover six Gustav Klimt paintings, which she claims were stolen from her family...
Jilted Lover Sues Priest, Claiming Custodial Abandonment
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Already bedeviled by a child molestation scandal, the local archdiocese of the Catholic Church was on the hot...
Bargain Defender Program Shortchanges Constituents
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Dan Halpern and Linda Martorana - Why is San Mateo County the only Bay Area county without a public defender...
Budget Remedies Include Tax on Lawyers
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Put your ear to the ground around the state Capitol these days and along with the grumbling over California's $2...
Posting Ten Commandments Does Not Advocate Religion
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Earl Klein - The battle rages on over separation of church and state. This time the conflict is about the Te...
Metabolife Isn't Liable for Man's Stroke, Jurors Find
By Matthew Heller
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - A jury ruled Thursday that a diet pill made by San Diego-based Metabolife International was not responsible...
New Civil Procedure Changes May Alter Litigation Practices
By Columnist
Focus Column Litigation - By Gregg A. Farley and Paul C. White II - The celebration of the New Year traditionally involves par...
Ex-Judge Resigns From State Bar
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - Former Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Huey Percy Shepard has resigned from the State Bar. Charges pendi...