Non-Resident Tuition Upheld
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - There is no constitutional problem with the extra tuition that out-of-state students are charged to attend Ca...
Election 2002: Judicial Candidates Discuss Their Qualifications
By Columnist
Editor's note: In covering next Tuesday's election, we asked candidates for judicial office to submit statements telling u...
Judge Refuses to Unseal Ryder Documents
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - L.A. Superior Court Judge Elden S. Fox refused Thursday to release sealed court transcripts and documents sought...
Firms Want Capable People Who Work With Others
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Craig A. Blumin - Most legal professionals are aware of the fundamentals of job interviewing: dressing ...
Magistrate Agrees Navy Sonar Tests Hurt Whales
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - The federal courts here have again come to the aid of whales and other marine animals that environmentalists ...
SLA Defendant Said to Be Ready to Deal
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Emily Harris, the former Symbionese Liberation Army member accused with three others of murder during a 1975 ...
Davis Reappoints Nonlawyers to State Bar Board
By Don De Benedictis
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis has reappointed two nonlawyer members to the State Bar board of governors, giving three-year term...
Couple That Suspects Embryo Swap Loses
By Katherine Gaidos
IRVINE - A couple whose frozen embryos were stored at the scandal-ridden University of California, Irvine, fertility clinic ca...
Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: Legal Gadfly Has Eccentric Past
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - He's a Baptist minister, a media-savvy ex-con - and he likes to file lawsuits. James Stern's latest, filed Monda...
Merchants' Right of Detention Depends on Reasonableness
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Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Marcellus A. McRae and Joel M. Athey - Because of recent events, shoplifting is back in the n...
Crosby Heafey Getting Married
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - Crosby Heafey Roach & May will merge with Reed Smith, of Pittsburgh, creating a 995-lawyer firm with offi...
Warrant Out For Former S.F. Official
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - Authorities issued an arrest warrant Thursday for former Planning Commission President Hector Chinchilla and ...
High Court Will Rule on Access to Accident Data
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - On July 5, 1996, Clementina Guillen-Alejandre was turning off B Street onto 168th Street in Tacoma, Wash., when s...
So Many Suits, So Little Time Now There's More
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - For nine long years, Ian "Buddy" Herzog has been trying to change California's summary judgment statute, which h...
Firms Want Capable People Who Work With Others
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Employment Column - By Craig A. Blumin - Most legal professionals are aware of the fundamentals of job interviewing: dressing ...
Film Company Must Pay for Producer's Fraud
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - For one film company, Hollywood illusion became a legal reality Tuesday. Though producer L. Travis Clark had an ...
Studies in Contrasts
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - The two races for open Santa Clara County judicial seats present voters with intriguing choices between candidates ...
Legal Advice to Decorating Guru Martha Stewart Scares Some Lawyers
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - This year, Martha Stewart, the mogul of home decorating and entertaining, may wish that Halloween wer...
Suit Over Bad Sealant Is Settled
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - A Stockton judge has approved a $107.5 million settlement of a class action against the manufacturer of a seal...
Attorney in Presidio Deal Found to Have No Conflict
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO -A federal ethics agency has cleared a San Francisco attorney of an allegation that she violated conflict-of-int...
Longtime Judge, Neutral Had Knack for Work
By Matthew Heller
LOS ANGELES - Robert D. Fratianne, a retired Los Angeles Superior Court judge who spent the past 11 years as a neutral, has di...
Court Halts Work on Shipping Terminal
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - In a victory for San Pedro homeowners, a state appeals court said Wednesday that the Port of Los Angeles must ha...
Ryder's Attorney Grills Saks Security Manager
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Winona Ryder's attorney on Wednesday assailed a Saks Fifth Avenue security manager, saying that the worker told ...
Mom Says Rossum Shared Marital Woes
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A woman accused of poisoning her husband almost didn't go through with the wedding and complained afterward of hav...
Brown Spurs Oakland's Measure CC
By Karen Coleman
OAKLAND - City Attorney John Russo isn't particularly excited about Measure CC, an initiative on Tuesday's ballot that would s...
Career Makes Judge Feel at Home
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - East Los Angeles may not inspire images of working-class New England, but to Los Angeles County Superior Court J...
Appellate Races Go Nearly Unnoticed
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Four years ago, two California Supreme Court justices under attack from anti-abortion activists mounted a $1.7...
After 'Rojas,' Counsel Must Be Careful When Preparing Mediation Evidence
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Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By June Lehrman - In the fourth significant decision interpreting the paramete...
Candidates for DA Express Their Views, Plans, Goals
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Forum Column - Editor's note: In covering next Tuesday's elections, we invited candidates for district attorney to submit stat...
Actor Searches For Lawyer to Replace Braun
By Christina Landers
LOS ANGELES - Actor Robert Blake wasted no time in looking for a replacement after his criminal defense attorney, Harland Brau...