Bench's 'PC Enforcer' Wins High Praise
By Karen Coleman
MARTINEZ - During her nearly 20 years on the bench in Contra Costa County, Superior Court Judge Barbara Ziga has juggled high-...
Leaner, Meaner Firms Increase Profits Per Partner
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Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - Annual profits per partner are seen widely as the measuring stick for law-firm su...
'Sanchez-Scott' Decision Is Hardly Lapse in Judgment
Forum Column - By Lawrence C. Waddington - Against the recommendations of Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, the Senate...
Attorneys Can Send Notices to Possible Class-Action Plaintiffs
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Focus Column - Litigation - By Michael D. Singer - Class-action counsel now may communicate freely with proposed class members...
Waste Not
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Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - Next year's Pentagon budget will be $400 billion. While the Pentagon will be spending t...
Court Reinstates Lawyer for Rubio's Baja Grill
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - An attorney who was disqualified from defending Rubio's Baja Grill after he told a judge that he represented bot...
Hospital Aided DA, Sleuth Testifies
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - A district attorney's investigator testified Thursday that he relied heavily on investigative reports prepared b...
Quinn Emanuel Adds Star to Its Intellectual Property Practice
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges has hired intellectual property rainmaker Claude M. Ster...
Three Officers' Attorneys Seek Dismissal of Case
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys for three San Francisco police officers indicted for assault in connection with a Union Street braw...
Nestle Verdict Upheld
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - The 2 nd District Court of Appeal Thursday upheld a $5.1 million verdict against Nestle USA Inc., that the compa...
Commemorating 150 Years of Courthouses
By Karen Coleman
Reporter's Notebook - By Karen Coleman - There are now a dozen other court buildings in Alameda County, but the Oakland Ren C....
Guilty Plea In Malfunction Of Devices for Aneurysms
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A Menlo Park medical device company pleaded guilty Thursday to 10 criminal counts of failing to report malfun...
Mayor Announces Panel For Ending Homelesness
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Mayor James K. Hahn joined with activists and officials from federal and local governments Thursday ...
Policyholder Stuck: 'Collapse' Means Collapse
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - If an insurance policy explicitly limits coverage to the "collapse" of a house, the state Supreme Court said ...
Weigh Question as Adopted by Answer
By Donna Domino
Reporter's Notebook - By Donna Domino - Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, you have heard the technical complexities of this in...
No Love for Raves
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Forum Column - By David Kirby - As the summer concert season begins, property owners and partygoers will discover how federal ...
Palestinians Must Offer True Incentives for Peace to Work
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Focus Column - By Carl Pearlston - There is a classic slapstick comedy routine in which two men converge on a doorway and each...
Compromise Offers Raise Issues in Employment Suits
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Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - From a practical perspective, California's statutory settlement scheme...
Statute May Cover Statements Made Outside the Presence of a Mediator
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Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By June Lehrman - In the fifth significant decision interpreting the state's m...
Boss Pushed Unripe Cases, DA Says
By Gale Holland
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles County deputy district attorney has charged that his boss pressured him to file cases he believed ...
Web Site Offers Access To Some Court Rulings
By Matthew Heller
LOS ANGELES - Ventura County has joined several other Southern California counties by offering Internet access to tentative r...
Court's ADR Program Turns 25 Years Old
By Pamela A. Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - An alternative dispute resolution program pioneered in San Francisco's federal court turned 25 this month, and...
Justices Accept Retaliation Suit
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court announced Wednesday that it will decide whether a manager may sue her employer b...
Conflicts Panel To Get Its Funding
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Checks will soon be in the mail for lawyers on San Francisco's conflicts panel who represented indigent defen...
Titan Wheel Spins Out on Highway to Legal Hell, Losing $6 Million
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, start your engines. A Los Angeles Superior Court jury this week too...
Court Upholds Tobacco Tax To Help Kids
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court has upheld California's Proposition 10, which taxes cigarettes and other tobacco products ...
Tax for Anti-Smoking Ads Challenged in U.S. Court
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - A lawyer for tobacco giant R.J. Reynolds contended Wednesday that the state of California is violating the free-...
Bringing Down Leaders Of Church Spurs Lawyer
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - He casts himself as a small-time country boy. Which is only partly true. He avoids center stage. Yet he's the st...
Milberg Weiss Partner Says Split Caused By Differences
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - Shareholder class action giant Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach is splitting up and reorganizing arou...
Don't Expect a Circus
By Peter Blumberg
MODESTO - It was one of Modesto's most sensational murders: A young mother's body found buried in a peach orchard, her three-...