Clash of the Titans
By John Ryan
When Marshall Grossman and Larry Stein decided to merge their firms in 1999, the pundits wondered how the two attorneys would ...
High Court's 'Chavez' Ruling Is Much Ado About Nothing
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Forum Column - By Stephen Yagman - Last week's U.S. Supreme Court decision that a person in extremis who is questioned by poli...
Diet-Aid Maker Must Pay $12 Million
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A judge on Friday ordered the manufacturer of a diet aid linked to the death of a baseball player to pay consumer...
Mere Mortals
Like a river, a theme runs through my last several columns. It is the painful but important recognition that judges, like all ...
Shareholders Who Keep Stock Have State Remedy
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Focus Column - Securities Law - By Thomas C. Klein - Enron, Global Crossing and many other companies are embroiled in securiti...
Diet-Aid Maker Must Pay $12 Million
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A judge on Friday ordered the manufacturer of a diet aid linked to the death of a baseball player to pay consumers...
Good Sense Characterizes Judge
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Superior Court Judge Dorothy L. Shubin's former colleagues at the U.S. attorney's office used to joke she was so...
Those Who Serve U.S. Should Get Same Lawsuits Protection
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Forum Column - By V.M. Raguz - The Bush administration has determined how it will protect U.S. citizens from potential politic...
Ignoring Soaring Costs?
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Forum Column - By David D. Caron - Amid discussions about ending the U.N. sanctions on Iraq, there also is talk of forgiving s...
Lawyers Face Civil Liberties Challenge of SARS
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Employment Column - By Kevin Lilly - A deadly disease originates in China, where it is misdiagnosed and misunderstood. Public-...
'Grokster' Court Holds Some File-Sharing Systems Are Legal
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Focus Column - Entertainment Law - By Harrison J. Dossick - The online music industry is undergoing another period of rapid an...
Circuit Weighs Terms Of Bail During Appeal
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court panel may use the case of two former prison guards convicted of orchestrating inmate ...
Police-Beating Victim Wins Reprieve
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - A judge has dismissed misdemeanor criminal charges for the second time against a man beaten into a coma last sum...
Trevor Law Asks U.S. Court to Halt Suspension
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Trevor Law Group attorneys, suspended from practicing law for allegedly misusing the state's unfair-competition ...
Attorney Advised Shakespeare Oxford Society
By Alice Lee
LOS ANGELES - Attorney G. Grant Gifford has died in Los Angeles following an illness. He was 58. Gifford, who died April 27, w...
Lawyer Hails Combining Sex-Abuse Cases
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - A judge's order that San Diego and San Bernardino priest sex-abuse lawsuits must be combined with similar mass l...
AG Interviews Fired Rackauckas Staffer
By Jim Adamekn
SANTA ANA - The former media relations director for Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas was interviewed for nearly...
Cab Outfit Can't Claim Color Yellow
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A Yellow Cab is just a yellow cab, a federal judge ruled Thursday in denying a Sacramento taxi company's trademark...
$1.1 Million FPPC Fine Is Upheld by Appeal Panel
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - The 3rd District Court of Appeal on Thursday upheld the largest fine ever levied by the state's Fair Political P...
Warrantless Drug Search Before Court
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court once again wrestled Thursday with the question of whether police can search firs...
Tosco Successor Can't Evade Fines for Water Pollution
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - An oil company will pay $620,000 to settle a Bay Area water pollution lawsuit revived last November when the ...
Panel Creates Disappearance Of Magic Case
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - The Fox network's notorious "Breaking the Magician's Code" television specials, which featured a masked magician...
Jury Finds Glendora Lawyer Guilty in Conspiracy
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - Capping an exhaustive four-year prosecution, an Orange County jury Thursday found a Glendora attorney guilty of pe...
Private Time
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - Corporate lawyers who once struggled to keep pace with initial public offerings are increasingly helping clien...
Posting of DVD Source Code Before Court
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Free speech advocates squared off with the entertainment industry Thursday in a widely watched trade secret d...
Jurist Releases Iranian Activist
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - After five months in an immigration jail, an Iranian peace activist finally has been released as his lawyer cont...
Bar's Oldest Member Loved Law
By Sandra Corrales
LOS ANGELES - The oldest active member of the State Bar, Robert M. McManigal, has died. He was 102. McManigal died in his slee...
Jurist Releases Iranian Activist
By Jeff Berg
LOS ANGELES - After five months in an immigration jail, an Iranian peace activist finally has been released as his lawyer cont...
Flying Judge Likes View From Bench, Plane
By Donna Domino
SONORA - Tuolumne County Superior Court Judge William G. Polley has been flying high, literally and figuratively, since he too...
Holocaust Heroine Devoted Life to Teaching Tolerance
Forum Column - By Carole E. Handler, Jeffrey A. Tidus and David A. Lash - In Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II, justice...