Focus Column Appellate Law By Kathy M. Banke and Benjamin G. Shatz Isn't appealing from the judgment sufficient to challenge ...
Ticketmaster Wins Tactical Victory
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for USA Interactive's Ticketmaster hailed as a victory a recent decision by a Los Angeles federal judge...
Bench Officer Relieves Attorney As Counsel for Defunct Brobeck
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - San Francisco defense attorney John Keker has gotten his wish and will no longer have to represent Brobeck, Phl...
Settlement Talks Ordered in PG&E Case
By Tina Spee
SAN FRANCISCO - Saying there is "little to be lost, and potentially much to be gained," the federal judge presiding over the ...
Bill Widens Harassment Protections
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - The head of the state Assembly Judiciary Committee won initial approval Tuesday for a bill that would allow work...
Lesbian Can Sue Doctors Who Wouldn't Inseminate
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court ruled Tuesday that a San Diego woman could sue doctors who refused to artificially inse...
Conspiracy Elusive, Observers Predict
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Criminal law experts suspect San Francisco prosecutors will have no easy task winning convictions against pol...
Settlement Talks Ordered in PG&E Case
By Pam Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Saying there is "little to be lost, and potentially much to be gained," the federal judge presiding over the ...
Firm Nabs Another Cooley Godward Partner
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Palo Alto-based Cooley Godward has lost its second partner to San Francisco's Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady,...
Orrick Will Leave the Old Fed to Take SOMA Building
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe is moving its San Francisco headquarters out of the Financial District to ...
Judge Upholds State's Rules for Diverting Delta Water
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A Sacramento Superior Court judge, in what is being called one of the most significant water rulings in years...
Fees Top $88 Million In PG&E Bankruptcy
By Tina Spee
SAN FRANCISCO - Big paydays should always be so easy. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali took less than 10 minutes Friday t...
Mentally Ill Drifter Will Stand Trial for Murder
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A mentally ill drifter will stand trial for the 1998 slaying of 12-year-old Stephanie Crowe after a San Diego Cou...
High Court Uncovers Naked Truth About Sex Shop Name
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Acting on a trademark suit brought by lingerie maker Victoria's Secret, the Supreme Court Tuesday ruled that a t...
Church Tackles Self-Improvement
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - Washington power lawyer Robert Bennett has stood up to special prosecutors and defended a sitting U.S. presiden...
Court Affirms Asset Freeze in Fraud Case
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court has upheld a freeze on the assets of a Beverly Hills woman whose ex-husband was ordered...
In the Dark
By Columnist
Forum Column By Kevin B. Zeese Marney Craig is a middle-class Caucasian woman with a good job, fine family and clear sense of ...
Court OKs Longer Quake Deadline
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court Monday upheld the constitutionality of a state law that extended the deadline for victi...
Jurist's Conduct Left Officials No Choice But to Act
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Forum Column - By Laurie L. Levenson - It makes prosecutors nervous when judges go outside their traditional roles. Therefore,...
Panel Lets Sci-Fi Writer Sue for Film Profits
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Television director and science fiction film writer Ib Melchior can continue to fight New Line Productions Inc....
Justices Ponder Officer's Liability for Defective Warrant
By David Pike
By David F. Pike Nevada Journal Staff Writer WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether law enforcem...
Lawyer Wants Gun Charges Against Sleuth Tossed
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - The lawyer for private investigator Anthony Pellicano said Monday that gun charges against his client should be...
DA Is Defiant On the Eve of S.F. Officers' Arraignment
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan on Monday invoked his past as a civil libertarian and his current role as t...
Bill Fazio, the Once and Future Rival, Wants to See Hallinan in Court
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Criminal defense lawyer Bill Fazio, a longtime rival for San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan's jo...
Court Hints It Won't OK Suing Telemarketers
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Weighing a major consumer-protection issue, the Supreme Court justices indicated Monday that they will not allow...
Qwest for Excellence: Feds Give Voice Lessons on Corporate Squealing
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Roll over and squeal. No, this is not a line from the movie "Deliverance." It's part of the federal g...
Copycat Criminals
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - The acquittal of a Russian software company of copyright violation charges under the Digital Millennium Copyright A...
Moral Wrangling
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Forum Column - By Stephen Yagman - California Attorney General Bill Lockyer wants 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Alex...
Nothing Substitutes for an Expert's Practical Experience
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Focus Column - Legal Malpractice - By Alec H. Boyd - In negligence and breach-of-fiduciary-duty cases arising from an attorney...
Toxic Tort Plaintiffs' Loss Contains a Big Win for the Future
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The world's largest defense contractor won tactical victories in two California Supreme Court decisions Monday...