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...
Ho, Ho, Hold on to Gift Certificates
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Many of Orange resident Sandra Guzman's friends and family gave her gift certificates as wedding presents when s...
Judge Sentences Ex-Toxicoligist to Life Term
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A Superior Court judge Thursday sentenced former county toxicologist Kristin Rossum to spend the rest of her life ...
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...
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 p...
Off The Docket
By Jeff Berg
TODAY ART - Sixspace Gallery in Los Angeles unbuckles its swashes and proudly displays " Pirate Booty: the Arrrt of Mates &am...
The landmark employment case of Foley v. Interactive Data Corp. , 47 Cal.3d 654 (1998), examined the availability of a ...
Behind Each Employment Precedent Is an Individual
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - The holiday season often encourages individuals to reflect on the past...
Panel Seals Police Personnel Papers
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Complaints against police officers must be kept secret even during officer disciplinary hearings, a state appell...
Workers Triumph in Dispute Over Stock Options
By Joan Osterwalder
TUSTIN - An Orange County Superior Court jury has ordered Commonwealth Energy Corp. to pay $2.7 million to 15 former stock sal...
Robert Berring Chosen as Interim Dean At Boalt Hall
By Tyler Cunningham
BERKELEY - Veteran law professor and law librarian Robert Berring was named interim dean of Boalt Hall School of Law on Wedne...
'T' Visas Help Alien Victims Of Traffickers
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Supik Indrawati, an Indonesian woman, spent two years working as the virtual slave of a Palos Verdes couple, eve...
Court Debates Pros, Cons of Punitives Caps
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Supreme Court justices Wednesday expressed strong concern about the specter of "runaway" punitive damages awards ...
'T' Visas Protect Alien Victims of Traffickers
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Supik Indrawati, an Indonesian woman, spent two years working as the virtual slave of a Palos Verdes couple, eve...