Counsel for Alleged Boalt Victim Tells Story
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - A female Boalt Hall law student woke from a drunken sleep to find the school's dean, John P. Dwyer, sexually ...
County OKs Observer During Riverside Autopsy in Shooting
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Heading off a legal showdown, coroner officials in Riverside County last week allowed a private pathologist to obs...
At Long Last, E-Book Trial Ready to Get Under Way
By Riley Guerin
SAN JOSE - Even though no one faces any jail time, the stakes are high as the first trial under a 1998 federal law intended t...
Leading with the Right
By Joan Osterwalder
The jury is out on whether junkets for judges are out of order. The hotel, meals and plane ticket are paid for, luring judges ...
Courts May Still Place Limits on Former Employee's Disclosure
By Columnist
Focus Column - Tort Law - By L. Amy Blum and Kevin O. Schwartz - Although many business owners fear that Schlage destro...
Lockheed Keeps Bar Busy
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - It's been seven years since Lockheed Corporation pulled out of the state, but the world's largest defense cont...
Suspect's Past May Prove Double-Edged Sword
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - When Orange County sheriff's deputies arrested Alejandro Avila for the molestation and murder of 5-year-old Samant...
After the Deluge
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - It's been six months since Tower Snow Jr. carved up Brobeck Phleger & Harrison's prized securities litiga...
Ivory Tower Walls Tumble Down
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Julie Su was one year out of law school when she became a champion of Thai immigrant sweatshop laborers, even...
Tax-Grab Game Undercuts Fairness
By Columnist
Forum Column - By George Lefcoe - In this season between elections and the holidays, consider a reverse Robin Hood program the...
Panel Wants Plea Bargaining Kept
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Saying prosecutors breached their plea agreement with a convicted drug smuggler, a federal appellate panel has r...
Death of Fetus Not Murder
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A man convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend cannot also be held liable for the killing of her first-trimes...
Former Top Trial Lawyer Runs Courtroom With Aplomb, Colleagues Say
Suspect's Past May Prove Double-Edged Sword
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - When Orange County sheriff's deputies arrested Alejandro Avila for the molestation and murder of 5-year-old Samant...
Making Connection With Others
By Jenna Bordelon
POMONA - When Judge Robert M. Martinez recalls the numerous murder trials he's presided over during the past few years, he thi...
Rightful Mind
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Heidi Lypps - On Nov. 4, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the case of Dr. Charles Thomas Sell, a dentis...
Attorney Enjoyed Challenge of Difficult Case
By Claude Walbert
LOS ANGELES - Services took place for David Greenberg, a founder of the Los Angeles law firm of Greenberg & Panish, who di...
Legal Fights Spawned by Troublesome Dead Royal Hit Los Angeles Court
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - In death, Diana, Princess of Wales, seems more and more like a raging brush fire than a candle in th...
Boalt Dean Quits After Harassment Charge
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - The dean of the Boalt Hall School of Law has resigned after a former student accused him of sexual harassment....
Constitutional Breaches Don't Get Damages
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court has prohibited plaintiffs from seeking monetary damages for alleged violations of...
Jurist Grants Celebrity Sleuth Bail
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Celebrity sleuth Anthony Pellicano, who has stood by embattled clients ranging from entertainer Michael Jackson ...
Companies Must Guard Social Security Number Information
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Kenneth A. Raskin, Randall C. McGeorge and Molly J. McDowell - An individual's Social Security number has a ...
Build a Good Relationship With Each Firm's In-House Recruiter
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Gail N. Kaneshiro - Anyone who has ever applied for a legal job can agree on the importance of the inte...
Legal Fights Spawned by Troublesome Dead Royal Hit Los Angeles Court
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - In death, Diana, Princess of Wales, seems more and more like a raging brush fire than a candle in the...
Injunction Bars Slashing of City Clerk's Salary
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Calling the city's action "retaliatory and punitive," a Los Angeles Superior Court judge Wednesday issued a prel...
I Think I Shall Never See, a Poem as Spiteful as a Tree
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Maliciously planted trees make spiteful fences, which make not-so-good neighbors. Or so says a Siskiyou County...
Build a Good Relationship With Each Firm's In-House Recruiter
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Gail N. Kaneshiro - Anyone who has ever applied for a legal job can agree on the importance of the inte...
Slick Campaign
By Karen Coleman
MARTINEZ - By most accounts, the key to the recent district attorney's race in Contra Costa County was an independent committe...
Court Denies Rehearing to 'Outer Space' Attorney Fees
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court shut the door Tuesday on five plaintiffs firms that were attempting to get an $88.5 ...
Court Squashes Museum Plans
By Matthew Heller
SANTA BARBARA - An appellate court finally may have dashed a wealthy doctor's dream of turning his Montecito estate into a pub...