Allegation of Intent Isn't Automatic Bar to Coverage
By Columnist
Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk A. Pasich - Many lawsuits involve allegations that a defendant acted intentionally or s...
'Schlage' Is Victory for Employees, But Carries Mixed Message for Employers
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Anthony J. Oncidi and Christine de Bretteville - The California Court of Appeal has put an ...
Guilty Plea In Schools Fraud Case
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - A North Carolina energy company pleaded guilty Tuesday to two counts of felony grand theft and agreed to pay $...
Wife Killed Spouse to Protect Image, DA Says
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A prosecutor on Tuesday portrayed former medical examiner's toxicologist Kristin M. Rossum as a woman so protectiv...
Court Broadens Paper's Right Of Access to Settlement Data
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - A federal appellate court has broadened the right of access to documents in once-sealed court files in a case in...
Lawyer Must Pay Back Clients or Go to Prison
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles attorney Tuesday pleaded guilty to 12 felony counts stemming from accusations he bilked clients ou...
Brobeck Loses Corporate, Securities Expert
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - The San Diego office of Boston's Fish & Richardson has expanded into the corporate and securities practice a...
State Chief Justice Touts System
By Don De Benedictis
MONTEREY - California's third branch of government has become a force to be reckoned with. That was the message conveyed to me...
Do Not Confuse Criminal and Civil Subpoenas Duces Tecum
By Contributing Writer
Focus Column - Business Law - By Antonio R. Sarabia II and William J. Kopesky - A client may ask its regular civil counsel to ...
Six Figures Riding on Determination of Marriage's Demise
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The flowers that Vernon Norviel sent to his wife, Carmencita, on their 15th wedding anniversary may prove to b...
Corporate America On Trial
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - For seven weeks, a San Francisco jury heard detailed evidence about complicated loans that passed between two ...
Deadpan Judge's Courtroom Called The Gold Standard
By Xenia Kobylarz
HANFORD - Kings County Superior Court Judge Peter Schultz runs his courtroom with the precision and efficiency of a well-wound...
AAA Rumpus Said to be Just Starting
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Don't expect Jerry Spolter, Elaine Leitner and Harris Weinberg to be the last panelists to leave the American ...
Justices Will Hear Interstate Tax Fight
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - In 1992, California tax officials concluded that inventor Gilbert P. Hyatt had falsely reported moving from Orang...
Sharing Space
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Peter M. Douglas - As usual, when Michael M. Berger gets on his soapbox to bash the Coastal Commission, his ...
Judge's E-Mail Criticizing Promotion Outrages DA
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - District Attorney Grover Trask on Tuesday filed a complaint with the Commission on Judicial Performance charging t...
New Group Replaces Conference of Delegates
By Don De Benedictis
MONTEREY - As the State Bar's 2002 annual meeting drew to a close Sunday, so too did its lively but controversial offspring, t...
Judicial Candidate Takes Opponent to Court
By Staff Writer
SANTA ANA - The inner workings of judicial politicking were revealed Tuesday when Orange County judicial candidate Gay Sandova...
Bejing Group Picks MoFo for Olympics Work
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad has selected San Francisco's Morrison & ...
Fog City Diner Loses DCA Appeal
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A sexual harassment suit filed against an upscale Napa County restaurant is causing tremors in San Francisco. ...
Supreme Court Will Hear Interstate Tax Fight
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - In 1992, California tax officials concluded that inventor Gilbert P. Hyatt had falsely reported moving from Orang...
Do Not Confuse Criminal and Civil Subpoenas Duces Tecum
By Columnist
Focus Column - Business Law - By Antonio R. Sarabia II and William J. Kopesky - A client may ask its regular civil counsel to ...
East Bay Law Center Founder Gets Loren Miller Award
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Bernida Reagan, the founder and former director of the East Bay Community Law Center, has received the State B...
State FPPC Grappling to Open Its Doors Wider
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - There is an incongruous, intimate atmosphere surrounding the monthly meetings of the state Fair Political Practic...
Registration Alone Is Insufficient to Defeat Summary Judgment
By Columnist
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Christopher T. Micheletti - In Tie Tech Inc. v. Kinedyne Corp. , 296 F.3d 778...
Driving Ourselves to Distraction
By Columnist
Forum Column - By D. Malcolm Carson - Given the traffic congestion and air pollution that literally and figuratively choke Cal...
A Genuine Long Shot
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Republican state Sen. Dick Ackerman was not his party's first choice to run for attorney general against Bill Loc...
Judge's Orders On Logging Spark Dispute Over Meaning
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge has twice in the past few months issued orders that environmentalists say should have h...
Neutral Quits In Protest Over Leader's Words
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - A prominent San Francisco mediator's resignation from the American Arbitration Association is raising questions ...
Case Against Ryder Provokes Controversy
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - She's a hippie, a rich Westside liberal, a sacrificial lamb for O.J. Simpson. These are just a few of the explan...