Is He 'Fear City' Miracle Worker?
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - In 1996, magazines and newspapers were crammed with glowing stories on what they ca...
Pillsbury Litigator Jumps to Quinn Emanuel
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - Veteran litigator Kenneth Chiate is ditching the local office of San Francisco's Pillsbury Winthrop for Los Ange...
Los Angeles Loses Editorial Voice
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Nikki, who advertised as the "chocolate cutie" escort in the Los Angeles alternative newsweekly New Times, got t...
Presiding Just Like in Movies and on TV
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Dicta Column - By The Rodent - Don't you wish that, just once, you got the chance to sit on the other side? Most lawyers spend...
Trial Lawyers Criticize Arbitrators
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association is calling for a boycott of the American Arbitration Association b...
Justices' Son-of-Sam Denial Allows Crime to Pay
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The man who was convicted of the 1963 kidnapping of Frank Sinatra Jr. can collect hundreds of thousands of dollar...
Circuit Rejects Challenge to English-Only Instruction
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Although the academic and political debate over the value of English-only instruction vs. bilingual education ...
Corporate Attorney Began His Career at SEC
By Sandra Corrales
LOS ANGELES - Alan R. Markizon, a general corporate lawyer and mediator, has died. Markizon died Sept. 22 of cancer at his hom...
Senators Grill Bench Candidate
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - Senators questioned on Monday a Los Angeles Superior Court judge being considered for a federal judgeship about a...
ACLU: Cops in S.F. Use Profiles
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco has a black mayor and a black police chief - yet the American Civil Liberties Union reported Mon...
Stanford Launches Internet Law Center
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - Undaunted by the meltdown in the dot-com economy, Stanford University Law School is investing in a new center ...
Courts Must Examine Statutory Factors Before Altering Support
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Focus Column - Family Law - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and Robert Burch - In In re Marriage of Lynn, 2002 DJDAR 9320 (Cal. A...
Listen Up
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Dicta Column - By Richard C. Neal - Most trial lawyers think the art of persuasion is their most important job skill. This bei...
Denials Range From Inmate Rights to Judge Discipline
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The 2,000 petitions for review rejected by the Supreme Court Monday included important cases dealing with judicia...
Setting Sights on Safety
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Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - One would think that the medical malpractice crisis is reaching epic proportions. Presiden...
Tech-Focused Cooley, Pennie Discuss Merger
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Cooley Godward and Pennie & Edmonds are discussing a merger that would create a 700-attorney top-tier compet...
A Delicate Question
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - No means no. That's where most states draw a line between consensual sex and rape. But not here. California's ...
Case Not Ready for Prime Time
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - It has all the elements of an after-school TV special: partying teen-agers, drama between girlfriend and boyfr...
Medical Liability Partner to Orrick
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has hired Kathy Patterson to build its West Coast pharmaceutical and medica...
Disney Sweatshop Accusations Add Fuel to Fire of Winnie the Pooh Suits
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - Add to the plentiful woes of the Walt Disney Co. a tearful, litigious, wealthy 81-year-old widow who ...
Family Law Specialist Becomes Bar Leader
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
INDIO - Palm Desert family law specialist Basil T. Chapman was installed Friday as president of Riverside County's Desert Bar ...
Denials Range From Inmates Rights to Judge Disciplines
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The 2,000 petitions for review rejected by the Supreme Court Monday included important cases dealing with judicia...
Panel Hears From Forced-Labor Victims
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - After years of waiting, victims of slave and forced-labor camps in World War II Germany and Japan got their day ...
Presiding Just Like in Movies and on TV
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By the Rodent - Don't you wish that, just once, you got the chance to sit on the other side? Most lawyers spend...
Listen Up
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By Richard C. Neal - Most trial lawyers think the art of persuasion is their most important job skill. This bei...
Justices' Son-of-Sam Denial Allows Crime to Pay
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The man who was convicted of the 1963 kidnapping of Frank Sinatra Jr. can collect hundreds of thousands of dollar...
Pop Diva Won't Sing Blues After Recording Legal Win
By Joan Osterwalder
Mariah Carey is singing a happy tune after scoring a legal victory in Los Angeles federal court. U.S. District Judge Christina...
Quinn Emanuel Adds 14th Ex-Prosecutor
By David Houston
After 18 years as a federal prosecutor, John S. Gordon had only one firm in mind when he decided to take up private practice. ...
Ontario Grows Up
By Andrea Rosas
BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer Long known as the heart of Southern California's industrial sector, Ontario is showing the ...
Rule of Rent
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By Hans Hansson Business brokers use a simple formula to determine how much a retailer can afford to pay in rent per month: I...