Giving Legal Advice Via E-Mail May Result in Loss of Privilege
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Focus Column - Litigation - By Norma G. Formanek - In 1999, the American Bar Association ethics committee settled a long-stand...
Less Can Be More: Things To Leave Off Your Résumé
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Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - Many articles have been written about what goes onto a winning résumé but not a l...
Tough Agreement
By Jennifer Orff
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - The state Supreme Court recently approved a settlement between Southern California Ediso...
Jurist Jailed Newsmen for Confidential Source
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Services have taken place for U.S. Magistrate Judge Hollis G. Best, a respected jurist who gained notoriety in the...
Enron Defendant Weighing a Deal
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - John M. Forney, the former Enron manager who allegedly designed such power-trading schemes as "Death Star," ha...
DA Contemplates Deep Cuts in Special Sections
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Facing a $5 million budget shortfall, the district attorney's office is contemplating deep cutbacks in its speci...
Hearing Delayed
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court Thursday ordered the postponement of a hearing set for today at which prosecutors were goi...
AMD Prevails In Jury Trial Over Claim of Religious Bias
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A federal jury Thursday cleared Advanced Micro Devices of discriminating against a high-level executive who claimed...
Reporter's Notebook: Valley Survivor Gunderson Prizes 'Grubs' and Independence
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - It's easy to play the guessing game in Silicon Valley, where conversations about the demise of formerly presti...
Panel Reverses Robbery Conviction
By Erica Williams
LOS ANGELES - An appeals court Thursday reversed a San Fernando Valley man's robbery conviction, saying his defense lawyer, wh...
Majority of High-Court Clerks Take Indirect Routes to Posts
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - For the second straight term, a majority of the Supreme Court law clerks have taken a nontraditional route to the...
Rounding Up
Forum Column - By Ali Batmanghelidj - As the morning sun broke through the heavens, the ghastly sounds of collapsing steel and...
Background Checks Are a Must for Employers Evaluating Potential Hires
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Focus Column - Employment Law - By Barry D. Kellman - If one subscribes to the theory that having more data contributes to mak...
Right to Terminate Doesn't Include Right to Defame
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Focus Column - Employment Law - By Michelle A. Reinglass - In Rivera v. National Railroad Passenger Corp.(Amtrak) , 200...
Davis Names Two To State Bar Board
By Don De Benedictis
LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis announced his appointment Wednesday of a doctor and a businessman to the State Bar Board of Gove...
'Brady' Violations Cited in San Benito
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - San Benito County District Attorney John Sarsfield said Wednesday that his predecessor failed to disclose possibly ...
Bid for Liens in Medi-Cal Injury Cases Fails to Pass
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Trial lawyers have failed in a late legislative attempt to give health care providers the right to assert liens t...
Media Plans Challenge to Judge's Secret Rulings
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Media lawyers are expected to appeal today a judge's order sealing his decision on whether to turn over to prose...
Court Allows Suit Against Police
By Mark Cromer
SANTA ANA - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that the city of Anaheim and three of its police officers ma...
Prosecutor Remains in Family, Rises to Commissioner
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - A woman recently tried to get Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Nicholas D. Taubert to force her former hu...
Police Arrest Freed Priest in New Sex Case
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - Retired Roman Catholic priest Michael Wempe, who walked out of jail this summer after the U.S. Supreme Court gut...
VLG & Heller To Merge, But Will All Partners Want to Go?
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - The partners of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe and Venture Law Group have approved the firms' merger, but...
Lawsuits Point to Double-Cheeseburger of Intellectual-Property Abuse
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - As you probably know by now, I like to live dangerously and litigiously. So, for a cheap thrill, I'm ...
9th: Federal Law Banning Child Porn Is Constitutional
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Congress can criminalize the private possession of commercial child pornography, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of A...
September 11 -- Plus Two
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - The legal community's bid to aid victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks took sharply divergent paths starti...
Court Baffles Finance-Law Pundits
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Before Monday's historic arguments over the constitutionality of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, most...
Bench Officer Finds Her Place
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Several months after her appointment to the bench, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Anne H. Egerton faced a daun...
School Should Ask Parents Before Police Question Kids
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Forum Column - By Robert DeKoven - A bill in the state Legislature (AB1012) would require school officials, with certain excep...
Panel Protects Equipment Leasing Industry
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Tuesday issued a groundbreaking ruling for the $200 billion equipment leasing industr...
Employer Is Strictly Liable for Supervisor's Sexual Demands
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Focus Column - Employment Law - By Anthony J. Oncidi - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has taken a significant step towa...