Family Law Judge Had Caring Temperament
By Jenna Bordelon
SANTA ANA - Services are planned for Oct. 17 for retired Orange County Superior Court Judge Myron S. Brown. Brown died Monday ...
Jury Scofflaws Study Is Alarmist, Judicial Council Says
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - A study released Wednesday by the American Tort Reform Association charges that too many Californians are dodg...
Ex-Trustee Files Appeal Of Sacking
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Linda Ekstrom Stanley, until recently the federal government's chief bankruptcy watchdog in San Francisco, sai...
Strange Bedfellows
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers who dread and deplore the massive bankruptcy overhaul bill currently before Congress can thank anti-ab...
Panel Tosses Man's Robbery Convictions
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court Wednesday threw out a San Diego man's robbery convictions because jurors were improperly ...
Movie Lawyer Spanks His Way to Romance
By Columnist
Dicta Column - Movie Review - By Stephen Zager - Lawyers are often portrayed in motion pictures as being incapable of true emo...
Moving Matters in Custody
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Gloria Allred and Michael Maroko - In 1996, the state Supreme Court in In Re Marriage of Burgess , 13...
Former City Attorney on the Bench
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Long before he was a lawyer, Ren Auguste Chouteau kept the company of judges. A fourth-generation San Francisc...
Settlement Talks in Earth First Bomb Case At a Standstill
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Earth First post-trial settlement talks went nowhere this week as opposing counsel disputed a $4.4 million fed...
Unpublished Case Sheds Light on Liability for Assault
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Michael Paul Thomas - Unpublished appellate opinions generally may not be relied on for precedent or even c...
Keep Emotions in Check
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By Alexander S. Polsky - What should a lawyer do on discovering that the terrific case just taken on is a dog a...
County Can't Locate 444 Kids in System
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - The largest foster care system in the nation has racked up another embarrassing statistic: It has lost 444 of th...
Judge Awards Senior $1 Million for MTA Injury
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge has awarded $1.36 million to a 97-year-old Los Angeles woman severely injured when a Red Lin...
Bart Simpson: Now Appearing in Country's Corporate Scandals
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - The country's corporate scandals are beginning to resemble an episode of "The Simpsons" in which Bart...
High Court Steps Into Blake Murder Case
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Taking up an appeal from a Hollywood actor jailed on murder charges, the California Supreme Court ordered Los ...
Anti-Abortionists Hope To Kill Bankruptcy Bill
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers who dread and deplore the massive bankruptcy overhaul bill currently before Congress can thank anti-ab...
Federal Circuit Has Jurisdiction In a Number of Different Areas
By Columnist
Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Laura M. Grisolano and Catherine Valerio - Barrad Twenty years ago this week, the U.S. Court...
Movie Lawyer Spanks His Way to Romance
By Columnist
Dicta Column - Movie Review - By Stephen Zager - Lawyers are often portrayed in motion pictures as being incapable of true emo...
Keep Emotions in Check
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By Alexander S. Polsky - What should a lawyer do on discovering that the terrific case just taken on is a dog a...
Federal Circuit Has Jurisdiction In a Number of Different Areas
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Laura M. Grisolano and Catherine Valerio Barrad - Twenty years ago this week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for ...
Moving Matters in Custody
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Gloria Allred and Michael Maroko - In 1996, the state Supreme Court in In Re Marriage of Burgess , 13...
Brobeck's Technology Chair Defects
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Continuing the defection of partners throughout its 11 offices, San Francisco-based Brobeck, Phleger & Harri...
Glaser Wins Award In Honor of Silbert
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles chapter of American Friends of the Hebrew University has awarded its inaugural Harvey L. Silbert...
Davis Signs Some Not All ADR Bills
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis has signed several bills that for the first time would regulate alternative dispute resolution pr...
Appeal Panel Orders State To Reimburse Poor Patients
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Medi-Cal's lack of a refund procedure mandated under federal law, coupled with a Catch-22 under state law, has...
Citizens Aren't Meeting Jury Duty Obligations, Study Finds
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Jury participation in Los Angeles County and other large urban centers of California is in serious trouble becau...
Davis Vetoes Bill as Threat To Attorney-Client Privilege
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - In a surprise move, Gov. Gray Davis vetoed a bill that would have protected lawyers for public agencies who repo...
Kuehl's SLAPP Bill Gets Vetoed
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Consumers will suffer because Gov. Gray Davis has vetoed legislation that would have barred businesses from filin...
Entertainment Lawyer Represented Sinatra
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Memorial services took place Tuesday for Harvey L. Silbert, a Los Angeles business and entertainment lawyer admi...
Justices Will Tackle Two Major Habeas Issues
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Returning from its summer recess, the Supreme Court announced Tuesday that, early next year, it will review two m...