One-on-One
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By Beth E. Kellermann - A firm's managing partner stared at the spreadsheet in disbelief. He always had feared...
Suit Slams Plan to Drain Too Much Water From Salton Sea
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Authorities' plans to drain too much water from the Salton Sea would threaten dozens of species of rare birds and ...
Swept Away
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - Coastal property owners are used to coping with disasters. That seems to go with the ter...
Brobeck Loses Litigator to Piper Rudnick
By Toni Vranjes
LOS ANGELES - The exodus of partners from Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison continues, with litigation partner Perrie M. Weiner ...
Riverside Jurist Faces Disciplinary Hearing
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - The Commission on Judicial Performance has set Oct. 21 as the date for a disciplinary proceeding on charges agains...
Westerfield Jury Deliberates: Life or Death?
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - After a day of emotional testimony and final arguments from attorneys, the jury that found David Westerfield guilt...
Justice Denies Request to Stay DNA Testing
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday gave the green light for California prison officials to begin collecting DNA ...
Asian Expansion Requires Rational Risk Assessment
By Columnist
Focus Column - By John W. Brooks - The frisson of expanding overseas is beginning to come again to an increasing number of U.S...
Law and Motion Judge Does a Lot of Both
By Joel Rosenblatt
SACRAMENTO - When Judge Loren McMaster and his wife, Anne, drove from Sacramento to San Francisco to enjoy a couple of San Fra...
Having Written the Bible on DUI, Is He Being Martyred?
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Willits defense lawyer Edward J. "Fast Eddy" Kuwatch, the self-proclaimed guru of drunken driving law, has fal...
High Court Hears Valley Trade Secrets Case
By Craiq Anderson
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court was asked Wednesday to decide how the theft of trade secrets should be treated un...
Toppling Rights
There is no area in which the individual predilection of judges more consistently subverts the rule of law, common sense and b...
San Diego Judge Gets U.S. Attorney Position
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A local Superior Court judge who earlier was a federal prosecutor specializing in economic crimes became U.S. atto...
Judge Took on High-Profile Assassination Trial
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Funeral services will be Saturday for retired Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge M. Ross Bigelow, who died ...
Kennewick Man Turns Over in His Grave, Runs Into Legal Trouble
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - Kennewick Man's journey through eternity has not been an easy one. Moreover, the evidence suggests th...
Court Dubious of Damage Claims
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The Supreme Court showed little interest Wednesday in allowing individuals to bring damages suits for alleged ...
Bill Banning Executions Of Retarded Fails to Pass
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - A measure that would have implemented the U.S. Supreme Court's ban on executing the mentally retarded was among t...
Give 'Em a Break
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By Richard J. Simmons - California law requires law firms to provide their employees meaningful opportunities f...
Marketing Brand By Marketing Concepts
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - A runner crosses a finish line. A pianist leafs through sheet music. A sculptor molds a clay pot. These are al...
Peers Pick Assistant For Presiding Judge
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Assistant Presiding Judge Robert Dukes was nominated for presiding judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court Wedne...
My Magnificent Adventure in the Jury Box
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By The Rodent - Having practiced law for several years, it's strange to say that I've only been to court once. ...
My Magnificent Adventure in the Jury Box
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By The Rodent - Having practiced law for several years, it's strange to say that I've only been to court once. ...
Give 'Em a Break
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By Richard J. Simmons - California law requires law firms to provide their employees meaningful opportunities f...
Toppling Rights
There is no area in which the individual predilection of judges more consistently subverts the rule of law, common sense and b...
Stretching the Constitution
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The headlines were scandalous: "UC: Employee Suspected of Misusing Funds." And: "UC Davis Medical School Disci...
Entertainment Lawyer Worked on TV Shows
By Sandra Corrales
LOS ANGELES - Memorial services for Los Angeles entertainment attorney P. Scottye Hedstrom will take place Thursday in Burbank...
Battle, Not Fame, Attracts Judge
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - The blue eyes change shades like the ocean before a storm and finally turn a flat gray, with just the beginning of...
9th Circuit Upholds Mandatory Arbitration
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Overturning one of its own major precedents, a split federal appeals panel held Tuesday that workers may be co...
Justices Do Lunch, a Lot, in High-Court Splendor
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The common wisdom is that the current Supreme Court justices have little contact with one another outside the req...
Girl With Kidney Disease Can't Get Punitives From Sperm Bank
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A 13-year-old girl who inherited severe kidney disease from a sperm donor cannot ask for punitive damages from t...