Federal Judiciary Claims Constitutional Turf in War on Terrorism
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - The federal judiciary has been acting decidedly feisty over the Bush administration's war on terroris...
Controversial Fund-Raising Firm Closes Doors
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - He promised a vision of a world made better through for-profit charity, personal transformation and allowing peo...
Justices Deny Schools' Right To Voluntary Desegregation
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Wednesday quietly ended decades of voluntary desegregation programs in Califor...
Arbitration Hoops
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By Alexander Polsky - Attorneys experienced in arbitration understand that one of the most valuable benefits of...
DA Puts Westerfield's Niece on Stand
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A niece of David A. Westerfield testified Wednesday that, when she was 7 years old, her uncle came into the darken...
Alioto, McCoy Face Off in Court
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Two years after they teamed together to win a record-setting race discrimination verdict against the makers of...
Arbitrator Rules Publisher Should Pay Damages
By Matthew Heller
SANTA BARBARA - In a case that mixed sex and a lawyer-client relationship, an arbitrator has ruled that wealthy newspaper publ...
Open Invitation for Trouble
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Robert W. Hahn - Should the California Legislature prohibit the purchase of commercial software by state age...
Businesses Shouldn't Rely on Nonacceptance Provisions
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Michael J. Kump - In a recent thought-provoking article concerning the limits of Business and Professions Co...
Man's Sentence Should Be Cut, Magistrate Says
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - An AIDS-stricken man who was zapped with a stun belt during his three-strikes trial should have his sentence red...
Pending Bills May Amend the Law on Background and Reference Investigations
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Barry J. Nadell - Most employers in California have heard about AB655, a bill authored by Assemblyman Roderi...
Arbitration Hoops
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By Alexander Polsky - Attorneys experienced in arbitration understand that one of the most valuable benefits of...
Open Invitation for Trouble
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Robert W. Hahn - Should the California Legislature prohibit the purchase of commercial software by state age...
Fulbright Gains Lyon's Managing Partner
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - As intellectual property boutique Lyon & Lyon plans to close its doors at the end of the week, the firm's Lo...
Lawyer Faces Time For Bilking Family
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - An Encino attorney will be sentenced Oct. 24 after pleading guilty to embezzling $138,000 from the estate of on...
Budget Woes Force Court to Cut Clerical, Student Positions
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Superior Court will lay off 150 newly hired clerical employees and student workers by the end of...
Charges Against Patricia Gray Are Dropped
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - After nearly two years of bitter counter-charges and an adverse U.S. Supreme ruling, the state Commission on J...
Lawmakers Hammer OutDeal on Defects In Construction
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - California's trial lawyers have agreed to limits on construction defect suits in exchange for restoring a consume...
DCA Mediators to Follow Rules
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The 1st District Court of Appeal has adopted ethics rules for arbitrators participating in the court's appella...
Cities Settle Suit Over Teen-Age Drug Informant
By Jenna Bordelon
SANTA ANA - The controversy over the use of juvenile drug informants deepened, with the cities of Brea and Yorba Linda agreein...
Elderly Exhibitionist Evades a Third Strike
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - An elderly man convicted of exposing himself in a park dodged a three-strikes 26-years-to-life sentence Monday w...
Trial Lawyer Appointed to Bench
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Gray Davis announced Tuesday he has appointed Walnut Creek trial lawyer Barry Baskin to the Contra Costa ...
Westerfield Has Several Sides: Inventor, Backyard Cook, Killer
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - The same man who a jury says kidnapped and murdered a 7-year-old girl also has been described as a cordial neighbo...
Westerfield Judge Bans Still Photography
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - The judge in the trial of David A. Westerfield, convicted last week of kidnapping and murdering 7-year-old Daniell...
Companies Should Carefully Research Potential Audit Firms
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Bruce Alan Mann - WorldCom, Enron, Global Crossing, Tyco - where will it end? The U.S. markets have been sha...
Hardly Academic
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Two years ago, an Oakland federal jury awarded $637,000 to a Sudanese Muslim mass communications scholar who ...
Terrorists, Animal Abusers Should Receive No Quarter
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Steven Zak - If I were empowered to redraft God's commandments, I'd start by adding two: "Thou shalt not com...
Limited Expression
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Emelyn Rodriguez - On top of the fallout from corporate accounting scandals that have racked the economy, Ca...
Terrorists, Animal Abusers Should Receive No Quarter
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Steven Zak - If I were empowered to redraft God's commandments, I'd start by adding two: "Thou shalt not com...
Orrick May Hire 15 From Lyon's Office in Irvine
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - San Francisco's Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe is close to acquiring as many as 15 attorneys from the Orange...