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...
High Court Protects Cops' Records from Defendants
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Monday made it more difficult for criminal defendants to gain access to police...
Bikers' Chains and Swastikas Are Protected
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Monday reminded state judges in Carson City, Nev., that the First Amendment protects l...
Flourishing Boutiques
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By Richard S. Levick - For more than 20 years, legal market pundits have been writing the obituary for small an...
Hallinan Splits Criminal Job in Two
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan has created a new position in his office by effectively splitting the leade...
Foreigners May Owe Estate Tax On Some Employee Stock Options
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Edward D. Burmeister and Jennifer B. George - Strange as it may seem, a foreigner who is neither a U.S. citi...
Westerfield's Attorneys Plan to Challenge Use of Death Penalty
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - San Diego Superior Court Judge William D. Mudd said Monday that he will hold a hearing today on a challenge to Cal...
Idea-Theft Suits Run Amok in Land of Celluloid Dreams
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - Never trust anyone in Hollywood, including your dog. Yes, I know this is rudimentary advice that hard...
Lawyers Are Witness to Tech Firms' Brief Life Cycle
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - Securities lawyers who relished the role of giving birth to companies are now playing the role of undertaker. ...
On Your Mark, Get Set, Wait
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Bay Area law firms that competed desperately for talent during the dot-com boom now are rolling up the welcome...
Boy Raped at School Can't Receive Award
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES -A boy who was raped repeatedly at age 11 by a counselor at a San Bernardino home for troubled children is not ent...
Spreading Out
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Alan Schlosser and Kyra Busby - The well-documented explosion in the prison population and the passage of st...
Engage Jurors With Open-Ended Questions
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By David H. Brickner - Many lawyers struggle with voir dire. How can you learn the most about the potential jur...
Shriveling Rural Legal Services
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - Jose Vallegas-Garcia, a migrant fruit picker, lives with his wife and 21-year-old son in a Chevy truck with a br...
Critic of Bar Runs for Board of Governors
By Don De Benedictis
LOS ANGELES - A persistent and prominent critic of the State Bar of California, Boalt Hall professor Stephen R. Barnett, is ru...
Court Lets Death Sentence Stand
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Monday reaffirmed a death sentence for a 1979 triple murderer over the objecti...
Engage Jurors With Open-Ended Questions
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By David H. Brickner - Many lawyers struggle with voir dire. How can you learn the most about the potential jur...
Flourishing Boutiques
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By Richard S. Levick - For more than 20 years, legal market pundits have been writing the obituary for small an...