'Collaborative Divorce' Can Prevent 'War of the Roses'
By Christina Landers
Married couples going through divorce might find they suddenly relate to the battles waged in the 1989 movie "The War of the R...
Advertising Has Come a Long Way, Baby
By John Ryan
Lawyer jokes are a dime a dozen, but advertisements for legal services may be even more fertile ground for ridicule. Obnoxious...
Attorney Moves His Labor Practice Across the Bay
By Staff Writer
Burton Boltuch has moved his labor and employment practice closer to home, relocating from San Francisco's Gordon & Rees t...
Value Engineering
By Columnist
BY RICHARD HAMPEL Imagine a company or developer that's planning to build a new Class A office building with all the latest t...
Rutan & Tucker's IP Practice Attracts Litigator to Outpost
By Liz Valsamis
Ron Oines has dumped his of-counsel title with San Francisco-based Morrison & Foerster for a piece of the partnership at C...
Distribution Company Leases 112,000-Square-Foot Facility
By Ron Mc Nees
Hitachi Transport System (America) Ltd., the largest warehousing, logistics and distribution company in the Otay Mesa region, ...
Varian Foes Want to Know Who's Behind The Threats
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A legal grudge match over defamatory posts on an Internet message board has taken a new twist. Oakland attorney Jon...
DA Promotes Guilfoyle and Clark
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - As part of a management shake-up, San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan has promoted dog-mauling ca...
9th Circuit Judge Criticizes Conservatives on High Court
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The conservative, resident theologian of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge John T. Noonan Jr., has ...
Penalty Phase Puts Focus on Westerfield
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - David A. Westerfield's lawyers may call to the stand psychiatrists who specialize in the effects of alcohol on beh...
9th Circuit Revisits Web Access, Ruling With Snooper
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has held that snooping in private Web sites on the Internet does not vio...
Civil Litigator Mentored Many Young Lawyers
By Sandra Corrales
SAN DIEGO - Services for civil litigator Thomas M. Dymott will take place Tuesday in San Diego. Dymott died Wednesday at Sharp...
Prison Rehabilitation Program Can Require Confession
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Laurie L. Levenson - The Fifth Amendment may state that no person "shall be compelled in any criminal case t...
UCLA Professor Fills Open Seat on L.A. Superior Court
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - UCLA law professor and media commentator John Shepard Wiley Jr. is one of four new judges appointed to Los Angel...
Frederick's Submits Reorganization Plan
By Toni Vranjes
Lingerie company Frederick's of Hollywood, which bared its financial problems to the world two years ago, expects to emerge fr...
Precautionary Principle May Do More Harm Than Good
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Gregory Conko and Juan Carlos Hidalgo - Residents of a city facing a permanent threat from earthquakes know ...
Once upon a time, "ambiguity" was king in California with respect to interpreting an insurance policy. But now, "context" is k...
9th Circuit Ponders Appeals In Sex.com Piracy Lawsuit
By Staff Writer
Gary Kremen, owner of sex.com, sounds jaunty, speaking on his cell phone after a trip from his office in San Francisco to his ...
9th Circuit Judge Criticizes Conservatives on High Court
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The conservative, resident theologian of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge John T. Noonan Jr., has ...
Wilsoni Sonsini Withdraws From Merger Talks
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Disagreements over revenues, compensation and partner-to-associate ratios forced Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Good...
Race, Politics and Police Brutality
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - A few days after the slaying of Margaret Laverne Mitchell, a middle-aged, African-Am...
Jurist Declares Airport Initiative Unconstitutional
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - A Burbank voter initiative passed in October that limited expansion of the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport was...
Cow County Judge Meets Bears
By Hudson Sangree
MARKLEEVILLE - In Alpine County, where the wildlife shares half a million pristine acres with only 1,200 humans, bears come w...
Real Estate Attorney Lived for Practicing Law
By Sandra Corrales
LOS ANGELES - Services for real estate attorney Brian J. Kennedy, who practiced law in Los Angeles for 50 years, will take pla...
Lack of Statewide Standards Imperils Medi-Pot Movement
By Jeffrey Anderson
Medical marijuana advocates have pushed a proposal to strengthen the Compassionate Use Act, known as Proposition 215, to withi...
Precautionary Principle May Do More Harm Than Good
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Gregory Conko and Juan Carlos Hidalgo - Residents of a city facing a permanent threat from earthquakes know ...
Once upon a time, "ambiguity" was king in California with respect to interpreting an insurance policy. But now, "context" is k...
Davis Picks Mediator for Alameda Judgeship
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Jo-Lynne Q. Lee, a specialist in alternative dispute resolution, was appointed Thursday to the Alameda County ...
Media Companies Seek High-Tech Weapons to Fight Pirates
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Harrison J. Dossick - According to published reports, Bruce Springsteen's recent release, "The Rising," was ...
Raising the Dead
By Peter Blumberg
OAKLAND - To prosecutors, Ralph International Thomas is a sexual predator who deserves to be executed for the 1985 murders of ...