Including an Opt-Out Provision Can Make Arbitration Clause Enforceable
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Michele C. Coyle and Margery M. Fernald - Can a California employer successfully avoid litigating the enforc...
Indians Get OK to Build Housing
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court ruled in favor of an American Indian tribe Wednesday in a Mendocino County land-use ba...
Sequestration Would Be Best in Westerfield Trial
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - After a two-month trial, the jury is still deliberating about whether David Westerfield murd...
Westerfield Jury Focuses First on Pornography
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - The jury in the David Westerfield murder trial first focused on the defendant's pornography collection, court file...
Screenwriter-Jurist Loves Doing Family Law Cases
By Jenna Bordelon
SANTA ANA - With two CBS television movies under his belt, Gale P. Hickman not only enjoys a thriving career as an Orange Coun...
DA to Charge Rape Suspect As an Adult
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco prosecutors will charge 17-year-old rape suspect Emmitt Lewis as an adult under Proposition 21, ...
Gun Liability Bill Annulling 'Navegar' Advances in Senate
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - A proposal to repeal the special exemption from civil liability enjoyed by gunmakers in California cleared the st...
Keeping an Eye on the Peepers
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Mark Schlosberg - Dear Attorney General Bill Lockyer, In order to ensure that intelligence-gathering practic...
Calling the Shots
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By The Rodent - Telephones, cell or otherwise, play an important part in the practice of law. They can also be ...
Good Days Illuminate Pleasures of Law
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By John Kortum - As days go for a lawyer representing garbage companies, the other day was a very good day - bu...
Insurer Has No Blanket Right to Privileged Information
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Kirk A. Pasich - One issue that frequently arises in disputes between insureds and their insurance carriers ...
Lerach Minimizes Importance Of Certifications of Financials
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - An hour before chief executives at hundreds of major public companies were due to certify their financial stateme...
Keeping an Eye on the Peepers
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Mark Schlosberg - Dear Attorney General Bill Lockyer, In order to ensure that intelligence-gathering practic...
Including an Opt-Out Provision Can Make Arbitration Clause Enforceable
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Michele C. Coyle and Margery M. Fernald - Can a California employer successfully avoid litigating the enforc...
Lempres to Join Ryan's Office
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Michael T. Lempres, a former vice president and general counsel for the Pacific Coast Stock Exchange, who also...
Seven Coca-Cola Employees File Overtime Complaints
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. - When Tina Cox took a job at Coca-Cola's Rancho Cucamonga distribution center, she said, her supervi...
Worth Waiting For
By Pamela Mac Lean
PASADENA - Judge Richard Paez, of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, has been called a lot of things. But the most surpris...
Liberals Win by Default At Annual ABA Meeting
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - In basketball, this is called a slam-dunk. That's how it felt at the American Bar Association's annual convention...
Police Arrest Roommate in Professor's Murder
By Jenna Bordelon
SANTA ANA - Police have arrested the roommate of Whittier Law School professor Joanne Stern for beating her to death last Marc...
Inglewood Case Moves to Torrance
By David Houston
INGLEWOOD - In what some legal experts viewed as a smart tactical move by the defense, the case against two Inglewood police o...
With Fire Wall in Place, Lawyer Needn't Be Tossed, Court Says
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A law firm should not be tossed off a case automatically because it hires a lawyer who once worked for the other...
Vietnamese-American Ascends to Bench
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles federal prosecutor has been appointed the first Vietnamese-American woman to sit on the Los Angele...
ABA Urges Swift Appointing of Federal Judges
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - The American Bar Association on Tuesday repeated, almost verbatim, proclamations it made in 1990 and 1997 by call...
Judge Temporarily Blocks Hospital Closure
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - A judge Tuesday temporarily blocked Tenet HealthSystem from shutting down Daniel Freeman Marina Hospital. Saying...
Bill Aids Default Fathers to Avoid Payments
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - A controversial measure that would permit judges to set aside many paternity judgments based on newly conducted D...
Parties Should Make Arbitration Process Choices in the Contract
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Richard Chernick - Drafters of arbitration clauses are sometimes careless in identifying how the contemplate...
Litigator Teri Jackson Joins S.F. Bench
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran prosecutor and litigator Teri L. Jackson has become San Francisco's first black female judge following...
Westerfield Judge Refuses Reporter Entry
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - The judge presiding over the trial of David Westerfield refused Tuesday to readmit a radio reporter he barred from...
Political Pawns
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Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - "Farmers near Mexico City guard their land with machetes in an effort to keep it from be...
Employee, 85, Loses Her Harassment Suit
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - An employee of CalArts who sued the school for sexual harassment after it displayed a sexually graphic drawing o...