Insect Debate Continues in Trial
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A forensic entomologist called by defense lawyers said Thursday that the body of Danielle van Dam was first expose...
Court Dumps Death Sentence For Faulty Instructions to Jury
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A sharply divided federal appeals court panel on Thursday overturned the 20-year-old death sentence of William...
Court OKs Refiling After Dismissal of Charges
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors can upgrade a misdemeanor to a felony even if the original charges have been dismissed, a state appe...
Movement In Cooley's Tech Group
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - Eight attorneys in Cooley Godward's technology transactions group will be transferred from the firm's San Fran...
Don't Be Persuaded to Stay After You Decide to Leave
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Craig A. Blumin - My sister-in-law just received an attractive offer for a job with a new employer. Aft...
Legal Scholar's Book Blanketed Nation's Law Schools
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Gerald Gunther, a Stanford law professor and constitutional law scholar who wrote a textbook used by thousands of...
Defense Makes Opening Gambit in Murder Trial
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Defense lawyers in the Symbionese Liberation Army murder case contend that star prosecution witness Patricia H...
Judge Sets PG&E Reorganization Timetable
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - The climactic court tests of rival bankruptcy reorganization plans proposed by Pacific Gas and Electric Co. an...
Constitutional Scholar Gerald Gunther
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Gerald Gunther, a Stanford law professor and constitutional law scholar who wrote a textbook used by thousands of...
Order Outlines the Procedures For Many Bankruptcy Motions
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Wesley H. Avery - The Bankruptcy Court of the Central District of California identified a need for new rules...
Cooley Transfers Eight to Firm Headquarters
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - Eight attorneys in Cooley Godward's technology transactions group will transfer from the firm's San Francisco ...
Senate OKs Judge For Eastern District
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - The Senate on Thursday unanimously confirmed Morrison Cohen England Jr. to serve a lifetime appointment as a fede...
Striking an Accord
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By Steve Cerveris - Mediations often don't come naturally to trial lawyers. In fact, many of the litigation tec...
Memories of Murder
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Star prosecution witness Patricia Hearst should have her head examined, defense lawyers in the Symbionese Libe...
Lawyer Probing Rampart Requests Transcripts
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Frustrated by her inability to penetrate the Los Angeles Police Department, a lawyer investigating the Rampart s...
Black Lawyers Gather in S.F.
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - The National Bar Association, the nation's largest and oldest organization of black lawyers, will induct eight...
Subsequent Embrace of Religion Is Mitigation
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A sharply divided federal appeals court panel on Thursday overturned the 20-year-old death sentence of William...
Polyglot State
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Mark McCaffrey - It's not exactly a runaway train, but bodies may soon be flying, anyway. SB371, the Court I...
U.S. Attorney Disputes Poor Conviction Rates
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Disputing a highly publicized university study, San Diego federal prosecutors said their conviction rate for ill...
Public Defender Might Avoid Contempt
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A Riverside judge Thursday ordered the county's highest-ranking public defender to appear in court next month to e...
Striking an Accord
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By Steve Cerveris - Mediations often don't come naturally to trial lawyers. In fact, many of the litigation tec...
Don't Be Persuaded to Stay After You Decide to Leave
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Craig A. Blumin - My sister-in-law just received an attractive offer for a job with a new employer. Aft...
Polyglot State
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Mark McCaffrey - It's not exactly a runaway train, but bodies may soon be flying, anyway. SB371, the Court I...
State Court Cleans Up Corporation Case Law
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Corporate directors have a right to see the company's business records - and to share them with stockholders - u...
Communication 101
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By Betty Morris - "Communication," as defined by the Encarta Dictionary, is the exchange of information between...
Dispatchers' Duty of Care Gets Review
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether 911 dispatchers can be held liable for neglige...
Parents' Suit Against Ford Gets Delayed
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - The 2nd District Court of Appeal has temporarily halted the trial of a lawsuit against Ford Motor Co. and a Visa...
Trend Against Liability for Third-Party Attacks Continues
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Michael Paul Thomas - Increasingly over the past decade, lawsuits seeking to hold property owners liable for...
Panel Appointed to Think About Hastings Parking Lot
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Hastings College of the Law named four members Wednesday to a development panel assigned to rethink a much-cri...