False Imprisonment Suit Advances
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A judge refused Tuesday to dismiss a woman's false imprisonment suit against Santa Clara County authorities for all...
Conflicts of Interest
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Phillip Feldman - Lawyers' conflicts of interest generally involve either "serving two masters" ( Flatt v...
Counsel Can Use Statistical Methods to Assess Patent Risk
By Columnist
Focus Column - By James E. Hopenfeld - It has become conventional wisdom - and rightly so - that a strong patent portfolio is ...
Litigation Costs Of Foster Care Worry Official
By Cheryl Romo
LOS ANGELES - Six weeks after Supervisor Gloria Molina chastised county counsel for spending too much on outside defense attor...
Once a Player, Now She's a Referee
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - For 10 years, Sharon Chatman was head coach of the women's basketball team at San Jose State University. Today, aft...
Under Pressure
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By Richard S. Levick - Welcome to the age of corporate enlightenment, where new levels of stockholder and journ...
Judge Ponders If He Can Rule on Slate Mailer Provision
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - A federal judge said Monday he is willing to grant a preliminary injunction to prevent the state from requiring c...
Court Reverses $10 Million Award
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES -A state appellate court reversed a nearly $10 million award against Allstate Insurance Co. on Monday because the ...
Resolve Tax Treatment Before Settlement Agreement Is Signed
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Focus Column - By Robert W. Wood - If you receive payment from a client, will you receive an Internal Revenue Service 1099 for...
Educator Was Expert on Commercial Code
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Lawrence D. Lee Jr., one of the founding faculty members at California Western School of Law, has died at his Carl...
Smoke From Medi-Pot Policy Debate Casts Haze, Sparks Headache
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - The winds of change are blowing a lot of dope smoke lately. From California to Nevada to Washing ton,...
Monterey Judge Quits, Joins JAMS
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Richard Silver, Monterey County's longest-serving superior court judge, has retired after 25 years on the benc...
Supreme Court Rejects Duress As a Defense For Murder
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Duress cannot be a defense to murder, the state Supreme Court ruled Monday in a case that reaffirms a traditional...
Court Broadens Awards for Housing Bias
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - In a victory for tenants rights advocates, California's civil rights enforcement agency won permission Monday ...
Partner Defections Need Not Be Devastating
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Dicta Column - By Robin Gerber - Every law firm's worst nightmare is being played out in the news pages of legal newspapers an...
ACLU Executive Tackles New Challenge
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Linda Hills likes visual reminders. A framed photograph of the March on Washington in 1963, when Martin Luther Kin...
Lawyer Loses Bid to Lift Injunction Against Him
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A Rancho Cucamonga family lawyer who threatened last year to "descend like a herd of buffaloes" on a former clie...
Jury Finds Bank Guilty of Fraud
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court jury has socked a large commercial bank with a $9 million fraud verdict that could signal a n...
Partner Defections Need Not Be Devastating
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By Robin Gerber - Every law firm's worst nightmare is being played out in the news pages of legal newspapers an...
Under Pressure
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By Richard S. Levick - Welcome to the age of corporate enlightenment, where new levels of stockholder and journ...
Balancing Act
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Lawrence J. Fox - While lawyers have watched their 401(k) accounts sink to levels that will keep all of us w...
Resolve Tax Treatment Before Settlement Agreement Is Signed
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Robert W. Wood - If you receive payment from a client, will you receive an Internal Revenue Service 1099 for...
Smoke From Medi-Pot Policy Debate Casts Haze, Sparks Headache
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams -The winds of change are blowing a lot of dope smoke lately. From California to Nevada to Washington, D...
O'Melveny Lands Private Equity Firm O'Sullivan
By Liz Valsamis
O'Melveny & Myers is only 159 attorneys shy of reaching the 1,000-attorney mark, thanks to its recent acquisition of 88-la...
Bond Issue Funds New Museum in San Francisco
By Toni Vranjes
Partner Adam Sachs and associate Mary King of San Francisco' Folger Levin & Kahn represented two nonprofit organizations t...
Sorry, the Check's Not in the Mail
By Columnist
BY MATTHEW J. SHIER The reality that the recession likely will not be short-lived has crept into the consciousness of even the...
$30 Million Arbitration Award Boosts Moviemakers' Lawyer
By Katherine Gaidos
Patrick Cathcart, whose practice often focuses on insurance coverage litigation or professional liability, has proved he can s...
Mediator's Golden Rule in Caucus? Confidentiality
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Column by Jill Fannin - A significant portion of most mediations is spent "in caucus," with the mediator talking privately wit...
Hanson Bridgett Elevates Trio To Firm's Section Leadership
By Staff Writer
Hanson, Bridgett, Marcus, Vlahos & Rudy has named Allan Jergesen, Patrick Glenn and Lawrence Cirelli the leaders of its 12...
Appellate Academy Welcomes Attorney From Snell & Wilmer
By Eron Yehuda
Richard A. Derevan, a partner at Irvine's Snell & Wilmer, recently became a member of the exclusive American Academy of Ap...