Commissioner Enjoyed Serving Community
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - A funeral Mass will take place today for retired Los Angeles Municipal Court Commissioner Martin J. Blake Sr. Bl...
Judge Looks Forward to Leadership Position
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Gregory C. O'Brien Jr. is looking forward to traveling and meeting with his col...
Fingers Point at Sonoma Judge
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Anonymous critics of Sonoma County's $1 million settlement in the Maria Teresa Macias litigation have mounted ...
Orrick's Jeffrey White Going to U.S. Bench, Sources Say
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - The White House has selected Jeffrey S. White, a litigation partner at Orrick Harrington & Sutcliffe in Sa...
Owners Can Forfeit Trademark Rights If They Don't Exercise Quality Control
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Robert B. Burlingame - Trademark owners and their attorneys beware! As the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
Courting the Future
By Contributing Writer
Column by Sela Seleska - Implementing a quality summer program requires that firms coordinate many pieces and parts to create ...
Owners Can Forfeit Trademark Rights If They Don't Exercise Quality Control
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Robert B. Burlingame - Trademark owners and their attorneys beware! As the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
California Needs to Prepare Inmates for Life After Prison
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - California has the largest and most expensive prison system in the nation. The state is f...
Being Effective
By Columnist
Q & ADR - By Jeff Kichaven and Deborah Rothman - Question: How could the defense bar be more effective at mediation? - Ans...
The Road to Success
By Christina Landers
Attorney Thomas R. Kaufman started out his career as a plaintiffs' attorney, but knew he wanted to do employment law. ...
Show a Little Tenderness
By Columnist
In this week's Q&ADR, members of the plaintiffs' bar implore their defense brethren to show a little empathy toward plaint...
On the Same Page
By Christina Landers
Always arguing to get his way, a young F. Scott Page often heard comments from his family and friends that he would become an ...
Technology on Trial: 2
By Columnist
Column by Richard L. Charnley - Last week, Part I of this two-part series on technology in trial discussed setting up your tec...
Sealing Rules Have Created Some Ambiguities, Burdens
By Columnist
Focus Column - By James G. Snell and Huong T. Nguyen - NBC Subsidiary (KNBC TV) v. Superior Court, 20 Cal.4th 1178 (199...
Finance Specialist Heads for Sidley Austin
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - San Francisco-based Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has lost its Los Angeles managing partner to Chicago's Si...
Definition of 'Commercial' Porn Widened
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Prosecutors need not prove that people who post child pornography on the Internet are trying to profit financi...
Child Sex Abuse Statute Lengthened
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis signed legislation Thursday that gives young victims of sexual abuse more time to sue institution...
Mother of Girl Cited by Judges Opposes 'Under God' Decision
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - The mother of the girl named in the appeals court ruling that barred public school children from saying the word...
Judge Lifts Courtroom Ban on Victim's Father
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Little more than two weeks after he was banned from the courtroom as a security risk, the father of slain second-g...
'Mentally Disordered' Not Assumed 'Innocent'
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - When a civil jury is cloistered, deciding whether a "mentally disordered offender" is safe to release or should ...
State Bar Sues Lawyer Inmate for $30,000
By Jenna Bordelon
SANTA ANA - A former Orange lawyer serving eight years in prison for ripping off clients has been sued by the State Bar - for ...
Child at Center Of Pledge Suit Hires Lawyer, Mother Says
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The Elk Grove girl whose father said she was offended by saying "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance has go...
Limited Access
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - Is California's Medi-Cal program in compliance with federal and state law? As part of t...
Public-Interest Law Helps Attorneys and Communities
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - Participating in pro bono and public interest law work is a win-win situation. No...
Westerfield 'Matches' Abductor Profile, Police Say
By Jim Adamekn
SAN DIEGO - David A. Westerfield "matches FBI profiles" of a possible suspect in an abduction, according to a police affidavit...
When Punishment Isn't the Answer
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Raymond Davilla spends most of his weekdays meting out stern justice to juv...
Severe Sentencer Comes Down Hard on Violent Acts
By Tamara Scott
SANTA MARIA - A small tin can labeled "Arsenic" is carefully positioned on the edge of Judge Zel Canter's large walnut desk. I...
Split Fees
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By JoAnne Earls Robbins - Dividing legal fees with another attorney is not only legal in California, it also ca...
Court Sets Aside 20-Year-Old Murder Conviction
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - Memo from the appeals court to lower courts and the district attorney's office: Under Brady v. Maryland, ...
Taking Aim at Bush White House
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - Even under normal circumstances, a shareholders lawsuit filed in federal court against one of the biggest oil fir...