Workers' Compensation Attorneys Fight Against Sell-Out Compromise
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - Workers' compensation attorneys and labor unions are making a final push in the waning days of the legislative s...
Shaken 20th Century Sues Quake Contractor
By Denise Levin
Putting a new twist on a novel anti-insurance fraud statute, 20th Century Insurance Co. has sued a contractor for allegedly s...
Veteran Litigator Hugh P. Chindlund, 52, Dies
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Hugh P. Chindlund, a veteran trial attorney, has died following a three-month battle with colon cancer. He was 52...
Veteran Lawyer May Join Furrow Team
By Martin Bergn
A veteran of several high-profile death penalty cases, including the Unabomber's, has been asked to join the defense team for...
Internet Theoretician Will Join Boalt Hall Faculty
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - In a coup for Boalt Hall School of Law, prominent e-commerce theoretician Mark A. Lemley has been recruited t...
Zapped Third-Strike Thief Gets 25 Years to Life
By Michael Harris
The convicted three-strikes thief who was zapped with a 50,000-volt stun belt for repeatedly interrupting a judge during sent...
Justices Hear Arguments on Media Shield Law
By David Kravetz
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers argued Wednesday before the California Supreme Court over the scope of the state media shield law, a ...
Watered-Down Disqualification Bill Signed Into Law
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Gov. Gray Davis signed a watered-down bill Wednesday that will tighten the requirements for defense attorneys who ...
Judge Tosses Trade-Secret Theft Allegations
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A federal judge has thrown out some of the trade secrets theft allegations brought in Cadence Design Systems' civi...
Some Defendants Won't Take Harassment Suits Lying Down
By Patricia Jocobus
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco businessman Russell Jacobus knew his special friendship with the female office administrator wa...
Ventura Deputy Picked to Lead Troubled Riverside PD's Office
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Gary Windom, senior supervising deputy public defender in Ventura County, has been selected as Riverside County's...
Howrey, Arnold White to Form Largest IP Firm
By Leslie Gordon
SAN FRANCISCO - In a move that will create a 470-attorney national law firm, Howrey & Simon will merge with Arnold White ...
Judge Questions Constitutionality of Holocaust Law
By Denise Levin
A judge Monday questioned the constitutionality of a California law that allows Holocaust survivors and their heirs to sue fo...
Ventura Bar Adopts a Code of Civility
By From Staff Reports
The Ventura County Bar Association board of directors recently adopted basic "Guidelines for Professional Conduct and Civility...
Era Error
By Columnist
By Joseph R. Giannini Like Rip Van Winkle, the majority in Warden v. State Bar of California, 99 Daily Journal D.A.R. 8877 (A...
Decision on Curfew Law Put on Hold
By Lauren Bartlett
Decision on Curfew Law Put on Hold The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to put off for one week a decisi...
Limits on Internet Access Scrutinized
By Lauren Bartlett
Limits on Internet Access Scrutinized Without any discussion, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to or...
Just Between Us
By Columnist
^^Alternative Dispute Resolution^^ Just Between Us Arbitration Award Will Not Have Collateral Estoppel Effect The court held ...
Business Welfare Program
By Columnist
By Robert A. Levy Here it is, the centerpiece of the government's crusade against Microsoft, verbatim from its 800-page propo...
Ukiah Litigator Picked to Head Pacific Lumber
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Jared Carter, a sometimes acid-tongued Ukiah attorney who has long represented Pacific Lumber Co., on Aug. 31...
Plaintiffs' Bar Agrees to Bad-Faith Compromise
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - The plaintiffs' bar has struck a deal with major insurers on compromise legislation that would increase insuranc...
Lawyers to Get Pay Boost
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - Some 3,000 state-employed attorneys and administrative law judges would get 8 percent raises, plus salary step i...
Notification Suit Settled by Fry's Electronics Store
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A second national retail chain has agreed to settle a lawsuit targeting it for allegedly deceiving customers by fa...
Returning Congress Faces Full Plate
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - Washington's traditional summer slumber has ended, and many lawmakers probably wish they could hit the snooze bu...
No-Body Case Nets 26 Years
By Michael Harris
A transient who was convicted of first-degree murder even though the victim's body has never been found was sentenced Monday ...
North County Finds a Home
By Martin Kruming
^^San Diego Watch / Martin Kruming^^ The Bar Association of Northern San Diego County has moved into a new building, but the ...
Further Recusals Sought in Murder Retrial
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Extraordinary legal maneuvers are promised in a hearing on a motion to dismiss a murder case on the grounds of pr...
Suit Claims Diversity Program Violates Civil Rights
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Flush with a state appellate victory curtailing San Jose's minority hiring program, proponents of Proposition...
Suit Threated Over Ban of Gun Sales at Shows
By Lauren Bartlett
The final approval Tuesday by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors of an ordinance banning the sale of guns and ammuni...
Witnesses Recant in 19-Year-Old Murder
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - Orange County Public Defender Carl Holmes argued before a jury nearly two decades ago that there was not enough e...