Industry Watch - By D. Heimpel - She's the only eighth-grader with her white polo shirt - part of her school uniform - untucke...
Law Practice
Board Favors Insurance Disclosure but Disagrees on Specifics
By Amy Yarbroughn
LOS ANGELES - It's back to the drawing board for a controversial proposal to require attorneys to tell their clients that they...
Government
Discipline Woes Might End Illustrious and Embattled Career
By Amy Yarbroughn
For the past four years, Richard I. Fine has been fighting State Bar misconduct charges and is now in jeopardy of being disbar...
LOS ANGELES - New Jersey-based Merck & Co. is still taking its Vioxx-related litigation one case at a time. But now, inst...
Industry Watch - By Devan McClaine - Although he's not a practicing attorney, Daniel Velton isn't waiting to make an impact on...
Riverside County prosecutors say 1,600 people, including Paul Hering, entrusted Heath & Associates with their savings and ...
With Honors
On the Move
As presiding judge of the Alameda Superior Court, George C. Hernandez Jr. has to please judges, commissioners, community ...
Richard H. Millen talks about mediation in an almost-mystical way, but he's decidedly down-to-earth in his approach. The 87-ye...
Government
Emissions Lawsuit Against EPA Garners Support of 14 States
By David Houstonn
SACRAMENTO - Fourteen states pledged to support a lawsuit Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger filed Thursday demanding the federal Envi...
Employment Column - By Karen L. Gabler and Jenna H. Strauss - New technological developments make it easier than ever for empl...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Should Security Concerns or Moral Leadership Win Out in Genocide Debate?
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By John A. Hall - The passage of a congressional resolution condemning the Armenian Genocide would have given t...
Forum Column - By Richard M. Mosk - A new book on former California Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh recalls the Golden State's po...
Focus Column - By Larry Steinberg - A case argued before the California Supreme Court earlier this week may alter fundamentall...
Verdicts
Elderly Driver Will Pay Family of Killed Cyclist $12.5 Million
By Rebecca U. Cho
LOS ANGELES - Thousand Oaks dental surgeon Glenn Garvin was riding in the bicycle lane with a friend in the fall of 2006 when ...
SANTA ANA - A special faculty committee at the University of California, Irvine, has concluded that the campus's chancellor ma...
SAN FRANCISCO - A woman who was fired from her data entry job after taking leave to treat a skin condition has won a $353,000 ...
SAN JOSE - Lois Abraham describes her legal career as a bit of an accident, that of a mother in her late 30s who decided to go...
SAN JOSE - Attorneys representing former KLA-Tencor Corp. Chief Executive Officer Kenneth Schroeder, facing civil charges as w...
ADR Column - By Alexander S. Polsky - The mediation process can often be fraught with emotional considerations that lead clien...
LOS ANGELES - In a rare criminal denaturalization case, a Santa Ana jury has convicted a man born in Afghanistan of lying on h...
A ship that hit a tower of the San Francisco Bay Bridge on Wednesday and fouled local waters with 58,000 gallons of bunker oil...
This week, top officials from Emeryville-based LeapFrog Enterprises were scheduled to be somewhere no California executive wan...
California Supreme Court
Oil Companies Push to Publish Favorable Ruling
By Laura Ernden
SAN FRANCISCO - After the California Supreme Court dropped from its docket last week a multimillion-dollar toxic-tort suit bec...
As pandemonium reigned around them, Steve Finn and Brock Gowdy had a rule: keep smiling. It was January 2003, and the two part...
WASHINGTON - A key witness in the lawsuit accusing phone giant AT&T of unlawfully cooperating with the government's survei...
Focus Column - By Michael L. Fox - California will have to reform its jury instructions if it hopes to get toxic-tort cases un...
Forum Column - By Adam Thierer - Those who tout regulations that would force cable television companies to provide channels a ...
LOS ANGELES - Dole Food Co. was aware that a pesticide it used on banana plantations in Nicaragua could harm its workers, but ...