Judges and Judiciary
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Court to Review Appeal-Level Argument of Race Bias in Jury Selection
By Itir Yakarn
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to take a new look at alleged racial bias in jury selection in a...
SAN FRANCISCO - Superior Court Judge Katherine Feinstein was appointed by the California Supreme Court Wednesday to the state ...
Government
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Vandal Can't Be Billed for City's 'Ugly' Gray Paint
By Laura Ernden
Santa Cruz City Council members didn't like the boring Plymouth Gray paint used to cover up graffiti on a retaining wall near ...
The Daily Journal presents its annual list of California’s top plaintiffs verdicts. The biggest verdict, $306.9 million and co...
FORUM COLUMN - By Robin J. Samuel and Laura M. Wilson - San Francisco's new mandatory paid-sick-leave ordinance is the stronge...
Nicole A. Tutt, an attorney and specialist in water and public agency law, died Monday after a yearlong battle with breast can...
WASHINGTON - A powerful Democratic woman from the Bay Area will play a key role pushing immigration reform in Washington, D.C....
Discipline
Appeals Panel Reinstates Rape Victim's Suit Against Her Lawyers
By Laura Ernden
An Escondido woman raped by an intruder in the laundry room of her apartment complex had the makings of a strong suit against ...
LOS ANGELES - Just two days after New York's Simpson Thacher & Bartlett upped the ante to $160,000 for starting associate ...
Florida lawyer Robert "Speedy" Udell says moving a trial forward gives him a courtroom edge, which may explain the hasty pace ...
Litigation
Geragos Says Jet Firm's Lawyer OK'd Installing Hidden Cameras
By Rebecca Beyer
LOS ANGELES - An attorney for a private jet company signed off on a plan to install hidden cameras on a plane used by Michael ...
His boss might have called him "my bitch" and "my boy toy," but that doesn't give a university employee the right to sue a man...
LOS ANGELES - George B. Newhouse Jr. is leaving his job as national chairman of the white-collar defense group at Thelen Reid ...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Brian T. Hafter - Try explaining to your 15-year-old who decides whether a claim is arbitrable. A seasoned l...
FORUM COLUMN - By Douglas N. Silverstein and Alexandra M. Steinberg - The 2nd District Court of Appeal and the California Supr...
LOS ANGELES - A celebration of life is scheduled Feb. 1 for Raoul Magana, one of the first inductees into the Consumer Trial A...
LOS ANGELES - Thirteen years ago, Dolores Macias' children testified that their mother intentionally drowned their 4-year-old ...
LOS ANGELES - State officials have temporarily blocked the release of a former Catholic priest convicted of molesting a boy to...
Environmental
Bankruptcy Puts Lumber Company's Environmental Deal in Doubt
By Dennis Pfaffn
SAN FRANCISCO - The bankruptcy of one of Northern California's favorite environmentalist targets, Pacific Lumber Co., may allo...
LOS ANGELES - When Robert B. Axel was elected a Superior Court commissioner in 1974 at age 31, he was the youngest bench offic...
Enough With the Warning Laws; Open Your Eyes
Despite warning signals, lawmakers seemed to be caught off-guard Monday by the U.S. Supreme Court's decision throwing out the ...
LOS ANGELES - Sidestepping lawyers from Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo's office, the City Council has retained an ...
RIVERSIDE - A lawyer representing a Riverside judge under fire for making untimely decisions and backdating civil case orders ...
The 2nd District Court of Appeal ruled last week that a Hollywood payroll company is obligated to pay crew personnel for an in...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Darlynn C. Morgan - Good doggies get more than nice sweaters. They get their own trusts. ...
FORUM COLUMN - By Robert E. Lyon - When is an IPhone just a plain old phone? We may find out during the trademark smackdown be...
A state appellate court Monday reduced the murder conviction of a Palmdale PONY League baseball player to voluntary manslaught...
FORUM COLUMN - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - It's high time the government lets Medicare negotiate lower prescription drug prices. ...
Government
Contenders Jockey to Become Judicial Appointments Secretary
By Amy Yarbroughn
SAN FRANCISCO - Just days after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's judicial appointments adviser John Davies announced his resignati...