As a young attorney in the mid-1980s, Bruce E. Chan saw Asian-American defendants with drug problems shuffled in and out of Sa...
Law Practice
Beverly Hills Lawyer Draws Profitable Blood With Vampire Wine Business
By Emma Dewaldn
LOS ANGELES - In the dark of the Transylvania winter, the wine maker started screaming at the word "vampire." ...
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith has announced the opening of an office in Lafayette, La.
Judicial Profile
Santa Ana Judge Blends Common Sense and Intellect
By Don De Benedictis
SANTA ANA - Back when Orange County Superior Court Judge W. Michael Hayes was a lawyer and a police officer, it was common for...
LOS ANGELES - When your highest-earning client has been dead since 1962, it's time to start expanding your clientele. ...
SAN JOSE - Four plaintiffs' law firms were appointed co-lead counsel Thursday of a consolidated derivative complaint against o...
FORUM COLUMN - By Howard R. Weingrad and Sara L. Edelman - YouTube, the immensely popular video-sharing site, touts its more t...
Family
Family Code Should Not Ignore Realities of Daily Married Life
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Fred Silberberg - When people are married they generally take on specific roles within both their life as a...
Labor/Employment
Courts Give Employers Little Wiggle Room With Age Discrimination Laws
By Eric Berkowitzn
EMPLOYMENT COLUMN - By Leonid Zilberman - Exactly when a person becomes old is a matter of individual preference. ...
LOS ANGELES - Christine Masters, who once worked as a truck-stop waitress, owns an art gallery/bookstore on a British Columbia...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Panel Rejects Attempt to Manipulate Mediation Confidentiality
By Eric Berkowitzn
FOCUS COLUMN - By Joel M. Grossman - Can strict application of the rules on mediation confidentiality undercut a settlement? ...
Judges and Judiciary
A Woman Scorned: Is Clerk a Legitimate Whistle-Blower?
By Donna Domino
MONTEREY - She still has the wedding gown hanging in the back of her closet, never used. Longtime court clerk Crystal Powser s...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a move that could affect how law school entrance exams are administered, an Alameda County Superior Court j...
SAN FRANCISCO - Consumer attorneys will be watching closely as the California Supreme Court takes yet another look at Proposit...
Judges and Judiciary
Vernon Smith, 24-Year Veteran of Marin Bench, Will Retire
By Donna Dominon
SAN FRANCISCO - Marin County Superior Court's senior judge, Vernon F. Smith, will retire his gavel in January after 24 years o...
Litigation
Vioxx Judge May Issue Template Rulings for Controlling 4,000 Cases
By Meagan Yellottn
LOS ANGELES - With the number of Vioxx liability lawsuits against Merck & Co. climbing past 23,800 nationwide and the comp...
DISBARMENTS
SAN FRANCISCO - Minority female attorneys nationwide said they face exclusion from informal networks, inadequate institutional...
FORUM COLUMN - By Norm Kjono - German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer said. "All truth passes through three stages. First, it ...
Judges and Judiciary
Panel Grants Disability Retirement to Two Judges
By Paria Kooklann
LOS ANGELES - The state Commission on Judicial Performance has granted disability retirement to Los Angeles County Superior Co...
LOS ANGELES - In 1997, the first year the Minority Corporate Counsel Association gathered statistics, Fortune 500 companies co...
FORUM COLUMN - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - Currently, California is one of 13 states that still make a distinction in sentencing betw...
Intellectual Property
Court Will Wrestle With Standard for Obviousness in Patent Cases
By Eric Berkowitzn
FOCUS COLUMN - By Jeffrey A. McKinney and Julianne M. Sullivan - 'Obviousness," "motivation to combine," "teaching-suggestion-...
Large Firms
Law Firms Discover That Job Fairs Expand Ethnic, Gender Candidate Pool
By Emma Dewaldn
LOS ANGELES - They're on recruiting calendars everywhere - the Vault Legal Diversity Job Fair, the Sunbelt Minority Recruitmen...
SAN FRANCISCO - The mother of a young woman who died after using a popular birth-control patch sued the pharmaceutical company...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Patent Agent Wins Bar Group's Scholarship
By Alexa Hylandn
LOS ANGELES - The Federal Circuit Bar Association honored Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati patent agent Sharmila Pandharip...
ALHAMBRA - For a few days in January, Commissioner Michael J. Duffy's courtroom was packed with nuns in habits. ...
A state appellate court has slammed a Los Angeles attorney for derailing what should have been a simple divorce by inflaming t...
Judges and Judiciary
Panel Lets Mendocino DA Race Continue; Results Will Be Sealed
By Donna Dominon
SAN FRANCISCO - The Mendocino County district attorney's race may proceed Tuesday, but the results will be sealed pending furt...
Zoning, Planning and Use
School District Will Pay $3.4 Million for Widow's Land
By Jim Adamekn
REDLANDS - An 84-year-old widow will receive $3.4 million in exchange for her home site in rural San Bernardino County that a ...