SANTA MARIA - With more than 20 years' experience in family law, Santa Barbara County Superior Court Judge Arthur A. Garcia st...
A deeply divided state appellate court ruled Thursday that gays and lesbians don't have a constitutional right to marry. ...
The article "Firing a One-Eyed Referee Can Cost More Than 15 Yards" by John Lattin and published on Sept. 27, surprisingly ass...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Former Covina Judge Listens to Both Sides Now
By Gabe Friedmann
LOS ANGELES - Michael Rutberg realized early in his career that he didn't want to get caught up in the minutiae of running a l...
SAN FRANCISCO - Tenants of one of the city's largest apartment complexes filed a lawsuit Thursday claiming the owners used a r...
Labor/Employment
Never Underestimate the Purpose or Pitfalls of Performance Reviews
By Eric Berkowitzn
EMPLOYMENT COLUMN - By Jonathan Fraser Light - Annual performance reviews are a stressful time for both reviewers and employe...
SANTA ANA - Some missing pants and a recorded-over audio tape pushed the city of Costa Mesa to pay $225,000 to a family whose ...
LOS ANGELES - During tough times, companies often turn to lawyers to provide counsel and in some cases even assume internal le...
LOS ANGELES -A Cheesecake Factory shareholder has filed a lawsuit alleging that directors and executive officers at the restau...
FOCUS COLUMN - By William F. Sullivan and Morgan J. Miller - The successive waves of companies facing a barrage of option-rela...
SAN FRANCISCO - Assistant U.S. Attorney Haywood S. Gilliam Jr. will soon reunite with several mentors and colleagues he left a...
Judges and Judiciary
Prosecutor's Fiction Too Close to the Truth - She's Off the Case
By Laura Ernden
A Santa Barbara County prosecutor was removed from a rape case Thursday because she wrote a novel that bore a strikingly simil...
Government
State, Guards Union Make Case to Judge to Avoid Investigation
By Amelia Hansen
SAN FRANCISCO - A lawyer for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger told a federal judge Thursday that the governor knows he needs help re...
Judges and Judiciary
New President of Judges Group Will Work on Pension Reform
By Amy Yarbroughn
SAN FRANCISCO - Only months ago, the California Judges Association appeared on the brink of mutiny over whether to support man...
Judges and Judiciary
Faulting Prosecutors and Self, U.S. Judge Frees Bonds' Trainer
By Dennis Opatrnyn
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge blamed slow-moving federal prosecutors Thursday for leaving him no option but to release the w...
LOS ANGELES - When immigration agents showed up at Raymond Gerald Soeoth's San Gabriel home early one morning in 2004, the Ind...
DISBARMENTS
SACRAMENTO - California Attorney General Bill Lockyer charged five people Wednesday, including former Hewlett-Packard chairwom...
FORUM COLUMN - By Michael Heimbold and Dylan Ruga - For clothing designers, H.R. 5055 is the best thing to happen to the Ameri...
SAN FRANCISCO - As law firms compete at an ever-higher level for business, so too must they meet the challenges of attracting ...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Roles of Surgeons in Medical Device Firms Need Probing
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Eugene E. Elder - Earlier this month, the trade association that represents the medical device industry, Adv...
RIVERSIDE - Robert G. Spitzer, a Riverside County judge under fire for allegedly backdating several court orders to make them ...
Judges and Judiciary
Hearings on Executions Show Failure of Death-Penalty Experiment
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Ellen Kreitzberg - For a week in September, a federal courtroom in San Jose was filled with talk of death. I...
A Butte County real estate lawyer elected to a Superior Court judgeship in June got a boost into her new job Wednesday when Go...
Education
New Law Takes Step for L.A. Schools, but in What Direction?
By Eric Berkowitzn
FOCUS COLUMN - By Areva D. Martin - As the dust settles, families and pundits alike are left shaking their heads as Mayor Anto...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Unfinished Projects Top New Bar Leader's To-Do List
By Amy Yarbroughn
SAN FRANCISCO - If Sheldon Sloan had his way, attorneys would be killing each other with kindness, rather than resorting to di...
Government
Biotech Firms' Lawyers Argue Patent Law Before Supreme Court
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court grappled with a high-stakes patent case Wednesday to decide whether a company that pays ro...
SAN FRANCISCO - Ten years from the day California voters struck down government affirmative action programs, a conservative pu...
SAN JOSE - Apple Computer's former chief financial officer resigned from the company's board of directors Wednesday after a sp...
New Immigration Judges - Lori R. Bass, Alison E. Daw, A. Ashley Tabaddor and Frank M. Travieso have been sworn in as immigrati...