SAN FRANCISCO - California's judicial watchdog agency has accused Monterey County Superior Court Judge Jose A. Velasquez of co...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
California Mediators Will Join Negotiation Conference
By Tamadhur Alaqeeln
LOS ANGELES - The International Academy of Mediators, many of whose members were trained at Pepperdine University's Straus Ins...
Labor/Employment
With 'Friends' at High Court, Harassment Rules Come Clear
By David Minkown
Focus Column - By Anthony J. Oncidi - In a far-reaching opinion with important implications for all employers, the California ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Avid Biker Sits on Superior Court's ADR Panel
By Kenneth Davis
LOS ANGELES - What David A. Stephens likes best about his work as a mediator is his interactions with good lawyers. "I like d...
Constitutional Law
'Harper' Protects Gay Sensitivities, Not Free Speech
By David Minkown
Forum Column - By Robert D. Richards and Clay Calvert - Does the First Amendment guarantee of free speech protect a public hig...
This fall, civil cases headed to the 3rd District Court of Appeal may take a mediation detour first. The Sacramento-based cou...
Product Liability
Drug Company to Pay $500 Million for Making Misleading Claim
By Donna Dominon
SAN FRANCISCO - A pharmaceutical giant has agreed to pay nearly $500 million to settle false advertising claims involving a co...
SAN JOSE - A jury rejected claims Thursday by a South Bay multimedia company that Bank of America misappropriated the software...
Judges and Judiciary
Feinstein Faces Long Odds in Fight to Keep Seat for a Californian
By Amy Kalinn
WASHINGTON - Sen. Dianne Feinstein's gamble hasn't yet paid off. The Democrat from California is attempting to block a nomine...
LOS ANGELES - When a deputy sheriff's employment history becomes part of an appeal to the county civil service commission, tha...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Bar Exam Brings Probation for Federal Employee
By Dennis Opatrnyn
SAN FRANCISCO - Farinaz Zahrai has decided taking the Bar exam in another state might get her a license to practice law. This ...
LOS ANGELES - When Mimin Mintarsih took the witness stand in Los Angeles this month, the petite Indonesian native recounted a ...
Education
Attorneys Weigh Challenging Tickets to Student Protesters
By Sandra Hernandezn
LOS ANGELES - Civil rights attorneys insist students can participate in Monday's marches to protest proposed changes in immigr...
REDLANDS - Each morning, 83-year-old Ellen Disparte gets up at dawn. She tends her vegetable garden and lugs buckets of food t...
SANTA ANA - Prosecutors, be careful what you promise in plea bargains. That's the underlying message of a federal appellate d...
Judicial Profile
Keeping Youngsters From Crossing the Line to Delinquency
By Susan Mcraen
LOS ANGELES - When it comes to children, Los Angeles County Dependency Court Commissioner Marilyn H. Mackel is all business. ...
SUSPENSIONS - Scott John Flores, 46, San Diego (March 10) - By Supreme Court order, dated March 10, the court's previous order...
LOS ANGELES - After clerking for the chief justice of the United States, after founding and growing one of the nation's most ...
Letter to the Editor - I enjoyed your front-page article about teaching today's law students about the 1992 Rodney King riots,...
Focus Column - By Jeffrey S. Galvin - An unsolicited fax that touts a vacation package may be lawful if sent from Las Vegas bu...
SAN FRANCISCO - As one of Google's top lawyers, Miriam Rivera is right in the thick of it. The high-flying Internet search en...
Judges and Judiciary
Top Court Weighs Inmate's Right to Challenge Execution
By Amy Kalinn
A highly engaged U.S. Supreme Court grappled Wednesday with whether a Florida death row inmate should have the opportunity to ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals revived the hot legal debate over medical marijuana Wednesday by reversi...
SACRAMENTO - With the fifth-largest economy in the world, California offers a political playground too important for corporati...
LOS ANGELES - Moving to bolster its position to compete for class action and securities litigation, Lerach, Coughlin, Stoia, G...
SAN FRANCISCO - If avian influenza type H5N1 - bird flu - were to hit with a fatal ferocity matching its hype, the first perso...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge said Tuesday that he is "leaning" toward denying the petition by a police officer seekin...
Juvenile
Violence-Prone Youth Authority Still Fails Its Children, Its Taxpayers
By David Minkown
Forum Column - By Sue Burrell and Jonathan Laba - Beginning in 2000, the California Youth Authority , the state's institutiona...
Services have taken place for C. David Serena III, an active mediator who frequently volunteered his services to the Riverside...
Focus Column - By John F. Fielder - "... a critical attitude toward a subject can only be adopted when a complete mastery of i...