Labor/Employment
Accidents Prompt Employers to Consider Restricting Cell Phone Use
By Columnist
Employment Column - By John E. Lattin IV - As evidenced by the fact that more and more employees use cell phones to stay conne...
Forum Column - By Tom Adler - Lawyers have a host of stated reasons for practicing law, and I think I've heard most of them. F...
Administrative/Regulatory
Panel Upholds Most of Care Not Cash Program
By Hudson Sangree
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco appellate panel has ruled that the city can maintain most of its controversial Care Not Cash p...
SAN FRANCISCO - An Alameda County Superior Court judge says environmentalists bringing an Unfair Competition Law action can se...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Ex-Director of BASF Named as Fund-Raiser for Women Judges
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Drucilla Stender Ramey, the iconic former director of the Bar Association of San Francisco, is wearing a new h...
INDUSTRIAL SAN DIEGO - Intergulf Development Inc. purchased a 10,000-square-foot industrial property at 1635 C St. and 1060 1...
SAN FRANCISCO - A consumer activist's attempts to force Proposition 65 toxic chemical warnings for meat has provoked a regula...
SANTA BARBARA - In his 18 years on the bench, Commissioner Edward DeCaro has heard some doozies from people hauled in to court...
Environmental
Constitutionality of Endangered Species Act Depends on Economics
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Roderick E. Walston - Is the Endangered Species Act unconstitutional? Does Congress have the power to preven...
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Tanja Darrow - With the skyrocketing cost of health care, coupled with an overall concern f...
Personal Injury & Torts
Court's Holding on Economic Loss Rule is Troubling, Problematic
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Matthew Henderson - In law school, the line between tort and contract law is drawn as easily and sharply as ...
Letter to the Editor - Paul Singarella's Forum column ("Flood of Intervention Stems Due Process in Regional Water Proceedings,...
Letter to the Editor - Blair Clarkson's assumption in the article "Black Women Sue Hotel for Tossing Them Out," as published i...
LOS ANGELES - Memorial services will take place Saturday for William J. King, a complex defense litigation specialist and ant...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Who Sued Attorneys for Race Bias Retires on Disability
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - Walter L. Blackwell III, a San Bernardino judge who raised legal eyebrows when he filed a racial discrimina...
LOS ANGELES - The law firm founded in 1981 by famed Los Angeles attorney Johnnie Cochran Jr. will continue its work under Coch...
SAN FRANCISCO - An Alameda County woman who worked as a certified nurse's assistant throughout California for more than 25 ye...
SAN JOSE - A federal judge Wednesday rejected a Cupertino schoolteacher's claim that his free speech rights were violated when...
LOS ANGELES - Mayor James Hahn's vow to clamp down on gang members throughout the city drew harsh criticism this week from opp...
LOS ANGELES - Ending months of speculation, Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley announced Wednesday that he wil...
SAN FRANCISCO - Administrative Presiding Justice Judith D. McConnell of the 4th District Court of Appeal in San Diego was app...
SAN FRANCISCO - In their catchy 1997 hit "Semi-Charmed Life," the Bay Area band Third Eye Blind lamented: "I want something el...
SAN DIEGO - The state Supreme Court on Wednesday swept away the last legal hurdle for enforcement of tough new restrictions d...
Law Practice
Cheeky, Charismatic, Flamboyant Defender Gets Film Mogul's Send-Off
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - In death, as in life, O.J. Simpson defense attorney Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. is getting the star trea...
LOS ANGELES - In a ruling that affects hundreds of pending cases growing out of the 1994 Northridge earthquake, a state appell...
SAN FRANCISCO - Peter Belton, one of the longest-serving staff members of the California Supreme Court and the judicial branch...
SAN FRANCISCO - It's like a touchdown called back after a referee's review. A judge's miscues during sports agent Leigh Stein...
Firm Watch
IP Litigator Johnson Leaves Fenwick for Greener Pastures at Morgan Lewis
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Intellectual property litigator and trial lawyer Daniel Johnson Jr. has left Fenwick & West to join Morgan...
WEB EXCLUSIVE: SAN FRANCISCO - Morgan Lewis & Bockius has hired William Kimball, the third and latest Enron Corp. task fo...
INDUSTRIAL CAMARILLO - Interconnect Systems Inc. purchased a 22,311-square-foot, two-unit industrial building at 759-765 Flyn...