Judges and Judiciary
S.F. Superior Courtrooms To Close Early on Fridays
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Starting next week, San Francisco Superior Court will close courtrooms early on Fridays. The early closures ar...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Judicial Council, citing soaring caseloads especially in Southern California's Inland Empire, will pursue ...
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Tina Spee - It's high noon, and general counsel David Tognotti is almost late for a depositio...
BAKERSFIELD - Services have taken place for Mark Richard Baker, a Kern County deputy district attorney who previously worked f...
SAN JOSE - Hoping to avert a contempt of court charge, a San Francisco attorney has apologized to the judge who accused him of...
Judges and Judiciary
Walker Will Get Budget Woes With Role as Chief
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - When U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker takes over as chief judge for the Northern District on Sept. 1 he will ...
LOS ANGELES - Thomas A. Mesereau Jr. was in familiar territory earlier this month when he put Michael Jackson's prosecutor in ...
LOS ANGELES - A string of court rulings this summer does not bode well for the First Amendment rights of political protesters,...
SAN FRANCISCO - Continuing news leaks in the steroid doping scandal linked to BALCO, a nutritional lab run by founder Victor C...
Litigation
HIV-Related Litigation, Like The AIDS Crisis, Is Still Here
By Philip Carrizosa
Column By Philip Carrizosa - More than 20 years after the onslaught of the AIDS pandemic, it was a little unsettling to see la...
SAN FRANCISCO - The state attorney general's office has described an ex-Alameda County prosecutor's claim that he was advised ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court will untangle the knotty legal question of whether federal grand jurors have the power...
Employment Column - By Valerie Fontaine - Past performance often is the best indicator of how a candidate will perform. Theref...
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - No deity or graffiti artist ever wrote more clearly on a wall. The Michigan Supreme Cour...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Raymond Cordozo - To litigants who believe that evidentiary objections are the proverbial white...
SAN DIEGO - The death of a city councilman indicted in a federal corruption investigation weakens the case against the other d...
IRVINE - A 16-year-old girl, the alleged victim in a statutory rape case involving the son of an assistant sheriff, sued the O...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Los Angeles man convicted of a 1984 burglary, rape and murder was spared the death penalty Thursday by the C...
STOCKTON - Elizabeth Humphreys is looking for an argument. Since her days as a civil litigator, Humphreys has enjoyed the give...
Litigation
Jury Orders Ephedra Retailer to Pay $4 Million to Stroke Victim
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
LOS ANGELES - In the first verdict of its kind, a Los Angeles Superior Court jury has ordered a Culver City dietary retailer t...
LOS ANGELES - In a blow against immigrant abuse, a Santa Monica jury on Thursday ordered a Sony Pictures Entertainment lawyer ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Executive Director of L.A. County Bar Puts in His Papers
By Lorelei Laird
LOS ANGELES - The longtime leader of the nation's largest voluntary regional bar organization, Rich Walch, announced Thursday ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Hugo Lopez-Alvarado worked as an electrician and paid taxes in California since he arrived from Guatemala in 1...
LOS ANGELES - In his autobiography, "Rough Edges," James E. Rogan, undersecretary of Commerce and former Los Angeles County pr...
SAN FRANCISCO - Billionaire investor Charles T. Munger has donated $43.5 million to Stanford University Law School to fund the...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court unanimously reaffirmed Thursday that trial judges have broad discretion to certif...
SAN FRANCISCO - Michael C. Ross had had it with those pesky "spyware" programs - a catch-all term for the computer application...
Forum Column - By Joann Lee and Susana Martinez - Recently, the U.S. Border Patrol, part of the Department of Homeland Securit...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Mark Williams - The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks ushered in a new era of security preparedness in...
Labor/Employment
Prepare Clients for Liability Risks Associated With Employees' Electronic Communications
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Focus Column - Employment Law - By Janice P. Brown - In evaluating the impact of electronic communications in today's workplac...