Law Practice
Volunteer Work in Africa Refreshes Lawyer for New Job at Bingham
By Erik Cummins
Paul Allen left Morgan Stanley's San Francisco office last year to volunteer for the Mona Foundation, a nonprofit organization...
Environmental
Neighbors Sue to Stop School's Plan to Install Artificial Turf
By Eron Yehuda
A plan to replace a grass field with artificial turf at a Santa Cruz middle school has sprouted a lawsuit. Neighbors of Missio...
Kirkpatrick & Lockhart has snared two Cooley Godward partners in as many weeks - landing antitrust and trade regulation la...
Victor Strong used to be a Los Angeles Dodgers fan. But now he's not eager for another trip to the ballpark. Strong's family t...
A popular Hispanic radio host cannot be held liable for referring listeners to unlicensed medical professionals who prosecutor...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Superior Court Judge Richard A. Kramer, who recently ruled that a series of lawsuits regarding t...
Former record company executive and longtime music industry attorney Richard Leher became a partner at Miami-based-Greenberg T...
Forum Column - By Anthony Paul Farley - Two million people are imprisoned in the United States. The majority of them are black...
Appellate Practice
Court Holds School Isn't Liable For Unforseeable Criminal Act
By Columnist
Focus Column - Tort Law - By Michael Paul Thomas - In Wiener v. Southcoast Childcare Centers Inc., 2004 DJDAR 5420 (Cal...
Education
Do It for Kids: Wise Policy-Making Depends on Research Act's Passage
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Amy Jordan and Sandra Calvert - On May 19, Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., introduced the Children and Media Re...
Intellectual Property
Patent Policies Create More Problems Than They Solve
By Columnist
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Michael Farn - Technical standards are often used to ensure that products from diffe...
Real Estate/Development
Proposed Housing Changes Would Harm Low-Income Families
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Forum Column - By Barbara Schultz - Opal Fox is a senior with a disability who believes in giving back to her Long Beach commu...
SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Superior Court has hired a former lawyer for the state Assembly as a new discovery commissio...
Appellate Practice
Police Can't Keep Freelance Journalists Away, Panel Decides
By Erica Williams
LOS ANGELES - In what one advocate called a major victory for journalists and the press, a state appeals court has ruled that ...
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has named Michael Hersek, a California Supreme Court staff attorney, as the state's ne...
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Liz Valsamis - Environmental lawyer Michele Corash has had impeccable timing while building h...
LOS ANGELES - The target of a courtroom tirade got the last laugh Friday, when a judge fined criminal defense attorney Thomas ...
Column By Philip Carrizosa - SAN FRANCISCO - In the 1950s through 1963, there was a bar and restaurant in San Francisco's Nort...
LOS ANGELES - Four years ago, the Los Angeles County district attorney's office extradited the mother-and-son grifter team, Sa...
SAN JOSE - In bringing fraud charges against a sales executive of Legato Systems Inc., lawyers at the Securities and Exchange ...
LOS ANGELES - A U.S. appellate judge said he is "outraged" that a 9th Circuit committee adopted a rule punishing complainants ...
Former Arnold & Porter partner Craig Hentschel joined the five attorneys at the Pasadena outpost of Detroit-based Dykema G...
LOS ANGELES - Ten years after O.J. Simpson's criminal trial, its legacy is felt not in the courtroom but in the newsroom and t...
LOS ANGELES - For now, Richard Ozar still owns and operates the Victoria Village Pharmacy in Ventura. With a 33-count federal ...
SAN FRANCISCO - When Roxana Yang started a solo practice at her home in Los Altos Hills in November 2001, she had no apprehens...
SAN FRANCISCO - When lawyers arrange with clients that their legal fees will be paid out of prospective civil lawsuit recoveri...
Employment Column - By Jonathan Fraser Light - Mary is going out on a workers' compensation leave of absence, and she wants to...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Timing of Mediation Is Just as Important as Picking of Neutral
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Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By John Seitman - The notion that timing is a large part of success or failure...
SAN FRANCISCO - A divided appeal court said Thursday that public confidence in the integrity of the judicial system requires t...
Appellate Practice
Justices Strike Sentence of Drug Defendant
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A state appellate court has struck a drug defendant's sentence, saying the judge in the case engaged in "illegal p...