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
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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
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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
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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...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge certified as a class action Thursday the civil rights lawsuit against San Francisco county jai...
Judges and Judiciary
Panel Probing Judicial System Eyes Complaints About Judges
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The new committee appointed by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist to study how the federal judicial system is dea...
LOS ANGELES - Five years ago, former District Attorney Gil Garcetti rejected a Los Angeles sheriff's case accusing Orange Coun...