SAN FRANCISCO - When retired Sacramento appellate Justice Daniel Kolkey appeared before his former colleagues in December, jus...
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawrence Stevens may not be much longer for the world of appellate judging. After six years on the 1st Distric...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Learns to Stop Pushing, Become His Own Peacemaker
By Erica Williams
LOS ANGELES - Judge Alexander H. Williams III, once known for his fiery brand of dispensing justice, says the single biggest d...
SAN FRANCISCO - Oracle Corp. faces a long, hot summer in federal court. A high-stakes duel opens in U.S. District Court in San...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal jury convicted former Ukrainian prime minister Pavlo Lazarenko on all 29 counts Thursday of using hi...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
'Catch-All' Arbitration Clauses Don't Give Parties Firm Footing
By Columnist
Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Gerald G. Knapton - Quite a few lawyers seem to want to resolve any and all...
Forum Column - By Michael D. Singer - Should employees depend on self-sacrificing corporate employers to guarantee proper enti...
LOS ANGELES - A nationwide search is underway to replace Leigh H. Taylor, dean of Southwestern University School of Law, who w...
LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Saturday in Walnut Creek for retired Los Angeles Municipal Court Commissioner Robert C....
SAN FRANCISCO - The three men accused of murdering transgender teenager Gwen Araujo were not provoked to kill because she dece...
LOS ANGELES - One "rock-solid" force has kept 17-year-old Allison Bellew from succumbing to the chaos of her upbringing. The t...
LOS ANGELES - City Attorney Rocky J. Delgadillo and Michael N. Feuer, his opponent in the 2001 election, have agreed to pay fi...
Judges and Judiciary
Jurist's Caseload Reflects Economy's Effect on Families
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Anthony S. Jones began presiding over domestic-violence restraining orde...
Appellate Practice
Phone Providers Must Make Their 'Slamming' Clearer
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court reinstated a fraud lawsuit Thursday against AT&T Corp., saying that when the company ...
LOS ANGELES - Movie producer Bo Zenga has sued imprisoned sleuth Anthony Pellicano and the police officer suspected of feeding...
LOS ANGELES - Last October, Los Angeles County jail inmate Ki Chul Hong was stabbed to death and stuffed into a laundry bin in...
SAN FRANCISCO - Plum growers still have a shot at ending mandatory state-run marketing campaigns, the California Supreme Court...
SAN FRANCISCO - Peter E. Scheer is an attorney and former newspaper publisher who has fought for open government - and once su...
Appellate Practice
New Rule Gives Lawyers More Flexibility in Choosing Citations
By Columnist
Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Aimee Mackay and Catherine Valerio Barrad - In the impassioned debate that surrounded the U....
Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Mitchell C. Tilner - The state Supreme Court's recent decision in MacKinnon v. Truck Ins....
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Arbitration Law Shortchanges Consumers, Small Businesses
By Columnist
Forum Column - By William G. Mitchell - When well-intentioned legislators enact legislation without examining the full extent ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A scene remarkable for its comity, given its participants and its subject matter, was played out late last mon...
SACRAMENTO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer said Tuesday he plans to sue Enron Corp. for allegedly manipulating the California ...
Were this an episode of "The People's Court," a lawsuit involving electrocuted Utah cows might be called "The Case of the Grou...
SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran patent attorney Martin Majestic has left Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner's Palo Alto o...
LOS ANGELES - Two attorneys asked the state Supreme Court Wednesday to reverse a $150,000 judgment awarded because they allege...
LOS ANGELES - A retired Catholic priest accused of repeatedly fondling an incarcerated teenager in Central Juvenile Hall turne...
SAN FRANCISCO - William "Bill" Murphy, a gruff former San Francisco police officer who became a witty and successful criminal ...
Litigation
Verdict Reveals Partial Victory For Flesh Club
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - Capping a long-running legal fight between a nude cabaret and San Bernardino, a Superior Court jury Wednesday...
SAN FRANCISCO - Jesse Markham, the head of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's antitrust group and one of the Bay Area's most...