Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - This past September, as our nation celebrated Labor Day, politicians gave speeches and pun...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
High Court's Review of 'Cronus' Can Lend Support to Business Arbitration
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Focus Column Alternative Dispute Resolution By Charles Evendorff and Morgan Adessa California may be getting a reputation as ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Services for retired Bay Area Rapid Transit lawyer Vivian Chaya Hannawalt will be held Monday at 11 a.m. at D...
Reporter's Notebook By Karen Coleman MODESTO - Judge Al Girolami has banned cameras from the courtroom for the Scott Peterson...
LOS ANGELES - Harbor Regional Center can be held vicariously liable for the death of a developmentally disabled diabetic adul...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council is considering regulations that would require developers to include low-income uni...
SAN FRANCISCO - Owen "Jamie" Jameson, a corporate lawyer at San Francisco's McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen from 1937 u...
SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan has again tried to choke off rival Kamala Harris' campaign spending, this ...
LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve Cooley kicked off his 2004 re-election campaign Wednesday with a rally at his alma mate...
Judges and Judiciary
New Judge Has Innate Knack for Settling Cases
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Whether mediating civil disputes; presiding over a host of misdemeanors, municipal code violations and traffic ...
Judges and Judiciary
Chief Justice Sees the New Governor as Receptive
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Chief Justice Ronald George and Gov.-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger met for the first time Wednesday, talking for n...
WASHINGTON - State Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown faced hours of tough questioning Wednesday from Senate Democrats...
WASHINGTON - Recusal is the buzzword at the U.S. Supreme Court these days. The talk is all about one justice who did, and one...
SACRAMENTO - Tort reformers and businesses announced Wednesday the filing of a proposed ballot initiative to reform the state...
LOS ANGELES - Legendary hairstylist Vidal Sassoon is sitting pretty this week thanks to a federal judge's ruling allowing his...
Forum Column By Karen L. Snell This summer, Attorney General John Ashcroft visited 14 cities in 16 days, a whirlwind tour tha...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Court Has Chance to Address Fundamental Problem in 'Rojas'
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Focus Column Alternative Dispute Resolution By Peter J. Marx If confidentiality is fundamental to mediation, why are mediator...
MARTINEZ - When attorneys become unruly in his chambers, Superior Court Judge Douglas Cunningham might pull his engraved name...
WASHINGTON - The continuing debate over the future of the 9th Circuit had its latest Capitol Hill installment on Tuesday when...
SAN DIEGO - Suspecting that a Las Vegas strip-club owner wanted to influence city politicians, the FBI attempted to "manufact...
SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Gray Davis appointed a longtime friend and one of his top advisers Tuesday to the Yolo County Superior C...
LOS ANGELES - The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California filed suit against the city of La Puente Tuesday alle...
Litigation
Former Investigator Gets $460,000 in Bias Case
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A jury has awarded a former Riverside County sheriff's investigator $460,000 in a mental disability discriminatio...
Constitutional Law
Brown's Judiciary Hearing Likely Will Strike Sparks
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - When state Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown appears today before the Senate Judiciary Committee to begi...
Criminal
Is Muhammad Foolish to Refuse A Lawyer? Some Say Maybe Not
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Washington, D.C.-sniper suspect John Muhammad's decision to represent himself inspired numerous references to A...
SAN FRANCISCO - Incoming Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will meet today with Chief Justice Ronald M. George in Sacramento, amid c...
SAN FRANCISCO - Every week, and sometimes every day, sole practitioner Bertram Izant strolls into the Mills Law Library. Robe...
SAN FRANCISCO - Trial lawyers won a significant relaxation of California's stringent "fast track" rules for handling civil li...
LOS ANGELES - Scott Turow is no knee-jerk death-penalty abolitionist. Speaking recently at the Los Angeles Public Library, the...
Focus Column - Construction Law - By John P. McGill - In Amelco Electric v. City of Thousand Oaks , 27 Cal.4th 228 (200...