Forum Column - By Duf Sundheim - For months, East Coast political pundits and other outside observers have watched the Califor...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Parties Should Build Procedure for Appeal Into Arbitration Process Itself
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Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Gerald G. Knapton - Lawyers have tried to expand the ability of parties to ...
Focus Column - Evidence Law - By Daniel Lee Jacobson - In 1956, professor David W. Louisell eloquently explained the nature of...
Forum Column - By Art Torres - As Sen. Dianne Feinstein has said, this recall is a bad idea for California. The original inten...
SAN DIEGO - Gov. Gray Davis announced Friday the appointments of Deputy District Attorney George "Woody" Clarke and civil atto...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles district attorney on Friday rejected calls to investigate Arnold Schwarzenegger for sexual batte...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court jury has settled a fee fight between two lawyers and their security company client, leaving n...
SAN FRANCISCO - The three off-duty police officers accused of beating two men on Union Street last year have moved to dismiss ...
Judges and Judiciary
Pastor Follows Circuitous Path to Delinquency Bench
By Sarah Garveyn
LOS ANGELES - On April 28, 1975, Martha E. Bellinger, a recently ordained minister in the United Methodist Church, gave a cand...
Reporter's Notebook - By Linda Rapattoni - California's recall election Tuesday is the first attempt in the history of the sta...
SAN FRANCISCO - The first thing you notice about Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's new building at First and Howard streets...
LOS ANGELES - Arnold Schwarzenegger's alleged history of groping women, if proved, is unlawful and could have exposed the acto...
Employment Column - By Deanna Wilkinson - Fall recruiting has begun. Law firms from all over the country are descending on law...
Forum Column - By Richard C. Darwin - On May 21, the state Senate Committee on Banking, Commerce and International Trade and t...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Ruling on Arbitration A Hot Topic for CELA
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Members of the California Employment Lawyers Association will be buzzing today about this week's federal appea...
SAN FRANCISCO - The word in the San Francisco criminal courts is that recently re-appointed Superior Court Judge Mary Morgan w...
SAN FRANCISCO - A former San Francisco health commissioner, indicted last month on charges that he intentionally infected two ...
Government
DOJ Faces Challenge in Finding Source of Leak on CIA Operative
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department faces an uphill battle in trying to get to the bottom of allegations that White House offi...
SAN FRANCISCO - A lawsuit that threatened to derail logging on tens of thousands of acres of land owned by Pacific Lumber Co. ...
LOS ANGELES - U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Sheri Bluebond is a woman of varied talents. Bluebond can help an ailing company get back ...
LOS ANGELES - Roman Catholic archdioceses from other states that knowingly send their pedophile clergy to California can be su...
SAN FRANCISCO - Medical marijuana advocates who support District Attorney Terence Hallinan for re-election are behind the ethi...
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for the Los Angeles Times Thursday accused a Sacramento Superior Court judge of violating the First Amen...
Judges and Judiciary
Archbishop's Sermon Stirs Controversy at Red Mass
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Archbishop Justin Rigali of St. Louis delivered a stern sermon against abortion, the death penalty and stem-cell...
SAN FRANCISCO - Forcing parolees to give blood for a federal DNA database is a violation of Fourth Amendment protections again...
MARTINEZ - The woman was near tears telling Contra County Superior Court Judge Theresa Canepa why she missed a court date. Her...
LOS ANGELES - An Orange County judge ordered the Los Angeles County sheriff's union to halt the deputy sickouts that closed fi...
SAN FRANCISCO - Uncertainty and defections at the New York Stock Exchange have left legal observers wondering how the role of ...
Forum Column - By Daniel H. Lowenstein - The blocking of the California recall election by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S....
Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Robert A. Holland and Hieu T. Hoang - Experienced appellate advocates know that they must ne...