Personal Injury & Torts
Injured Diver Gets a Trial, But Coaches Get the Win
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that coaches can be held liable for student athletes' injuries onl...
LOS ANGELES - A little more than a year ago, Judge Amy Hogue left a successful law practice at San Francisco's Pillsbury Winth...
SAN FRANCISCO - After nearly three years of collecting information, conducting public meetings and consulting with experts and...
SAN FRANCISCO - As Venture Law Group nears a decision about which firm to merge with - a decision that may be announced as ear...
LOS ANGELES - Jurors might have a hard time believing that the wife of real estate magnate and Los Angeles Clippers owner Dona...
Forum Column - By Daniel B. Markind - Barbara Perry's article, "Israel Ignores Rights to Water in Occupied Palestinian Areas" ...
Labor/Employment
9th Circuit Puts Its Own Spin On 'Armendariz' in New Cases
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Richard H. Rahm - Three years ago, the state Supreme Court, in Armendariz v. Foundation ...
RIVERSIDE - Amy Prien's mother testified Wednesday that her daughter never received prenatal care while she was pregnant with ...
SANTA BARBARA - Jurors concluded their first full day of deliberations without reaching a verdict Wednesday in the trial of Su...
SACRAMENTO - San Joaquin County Judge Thomas Harrington describes himself as a "fresh air nut" who likes to keep a window open...
SAN JOSE - Attorneys presented competing storylines Wednesday on whether a former top executive at Advanced Micro Devices was ...
SAN FRANCISCO - With his gavel on the line, Alameda County Superior Court Judge D. Ronald Hyde waged an uphill battle Wednesda...
Personal Injury & Torts
High Court to Review Another Premises Liability Suit
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Wednesday unanimously agreed to decide whether a bar owner can be held liable ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association has sued one of the state's largest health maintenance organizatio...
Litigation
Judgment Prompts Abject Apology to Dickens, Meal of Delicious Crow
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Today, it is my solemn duty to apologize to Charles Dickens, the great English novelist, for dragging...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Burton Arbitration Bill Is On Its Way to Davis
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - The Legislature approved a bill Wednesday that would bar most employers from requiring workers to sign agreements...
Intellectual Property
Ailing Startups' Patents Could Set Them Aright
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - InterTrust Technologies Corp. has yet to publicly assign a dollar figure to the damages it hopes to recover fr...
SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran patent litigator Douglas Derwin resigned his partnership at Weil Gotshal & Manges in 1997 to pursu...
Forum Column - By Michael J. Brady - California is preparing for its historic Oct. 7 recall election. The recall is provided f...
SACRAMENTO - With the recall election just six weeks away, Gov. Gray Davis stepped up his selection of judges Tuesday by nomin...
LOS ANGELES - His résumé reads like a pitch for a memoir. In the past four decades, Richard M. Mosk has investigated the John ...
Forum Column - By Arnold H. Gold - A significant piece of news appeared in an unlikely place in the Aug. 7 issue of the Daily ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Value of Settlement Cash Can Be Increased in Various Ways
By Columnist
Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Jeffrey Krivis - When Congress decided to include, as gross income, settlem...
SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Navy can test a controversial new sonar system intended to detect quiet enemy submarines but must res...
SAN FRANCISCO - Financial woes continue to affect security as Alameda County courts decrease their use of bailiffs and weapons...
LOS ANGELES - William P. Hogoboom, who was presiding judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court in 1977 and a family and j...
Judges and Judiciary
Davis Rushes to Fill Bench as Recall Looms
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
SACRAMENTO - With the recall election only six weeks away, Gov. Gray Davis stepped up his selection of judges Tuesday by nomin...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Didn't Break Phone, Defense Says
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA BARBARA - Prosecutors say Diana R. Hall flew into a rage and then broke a phone when she tried to keep her girlfriend fr...
SAN FRANCISCO - An internal affairs investigator for California prisons implied Tuesday that union influence may have played a...
SAN FRANCISCO - Venture Law Group has removed Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe from its list of potential merger partners in ...