Immigration
Counsel Must Attack Designation of Alien's Crime as Aggravated Felony
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Focus Column - Immigration Law - By Brian D. Lerner - Noncitizens inside the United States who commit crimes are at risk of be...
Real Estate/Development
Business Isn't Liable for Injuries Sustained After Rave
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Focus Column - Real Property - By Michael Paul Thomas - Are all-night dance parties for teenagers, known as "rave" parties, in...
Forum Column - By Gloria Allred and Ruth Graf Urasaki - In the intense media frenzy surrounding the allegations that Kobe Brya...
Reporter's Notebook By Craig Anderson SAN JOSE - The cast of characters in the legal drama surrounding Thomas Spielbauer, the...
SACRAMENTO - Superior Court Judge Steven Rodda's family goes back nearly 150 years in Sacramento, and Rodda is about as well ...
SAN FRANCISCO - As expected, a San Francisco judge Wednesday declared police Chief Earl Sanders "factually innocent" of crimi...
State Bar & Bar Associations
ABA Will Install First Minority President
By Don De Benedictis
LOS ANGELES - The American Bar Association's annual meeting, opening today in San Francisco, will be like the organization's p...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Meeting Is an Opportunity to Show Off a Bit, Host Bars Say
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - State and local bar leaders plan to make the most of their chance to show off their programs, ideas and exper...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a blistering order Wednesday, Northern California's chief federal judge threw down the gauntlet over U.S. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Barraged with lawsuits demanding urgent attention, the California Supreme Court suddenly finds itself at cent...
Forum Column By Steven Zak The tragic Laci Peterson double murder case should be about more than self-serving semantics, but ...
Appellate Practice
Post-Judgment Conduct Can Cost Party Its Right to Appeal
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Focus Column Appellate Law By James Harris and Frank Menetrez It is hard enough to get an appellate court to reverse a judgme...
SAN FRANCISCO - After eight years in crowded, temporary quarters at the War Memorial Building, the San Francisco Law Library ...
LOS ANGELES - David Casey Sr., a prominent San Diego trial attorney and the first plaintiffs' attorney elected president of t...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court told an ex-convict Tuesday that he cannot sue the federal government for scientific e...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a reshuffle of his top management team, U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan on Tuesday promoted 22-year veteran Ross ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Three prominent lawyers listed as supporters in a Terence Hallinan campaign mailer protested the use of their...
LOS ANGELES - Knocked off balance by the recall campaign against Gov. Gray Davis and City Councilman Jack Weiss' refusal to g...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge's Journey to Bench Reveals Power of Dreams
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Sometimes, Amalia L. Meza drives along Whittier Boulevard in East Los Angeles to the business where her father cr...
Focus Column Litigation By Jeff Kichaven You are at a painful point in a difficult negotiation, and your legal training hardl...
Forum Column By Tamara Lange As everyone now knows, on June 26 the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Texas' sodomy law and redre...
LOS ANGELES - In the era of instant information, it didn't take long for the name of Lakers guard Kobe Bryant's alleged rape ...
Reporter's Notebook By Dennis Opatrny SAN FRANCISCO - You've heard of the man behind the throne. Now meet the guy in front of...
LOS ANGELES - Scott Baugh, former Republican minority Assembly leader, joined Chicago's Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw from the...
Appellate Practice
Davis Cites 'Bush v. Gore' To Argue for Recall Delay
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Ratcheting up pressure on the California Supreme Court to postpone October's recall election, Gov. Gray Davis...
LOS ANGELES - In a victory for the building industry, the state Supreme Court on Monday shot down a class action by disgruntl...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Judges Association has chosen Stanley Bissey as its new executive director, replacing Keenan G...
SUNNYVALE - Ed Taylor's career as a patent lawyer started innocuously enough. As the youngest associate in a small patent fir...
SAN FRANCISCO - A sharply divided state Supreme Court on Monday upheld the principle of gay and lesbian adoption, wading deep...
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