Constitutional Law
Electors Can Select Candidate Without Casting Vote on Recall
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A federal judge struck down a section of the state Election Code on Tuesday, ruling that voters can cast ballots f...
SAN FRANCISCO - The top brass of California's prison system face mounting criticism that they tried to thwart recent probes of...
SAN FRANCISCO - Cities and counties can stop banks from giving information about their customers to other companies, a federal...
Forum Column - By Norm Kjono - Should pharmaceutical companies widely distribute nonsmoked nicotine products that are highly a...
LOS ANGELES - In one of the largest judgments of its kind, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Monday ordered a Whittier aut...
Real Estate/Development
Case Gives Judicial-Reference Provisions Renewed Viability
By Columnist
Focus Column - Real Property - By William M. Hensley - For lawyers drafting sales/purchase contracts or subdivision instrument...
Forum Column - By Stephen Yagman - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently granted my request for publication of an unp...
Forum Column - By Bruce G. Iwasaki - The now-stalled debate on whether 6.5 million low-income working families should receive ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Bar Balances Budget With Job Cuts, Fund Shifts
By Don De Benedictis
LOS ANGELES - Averting a financial crisis, the State Bar board of governors approved a balanced budget for 2004 on Saturday th...
Judges and Judiciary
Jurist Even-Keeled In the Face of Terrible Crimes
By Pamela Mac Lean
STOCKTON - San Joaquin County Superior Court Judge Richard Mallett bears a striking resemblance to Clark Kent and he is just a...
Litigation
As Deposition Drags on, Attorneys Try to Pull the Plug on Witness
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - OK, kids, time to put on our fireproof playsuits. Today, we're taking a thrilling ride through "the d...
LOS ANGELES - A former contract writer for the New York Post may pursue her $10 million lawsuit against the Walt Disney Co., ...
Government
City Attorney Is Disqualified in Fraud Case for Conflict
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge Monday disqualified the city attorney's office from a lawsuit accusing a former buildi...
SACRAMENTO - The state Capitol was abuzz Monday with speculation about whether the Assembly would approve a budget compromise ...
SAN FRANCISCO - In new legal challenges to the Oct. 7 recall election, two prominent appellate specialists Monday filed petit...
Judges and Judiciary
Lawmakers Haggle Over Diminishing Court Budget
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Lawmakers worked over the weekend on a budget that would allow courts to stay open for the public, though furthe...
By Toni Vranjes Kavado Inc., a New York-based firm whose founders received technology training from the Israeli military, has...
Litigation
Lawyers: Choose a Medical Specialist Jurors Would Use
By Contributing Writer
Column Expert Witnesses By David Feinberg A medical expert witness can be hard to choose. Ideally, when your case is over, yo...
By Joan Osterwalder A federal judge in New York threw out a securities-fraud case earlier this month, asserting that the plai...
By John Ryan California law offices continue to benefit from the collapse of Cleveland's Arter & Hadden. Citing costly at...
By Joan Osterwalder A federal judge in San Francisco gave final approval last month to an $8.6 million settlement in a class ...
Column Law Firm Marketing By Felice Wagner and Elizabeth Lampert Throughout the profession, in almost all legal industry publ...
By Eron Ben-Yehuda Telecommunications giant MCI WorldCom didn't want to hear the bad news, according to a lawsuit filed last ...
By Erik Cummins Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis suffered a crisis of confidence earlier this year when a group of partner...
By Erik Cummins Over the course of his career, Joseph Petrillo has handled the enormous task of helping create legislative gu...
By Erik Cummins Schnader Harrison has endured some prominent defections this year, but that's not the reason Robert Gebhardt ...
By Toni Vranjes WorldCom Inc. filed the largest bankruptcy case in the nation's history in July 2002. A year later, the case ...
By Erik Cummins For two guys who began their careers in an employment law boutique, moving to a general-practice firm was "li...
By Toni Vranjes Internet portal Yahoo Inc. is strengthening its position in the highly competitive world of Internet advertis...
By Erik Cummins Charles Donovan left Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis earlier this month for Sheppard, Mullin, Richter &am...