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 ...
Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - Gridlock is a term we commonly use to refer to the condition of traffic on our state's fre...
LOS ANGELES - Reversing their earlier ruling, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Monday Los Angeles transit officials ...
SANTA BARBARA - Strongly contradicting testimony of her former live-in girlfriend, Superior Court Judge Diana R. Hall told a j...
SACRAMENTO - The Legislature approved a bill Monday that would allow California lawyers to disclose clients' plans to kill or ...
SANTA ANA - Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas won agreement from a judge Monday to have some documents unsealed ...
IRVINE - The wife of Superior Court Judge Gregory Munoz was killed in a car crash Saturday when the Mercedes her husband was d...
LOS ANGELES - The California Judicial Council has issued revised petitions to reflect the courts' changeover from a fixed to a...
Focus Column - Employment Law - By C. Matthew Schulz and Reneé S. Schor - Employers are exposed to a wide range of government ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Two former Pelican Bay State Prison guards who conspired to solicit assaults on prison inmates will get a seco...
SAN DIEGO - A San Diego Superior Court judge has approved a tentative settlement worth $52 million in cash and services for su...
SAN FRANCISCO - It wasn't racism when a Tulare County prosecutor kicked two Hispanics off a venire and left an all-white jury ...
Government
Devout and Defiant Alabama Chief Justice Wants Theocracy Now
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Three gray stone figures jut from the wall above the Grand Avenue entrance to the Los Angeles County ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Two partners and a senior associate are leaving Cooley Godward's credit finance group to join Bingham McCutche...