LOS ANGELES - Defense lawyer Jennifer L. Keller was dismayed to turn on a local TV news program the day after Christmas and se...
LOS ANGELES - Mickey Mouse can rest safely in the cushy arms of the Walt Disney Co. once again, following Wednesday's ruling m...
Forum Column - By Glenn P. Sugameli - Lifetime federal judges decide how to interpret and enforce, and whether to uphold or st...
Litigation
Panel Denies Credit Card Holder's Class Suit Against Discover
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A disgruntled Discover Card holder can't bring a class action against the company because his credit card agreem...
Focus Column - Probate Law - By Marshal A. Oldman and Susan J. Cooley - In Estate of Eugene , 2002 DJDAR 14487 (Cal. Ap...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Merrill Lynch Loses Its Bid for Arbitration
By Toni Vranjes
SANTA ANA - In a victory for an investor who sued Merrill Lynch for allegedly mismanaging his account, an Orange County judge...
Forum Column - By Pablo Agrio - Time after time, in criminal cases where the death penalty is applied, I watch in astonishment...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles immigration judge Tuesday scheduled a hearing for later this year to reconsider the asylum reques...
Judges and Judiciary
Humble Beginnings, Hard Work Make Judge Humane
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - The man stood before Los Angeles Superior Court Judge William R. Weisman in the judge's San Pedro courtroom, exp...
SAN FRANCISCO - The insurance defense bar is sighing with relief now that the California Supreme Court has clarified a confli...
SACRAMENTO - Want a safe job in California during a major economic crisis? Try becoming a prison guard. The 2003-04 budget tha...
LOS ANGELES - In a victory for sweatshop opponents, the California labor commissioner has ruled that clothing retailer The Wet...
SACRAMENTO - California needs legal and ethical reforms to stop lawyers from abusing a statute that allows anyone to file a p...
Personal Injury & Torts
Lawyer Quits Case After Blake Decides He'll Talk to the Public
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Just six weeks after losing his first criminal lawyer, Robert Blake on Tuesday suffered another defection from h...
SAN DIEGO - Back in 1997, when Amy B. Vandeveld began negotiating better access at Qualcomm Stadium for disabled people, she w...
SAN FRANCISCO - Daniel Bookin and Douglas Young, two well-known San Francisco white collar criminal defense lawyers, have tak...
LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court Tuesday upheld the constitutionality of a voter-approved initiative that broadened the cir...
LOS ANGELES - After 18 years of practicing law at Perkins Coie, Colleen Regan is leaving the firm to join Santa Monica litigat...
Administrative/Regulatory
Ownership Of Stock Not Enough for PUC Ouster
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Even in death, Joe Remcho can't be beat as a champion of the rights of public officeholders. California's ren...
SAN RAFAEL - Marin County Superior Court Judge Michael B. Dufficy has withstood his detractors, regained his health and fought...
LOS ANGELES - In an effort to spur the growth of its energy practice, San Francisco-based Pillsbury Winthrop has opened a Hous...
LOS ANGELES - Even in kindergarten, Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Laura Knight Jackson wanted to put criminals in jail ...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a move that illustrates an intensifying demand for litigators, Timothy K. Roake said Monday he is leaving ...
LOS ANGELES - Criminal defense lawyer Thomas A. Mesereau Jr. said he planned to instruct actor Robert Blake to assert his Fift...
SAN FRANCISCO - The newly merged Reed Smith Crosby Heafey has tapped two former Crosby Heafey litigators to run the firm's Oa...
Focus Column - Family Law - By Harold J. Cohn and Pamela Wax-Semus - How does the community get compensated for funds expended...
Litigation
S.F. Firm Was Uncowed by World's Largest Software Maker
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - The California lawyers who led the antitrust charge against Microsoft Corp. took a big gamble on the case. Tw...
Forum Column - By Shawn Steel - Pity the plight of corporate California. Dismayed at the stranglehold anti-business liberals h...
OAKLAND - Now that the Alameda County Board of Supervisors has begun to flex its newfound power over the probation department,...
LOS ANGELES - A teen-ager from India, who was granted asylum in the United States after relating a horrific tale of child abus...