Forum Column - By Rob DeKoven - As the nation's 15,000 school districts move into 2003, the need to re-examine how they deal w...
RIVERSIDE - Robert M. Holstein Jr., a prominent Riverside personal injury lawyer and former priest whose liberal activism onc...
LOS ANGELES - The owner of an Anaheim strip club who fought for years to open an adult business can pursue a claim against the...
Labor/Employment
Counsel Will Make Sure Boalt Complies With Bias Statutes
By Karen Coleman
As the messy resignation of former Boalt Hall School of Law dean John Dwyer continues to unravel, lawyers at the University of...
Litigation
Jurist Retires After 16 Years to Pursue Career in Private Judging
By Karen Coleman
After a 16-year judicial career, Superior Court Judge Thomas Ashworth III stepped down from the bench Dec. 30. He plans to pur...
Litigation
Movie Buff's Suit Says Promised DVD Widescreen Is Optical Illusion
By Eron Yehuda
Los Angeles resident Warren Eallonardo is a film buff with a library of 150 digital videodiscs at his home. "I've loved movies...
In an industry more accustomed to burnout and high turnover than longevity, Carl Whitaker was a true survivor. For 10 years, h...
Appellate Practice
Acting Confident When Bombshells Hit Soothes Jurors
By Contributing Writer
One cornerstone of courtroom success is preparation. Even with zealous preparation, the unexpected mishap is inevitable at tri...
Robert Levinson loves to talk about coins. He's an avid collector of medieval coins and has turned his passion into a career b...
Miller Brown & Dannis, a law firm that represents public schools and community college districts, has expanded with the o...
Hoping that Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton will be better positioned to serve his startup and middle-market clientel...
Anticipating the closing of San Diego County's court-ordered mediation program in a year, Judicate West opened a San Diego off...
Fourth-grader Heather Kirchhof walked up to the microphone in the front of a hotel banquet room in San Diego. Wearing jeans an...
"Smoking gun" evidence wasn't necessary for a Sacramento attorney to convince a jury last month to punish the recently termed-...
Cherokee Inc. recently acquired the trademark rights to several well-known brands in a bankruptcy auction, then turned around ...
Question and Answer - Q. Is there still a need for court-ordered mediation or can we simply rely on the marketplace to determi...
Menlo Park-based attorney staffing service The Affiliates has an interesting take on lawyer etiquette after a new survey it d...
Web portal Yahoo! Inc. of Sunnyvale has agreed to buy Inktomi Corp., a provider of search-engine software, for $235 million in...
To Chris Graham, the new managing partner of Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly's Palo Alto office, the future is about helping ...
Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp has added two of-counsels to its attorney ranks. Ronald H. Malin joined the firm's corporate ...
California Western School of Law and the University of California, San Diego, will expand their unique graduate study and res...
Firm Watch
Attorney General Asks State Bar to Probe Two Lawyers' Practices
By Staff Writer
State Attorney General Bill Lockyer has asked the State Bar of California to investigate the practices of two lawyers, Damian...
Judges and Judiciary
Presiding Judge Picks Assignments For Bench in Contra Costa County
By Staff Writer
Judge Laurel Brady is Contra Costa County's new presiding judge for 2003, replacing Judge Garrett Grant, who will oversee his ...
After a recent barrage of bad news, Tenet Healthcare Corp. had something to cheer about last month when a jury found in its fa...
SAN FRANCISCO - Major Bay Area law firms were dealt a one-two blow in 2002 by a combination of depressed transactional practi...
LOS ANGELES - For the nation's largest private law firms, it was a year of merger mania, and five of California's largest firm...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Children of Slain Mom Can't Sue Therapist
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - The children of a San Diego woman who was murdered by her husband cannot sue their father's therapists for fail...
SAN FRANCISCO - When Dennis Herrera took office as city attorney a year ago, he was issued a nondescript black binder, filled...
LOS ANGELES - Flush from victories against New York's Mafia families, Los Angeles' new police chief, William Bratton, created...
Forum Column - By Charles Hobson - On Nov. 5, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in two cases that should close one of the...