SAN JOSE - James F. Boccardo, a legendary personal injury lawyer who was one of the first attorneys to win million-dollar jury...
Forum Column - By Mark T. Clark - Many people harbor doubts about the war with Iraq. These people don't fully understand that ...
Forum Column By Stephen Yagman "[M]y secret opinion of this country: its follies, vices, grievous disappointments ... I believ...
Attorneys first setting foot in Judge Robert L. Dondero's courtroom may feel a little intimidated. First, there's his appearan...
RIVERSIDE - Bernard J. Schwartz uses a football analogy to describe the way his experience as one of Riverside Superior Court'...
Focus Column - Probate Law - By Marshal A. Oldman and Susan J. Cooley - In Estate of McAdams , 104 Cal.App.4th 1221 (20...
Judges and Judiciary
AG Owes Judge Apology for Probing His San Quentin Visit
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Forum Column - By Stephen R. Reinhardt - Professor Laurie L. Levenson's recent column about Judge Alex Kozinski astonished me....
Forumn Column - By Duffy Carolan - Since January 2001, the California Rules of Court have required a noticed motion, a hearing...
LOS ANGELES - In an unusual defense win, U.S. District Judge Consuelo Marshall has ruled that hundreds of photos of naked boys...
SANTA ANA - An Orange County surgeon recovering from hip surgery filed an eight-count civil rights lawsuit against American Ai...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles-area couple can pursue a lawsuit against an insurance company lawyer who they allege tricked them ...
LOS ANGELES - A memorial service will take place Thursday for Benjamin M. Paik, a fifth-year associate at the Los Angeles offi...
SAN FRANCISCO - Refusing to brook further delay, a trial judge ordered Brobeck Phleger & Harrison's new counsel Tuesday to...
LOS ANGELES -Labeling the recent Skid Row police sweeps "witch hunts," the ACLU and the National Lawyers Guild Tuesday filed a...
Judges and Judiciary
S.F. Commissioner Richard Best Retires 'Because I Can'
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Richard Best, a San Francisco court commissioner for 30 years and the court's resident expert on technology an...
Reporter's Notebook - By Robert Selna - The arguments about public access to information in the police cover-up case are start...
WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans on Tuesday failed in their third attempt to end the Democratic filibuster on the nomination of...
Judges and Judiciary
Judicial Conference Requests Help for Busy Bench Officers
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The policy-making body for the federal courts has voted to ask Congress to create 57 new judgeships this year, in...
LOS ANGELES - Inglewood police raised concerns about several of their police officers years before one of them was videotaped ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A spokesman for the San Francisco police legal department said Tuesday that, upon the advice of unnamed local...
Natural Resources
Order in the Forest: Arboreal Hobbits Face Eviction From Redwoods
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Life was getting tense Monday morning for Remedy, a tree sitter who has been perched in an ancient Hu...
LOS ANGELES - Four of the 26 Skadden Fellows chosen for 2003 will work in California, New York's Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meaghe...
Forum Column - By Charles L. Hobson - California's three-strikes law has a history of vindication in the face of opposition. I...
Administrative/Regulatory
Recent Cases Highlight Issues Involving the 11th Amendment
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Focus Column - Administrative Law - By Stuart Miller - The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gives the states, as well a...
Forum Column - By Kirsten Levingston - When Clarence Earl Gideon crept into a poolroom in Panama City, Fla., 40 years ago, and...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Santa Monica lawyer Monday filed an objection to Brobeck Phleger & Harrison's attempt to postpone yet ag...
SAN FRANCISCO - Controversy has found Judge Elliot Daum in a hurry. In just two years since Daum became the first public defen...
Reporter's Notebook - By Dennis Pfaff - Former San Francisco attorney Clifford Chanler, because of his occasionally volatile p...
Appellate Practice
State Board Says It Shouldn't Pay for Seeking Dismissal
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Medical Board of California told the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday that it would not pay any damages or costs ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Glen "Buddy" Nickerson, who has spent 18 years in prison for a double murder he may not have committed, had hi...