Real Estate/Development
Tenant May File Bankruptcy to Limit Its Damages for Termination of Lease
By Columnist
Focus Column - Real Property - By Stephen C. Seto - In these times of downsizing and declining rents, many financially healthy...
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Karl Gerber - Not long ago, an employment attorney with a California Fair Employment and Ho...
RIVERSIDE - Saying he erred by making comments to the media, a judge has recused himself from the murder trial of a woman accu...
LOS ANGELES - A former Roman Catholic priest whose female cousin recently testified that he molested her more than 40 years ag...
In Closing Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Paul W. Taylor - One of the oldest tenets of mediation is the confiden...
RIVERSIDE - A Superior Court jury late Thursday found a 20-year veteran investigator with the Riverside district attorney's of...
Despite laws that limit marriage to heterosexuals in 37 states and a proposed federal amendment that would do the same nationw...
WASHINGTON - Time passes quickly when you're having fun, and the U.S. Supreme Court's recently completed 2002-03 term really z...
SAN FRANCISCO - An Oakland judge has given the green light to a lawsuit alleging that a former employee at the Lawrence Liverm...
Intellectual Property
Reporter's Notebook: Latest Plan Against File-Sharing Isn't Much of One
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - The recording industry's recent announcement that it would start suing individuals who trade songs online prov...
SAN JOSE - Two years after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to permit the use of marijuana as a medical necessity, attorneys for...
Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky, Dara K. Reiner and Jennifer Rodriguez - Every day, decisions are made in California's ...
Forum Column - By Joseph F. C. DiMento - The publication last month of a major study reporting the collapse of the great preda...
Focus Column - Litigation - By John B. Quinn and William C. Price - On the morning of your final status conference, your clien...
RIVERSIDE - In a controversial move, Riverside County's Superior Court may halt civil trials for a month this summer so that j...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Presiding Judge Robert A. Dukes and District Attorney Steve Cooley have reached a com...
SACRAMENTO - Several bills affecting the legal profession passed legislative committees this week, including one by Assemblyma...
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Gregory Ward has an impressive legal background, with stints prosecuting or...
Judges and Judiciary
Quiet Leader, Judge Offered Good Advice
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - Retired San Bernardino County Superior Court Judge Charles S. Havens died Monday of long-term effects of a ch...
LOS ANGELES - Child molestation charges were dismissed Wednesday against former Orange County Superior Court Judge Ronald C. K...
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys can be sued for malicious prosecution if they learn their lawsuits have no merit after they are filed,...
LOS ANGELES - Three years ago, Cuban piano tuner Armando Gomez couldn't get a visa to attend the annual international piano tu...
SAN FRANCISCO - Superior Court Judge Lenard Louie on Wednesday swept aside prosecution objections to immunizing statements by ...
Entertainment & Sports
Six Law Firms Plus One Bear Equal Nothing in Winnie the Pooh Case
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Wednesday was a typical day in Winnie the Pooh Litigation Land. Nothing much happened. But six law fi...
SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda County Superior Court Judge Richard Iglehart, a former prosecutor "with a big heart," keen knowledge o...
Judges and Judiciary
9th Circuit Is Overloaded With Immigration Appeals
By Pamela Mac Lean
Reporter's Notebook - By Pamela A. MacLean - Increased scrutiny of foreigners following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has beg...
Appellate Practice
Material Outside of Record Is 'Forbidden Fruit' for Attorneys
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Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Paul D. Fogel and Raymond A. Cardozo - Materials outside the record on appeal are the appell...
Forum Column - By Kevin S. Bankston - Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its 6-3 decision in United States v. Am...
WASHINGTON - Despite headline-grabbing rulings on affirmative action and gay rights that gave a liberal cast to a conservative...
OAKLAND - An Alameda County Superior Court judge rejected a motion for a mistrial Tuesday in the prosecution of three former O...