Reporter's Notebook - By Karen Coleman - There are now a dozen other court buildings in Alameda County, but the Oakland Ren C....
Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech
Guilty Plea In Malfunction Of Devices for Aneurysms
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A Menlo Park medical device company pleaded guilty Thursday to 10 criminal counts of failing to report malfun...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Mayor James K. Hahn joined with activists and officials from federal and local governments Thursday ...
SAN FRANCISCO - If an insurance policy explicitly limits coverage to the "collapse" of a house, the state Supreme Court said ...
Reporter's Notebook - By Donna Domino - Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, you have heard the technical complexities of this in...
Forum Column - By David Kirby - As the summer concert season begins, property owners and partygoers will discover how federal ...
Focus Column - By Carl Pearlston - There is a classic slapstick comedy routine in which two men converge on a doorway and each...
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - From a practical perspective, California's statutory settlement scheme...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Statute May Cover Statements Made Outside the Presence of a Mediator
By Columnist
Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By June Lehrman - In the fifth significant decision interpreting the state's m...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles County deputy district attorney has charged that his boss pressured him to file cases he believed ...
LOS ANGELES - Ventura County has joined several other Southern California counties by offering Internet access to tentative r...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Court's ADR Program Turns 25 Years Old
By Pamela A. Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - An alternative dispute resolution program pioneered in San Francisco's federal court turned 25 this month, and...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court announced Wednesday that it will decide whether a manager may sue her employer b...
SAN FRANCISCO - Checks will soon be in the mail for lawyers on San Francisco's conflicts panel who represented indigent defen...
Litigation
Titan Wheel Spins Out on Highway to Legal Hell, Losing $6 Million
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, start your engines. A Los Angeles Superior Court jury this week too...
LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court has upheld California's Proposition 10, which taxes cigarettes and other tobacco products ...
Constitutional Law
Tax for Anti-Smoking Ads Challenged in U.S. Court
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - A lawyer for tobacco giant R.J. Reynolds contended Wednesday that the state of California is violating the free-...
LOS ANGELES - He casts himself as a small-time country boy. Which is only partly true. He avoids center stage. Yet he's the st...
SAN FRANCISCO - Shareholder class action giant Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach is splitting up and reorganizing arou...
MODESTO - It was one of Modesto's most sensational murders: A young mother's body found buried in a peach orchard, her three-...
Judges and Judiciary
'Protector of Children' Puts Youths' Best Interests First
By Cheryl Romo
LOS ANGELES - After 18 years in dependency court, Commissioner Debra L. Losnick thought she'd seen and heard it all until a fl...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
High Court Has Encouraged Rise of Commercial Arbitration
By Columnist
Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Richard Chernick - The daily coverage of arbitration decisions and the deba...
LOS ANGELES - Former Santa Monica attorney John Patrick Maginnis pleaded no contest Tuesday to embezzling nearly $200,000 from...
LOS ANGELES - Criminal defense lawyer Morton H. Boren, who used a crabby sense of humor to worm his way into the hearts and mi...
LOS ANGELES - Calling some of the charges against him "silly", an appellate court has overturned a legal malpractice award aga...
ALAMEDA - The Alameda County Superior Court has elected Barbara Miller and Robert Freedman to head court operations and policy...
Judges and Judiciary
Legislators Suggest Courts Take Back As They Give
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Lawmakers struggling to hammer out a budget plan have agreed on a package of new and increased court filing fees...
LOS ANGELES - The city of Los Angeles has agreed to scale back its Skid Row law enforcement activities and pay $75,000 in dama...
PALO ALTO - In some circles, the opinion of a former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission carries more weight th...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court ruled Tuesday that an anti-abortion group has no right to enter a high school campus to ...