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...
By Laura Wides Associated Press Writer State Attorney General Bill Lockyer filed a complaint Tuesday against two pharmaceutic...
By Joel Rosenblatt Palo Alto's Tomlinson Zisko has elected James R. Janz, the mayor of Atherton, as its managing partner. Jan...
Litigation
Construction Litigator Forms Firm To Represent General Contractors
By Karen Coleman
Construction litigator Paul A. Lax has left Castle & Lax to form Lax & Stevens, a new firm specializing in representi...