The University of Florida edged out Syracuse University College of Law to win Loyola Law School's inaugural National Civil Tri...
Litigation
Families Settle for $6 Million In Construction-Death Case
By Joan Osterwalder
The accidental deaths of two construction workers were not in vain because they brought about reform at the workplace, their a...
Wide-ranging business interests have piled on the amicus briefs in a California Supreme Court case scheduled for oral argument...
Chicago's Altheimer & Gray said it had big plans for San Francisco when it opened an office there in September with two pa...
Two bar associations in San Francisco's East Bay moved their meeting places this year, and both are announcing the event with ...
Barbie is proving to be a tough broad who won't go down without a fight. Mattel, the doll's manufacturer, proved it is not rea...
Los Angeles' Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton has hired away the head of the employment group at Santa Barbara's Hatch ...
Back in the day, Bobby Caron could look down on the laborers toiling in the strawberry fields of southwest Ventura County from...
Just because intellectual property issues are going to trial more often these days doesn't mean the patent process -the granti...
Pillsbury Winthrop is the latest California firm to win the lottery for talented white-collar defense lawyers. David Anderson,...
Column By George Dale - SB800, also known as the Fix-It Bill, changes the way construction defect disputes are handled for hom...
National fraternity Pi Kappa Phi has reached a settlement with the parents of a Chico State pledge who died during a chapter i...
Litigation
Prosecutor In S.F. Will Become Bench Officer in Alameda County
By Staff Writer
After 12 years as a San Francisco prosecutor, Rhonda Burgess is headed to her home county as an Alameda County Superior Court...
Salaries are down, bonuses are up and total compensation is higher for the nation's in-house attorneys, according to the 2003 ...
Put together two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun and you have yourself ...
In a wrongful-death action, are the parents of the deceased entitled to recover damages based on their loss of future grandchi...
Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue managing partner Patrick F. McCartan has tapped Stephan J. Brogan to be his successor as managi...
Management Column By Barbara Lewis and Dan Otto - Law firms often struggle with hiring decisions. When a firm generates new bu...
Litigation
State-Court Supervising Judge Jumps to Federal District Seat
By Staff Writer
Following testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Gary Klausner was confirmed to th...
Litigation
Superior Court In L.A. Chooses Two Commissioners for Vacancies
By Staff Writer
After facing two runoffs in the last six months, Guillermina Byrne has been elected by the Los Angeles Superior Court judges t...
SAN FRANCISCO - A female Boalt Hall law student woke from a drunken sleep to find the school's dean, John P. Dwyer, sexually ...
Government
County OKs Observer During Riverside Autopsy in Shooting
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Heading off a legal showdown, coroner officials in Riverside County last week allowed a private pathologist to obs...
Intellectual Property
At Long Last, E-Book Trial Ready to Get Under Way
By Riley Guerin
SAN JOSE - Even though no one faces any jail time, the stakes are high as the first trial under a 1998 federal law intended t...
The jury is out on whether junkets for judges are out of order. The hotel, meals and plane ticket are paid for, luring judges ...
Labor/Employment
Courts May Still Place Limits on Former Employee's Disclosure
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Focus Column - Tort Law - By L. Amy Blum and Kevin O. Schwartz - Although many business owners fear that Schlage destro...
SAN FRANCISCO - It's been seven years since Lockheed Corporation pulled out of the state, but the world's largest defense cont...
SAN FRANCISCO - It's been six months since Tower Snow Jr. carved up Brobeck Phleger & Harrison's prized securities litiga...
SAN FRANCISCO - Julie Su was one year out of law school when she became a champion of Thai immigrant sweatshop laborers, even...
Forum Column - By George Lefcoe - In this season between elections and the holidays, consider a reverse Robin Hood program the...
LOS ANGELES - Saying prosecutors breached their plea agreement with a convicted drug smuggler, a federal appellate panel has r...