Forum Column - By Chiori Kaneko - Gov. Gray Davis signed a law last month that will have a terrible impact on victims of domes...
SAN FRANCISCO - Tired of watching Judge Judy weekday mornings? Tuesday, daytime TV viewers from Bakersfield to Chico can tune ...
LOS ANGELES - The battered 21-year-old wife did everything right: She had her husband arrested, fled with her 6-year-old son t...
LOS ANGELES - Once we were the "Prozac Nation," lining up to be saved by a revolutionary group of antidepressants that was sai...
SAN BERNARDINO - Lawyers for Kevin Cooper, a death-row inmate recently pegged by DNA results in the brutal killings of a famil...
Corporate
Prevailing Cartwright Act Defendant May Not Recover Its Attorney Fees
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Focus Column - By Mitchell S. Shapiro - The allocation of attorney fees in antitrust cases is of considerable interest to the ...
Forum Column - By Robert Feinstein - They say there are two things you should never watch being made: sausage and legislation....
LOS ANGELES - They're lawyers, they're in Century City, and their names sound exactly the same. A single "c" separates the two...
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney Richard F. Dole has died at his Telegraph Hill home, ending a 45-year real estate and finance career....
LOS ANGELES -The Los Angeles Police Department "has had a couple of tough years," the city's new top cop said Thursday as he p...
Construction
New Law Clarifies Construction-Defect Litigation for Builders and Homeowners
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Focus Column - By Mark Milstein and Alexander S. Polsky - Construction-defect lawsuits have been among the hottest political i...
SAN FRANCISCO - Charles James, the assistant U.S. attorney general who settled the government's antitrust case against Microso...
LOS ANGELES - A former basketball player for Los Angeles' Loyola Marymount University who lost her scholarship and place on th...
SAN FRANCISCO - A man who has served 10 years in prison was ordered released Thursday by a Martinez judge based on DNA testing...
SAN JOSE - As much as anything, Justice Thomas Harris appreciates the time to think. A member of the 5th District Court of App...
SAN FRANCISCO - During a July 2000 Alaskan vacation cruise, Thomas Lister discovered medical records showing that his partner,...
SAN FRANCISCO - Over the strenuous objection of Pacific Gas and Electric Co., a federal bankruptcy judge has approved hiring i...
SAN FRANCISCO - News of the passage Thursday of the Justice Department Reauthorization Act had the trademark community cheerin...
Dicta Column - By Richard J. Simmons - On Sept. 23, Gov. Gray Davis signed SB1661 authorizing paid family leave for Califor...
Labor/Employment
Job Seekers Should Use Time Wisely to Enhance Their Skills
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Employment Column - By Craig A. Blumin - With the slumping stock market and job layoffs, it is no wonder that job seekers are ...
Dicta Column - By David H. Brickner - Voir dire can present many challenges. For instance, what do you do when, either right a...
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - For nearly its entire existence, the California Coastal Commission has been at war with ...
Forum Column - By Mike Schmier - The California State Bar should follow the American Bar Association lead and work to eliminat...
LOS ANGELES - An attorney Wednesday asked Los Angeles jurors to return a record $6.7 to $20 billion punitive damage award agai...
SANTA ANA - Services are planned for Oct. 17 for retired Orange County Superior Court Judge Myron S. Brown. Brown died Monday ...
Personal Injury & Torts
Jury Scofflaws Study Is Alarmist, Judicial Council Says
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - A study released Wednesday by the American Tort Reform Association charges that too many Californians are dodg...
SAN FRANCISCO - Linda Ekstrom Stanley, until recently the federal government's chief bankruptcy watchdog in San Francisco, sai...
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers who dread and deplore the massive bankruptcy overhaul bill currently before Congress can thank anti-ab...
LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court Wednesday threw out a San Diego man's robbery convictions because jurors were improperly ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Long before he was a lawyer, Ren Auguste Chouteau kept the company of judges. A fourth-generation San Francisc...