SAN FRANCISCO - Michael T. Lempres, a former vice president and general counsel for the Pacific Coast Stock Exchange, who also...
PASADENA - Judge Richard Paez, of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, has been called a lot of things. But the most surpris...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Liberals Win by Default At Annual ABA Meeting
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - In basketball, this is called a slam-dunk. That's how it felt at the American Bar Association's annual convention...
SANTA ANA - Police have arrested the roommate of Whittier Law School professor Joanne Stern for beating her to death last Marc...
INGLEWOOD - In what some legal experts viewed as a smart tactical move by the defense, the case against two Inglewood police o...
Law Practice
With Fire Wall in Place, Lawyer Needn't Be Tossed, Court Says
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A law firm should not be tossed off a case automatically because it hires a lawyer who once worked for the other...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles federal prosecutor has been appointed the first Vietnamese-American woman to sit on the Los Angele...
Judges and Judiciary
ABA Urges Swift Appointing of Federal Judges
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - The American Bar Association on Tuesday repeated, almost verbatim, proclamations it made in 1990 and 1997 by call...
Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech
Judge Temporarily Blocks Hospital Closure
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - A judge Tuesday temporarily blocked Tenet HealthSystem from shutting down Daniel Freeman Marina Hospital. Saying...
SACRAMENTO - A controversial measure that would permit judges to set aside many paternity judgments based on newly conducted D...
SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran prosecutor and litigator Teri L. Jackson has become San Francisco's first black female judge following...
SAN DIEGO - The judge presiding over the trial of David Westerfield refused Tuesday to readmit a radio reporter he barred from...
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - "Farmers near Mexico City guard their land with machetes in an effort to keep it from be...
LOS ANGELES - An employee of CalArts who sued the school for sexual harassment after it displayed a sexually graphic drawing o...
DENVER - Qwest Communications International will pay nearly $2 million in damages and restitution for alleged deceptive market...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Is a Teacher for Jurists and the Community
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - The presiding judge of Sacramento Superior Court is a climber. At age 53, he's one of the youngest presiding judg...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Parties Should Make Arbitration Process Choices in the Contract
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Richard Chernick - Drafters of arbitration clauses are sometimes careless in identifying how the contemplate...
Labor/Employment
Seven Coca-Cola Employees File Overtime Complaints
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - When Tina Cox took a job at Coca-Cola's Rancho Cucamonga distribution center, she said, her supervisor told...
LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court on Monday upheld the death sentence of a former Los Angeles nurse who could become ...
SAN DIEGO - Jurors in the trial of David A. Westerfield ended their third day of deliberations Monday without deciding the gui...
OAKLAND - Judge Steven A Brick has some succinct advice for attorneys who appear in his courtroom: "Have a very good idea of w...
SAN FRANCISCO - A man who is not related to four young girls whom he molested but served as the "functional equivalent" of a g...
LOS ANGELES - Latino advocates filed an appeal Monday in federal court requesting that the U.S. Supreme Court reconsider the d...
SAN FRANCISCO - Free speech does not give a graduate student the right to a passing grade on a master's thesis that is academi...
Education
Multijurisdictional Practice Rule Passes Over California Protests
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - California lawyers' concerns about the American Bar Association's first guidelines on multijurisdictional practic...
SAN JOSE - Veteran litigator James P. Kleinberg, who has worked for more than three decades handling commercial lawsuits invol...
SAN LUIS OBISPO - Judge Donald G. Umhofer, who enjoys a reputation as an evenhanded jurist with a willing ear, unwinds on week...
LOS ANGELES - In a possible sign of things to come in the era of corporate accounting scandals, the San Francisco business law...
Personal Injury & Torts
Plaintiffs Must See Negligence To Claim They Are Distressed
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Monday protected hospitals from emotional distress suits filed by relatives of...
SAN FRANCISCO - Marisa Arrona, one of seven summer associates at Hancock Rothert & Bunshoft this year, expected to be wine...