In Ferguson v. Moore, 98 Tenn. 342, 39 S.W. 341 (1897), Judge John S. Wilkes found the following for the court, in pert...
Attorney-client agreements should describe how documents will be returned or destroyed once a matter is concluded. ...
SANTA ANA - For Sharon Hiser, an $8.7 million jury verdict against Bell Helicopter is bittersweet. The award means justice to ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Superior Court Reaches Accord With Most Staff
By Donna Huffaker
LOS ANGELES - Paralegals, court clerks and judicial assistants for the Los Angeles Superior Court will receive raises up to 18...
Labor/Employment
Jury Awards Fired Psychiatrist $1.5 Million
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - A jury has awarded $1.5 million to a psychiatrist who alleged he was fired because he refused to prescribe ge...
SAN JOSE - Larry Ellison will get to land his personal jet at San Jose International Airport, according to a federal judge's r...
SAN FRANCISCO - California police officers retain the unique statutory right to sue citizens who file false complaints against...
SAN DIEGO - A Superior Court judge on Wednesday ordered California's long-term electricity contracts made public, but she ques...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judicial panel has tapped a Washington state judge with a long antitrust resume to preside over laws...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Press Club has honored several of the Los Angeles Daily Journal's reporters and editors with top...
SAN FRANCISCO - Once, while honoring a class of fungi that grows in the dark under piles of manure, the Morgan Hill Mushroom F...
SAN FRANCISCO - A nasty Mendocino County union battle that became a factor in the 1998 election defeat of former District Atto...
SAN FRANCISCO - Opening its first West Coast bankruptcy practice, Chicago's Kirkland & Ellis has acquired Century City ba...
LOS ANGELES - Articles in two New York-based magazines about supposed links among Los Angeles Police Department officers, L.A....
SAN FRANCISCO - "Pearls Before Swine" is a deceptively simple comic strip about a megalomaniacal rat and a slow-witted pig. Th...
LOS ANGELES - Growing up, Eric M. George thought he wanted to be a doctor until he realized he liked the blood and guts of pol...
Judges and Judiciary
Judicial Council Rejects Proposal for Retention Elections
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - The state Judicial Council voted Wednesday to oppose a proposal to eliminate contested elections for trial jud...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Minnesota company trying to enforce a contract clause forbidding an employee from taking a job with a compet...
In their May 9, 2001, article "Eye-Balling It," James P. Barber and William J. Baron argue that Cottle v. Superior Court
To understand and control trial preparation, counsel must develop a strategic plan. The plan should address staffing the case,...
SAN FRANCISCO - Gary Bruhns, a young real estate lawyer who recently made partner, died at Stanford University hospital Monday...
Robert J. Vars, sole practitioner in Encino, won a $267,000 jury verdict in a premises liability case, Ghavifekr v. Prezzo<...
It may have been greed or power or lies. Any one of these could have trapped Helene Singer. But it was actually five large box...
Susan Cooley and Marc Sallus find insight in some unusual places. For Cooley, 48, it comes while kayaking off San Diego. ...
I am biased in favor of arbitration, as a theoretical and an empirical matter. Compared to litigation, it seems to me by far t...
For Gordon Reid Wallack, his family's 1967 move from Alabama to Beverly Hills was like moving to another country. Or like goin...
There is no greater gift an attorney can receive than the grateful handshake of a person whom he has helped. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The federal government's top bankruptcy watchdog in San Francisco, calling Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s cust...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Suits Claim Dental Groups Hid Health Hazards
By Donna Huffaker
LOS ANGELES - A former dental assistant, a dental patient and consumer groups have sued the American and California dental ass...
SANTA ANA - The In-N-Out Burgers fast-food chain has sued Texas-based competitor Whataburger Inc. over its allegedly illegal u...