Last fall, the California Supreme Court held that employers could impose a fair and mutual arbitration process on employees as...
Civil Rights
New Law Could Put Americans' Medical Privacy on Critical List
By Columnist
Uncle Sam wants your private medical records, and you have only a few days to stop him. Not only does he want your medical dat...
VENTURA - In a case that tested police-pursuit policies, a bystander seriously injured as officers were chasing a fleeing vehi...
SAN FRANCISCO - Marshall B. Grossman, a senior partner and business litigation specialist at Los Angeles' Alschuler Grossman S...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a move that ensures Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel will eventually appear in civil court to face liabilit...
LOS ANGELES - No matter who wins the mayoral race, Big Money's influence on politics will continue to be a festering issue in ...
Solo and Small Firms
Valley's GCA Keeps Plugging With Associate-Free Model
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - No one's hiding his head in the sand at General Counsel Associates in Palo Alto. Members of the 22-lawyer Sili...
SAN FRANCISCO - The White House has not yet worked out a formal system for evaluating judicial nominees, but that has not stop...
What is the "crime of aggression," and why doesn't the United States want the International Criminal Court to punish it? The U...
Labor/Employment
Role of DA's Anger in His Firing Surprises AG Staffers
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
SANTA ANA - State attorney general staffers are surprised that an Orange County homicide prosecutor's firing occurred in part ...
SAN FRANCISCO - He had been with Foley & Lardner for less than a year, but lawyers there say the loss of Peter Ferris has ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Palo Alto lawyer who was "blinded by greed" has been ordered by a federal judge to repay roughly $200,000 of...
Allowing two mediators to work as a team in a mediation can be very beneficial to clients. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Morrison & Foerster, the last of the Bay Area's biggest firms to announce its salary plans, will be forgoi...
LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors argued Monday against a fifth postponement of the April 30 trial of former Symbionese Liberation Arm...
LOS ANGELES - "Bye, Ali." It was a fitting send-off to U.S. Attorney Alejandro N. Mayorkas from "Hollywood madam" Heidi Fleiss...
Constitutional Law
Mother Files Bias Lawsuit Against School District
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
CHINO - The mother of two former students sued the Chino Valley Unified School District, claiming the district discriminated a...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge on Monday ruled against the city of Los Angeles, allowing a man to pursue his civil rights lawsu...
Judges and Judiciary
Panel Says Judge's Excuses for Absences 'Not Believeable'
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - A panel of special masters has determined that Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patrick B. Murphy, who attende...
SACRAMENTO - For more than 15 years convicted hatchet murderer Kevin Cooper has insisted he is innocent, and lately he has ask...
SAN FRANCISCO - Fallout from the fatal dog mauling case involving San Francisco attorney Robert Noel has ramifications for a p...
LOS ANGELES - Political theater surrounding the city elections reached a crescendo Monday as city attorney candidate Lea Purwi...
Entertainment & Sports
Thanks to Today's Shows, Home Is No Escape for Lawyers
By Columnist
Lawyers who don't get enough law during working hours can now get more than enough from TV. ...
LOS ANGELES - Eighteen months after Steven Bochco sued 20th Century Fox for breach of contract, the TV studio's parent company...
Firm Watch
Heller Ehrman: WEB SITE WINS FIRST PLACE IN NATIONAL COMPETITION
By Staff Writer
San Francisco-based law firms cleaned up at the 2001 Legal Marketing Association's Your Honor Awards. The Chicago-based profes...
Everyone has an exit strategy. For most, this seems to take the form of some nebulous dream career that they plan to pursue af...
Entertainment & Sports
LAWYERS HAVE DONE WELL, BUT HEIDI'S NOT SO LUCKY
By Contributing Writer
Say it ain't so, Heidi-Ho. The saga of Heidi Fleiss continues, with the Hollywood madam lunging back into the news March 29. T...
Firm Watch
Wilson Sonsini: NEW INTERNET SITE HELPS JAPANESE PRACTICE IN U.S.
By Staff Writer
The ever-expanding Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati opened a new site for its Japanese clients on March 26. The new site i...
Firm Watch
Cox Castle: L.A. HEADQUARTERS CHOOSES TWO FOR BAY AREA OUTPOST
By Staff Writer
The San Francisco office of Los Angeles' Cox Castle & Nicholson added a pair of lawyers from Alden Aronovsky & Sax, a ...
Transactions
Tomlinson Ziskso: PORTOLA CLOSES COVER ON CONSUMER CAP PURCHASE
By Victoria Newman
Portola Packaging Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiary Northern Engineering and Plastics Corp., has bought all the assets...