Section 425.13 does not apply to allegations of misconduct by practitioners in various capacities other than as health care pr...
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Trial preparation in the case that earned the state's third largest verdict last year had a lot in common with an archeology d...
Our new president likely will impact the direction of the U.S. Supreme Court for years to come. Conservative Chief Justice Wil...
Sometimes, simply taking the case at all is the most important factor in winning a big verdict. By the time Daniel Frasier's m...
Anomalies in the law tend to attract our attention. The municipal ordinance that makes it illegal to walk a pig on the left si...
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Trial attorneys must develop rapport with the jury, beyond a mere understanding of the logic of the argument, to win the minds...
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When it came to the theme of the 10 largest verdicts of 2000, it was all business, especially if it involved intellectual prop...
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Paul Nelson of San Francisco's Hancock, Rothert & Bunshoft would like to take credit for a brilliant legal strategy that r...
Gary L. Chambers, a partner with Chambers & Noronha, of Santa Ana, won a $300,000 verdict in a premises liability case, Ha...
'The arrow to the bull's eye," San Francisco sole practitioner Robert Wallach says genially, "was that a bank had made a loan ...
It was almost a religious experience for San Francisco civil rights attorney Angela Alioto when a jury found for her clients t...
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SAN DIEGO - Senior U.S. District Judge Earl B. Gilliam, the first African-American on the Municipal, Superior and federal cour...
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Public Interest
Composed Champion of Crisis Control Could Crack an Occasional Smile
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Late one night in 1968, Warren Christopher broke his toe as he sprang out of bed to answer the telephone. The ca...
SAN FRANCISCO - Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Mark B. Simons, a judicial educator and author of two legal reference...
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Insurance companies should have learned some hard lessons in the wake of the Northridge earthquake, the insurance commissioner...
SAN DIEGO - A San Diego city councilwoman resigned from office and agreed Monday to plead guilty to misdemeanor Government Cod...
The next time a California lawyer tries to get a referral fee for sending a client to another attorney, he or she should think...