Forum Column - By Franklin R. Garfield - In "Collaborative Divorce Plan Provides Separation Skills" (Forum, April 14), Ron M. ...
Law Practice
Despite Iraq Victory, Bush's Policies Lead America Astray
By Robert L. Bastian Jr.
President Bush arguably made the correct decision to invade Iraq. Nevertheless, his leadership in foreign affairs does not mer...
Forum Column - By Joel A. Davis - A funny thing happened on the way to the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Medical Board...
Judges and Judiciary
Extreme Cuts Will Threaten Access-to-Justice Programs
By David A. Lash
Forum Column - By David A. Lash and Mitchell A. Kamin - Over the past several years, the Judicial Council of California has se...
Civil Litigation
Procedural Rule Shouldn't Bar Meritorious Punitives Claims
By Aashish Y. Desai
While most litigators are familiar with the limitations on jury awards for noneconomic damages in medical-malpractice cases, f...
Like a river, a theme runs through my last several columns. It is the painful but important recognition that judges, like all ...
Forum Column - By Carole E. Handler, Jeffrey A. Tidus and David A. Lash - In Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II, justice...
Corporate
Foreign Business Entities Should Get Acquainted With State Rules
By Debra C. Scheufler
Adviser Column - Foreign Entities - By Debra C. Scheufler - Many foreign business entities, both corporations and limited liab...
Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - Few symbols are so vile as the burning cross. Throughout American history, bigots have u...
Forum Column - By David A. Lash - Mario Cuomo spoke in Los Angeles recently. He said that U.S. foreign policy would be best se...
People have complained. My column is late once again. But what do you expect after my last column, which appeared in March? Yo...
Judges and Judiciary
Nominee Doesn't Deserve Calumny Heaped on Her
Forum Column - By Vilma S. Martinez - As a member of Sen. Barbara Boxer's judicial screening committee during the Clinton admi...
Forum Column - By John C. Eastman - The filibuster being waged by Senate Democrats against one of President George W. Bush's e...
Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - The pending nomination of Carolyn Kuhl to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals raises i...
Forum Column - By Daniel Grunfeld and David A. Lash - It is now time for the opponents of public funding of legal services for...
Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - For a century, the U.S. Supreme Court has held that grossly disproportionate sentences a...
Forum Column - By Richard A. Nixon - I read with interest the article by Miriam A. Krinsky and Robin Meadow, which argued that...
I got another speeding ticket. Damn! - on the Pacific Coast Highway about eight miles north of where I got my previous speedin...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Lawyers Can Apply Trial Skills In Forum of Dispute Resolution
By Lawrence Waddington
The increasing resemblance of arbitration to litigation suggests that lawyers who have mastered courtroom skills can apply the...
Appellate Practice
'Macomber' Highlights Danger In Appealing Fee, Cost Awards
By Benjamin G. Shatz
Focus Column Appellate Law By Kathy M. Banke and Benjamin G. Shatz Isn't appealing from the judgment sufficient to challenge ...
Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - Since Sept. 11, 2001, the Bush administration and the Ashcroft Justice Department have e...
Tax
Taxation of Attorney Fees Will Depend on Issue of Ownership
By Mark L. Van Buskirk, R. Duane Westrup, Donald J. Winkler
Focus Column - Tax Law - By R. Duane Westup, Mark Van Buskirk and Donald J. Winkler - In a contingency case involving a $1 mil...
Forum Column - By David A. Lash - If you are poor, 2003 is shaping up to be a nightmare. A declining economy is about to hit a...
Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - President George W. Bush's renomination of Charles Pickering Sr. and Priscilla Owen for ...
The late Justice Mildred Lillie has achieved immortality not only through her well-written opinions, but also through her pers...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
California Courts Begin New Dispute Resolution Programs
By Lawrence Waddington
Responding to the increased judicial emphasis on alternatives to litigation, California state and federal courts will introduc...
Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - Few issues are more controversial or divisive than affirmative action. Opponents of affi...
Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky, Daniel Grunfeld and David Lash - "Equal justice under law" may be carved into the granite...
Insurance
Trend Goes Toward Using General Legal Principles in Insurance Cases
By Rex Heeseman
The landmark employment case of Foley v. Interactive Data Corp. , 47 Cal.3d 654 (1998), examined the availability of a ...
U.S. Supreme Court, Law Practice, Constitutional Law
Idea Diversity
By Robert L. Bastian Jr.
Now that the U.S. Supreme Court, as widely anticipated, has agreed to hear Grutter v. Bollinger, a rejected white applicant's ...