Harvard Letter Lured Graduate to Law School
By Jenna Bordelon
LOS ANGELES - Services took place Thursday for a veteran Orange County civil litigator who was wooed into a law career by one ...
Chicago-Based Katten Muchin Plans Merger With Rosenman
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Chicago-based 460-lawyer Katten Muchin Zavis confirmed Thursday that it is in merger talks with Rosenman & C...
Barrier to Entry
During the week of Feb. 25, the U.S. Supreme Court decided two cases that received almost no media attention. Both involved pr...
Water Commission's Authority Does Not Preclude Tort Actions
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Daniel J. Curtin Jr., Jill C. Teraoka and Shiraz D. Tangri - With the advent of environmental restrictions, ...
High Court Takes Broad Definition of Phone Privacy
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Thursday made it easier for plaintiffs to win damages for eavesdropping in a r...
Judge Must Decide Candidate's Withdrawal Bid
By Jenna Bordelon
SANTA ANA - A Los Angeles judge has been assigned to decide whether Orange County Superior Court Judge Ronald Kline, who faces...
Report Absolves Marin of Bias
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISO - Perceptions of cronyism within the Marin County family law bench and bar are the result of the small number of ...
Social Security Off-Limits To Cover Overdraft Fees
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Banks cannot take money from customers' direct deposit of Social Security and disability benefits to cover ove...
Preparation Can Prevent Getting Caught Off Guard
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Employment Column - By Luan J. McElroy - Once you have made the decision to conduct a job search, you must next decide how to ...
Bankruptcy Bar Hostile to Bill
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Debtors and their lawyers will be victimized if proposed bankruptcy reforms become law, federal bankruptcy jud...
Judge Rules With Labor On Overtime
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Wading into a much-debated area of employment law, a San Francisco judge finalized an order Thursday asserting...
Solving Mystery of Criminal Minds
By Matthew Heller
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - What could have driven a 14-year-old boy to take a high-velocity deer rifle and shoot his mother and sister...
Know Thy Judge
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By Gloria Cardenas Conn - Advance research on a judge can have a big impact on your case, such as drastically i...
Preparation Can Prevent Getting Caught Off Guard
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Luan J. McElroy - Once you have made the decision to conduct a job search, you must next decide how to ...
Great Clarity Comes by Keeping to the Point
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By David A. Brickner - Here is a recipe for increasing your effectiveness in oral argument before the court by ...
Board's Secret Vote Prompts Look at Rules
By Gina Keating
LOS ANGELES - If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, did it make any noise? Similarly, if county supervisors take ...
Lawyer Founded Ventura's Biggest Law Firm
By Donna Huffaker
LOS ANGELES - Ralph Cormany, a founding partner of Ventura County's largest law firm, Nordman, Cormany, Hair & Compton, an...
Board Members Give Belmont Thumbs Up
By Gina Keating
LOS ANGELES - The Board of Education has voted to complete the $154 million Belmont Learning Complex in downtown Los Angeles. ...
You've Got Mail
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Dicta Column - By JoAnne Earls Robbins - Many lawyers feel an icy panic when they get a letter from the State Bar office of th...
Color-Coded States of Threat Conjure Memories of Cold War Childhood
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - When I was a kid, I lived in a part of the country that the Strategic Air Command thought was perfect...
Court Voids Securities Company's Arbitration Contract
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Michelle A. Reinglass - Several employees of Countrywide Securities Corp. have challenged their employer's e...
Laws Preclude Judge's Withdrawal
By Jenna Bordelon
SANTA ANA - Orange County Judge Ronald Kline may face some tough legal obstacles in his request to withdraw his name from a ru...
Defense Rests In Dog Case With Tough Questioning
By Robert Selna
LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors continued to attack Marjorie Knoller's credibility Wednesday, underscoring that her statements on a ...
Court Voids Securities Company's Arbitration Contract
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Michelle A. Reinglass - Several employees of Countrywide Securities Corp. have challenged their employer's e...
Documentary Shows City's PDs As They Seek an 'Honest Fight'
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - The most compelling scene in "Presumed Guilty," a new documentary about San Francisco public defenders, is a q...
Perjury Reverses Murder Verdict
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A former law student with no criminal history, who has served half of a 32-year murder sentence, won reversal ...
Workers File Bias Suit Against Lockheed Martin
By Erin Carroll
LOS ANGELES - Three African-American employees of Lockheed Martin in Palmdale have filed a racial discrimination suit against ...
Chinese Banking Case Remains Here
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - A lawsuit accusing Bank of China managers of embezzling $73 million will remain in San Francisco courts, a jud...
Bible-Inspired Bias
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Forum Column - By Gloria Allred and John Steven West - Should a mother be presumed to be unfit to have custody of her childre...
A Call for Restraints In Courting Rituals
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A new plan to slow the frenzied annual rush by federal judges to hire the best and brightest law clerks may en...