Tran Murder Case Goes to Trial After It Nearly Settled
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - A high-profile 1996 murder case in which a judge disqualified the entire San Francisco district attorney's off...
Justice or Judiciousness
By Columnist
By Ray Haynes. A good test of a political movement on the wane is the lengths its supporters will go to defend it. When the mo...
Real Estate Expert Defects to Allen Matkins
By Tamara Scott
After 20 years with San Francisco's Lillick & Charles, senior real estate attorney Lee F. Gotshall-Maxon has defected to t...
Testimony Autonomy
By Columnist
By Darren O'Leary Aitken. The hearsay objection is a pet peeve of mine. I am not talking hearsay objections made at trial. On ...
How Do You Feel About Full-Time Casual Dress?
By Columnist
The Daily Journal asks lawyers how they feel about full-time casual dress.
Lawyer Pleads to Federal Conspiracy
By David Houston
A Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy charges Monday for helping a U.S. Customs agent and...
Ingram Sues Employees for Internet Abuse
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - Computer giant Ingram Micro Inc. has filed a lawsuit against a dozen of its employees, claiming the workers violat...
Judge Unseals Guilty Plea by O.C. Prosecutor
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - While on the job, a former Orange County prosecutor continued his relationship with a known drug dealer even after...
Justice or Judiciousness
By Columnist
By Radhika Rao. In Stenberg v. Carhart, the Supreme Court voted 5-4 to strike down a Nebraska statute making performance of a ...
County Wins Suit Against Vengeful Neighbor
By Matthew Heller
SANTA BARBARA - A jury has found a local property owner liable for setting one of Santa Barbara's worst wildfires as an act of...
State Bar Asks for ABA Discipline Review
By Don Debenedictisn
SAN FRANCISCO - Under legislative command to measure the effectiveness and efficiency of its attorney discipline system, the S...
Court Rules in Favor Of Comic Book Series
By Daniel Evans
It may not be nice to imply that someone is the bastard child of a murderous worm with a hankering for sex with dead pigs, but...
S.F.'s Schachter Kristoff Prepares To Close Doors
By Tamara Scott
San Francisco's Schachter Kristoff Orenstein & Berkowitz, a 16-attorney labor and employment law boutique founded in 1982,...
Supreme Court Upholds Death Sentence of San Diego Man
By Daniel Evans
Despite the fact that defense counsel was excluded from a key trial hearing, the California Supreme Court upheld the death sen...
Split the Art
By Columnist
By John M. Genga. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has recently held that the Copyright Act does not pre-empt state commu...
O'Melveny & Myers: MANAGING PARTNER MAKES BIG CHANGE TO UNIVISION
By Staff Writer
O'Melveny & Myers managing partner Douglas Kranwinkle surprised both his current and future employers with the career move...
PALO ALTO FIRM RECRUITS ASSOCIATE FROM DELAWARE
By Staff Reports
Palo Alto's Tomlinson Zisko Morosoli & Maser recently recruited Alisha K. Hiner as an associate to its corporate practice...
DMV Hearings Circumvent the Constitution
By Columnist
By Edwin B. Stegman. Department of Motor Vehicles' driving-under-the-influence license-suspension hearings are a travesty of j...
Number of Women Rises at Boalt Hall
By Staff Reports
The University of California, Boalt Hall, on Friday released its statistics for the fall 2000 first-year class.
Insatiable Federal Appetite
By Columnist
By John C. Eastman. Our nation's founders feared that the consolidation of power in a central government would be dangerous to...
Accident Victim Gets $21 Million
By Ed Kimble
Oganes Saakyan got a big birthday present this year from a Norwalk jury: $21 million. But it was long overdue. On Aug. 17, the...
S.D. Jury Finds Genzler Guilty
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO -- David James Genzler walked from the courtroom Friday guilty of involuntary manslaughter but free and likely to re...
Judge Tosses Man's 'Peeping Tom' Charges
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
SANTA ANA - An Orange County judge has dismissed "peeping tom" charges against a man - even though he was caught allegedly vid...
Ex-Kings Owner to Turn Over $750,000
By David Houston
An injunction has been entered against former Los Angeles Kings owner Jeffrey P. Sudikoff and two other men accused of lying i...
Attorney Steven H. Spindel, 50, Dies of Cancer
By Lisa Madrid
Services took place Friday for attorney Steven H. Spindel, a partner in the Los Angeles law firm Goldschmid, Silver & Spin...
Mom Sues County Over Son's Death
By Ed Kimble
The mother of a man shot by Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies after an early morning car chase last year claims in a wrong...
Recall Sponsors Target Marin Judges
By John Roemer
A protester's warning that a judge would be shot had officials on edge at the Marin County Civic Center on May 16 as Lynn Dury...
Loyola Names David Burcham 15th Dean of the Law School
By Jill Boekenoogen
On the lawn at Loyola Law School with a late afternoon summer breeze cooling alumni, staff, students and the legal community e...
Munger Tolles Beats Jones Day to Capture Landau Cup
By Contributing Writer
It's a treat to watch two formidable defense firms display their skills in a high-stakes court battle. Case in point: Munger, ...
Family Law Courtroom Venom Rises Rapidly
By John Roemer
As family law courtroom dramas escalate, judges are digging foxholes. West Hollywood lawyer Patricia J. Barry is a passionate ...