'Esberg' Should Have Little Effect on Benefits Available for Older Employees
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Niloofar Nejat-Bina - In a broad new opinion, the California Supreme Court has decided that the Fair Employm...
Group's Study, Not Family Courts, Suffers From Bias
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Forum Column - By Glenn Sacks - The California National Organization for Women recently released its Family Court Report 2002...
Securities Litigator Takes Reins At Heller Ehrman's L.A. Outpost
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Replacing Robert B. Hubbell, who was promoted to firmwide managing partner in March, securities litigator Jerry ...
Jurists, Firms Offer to Analyze Criticism of DA
By Jenna Bordelon
SANTA ANA - Seven law firms or retired judges have expressed interest in the job of reviewing and analyzing an Orange County g...
Smoldering Flames of Litigation
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - After years of defending lawsuits claiming they exposed their guests to secondhand smoke, the California Hotel &...
Powerhouse Prep
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Associate Justice Linda M. Gemello keeps a combination gavel and kaleidoscope on her desk at 1st District Cour...
Pledge Ruling Sparks 9th Circuit Split Talk
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - The political outrage over the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling declaring part of the Pledge of Allegianc...
Unusually Large Win for MoFo Partner
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - The city of Fresno has agreed to pay $1.95 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of an elderly man...
BASF Lays Off Staff, Including Attorneys
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Citing a significant post-Sept. 11 drop in charitable giving, the Bar Association of San Francisco laid off 16...
Hanson Settles Fiduciary Suit
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - A confidential settlement has been reached between Hanson Bridgett Marcus Vlahos & Rudy and a Napa archite...
Big Brother
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Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - A year ago, Sacramento Superior Court Judge Charles Kobayashi took a hard look at the C...
Hometown Judge Connects Well, Attorneys Say
By Craig Anderson
SAN JOSE - While in high school during the Vietnam War, Edward J. Davila met with his counselor, who told him that he - like o...
Guard Disputes Westerfield Prosecutors
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A security guard held fast Tuesday to her assertion that David A. Westerfield drove his motor home into a luxuriou...
Business Chair At Cooley Will Preside Over Bad Times
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - Amid what's turning out to be a worse downturn in the technology sector than what optimistic executives and la...
'Good Works' Evidence Is Not Appropriate in Punitives Phase
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Focus Column - By Stephen Danz and Stephen Gamber - The Italian dictator Mussolini was credited with organizing the Italian tr...
Defense Attorneys Denounce DA's Juror Exclusions
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - The Riverside County Criminal Courts Bar Association denounced a prosecutor Tuesday for allegedly using inappropri...
Judges Should Not Permit Consultants to Practice Law
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Forum Column - By Ralph Barat Saltsman, Stephen Warren Solomon and Stephen Allen Jamieson - With a wink, many administrative l...
Judges Should Not Permit Consultants to Practice Law
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Forum Column - By Ralph Barat Saltsman, Stephen Warren Solomon and Stephen Allen Jamieson - With a wink, many administrative ...
Witness Says Defendant, Victim's Mom Danced
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A defense witness testified Monday that David A. Westerfield was "dirty dancing" at a Poway bar on Feb. 1 with Bre...
Judge to Quit Over Ponzi Scheme
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - A veteran Fresno County judge who recruited investors into a pyramid scheme has agreed to retire from the benc...
Palestinian May Get Six Years for Threats
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - A Palestinian man is facing six years in prison after pleading guilty last week in federal court to making threa...
Rulings Broaden Border Agents' Power to Detain
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel told border agents Monday they have authority to briefly handcuff ...
Stanford's Dean Defends Attack on McCain-Feingold
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Stanford Law School Dean Kathleen Sullivan caught some alumni flak but also picked up some donations after announci...
Court Preserves Nonbiological Parent and Child Relationship
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Focus Column - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - In In re Nicholas H., 2002 DJDAR 6249 (Cal. J...
Justices Produce Healthy Crop of Witty Remarks
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Listening to hour after hour of sometimes droning Supreme Court oral arguments and reading page after page of oft...
DA Drops Request for Forcible Medication
By Craiq Anderson
REDWOOD CITY - Ethical qualms by San Mateo county psychiatrists have trumped a prosecutor's bid for a court order to administe...
Futuristic Thriller Spotlights System's Flaws
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Dicta Column - By Stephen Zager - "Minority Report" presents a futuristic world where the guilty are punished before the crime...
Beware Wrath of Political Lazarus Whose Spending Cap Is Violated
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Ernani Bernardi, the 91 1/2-year-old former Los Angeles City Councilman who once was a saxophonist with the Benn...
High Court Fee Ruling Favors Employees
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - An employer who unsuccessfully appeals a labor commissioner's order to pay wages is liable for an indigent emp...
That's Entertainment
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Dicta Column - By Richard S. Levick and Scott Sobel - Today's reporting is becoming much more intense and cutthroat. Lawyers a...