Billable-Hour Model Has Some Major Side Effects
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Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - Billing by the hour is central to private law practice today. However, using time...
Panel Finds Roller Rink Blameless in Rave Deaths
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - A roller-skating rink is not responsible for the 1999 deaths of two teenagers or the injuries of two others, who...
MoFo Picks Mark Danis For Top Spot
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - Partners at Morrison & Foerster have elected Mark W. Danis as one of three firmwide managing partners for ...
Chief Lawyer at PUC Named
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Randolph L. Wu, a former attorney for a ratepayer advocacy organization, was named Thursday as the chief lawye...
Federal Prosecutor Joins Cleveland Firm
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Tom Warren, who successfully prosecuted former Los Angeles Superior Court Judge George W. Trammell III on corrup...
Criminal Files in Flux At S.F. Hall of Justice
By Dennis Opatrny
Reporter's Notebook - By Dennis J. Opatmy - When the San Francisco Superior Court's criminal division decided to consolidate i...
Infant's Parents Sue LAPD, City
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - The family of a infant boy whose arm was partially severed in a police chase last year have filed suit against t...
Bar Election
By Don De Benedictis
LOS ANGELES - A former Municipal Court judge and county bar president defeated six other candidates to win election from Los A...
Trevor Law Attorneys, Facing Disbarment, Resign from Bar
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES -Three Beverly Hills attorneys targeted by authorities for misusing the state's unfair-competition law to file tho...
Panel Castigates Sloppy Work
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - A Fresno Court of Appeal panel gave three land use lawyers a public spanking for submitting a flawed administr...
Impasse Lifts As Sex Predator Finds a Home
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - The first person to qualify for release under California's Sexually Violent Predator Act will be sent within three ...
Harris: New Blood
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Kamala D. Harris recalls prowling San Francisco's Tenderloin at midnight looking for an Oakland girl who had t...
Writs, Receivers Satisfy Judge
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge David P. Yaffe may be eligible for retirement. But that doesn't mean Yaffe's re...
No Trespassing
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Forum Column - By Rebecca K. Glenberg - Imagine living in a neighborhood controlled by a central authority that has power over...
Much Activity Highlights This Year for Cases, Legislation on Anti-SLAPP Law
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Focus Column - Litigation - By Mark Goldowitz - Continuing a pattern from last year, much judicial and legislative activity th...
'Grant' Applies Equity Concept to Exhaustion Doctrine
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Focus Column - Employment Law - By Michelle A. Reinglass - The 6th District Court of Appeal has decided, apparently on first i...
Rocha Tapped As U.S. Marshal
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - Federico Rocha, a veteran Oakland police officer with a doctorate in public administration, has been nominated...
Fenwick Closes Washington, D.C., Office
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Mountain View's Fenwick & West is winding down operations at its Washington, D.C., office, chairman Gordon D...
Lawyer Aiding Client Gets Prison Sentence
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - A Glendora attorney was sentenced Wednesday to three years in state prison, one year in county jail and three year...
Bookstore Hosts 9th Circuit Judges' Debate
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Stephen Reinhardt and Alex Kozinski, the most outspoken judges on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, will de...
Senate OK Ends Partisan Battle Over Court of Claims Nominee
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Victor J. Wolski as a judge for the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, ending yet an...
Special Court Speeds Pretrial Civil Matters
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - When the South Gate City Council slashed the salary of City Clerk Carmen Avalos by 90 percent in the fall, Avalo...
Blake Asks Court to Take Witness Statement Now
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Actor Robert Blake is asking the judge in his upcoming murder trial to take immediate testimony from a witness w...
O.C. Staffers Threaten Strike
By Mark Cromer
SANTA ANA - Just a day after Orange County Superior Court employees picketed the Central Justice Center, a union official said...
Little League Sued
By Gale Holland
SAN BERNARDINO - Two San Bernardino brothers molested by their Little League Baseball coach when they were teens filed a propo...
Bet Tzedek Ball Raises Money, Consciousness
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - For one night each summer, an organization founded to assist the region's disadvantaged elderly population becom...
Compromise Eases Progress of Elder Abuse Legislation
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Assemblyman Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, has succeeded in moving along a bill banning secret settlements in e...
Children's Play About Diversity Causes Uproar
By Allison Hawley
LOS ANGELES - Students at elementary schools in the Marin County city of Novato usually spend their school days learning their...
Water District's Suit Against Environmentalists Is Rejected
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in Sacramento has tossed out on free speech grounds a lawsuit filed by the nation's largest ir...
Persistent Ex-Parolee Works Way Up Food Chain of Judicial System
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Drake Ward is doing his part to keep the system on its toes. Ward's prolonged, persistent and continu...