Female Presiding Judge Pioneered on Court
By Tina Spee
LOS ANGELES - Elisabeth Eberhard Zeigler, one of the first female presiding judges of the Los Angeles Municipal Court, died on...
Katten Muchin Opens Office to Employees' Kids
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - Information technology manager Josh Furey led a group of children into the server room of the Los Angeles office...
'Gentle Giant of Scholar' Detested Violence
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Jesse Dukeminier, UCLA School of Law professor emeritus and property law expert, died in his Los Angeles home Ap...
D.A. Wants to Base Layoffs on Experience, Not Seniority
By Riley Guerin
SAN JOSE - With layoffs looming at the Santa Clara County district attorney's office for the first time in years, the Governme...
Judge Tells Trevor Group Settlements Must Wait
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge will wait for the State Bar to determine Trevor Law Group's fate before approving settle...
Defender Pleads Guilty to Giving Client Pot
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A Los Angeles County defense attorney has pleaded guilty to passing a bag of marijuana to her client in a Riversid...
Hollywood Loses Piracy Round in Court
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in Los Angeles has handed the entertainment industry its first major courtroom defeat in the b...
Filling the Hole in San Diego's Downtown 'Doughnut'
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer The former First National Bank Building, considered San Diego's first high-rise office b...
White-Collar Time
By Riley Guerin
SAN FRANCISCO - Captains of industry who trade their pin stripes for prison stripes in stock fraud cases are finding that the...
Financial Advisers Didn't Harm Firm, Judge Rules
By Stefanie Knapp
In the post-Enron days, the blame game plays an increasing role in sorting out who's culpable for a company's failure. The fin...
Corporate Reform Doubles Cost of Being Public
By Toni Vranjes
LOS ANGELES - Executives are calculating the costs of corporate reform, and they're not pleased with the results. A nationwide...
DAILY DEALS -- Santa Barbara County
By Jack Briggs
LOMPOC - The Everett Trust purchased a 31,608-square-foot retail building in the Mission Plaza Shopping Center at 1408 N. H S...
Coudert Picks Leader From L.A.
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - For the first time in its 150-year history, New York's Coudert Brothers has tapped a Los Angeles-based partner t...
Ruling Clarifies Federal ERISA Pre-Emption of State Measures
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Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Jeffrey Isaac Ehrlich - Kentucky Association of Health Plans Inc. v. Miller , 123 S.C...
Inflammatory Acts
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Forum Column - By Charles S. Doskow - The burning cross may be the most reviled symbol in the United States - perhaps tied wit...
Arbitration Polices Must Conform to 'Armendariz'
By Sandra Corrales
Employment Column - By Phillip R. Maltin - After Armendariz v. Foundation Health Psychare Services Inc., 24 Cal.4th 83 ...
Data Shows Record Low of Child Homicides
By Cheryl Romo
LOS ANGELES - The Inter-Agency Council on Child Abuse and Neglect released annual statistical findings Thursday showing that i...
DA Tackles Corruption, Creates Integrity Unit
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - District Attorney Michael A. Ramos formed a public integrity unit this week on the heels of recent government...
'No Bond' Rule For Aliens Irks Their Backers
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Immigration lawyers reacted with alarm Thursday as word spread of Attorney General John Ashcroft's decision to sta...
Judge Opens Files on Dead Foster Child
By Cheryl Romo
LOS ANGELES - Reversing an earlier decision, a Los Angeles Juvenile Court judge on Thursday threw open court documents and fil...
Program Recognizes Volunteering Lawyers
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - The county's Volunteers in Parole program will honor Riverside attorneys John Vineyard and David M. Philips at an ...
Claiming Ineffective Help, Murderer Wins New Trial
By Matthew Heller
VENTURA - During her murder trial, Bridget Callahan was so unhappy with her court-appointed attorney that she refused to speak...
State Auditor: Bar Must Fix Files, Avoid 2005 Deficit
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - The State Bar is working diligently to ensure its membership dues are being used for legitimate purposes, but ne...
S.F. Presiding Judge: Close Early Wednesday, Not Friday
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Donna Hitchens, presiding judge of San Francisco Superior Court, said Thursday that she anticipates budget cu...
Split Court Limits the Scope of Arbitration
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - A divided California Supreme Court continued to limit the scope of mandatory arbitration agreements Thursday, ru...
Civil Warrior, Retired
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - Oakland class-action whiz Guy Saperstein closed the book on his legal career once and for all at the start of...
Mexico Crusades to Halt Executions of Its Nationals
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Juan Manuel Gomez Robledo, chief counsel to the Mexican Foreign Ministry, is on a crusade to stop the United Sta...
Court Rejects Limits on 'Bad Lawyer' Claims
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One Nation: Nonbelievers Shouldn't Have to Honor a Deity They Do Not Worship
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Forum Column - By Margaret Crosby - In June, 2002, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel breathed life into the Pledge of ...
Bench Trials May Prove Better For Employers Than Arbitration
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Focus Column - Employment Law - By Barry M. Appell - Many employment defense attorneys believe that binding arbitration is pre...