Automatic Stay Can Be a Trap For Attorneys Suing Debtors
By Tina Spee
Focus Column Bankruptcy Law By Don Robinson Bankruptcy law should not be a trap for the unwary, as Bankruptcy Courts are fond...
Members of Judiciary Signal Easy Confirmation for Jurists
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - After perfunctory questioning Wednesday by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, two Orange County Superior...
Suit Against HBO Lands 'Sopranos' Star in Shark-Infested Waters
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - A heavy-set, menacing man walks up to a Hollywood executive and waves a sheaf of papers in the execut...
Automatic Stay Can Be a Trap For Attorneys Suing Debtors
By Columnist
Focus Column - Bankruptcy Law - By Don Robinson - Bankruptcy law should not be a trap for the unwary, as Bankruptcy Courts are...
Taking Charge
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Steven L. Schwarcz - The government needs to balance the necessity for a rigorous standard for rating agains...
Litigator Takes Reins at Reed Smith's L.A. Shop
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Pittsburgh's Reed Smith Crosby Heafey has tapped Peter J. Kennedy to serve as the managing partner in its Los An...
In Check
Forum Column - By Richard A. Nixon - I read with interest the article by Miriam A. Krinsky and Robin Meadow, which argued that...
Tobacco-Settlement Money Follows Political Priorities
By Contributing Writer
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Modisett - Kudos to Ann Woolner for her article describing the states' raiding of the 1998 Master...
League's Award Catches UCLA Lawyer by Surprise
By Christina Landers
LOS ANGELES - It's not easy to catch attorney Joseph D. Mandel off guard, his friends say. "He is so cool and so poised; his f...
Event Honors Southland Firms For Supporting Pro Bono Plan
By Christina Landers
LOS ANGELES - The Anti-Defamation League's Pacific Southwest region will honor several individuals and a dozen law firms at i...
Battle Rages for Right To Painting by Picasso
By Christina Landers
LOS ANGELES - Thomas C. Bennigson had just returned from a day of classes at Boalt Hall last summer when he got the telephone ...
'Little' Applies 'Armendariz' to Some Claims at Common Law
By Columnist
Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By June R. Lehrman - The California Supreme Court has decided Little v. Aut...
A Judge Who Pays Meticulous Attention
By Karen Coleman
FAIRFIELD - The courtroom of Judge Ramona Garrett is an island of civility in the rough-and-tumble world of Solano County crim...
Legal Luminaries Defend Quattrone
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - Silicon Valley investment banker Frank Quattrone, facing civil and criminal investigations for alleged "spinn...
Attorney General Joins Challenge to Ahmanson Ranch
By Wire
ASSOCIATED PRESS CALABASAS - Attorney General Bill Lockyer is joining the legal challenge by opponents of the 3,050-home Ahma...
Realtors Violated Federal Antitrust Laws, Court Rules
By Tyler Cunningham
By Tyler Cunningham Nevada Journal Staff Writer SAN FRANCISCO - San Diego realtors violated federal antitrust laws when they ...
Judge Served as Navy Pilot in World War II
By Mark Cromer
SANTA ANA - Former Orange County Superior Court Judge Mark Soden died Friday of pneumonia, bringing to a close the final chap...
'Weiner' Addresses Value of Spouse's Professional Degree
By Columnist
Focus Column - Family Law - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - One of the more esoteric issues of famil...
Playing Unfair
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Nancy Hogshead-Makar - Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, 20 U.S.C. Sections 1681-1688, the feder...
9th Circuit Hears Arguments on PUC's Appeal of Rates
By Pam Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - In a case that could result in significantly higher electricity rates for consumers in California, a federal ...
Slain Gangster's Family Sues City
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - The family of a 16-year-old gang member gunned down on rival gang members' turf just minutes after being droppe...
Court Considers Debtors' Attorney-Fees Ruling
By Tina Spee
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider whether attorneys who represent debtors in Chapter 7 proceedings can...
Right to Be Sued Will Take a Back Seat in Courts' Doomsday Planning
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Buried deep in "The National Strategy for Homeland Security" report issued by the White House last ye...
Court Considers Debtors' Attorney-Fees Ruling
By David Pike
By David F. Pike Nevada Journal Staff Writer WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider whether attorneys who r...
Database Fee By Realtors Is Price-Fixing, Circuit Rules
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - San Diego Realtors violated federal antitrust laws when they combined property databases, a federal appeals c...
CDAA Chief Steps Down to Take U.S. Job
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO-The head of the state's prosecutors association announced his plans Monday to resign, saying he is leaving to beco...
Defense Attorney Charged With Giving Drugs to Client
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A Los Angeles County defense attorney has been charged with sneaking a bag of marijuana to her client during a cou...
Clinic Helps Those Whose Stock Losses Were Enough to Hurt Them but Not Enough To Interest a Lawyer
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - James Belay is neither a wheeler nor a dealer. He's an industrial painter with an eighth-grade education livi...
Court Considers Debtors' Attorney-Fees Ruling
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider whether attorneys who represent debtors in Chapter 7 proceedings can ...
Land Conservancy Options Development Rights to Hearst Ranch
By Wire
ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN LUIS OBISPO - A land preservation group said it has signed an option to purchase development rights on t...