Don't Be Persuaded to Stay After You Decide to Leave
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Employment Column - By Craig A. Blumin - My sister-in-law just received an attractive offer for a job with a new employer. Aft...
Polyglot State
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Forum Column - By Mark McCaffrey - It's not exactly a runaway train, but bodies may soon be flying, anyway. SB371, the Court I...
State Court Cleans Up Corporation Case Law
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Corporate directors have a right to see the company's business records - and to share them with stockholders - u...
Communication 101
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Dicta Column - By Betty Morris - "Communication," as defined by the Encarta Dictionary, is the exchange of information between...
Dispatchers' Duty of Care Gets Review
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether 911 dispatchers can be held liable for neglige...
Parents' Suit Against Ford Gets Delayed
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - The 2nd District Court of Appeal has temporarily halted the trial of a lawsuit against Ford Motor Co. and a Visa...
Trend Against Liability for Third-Party Attacks Continues
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Focus Column - By Michael Paul Thomas - Increasingly over the past decade, lawsuits seeking to hold property owners liable for...
Panel Appointed to Think About Hastings Parking Lot
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Hastings College of the Law named four members Wednesday to a development panel assigned to rethink a much-cri...
Payroll Tax Would Hurt Firms
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - The Bar Association of San Francisco joined a chorus of business interests Wednesday in protesting a superviso...
Death Row Attorney Is Guardian Ad Litem
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A death row inmate convicted of three 1980s murders is now so mentally ill that he's been declared unfit to he...
Armed But Disabled: Family Questions Hesperia Police Shooting
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - On the night of July 2, Ignacio Mendez was suicidal, according to members of the Hesperia man's famil...
Man Pleads Not Guilty in Decade-Old Murder
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - Robin Woods, a 25-year-old Rialto man whose confession to a 1992 murder threw his case into a legal quandary ...
High Court Creates Bright-Line Rule on Continuing Violations
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Focus Column - By Larry A. Walraven - The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held in National Railroad Passenger Corp. v. Morga...
Ronald George to Lead National Group
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Chief Justice Ronald M. George - will take office today as president-elect of the Conference of Chief Justices...
Toxic Fungus Is Spreading Among Us
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Forum Column - By Christine Spagnoli - Mold fear is gripping homeowners, spreading as quickly as the toxic spores themselves. ...
Mediator Handled Abused Children's Cases
By Sandra Corrales
LOS ANGELES - Dependency court mediator and law professor Elizabeth Marmorston Horowitz died of cancer. She was 72. "She was a...
Martial Arts Are At Your Own Risk
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - A woman who was injured in a tae kwon do class cannot sue her instructor for damages under the primary assumption...
What to Do When You Don't Know It All
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Dicta Column - By The Rodent - A very big part of lawyering is responding to questions to which you don't know the answer. In ...
Legislature Should Reconcile Sections on Spousal Support
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Forum Column - By Ruth D. Shapin - Divorce often leaves a former spouse, usually the woman, with a reduced standard of living....
Communication 101
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Dicta Column - By Betty Morris - "Communication," as defined by the Encarta Dictionary, is the exchange of information between...
What to Do When You Don't Know It All
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Dicta Column - By The Rodent - A very big part of lawyering is responding to questions to which you don't know the answer. In ...
Toxic Fungus Is Spreading Among Us
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Forum Coulmn - By Christine Spagnoli - Mold fear is gripping homeowners, spreading as quickly as the toxic spores themselves. ...
High Court Creates Bright-Line Rule on Continuing Violations
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Focus Column - By Larry A. Walraven - The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held in National Railroad Passenger Corp. v. Morga...
Trend Against Liability for Third-Party Attacks Continues
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Focus Column - By Michael Paul Thomas - Increasingly over the past decade, lawsuits seeking to hold property owners liable for...
IRS Seizure of Group's Membership List is Ruled Legal
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A Los Angeles area tax protest group cannot get its membership lists and other literature returned while it is...
DCA Rules Boy's Drawing Of Shooting Is Not a Threat
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A high school student cannot be prosecuted for making a criminal threat simply because he painted a picture of...
Judges' Pension Checks Are In the Mail
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - California's retired judges and their beneficiaries will get their August pension checks after, all despite th...
Grandiloquent Opinions
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Judge Ferdinand F. Fernandez jealously guards his own privacy, which may explain, in part, why the otherwise c...
Officers Tell Grand Jury They Didn't See Beating
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Two law enforcement officers swore to a grand jury that they did not see an Inglewood policeman beat a developme...
'Wobbler' Must Fit Felony Guidelines
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES -Felony crimes that also can be charged as misdemeanors, known as "wobblers," are held to a felony's statute of li...