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...
Conflicts of Interest
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Forum Column - By Phillip Feldman - Lawyers' conflicts of interest generally involve either "serving two masters" ( Flatt v...
Counsel Can Use Statistical Methods to Assess Patent Risk
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Focus Column - By James E. Hopenfeld - It has become conventional wisdom - and rightly so - that a strong patent portfolio is ...
Trial Looms in Paralyzed Boy's Suit Against Ford
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES -Almost six years have passed since a minivan traveling up the Grapevine slammed into a 29,000-pound steel coil th...
Veteran Judge Puts His Work Into Perspective
By Tamara Scott
LOS ANGELES - At 82, Judge James E. Satt has a lot of stories to tell, and he tempers them with historical perspective. Satt r...
Bug Doc Supports Prosecution Timeline
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A forensic entomologist testifying in the kidnapping and murder trial of David A. Westerfield said Tuesday that th...
Former Lawyer Gets Time for Tax Evasion
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge has sentenced a former personal injury lawyer, who practiced in Los Angeles and San Francisco, t...
State Has Worst Prison Crowding
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - Despite a 2 percent drop in the number of inmates held in its state and federal prisons, California has the worst...
Nortorious Cases Suit Attorney
By Jenna Bordelon
SANTA ANA - Denise Gragg hasn't gotten any hate mail yet. But she wonders how long it will be before her highly publicized rol...
False Imprisonment Suit Advances
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A judge refused Tuesday to dismiss a woman's false imprisonment suit against Santa Clara County authorities for all...
Conflicts of Interest
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Forum Column - By Phillip Feldman - Lawyers' conflicts of interest generally involve either "serving two masters" ( Flatt v...
Counsel Can Use Statistical Methods to Assess Patent Risk
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Focus Column - By James E. Hopenfeld - It has become conventional wisdom - and rightly so - that a strong patent portfolio is ...
Litigation Costs Of Foster Care Worry Official
By Cheryl Romo
LOS ANGELES - Six weeks after Supervisor Gloria Molina chastised county counsel for spending too much on outside defense attor...
Once a Player, Now She's a Referee
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - For 10 years, Sharon Chatman was head coach of the women's basketball team at San Jose State University. Today, aft...
Under Pressure
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Dicta Column - By Richard S. Levick - Welcome to the age of corporate enlightenment, where new levels of stockholder and journ...
Judge Ponders If He Can Rule on Slate Mailer Provision
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - A federal judge said Monday he is willing to grant a preliminary injunction to prevent the state from requiring c...
Court Reverses $10 Million Award
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES -A state appellate court reversed a nearly $10 million award against Allstate Insurance Co. on Monday because the ...
Resolve Tax Treatment Before Settlement Agreement Is Signed
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Focus Column - By Robert W. Wood - If you receive payment from a client, will you receive an Internal Revenue Service 1099 for...
Educator Was Expert on Commercial Code
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Lawrence D. Lee Jr., one of the founding faculty members at California Western School of Law, has died at his Carl...
Smoke From Medi-Pot Policy Debate Casts Haze, Sparks Headache
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - The winds of change are blowing a lot of dope smoke lately. From California to Nevada to Washing ton,...
Monterey Judge Quits, Joins JAMS
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Richard Silver, Monterey County's longest-serving superior court judge, has retired after 25 years on the benc...