Judge Refuses to Set Aside $94.5 Million Judgment
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Orange County Superior Court Judge Raymond J. Ikola refused Thursday to set aside a $94.5 million judgment that de...
Windfalls Count in Child Support
By Gina Keating
RIVERSIDE - Parents who inherit money while their children are on food stamps must list that one-time windfall as income when ...
New Director for Alameda Bar Group
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Oakland resident and State Bar veteran Ann Wassam has been named executive director of the Alameda County Bar ...
Lockyer Preparing Proposition 65 Overhaul
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - State Attorney General Bill Lockyer is developing a legislative proposal to overhaul the state's groundbreakin...
Patent Associate Running Against Kamena
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Thomas A. Van Zandt, a Silicon Valley patent law firm associate who lives in Mill Valley, filed Thursday to ru...
Posthumous Video Testimony Raises Issues in Murder Case
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
INDIO - Peggy Baker died of ovarian cancer more than a year ago. But last month her image filled a courtroom and jurors hung o...
Judge Quizzes Candidates for Class Action Lead Plaintiff
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge known for his hands-on interest in securities litigation held a highly unusual job interview i...
State Board of Education Allows Carson to Set Up School District
By Jill Boekenoogen
LOS ANGELES - The California State Board of Education on Thursday voted unanimously to let Carson establish its own school dis...
Coastal Concern
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - While California continues its struggle to keep the lights on, another energy battle of older vintage appears ...
Brobeck Enlists New Technology Partner
By Katherine Gaidos
IRVINE - Brobeck Phleger & Harrison's Irvine outpost has snagged the services of O'Melveny & Myers' corporate transact...
Net Notice
By Columnist
An Internet service providers' forum for the exchange of data may violate two exclusive rights of copyright holders.
Littler Adds an Office in Philadephia
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Littler Mendelson is double-dipping from the Pittsburgh firm that provided the partners for a recently establi...
Lawyers' Tobacco Payday Here
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - The $637.5 million fee award to California lawyers in the national tobacco settlement is either incredible or ...
Author Argues That Race Matters in Society
By Columnist
"How Did You Get To Be Mexican? A White/Brown Man's Search For Identity," By Kevin R. Johnson, Temple University Press, 245 Pa...
Betraying Valid Ballots
By Columnist
Californians labor under one of the nation's heaviest tax burdens when local, state and federal taxes are added together. That...
Tech Testimony
By Columnist
Technology-augmented trials are faster and more effective than those that don't use multimedia presentations. ...
Not Much Has Changed Since the '91 King Beating
By Columnist
It was the best of times and it was the worst of times. The Gulf War just had come to an end, and there were "no fly zones" im...
In Touch
By Columnist
* Managing Well * By Susan L. Mackey A philosophy professor stood before his class with a large empty mayonnaise jar. He proc...
The Jerk
By Columnist
The employer must 'either intentionally create or knowingly permit' the intolerable working conditions. ...
Jury Can't Determine Man's Mental Health
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - A jury announced Wednesday that it was unable to reach a decision on the mental soundness of a man who raped ...
Investigators Send Charges Against DA to Bar
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - State investigators have referred their findings of alleged fraud by former Deputy District Attorney Peter J. Long...
Court of Appeal Upholds Litigant's Right to Privacy
By Gina Keating
SAN DIEGO - A state appellate court has ruled that the civil code's litigation privilege that shields litigants from further l...
Street Gang Injunction Ruling Makes History
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - In the first ruling of its kind in city history, a Los Angeles judge has declared a Venice man a bona fide membe...
DA Pulls Request for County Resources
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
SANTA ANA - Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas late Tuesday withdrew an agenda item asking the Board of Superviso...
Candidates Vow to Cure City Woes
By Chris Ford
LOS ANGELES - Two candidates for Los Angeles mayor told a gathering of lawyers Tuesday night that city government had better p...
Court Decides Policy Covers Flattened Home
By Gina Keating
LOS ANGELES - Say someone flattens your house - nothing left but a slab and some pipes. Do you plead theft or vandalism or som...
Justices Urged To Dump Own Precedent on Secret Mailing
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court appeared reluctant Wednesday to reverse its 1994 unanimous decision barring polit...
Builders, Plaintiffs United in Drive for Mold Standards
By Staff Writer
SACRAMENTO - California's court system is flooded with cases alleging health problems from toxic mold because there are no pub...
Miracle Cure for Chubbiness Exercises Wine-Country Prosecutors
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Today's column is about the law of unintended consequences, prosecutorial angst and dieting. Up in the wine coun...
Patent Pending
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Only a year ago, Internet patents were considered precious commodities, a must-have for every startup. Back th...