Careful Handling and Storage Can Avoid Spoliation
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Focus Column - Litigation - By Randy L. Turtle - A 2001 newspaper article disclosed a surprising and disturbing fact: Evidence...
Answering to a Higher Authority
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Forum Column - By Bill Lockyer - Deputy Attorney General Joel Davis' recent column entitled "Improper Fidelities: Attorney Gen...
Post-War Rebuild Contracts Bypassed Normal Channels
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Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - The United States is about to embark on the largest post-war reconstruction project since ...
Panel Says Judge Committed Misconduct
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Noting he has been disciplined twice for similar misconduct, a panel of special masters has found that Alameda...
Duane Morris Nabs 12 Luce Forward Lawyers
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Duane Morris has scooped up a dozen insurance coverage lawyers from San Diego's Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Sc...
Alameda to Begin Allowing Lawyers to Fax Papers
By Karen Coleman
OAKLAND - Alameda County Superior Court plans to roll out two filing innovations that will make it easier for litigants to get...
Judge Will Run for Leadership Job
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Peter Lichtman has announced plans to run for assistant presiding judge for 200...
Modifications To Fast Track Are Approved
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - A special Judicial Council panel has given its approval to easing the strict "fast track" rules that govern th...
DCA Names Parents in Inadvertent Embryo Swap
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A husband who intended that his sperm be used by a fertility clinic to create embryos to impregnate his wife i...
Judicial Indiscretion
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal trial judges now face what one senator has called a "judicial blacklist" created by Congress if they i...
Bench's 'PC Enforcer' Wins High Praise
By Karen Coleman
MARTINEZ - During her nearly 20 years on the bench in Contra Costa County, Superior Court Judge Barbara Ziga has juggled high-...
Leaner, Meaner Firms Increase Profits Per Partner
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Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - Annual profits per partner are seen widely as the measuring stick for law-firm su...
'Sanchez-Scott' Decision Is Hardly Lapse in Judgment
Forum Column - By Lawrence C. Waddington - Against the recommendations of Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, the Senate...
Attorneys Can Send Notices to Possible Class-Action Plaintiffs
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Focus Column - Litigation - By Michael D. Singer - Class-action counsel now may communicate freely with proposed class members...
Waste Not
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Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - Next year's Pentagon budget will be $400 billion. While the Pentagon will be spending t...
Court Reinstates Lawyer for Rubio's Baja Grill
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - An attorney who was disqualified from defending Rubio's Baja Grill after he told a judge that he represented bot...
Hospital Aided DA, Sleuth Testifies
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - A district attorney's investigator testified Thursday that he relied heavily on investigative reports prepared b...
Quinn Emanuel Adds Star to Its Intellectual Property Practice
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges has hired intellectual property rainmaker Claude M. Ster...
Three Officers' Attorneys Seek Dismissal of Case
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys for three San Francisco police officers indicted for assault in connection with a Union Street braw...
Nestle Verdict Upheld
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - The 2 nd District Court of Appeal Thursday upheld a $5.1 million verdict against Nestle USA Inc., that the compa...
Commemorating 150 Years of Courthouses
By Karen Coleman
Reporter's Notebook - By Karen Coleman - There are now a dozen other court buildings in Alameda County, but the Oakland Ren C....
Guilty Plea In Malfunction Of Devices for Aneurysms
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A Menlo Park medical device company pleaded guilty Thursday to 10 criminal counts of failing to report malfun...
Mayor Announces Panel For Ending Homelesness
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Mayor James K. Hahn joined with activists and officials from federal and local governments Thursday ...
Policyholder Stuck: 'Collapse' Means Collapse
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - If an insurance policy explicitly limits coverage to the "collapse" of a house, the state Supreme Court said ...
Weigh Question as Adopted by Answer
By Donna Domino
Reporter's Notebook - By Donna Domino - Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, you have heard the technical complexities of this in...
No Love for Raves
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Forum Column - By David Kirby - As the summer concert season begins, property owners and partygoers will discover how federal ...
Palestinians Must Offer True Incentives for Peace to Work
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Focus Column - By Carl Pearlston - There is a classic slapstick comedy routine in which two men converge on a doorway and each...
Compromise Offers Raise Issues in Employment Suits
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Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - From a practical perspective, California's statutory settlement scheme...
Statute May Cover Statements Made Outside the Presence of a Mediator
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Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By June Lehrman - In the fifth significant decision interpreting the state's m...
Boss Pushed Unripe Cases, DA Says
By Gale Holland
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles County deputy district attorney has charged that his boss pressured him to file cases he believed ...