Major Developments
By Columnist
It's been another year of significant developments in ADR practice. Important court decisions have affected the confidentialit...
Ballot Measures
By Columnist
One year ago tonight, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its momentous decision in Bush v. Gore , 531 U.S. 98 (2000). Al Gor...
Attacks Consign Bush-Gore Decision to History
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - In the year since the U.S. Supreme Court decided Bush v. Gore , some states have moved toward reforming th...
Ex-Brobeck Partner Starts Air Force Post
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Mary L. Walker, a former partner of San Francisco's Brobeck Phleger & Harrison, was to be sworn in today as ...
DAILY DEALS -- Inland Empire
By Jack Briggs
CORONA - LaSalle Investment Management Inc., a Chicago-based REIT, has purchased the Country Hills Apartments, a 412-unit com...
Making Afghanistan Safe for Oil Business Fuels U.S. Policy
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President Bush justifies his bombing of Afghanistan as a war against terror. A twin motive, however, is to make Afghanistan sa...
Terrorism War's Legal Conundrums Include Idealism Under Duress
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - The war against terrorism is generating a cornucopia of legal conundrums. The controversies range from the heate...
Juvenile Court Opens Justice's Eyes
By Cheryl Romo
MONTEREY - Once a year, Justice Richard D. Huffman of the 4th District Court of Appeal assigns himself to a trial court "as a ...
Taking Stock
By Columnist
In a case likely to become a leading case on support, the court in In re Marriage of Cheriton , 2001 DJDAR 10047 (Cal. ...
Delgadillo's Media Man Will Move On
By Gina Keating
LOS ANGELES - Special Assistant City Attorney Ben Austin will leave his post as communications director for City Attorney Rock...
Baseball Stats Belong to Us All
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Baseball is so important, a unanimous state appellate court ruled Monday, that public demand for its images, s...
Board Rejects Proposal to Cut State Bar Exam to Two Days
By Don De Benedictis
LOS ANGELES - California's wannabe lawyers will have to struggle and sweat through three days of Bar Exam for the foreseeable ...
1st District Puts Baseball Ahead of Its Players
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Baseball is so important that the public demand for its images, statistics and history outweighs players' righ...
Pillsbury Partner Joins Allen Matkins
By Eileen Buckley
SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco office of Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory has hired away D. Stanley Rowland, a partn...
Answering Call to Duty Deserves Financial Reward
By Columnist
Serving in the military during wartime carries many costs, including the risk of injury or death. But military service should ...
Starting Line
By Columnist
I vividly remember doing my first nonjury civil trial as a judge, not because the case was unique but because it taught me how...
City Attorney Talks to DA in Andrews Case
By Matthew King
SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan has held conversations with the city attorney's office over the future of d...
Judicial Career Starts Off on Juvenile Bench
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Following a varied legal career in Sacramento and the Bay Area, including a brief but controversial stint as U.S....
Judge Relishes Ability to Intervene
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - Judge Patrick Morris was waiting in a hospital cafeteria line just after the birth of his granddaughter last ...
Mass E-Mails to Intel Ruled Trespassing
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Marking the boundaries between private computer networks and free speech in cyberspace, a state appellate court pan...
On Everyone's Short List
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - Breaking into the highly specialized field of intellectual property litigation used to be like crashing an exc...
Warning: Global Warming
By Columnist
We have no idea whether 40 years from now we will be worried about terrorism, the Israel-Palestine conflict or the state of ed...
Delgadillo Taps Chaleff as New Senior Adviser
By Gina Keating
LOS ANGELES - Longtime criminal defense attorney and former Los Angeles police commission President Gerald Chaleff - fired ear...
Holiday Celebrations Can Lead to Lawsuits
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The holiday season has arrived, and companies and law firms will be hosting parties for employees. Leading attorneys are urgin...
12 Percent Will Leave Brobeck
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Eighty-four associates out of the 130 eligible for the buyout plan at San Francisco's Brobeck Phleger & Ha...
Holiday Celebrations Can Lead to Lawsuits
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The holiday season has arrived, and companies and law firms will be hosting parties for employees. Leading attorneys are urgin...
Answering Call to Duty Deserves Financial Reward
By Columnist
Serving in the military during wartime carries many costs, including the risk of injury or death. But military service should ...
Making Afghanistan Safe for Oil Business Fuels U.S. Policy
By Columnist
President Bush justifies his bombing of Afghanistan as a war against terror. A twin motive, however, is to make Afghanistan sa...
Warning: Global Warming
By Columnist
We have no idea whether 40 years from now we will be worried about terrorism, the Israel-Palestine conflict or the state of ed...
Starting Line
By Columnist
I vividly remember doing my first nonjury civil trial as a judge, not because the case was unique but because it taught me how...