More Appointments: Rushing Is Named to 6th DCA
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Gray Davis filled a vacant seat on the 6th District Court of Appeal on Thursday by elevating Santa Clara ...
Audit Probes County Counsel Role
By Gina Keating
LOS ANGELES - A management consultant hired by the county Board of Supervisors recommends stripping the county counsel of its ...
Eclectic Past Prepares Judge
By Tamara Scott
LOS ANGELES - Judge Michael Bruce Harwin is a hero in a black robe. Harwin saved a dozen lives when he disarmed a crazed gunma...
Attacks Dash Immigration Hopes
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - The USA PATRIOT Act and other security-minded measures brought big changes to federal law after Sept. 11, but wh...
PG&E Can Settle Small Claims
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - More than 80 percent of the claims filed against Pacific Gas and Electric Co. - most so small the total equals...
Litigator Jon Tigar, a former deputy public defender, is named to the Alameda bench.
By Matthew King
SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Gray Davis on Thursday appointed Keker & Van Nest trial lawyer Jon S. Tigar to the Alameda County Sup...
Med-Mal Expert Will Join Lewis D'Amato
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Medical malpractice defense and general tort liability partner Michael Martinez, formerly with 23-lawyer O'Flahe...
Sept. 11 Leads to Vast New Powers for Attorney General
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - On Oct. 26, President Bush signed the USA PATRIOT Act into law, giving sweeping new powers to both domestic law-...
California Isn't to Blame for Walker's Taliban Choice
By Columnist
Forum Column by Steven Zak - That we're a country united is a nice illusion until you read what conservatives truly think of e...
Girl's Name Revealed by Attorneys in FBI Sex Sting
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers for a former high-tech executive who has pleaded guilty in an Internet sex case got his federal court ...
Graphic Artist Prevails in Claim of Homophobia
By Spare 2
LOS ANGELES - A graphic artist who was fired for questioning her employer's attitude toward homosexuals won a $314,000 verdict...
Eyeing the Spying Program
By Columnist
Forum Column by Earl Ofari Hutchinson - Attorney General John Ashcroft has made a public pitch to dump the guidelines put in p...
Rainmakers, In-House Counsel Remain Desirable in Recession
By Columnist
Employment Column by Robert Major - Rarely does a day pass without someone asking me when the job market will rebound. My answ...
Attacks Dash Immigration Hopes
By Susan Mcraen
LOS ANGELES - The USA PATRIOT Act and other security-minded measures brought big changes to federal law after Sept. 11, but wh...
Neophyte Judge Says Mediation Background Helps
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - For most women, juggling a thriving solo civil practice, teaching law school and chasing around a 5-year-old s...
Delgadillo Reflects on Progress
By Gina Keating
LOS ANGELES - Take the word "leadership" out of the English language, and City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo could have a hard tim...
Retired Judge Led Sheriff's Department Probe
By Claude Walbert
LOS ANGELES - Services will take place today for James Greely Kolts, a former Superior Court judge who came out of retirement ...
Cutting Into Employees' Benefits
By Columnist
Forum Column by David A. Rosen - The essential synergy between workers' compensation benefits and third-party liability is dec...
Vocational Evaluations Need New Basis in Reality
By Columnist
Forum Column by Fred Silberberg - It is not uncommon in family law cases to require parties to undergo vocational evaluations....
Sign and Veto
By Columnist
Forum Column by Mary L. Topliff - As we embark on 2002, several new laws will go into effect that will significantly impact Ca...
County Will Look at Traffic Court Lease
By Gina Keating
LOS ANGELES - County officials will consider Jan. 8 whether to renew the Los Angeles city attorney's lease of office space at ...
Death Penalty Tossed After Jury Weighed 'Propensity'
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court on Wednesday overturned a Kern County double-murder conviction and death sentence, hol...
CJP Probes Judge Over Investment Scam
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran Judge James I. Aaron, of Fresno County Superior Court, is the target of formal charges into alleged li...
Investigate and Remedy
By Columnist
Employment Law Practitioner Column by Johnny Darnell Griggs - In Swenson v. Potter, 2000 U.S.App.Lexis 25902 (9th Cir. ...
Davis Makes Six Appointments To District and Superior Courts
By Spare 2
LOS ANGELES - In a flurry of holiday appointments, Gov. Gray Davis has elevated Orange County Superior Court Judge Richard D. ...
Vocational Evaluations Need New Basis in Reality
By Columnist
Forum Column by Fred Silberberg - It is not uncommon in family law cases to require parties to undergo vocational evaluations....
Cutting Into Employees' Benefits
By Columnist
Forum Column by David A. Rosen - The essential synergy between workers' compensation benefits and third-party liability is dec...
Designing Depositions
By Columnist
VIEWPOINT By David D. Kadue Donald C. Potter In this second in a three-part series on deposition skills, the authors address ...
Firms Still Reeling From Aftereffects of Sept. 11
By Donna Huffaker
LOS ANGELES - Though 2001 brought a recession that forced California law firms to fire an unprecedented number of lawyers, the...
Sour Economy Hasn't Slowed Law Firm Mergers, Closures
By Tanya Rothman
LOS ANGELES - The dragging economy of 2001 did little to slow the flurry of activity among California law firms - and, in many...