Astute Asking Filters Out Wrong Jurors
By Columnist
Brickner's Bits by David Brickner. As we know, voir dire has four objectives: get the jurors to like you (if only just a littl...
Head Start
By Melissa Onstad
ADR Attorneys want to succeed in the hot fields of mediation and arbitration, but retired judges have the edge, radiating an a...
Colorado Program Educates Latinos on Laws
By Staff Writer
DENVER - Court officials in California's San Mateo County want to stop the flow of Hispanics getting in trouble with the law. ...
DA Charges Williams With Murder
By Anne La Jeunesse
The Los Angeles County district attorney's office filed murder and robbery charges Friday against Damian Monroe "Football" Wil...
City Attorney Dismisses Critical Mass Charges
By Anne La Jeunesse
Los Angeles City Attorney Howard Gluck crafted a creative disposition with dozens of Critical Mass bicycling activists arreste...
Bankruptcy Topic Of Training Session
By Staff Reports
The Los Angeles Free Clinic will hold its Summer 2000 Chapter 7 Bankruptcy training from 8:45 a.m. to 1:45 p.m., Sept. 16. ...
Activists Enter Not Guilty Pleas
By Anne La Jeunesse
Four activists who demonstrated their disdain of corporate greed by unfurling a huge banner from a downtown hotel just before ...
Lawyer, Assistant Helped Launder $1.65M
By David Houston
A Los Angeles personal injury lawyer and his former assistant laundered more than $1.65 million for two men who helped pull of...
Five New Lawyers Join Bar Board of Governors
By Don De Benedictis
Five lawyers from small and mid-size law firms will join the State Bar Board of Governors later this month, the bar has announ...
Court Rejects Sheriff's Grievance Procedures
By Dawn Piimanu
An appellate court has refused to recognize an informal agreement modifying disciplinary grievance procedures for deputies in ...
Guarding the Children
By Cheryl Romo
When Brandon was 17, he was confined at Nidorf Juvenile Hall. We don't know why he was being held there, nor what his life was...
Lawyers and Judges View Kids' Rights
By Cheryl Romo
What, exactly, are the legal rights of kids in juvenile detention facilities? This seemingly innocuous question was posed to a...
Youngsters Face Perils In Detention
By Cheryl Romo
What little light has been shed on rights violations inside the juvenile detention system has come largely from the occasional...
Escutia Becomes Judiciary Committee Chair
By Staff Writer
SACRAMENTO - Martha Escutia, who spearheaded trial court restructuring and was once recognized by trial lawyers as Legislator ...
County Sets Up Task Force To Reform Juvenile Facilities
By Cheryl Romo
Following startling allegations about the mistreatment of kids with special needs in the county's juvenile detention facilitie...
Union Unites 2,000 Orange County Janitors
By Susan Mc Rae
Three years ago, Hilda Razao paid a coyote $1,000 to smuggle her into the United States. Immigration agents caught her at the ...
Sony Accuses Company of Theft And Unfair Business Practices
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has warned Connectix Corp. that Internet downloading of publicly accessible trade secrets alle...
Pit Bull Litigator Embeds Teeth in LAPD's Soft Tissues
By Garry Abrams
Controversial police brutality and civil rights lawyer Stephen Yagman is back from the legally dead. A federal judge ruled las...
Civics Lesson
By Kelly Lee
William S. Garr, after 16 years of legal practice, has hit his stride in and out of the courtroom. He manages a demanding lega...
Sweet Victory
By Kelly Lee
By Kelly E. Lee. In a three-day bench trial, after nearly 2 1/2 years, Hahn & Hahn partner William S. Garr led trial team ...
FOCUS ON ASSET MANAGEMENT
By Ron Mc Nees
By John McCloud Although the outward focus of the investment market is on acquisition of properties, every acquisition involv...
Peak performance
By Ron Mc Nees
By Jon Walz The San Diego County office, industrial and retail markets continue to report record-breaking performance, with e...
Revved to the red-zone
By Ron Mc Nees
By Eric Von Berg The dot-com sector may have lost steam but the Bay Area economy shows few signs of slowing down. Bay Area em...
Deep Analysis
By Columnist
By Stephen M. Uthoff. Mediators are not magicians. While they facilitate and encourage communication and negotiation among par...
Probing Home
By Contributing Writer
By David Steinberg. Earlier this month, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals limited the situations where police officers may...
Golden gate
By Ron Mc Nees
By Ted Gibson In the autumn of 1998, many economic analysts - from both within and outside California - viewed with considera...
San Mateo County a choice setting for doing business
By Ron Mc Nees
Sandwiched between the core of Silicon Valley and San Francisco, San Mateo County plays go-between in another way as well: it...
Sound expansion
By Ron Mc Nees
By William H. Curtis The Orange County economy continued to gain momentum and has recorded another six months of sound expans...
Does Following God's Word Require Casting the First Stone?
By Contributing Writer
By Mike Farrell. I'm confused. They say politics and religion don't mix, but I can't get away from them. They've become the Si...
Bias Buster
By Columnist
By Deborah Rosenthal. Some people grow up knowing what they want to be. Others, like Bay Area neutral Barbara S. Bryant, know ...