Police in Pursuit Immune from Lawsuits
By David Kravets
SAN FRANCISCO - Police officers in pursuit of lawbreakers are immune from personal injury suits even if their negligent behavi...
Full Panel to Consider Religious Exception to Discrimination Law in Housing
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - An 11-judge federal appellate panel appeared poised Thursday to duck the contentious question of whether two C...
Show Depicts Smart Juries, Loyal Lawyers
By Columnist
DICTA This week's 'The Practice' highlights two powerful themes in lawyers' lives: law firm management and jury nullification....
Inconsistent Addition
By Columnist
^^Criminal Law^^ Proposition 21's addition of strike-priors that are unrelated to gangs or juvenile crime leaves the measure o...
Press Clause Is Price We Pay To Preserve Our Freedom
By Columnist
By Phil Record I fear that too often we take for granted the words of those precious documents that guarantee our freedom: the...
Morals, Ethics Vie in Addicts Having Babies
By Columnist
DICTA A 'Family Law' client decides that breaking the law is a small price to pay to stop the birth of drug addicted, unwanted...
Overwrought Cases Free of Legal Reality
By Columnist
DICTA Judge Amy's courtroom consists mostly of sophomoric, over-dramatized adults whining about emotional distress. Page 8. ^^...
Rottweiler Is Subject of Custody Battle
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - The tug-of-war over custody of a 123-pound Rottweiler named Guinness is set for a court hearing next month, and a ...
Bad Attendance
By Columnist
^^Criminal Law^^ Prosecutors may rebut a defendant's testimony merely by pointing at the defendant's presence at trial. Page 7...
DAs Seek to Oust Judge From Controversial Case
By Contributing Writer
MARYSVILLE - Prosecutors have moved to disqualify the judge who cut the murder convictions of Jeffrey Aaron Erickson to vehicu...
Demoted DA Resigns, Considers Legal Action
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - A top official in the district attorney's office said Wednesday that the office is "moving ahead" following the re...
Getting Wind of Your Clients Hidden Value
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DICTA Many attorneys mistakenly focus on attaining new clients rather than retaining existing ones. Page 8. By Barbara Lewis a...
Firm Says Farewell to San Jose
By Meredith Alexander
SAN FRANCISCO - The midsized firm of Rosenblum Parish & Isaacs will be closing its San Jose office by the end of April, sa...
San Diego Attorney Curtis Fitzpatrick Succumbs
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Curtis Fitzpatrick, whose career in the San Diego city attorney's office spanned much of the World War II growth o...
Dress Code Should Be Flexible to New Ideas
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DICTA What to consider when making the decision to go 'business-casual.' Page 8. By Kimberly Quackenbush In corporate America,...
Orange County DA to Lead Prosecution
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A veteran prosecutor with anti-gang experience in two Southern California counties will lead the state attorney ge...
No Conscience
By Columnist
^^Employment Law^^ No Conscience Court Holds One-Sided Agreement Between Circuit City and Employee Unenforceable Ultimately, t...
Lobby Promotes Privacy Laws for Officers Records
By PETER BLUMBERG
SACRAMENTO - With the Los Angeles Police Department ensnared in the worst corruption scandal of its history, California's poli...
Best Best Case Transferred
By Denise Levin
A malicious prosecution action against Best Best & Krieger and one of its clients was transferred Wednesday out of Los Ang...
Ex-Partner Sues Charlston Revich Over Wrongful Termination
By Denise Levin
After being lured to Charlston , Revich & Williams with assurances of an equity partnership, a six-figure annual salary an...
Knocking at Debts
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By Fred Silberberg Most California law students learn that, if a lender looks to community property in extending credit, that ...
PC Giveaway
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PC Giveaway Offering Home Computers to the Workforce By Barrett K. Green and Mark A. Romeo The great PC giveaway has begun. Th...
OMelveny Claims Gas No Danger at Belmont
By Chris Ford
Arming for its legal battle with the Los Angeles Unified School District, O'Melveny & Myers claims that methane at the now...
City Sets Aside $28M to Pay For Likely Rampart Action
By Chris Ford
Without comment, the Los Angeles City Council Wednesday allocated $44 million to a reserve fund to pay settlements, including ...
LAPD Corruption May Predate Mid-Nineties
By Michael Harris
Los Angeles Police Department corruption may date back farther and spread wider than former officer-turned-whistle blower Rafa...
Burglary Trial Is Transformed Into a Spectacle
By Matthew Heller
INDIO - When Narcisco Medina asked for an attorney on the eve of his burglary trial, he had already been through no fewer than...
Court Will Hear Case On Taping
By David Kravets
SAN FRANCISCO - The facts of the case fit a made-for-television drama. A wife is accused of killing her husband to prevent him...
The Rap Version of Much Ado About Nothing Comes to Los Angeles
By Garry Abrams
What is the ultimate value of 25 percent of nothing? That was the Zen-like riddle posed Wednesday in, of all places, a Los Ang...
Lung Disease Claims Life of Bankruptcy Lawyer
By Lisa Madrid
Services were held Sunday for Robert Steven Apfelberg, a bankruptcy specialist and real estate attorney. Apfelberg died Thursd...
Family Sues Lawyers for Mishandling Millions
By Denise Levin
Davis, Wright & Tremaine has been sued for more than $7.5 million for allegedly mishandling a family dispute over the oper...