Graham & James Loses 9 Lawyers To Oppenheimer
By Leslie Gordon
SAN FRANCISCO - Graham & James has lost nine litigation attorneys from its Palo Alto office to Oppenheimer Wolff & Do...
ACLU Settlement Changes UC Speech Policy
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO -- When Ben Shapiro taped together four 81/2-by-11 sheets of paper for his four-word message, he expected no proble...
Silicon Valley Firm Opens in Massachusetts
By Leslie Gordon
SAN FRANCISCO - Menlo Park-based Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian is opening a third office, this...
Law Students Get the Mediation Experience
By Martin Kruming
^^San Diego Watch / Martin Kruming^^ For almost two years, students from three San Diego law schools have been teaming up as ...
Doctor's Labor
By Columnist
^^Health Care Law^^ Doctor's Labor Definition of 'Employee' Makes Physician Unionization Difficult A close look at the legal ...
Outsider Likely To Replace Boalt Dean
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Boalt Hall, one of the nation's premier law schools, is likely to have an outsider as dean next year, the fir...
Supervisors to Move on Gun Sale Ban
By Lauren Bartlett
With at least two Los Angeles County supervisors calling for the end of gun shows on county property, the Board of Supervisor...
Judge Unseals Auto Club Fraud Complaint
By Denise Levin
Holding up a newspaper with an article giving detailed allegations from a sealed insurance fraud lawsuit as well as the names...
Security Measures Lead to Dogged Avoidance by Some
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - It's 8:30 a.m., and the scene at the Orange County courthouse in Santa Ana is a bit chaotic as jurors scurry for ...
Right to Counsel Extended to Mentally Ill for Release Hearing
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court provided help Tuesday to a mental patient who dangled for eight years in a Missouri f...
HMO Review Is Focus of Lawmakers' Battle
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - As California policy-makers craft a law to let patients seek review by independent experts when health plans den...
Services Pending for Boalt Hall Professor
By Jeanna Steele
SAN FRANCISCO - Richard W. Jennings, emeritus professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley, and an internationa...
Court Approves Contracts That Are Union Only
By David Kravetz
SAN FRANCISCO - In a boost to organized labor, the California Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that local governments m...
Marshall Law
By Columnist
By Ruth Bader Ginsburg I am overjoyed to receive the Thurgood Marshall Award, but I value this occasion most, as I think ever...
Immunization Booster
^^Constitutional Law^^ Immunization Booster Supreme Court Strikes a Blow for States' Rights Constitutional historians will re...
Judge Rules Police Coerced Witness for Cop-Killing Trial
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - An Orange County Superior Court judge ruled Monday that false statements by a witness in the case of slain Garden...
Object Lesson
By Columnist
By Christopher Tayback In a recent trial, I raised several persistent objections to the court's jury-selection procedure. The...
Hate Crimes Have Shown Slight Drop
By Martin Bergn
California law enforcement authorities reported 1,750 hate crimes last year, State Attorney General Bill Lockyer said Monday....
Once-Urgent All-Caps Messages Are Now Just Annoyances
By Columnist
Once-urgent all-capital messages are now just annoyances By George W. Brewster Jr. My paralegal is relatively soft-spoken in ...
Westside Attorney Byron Y. Appleton Dies at 68
By Jason Songn
Services have been held for long-time Westside attorney Byron Y. Appleton - a fixture at the Santa Monica Municipal Court, wh...
Perjury Charges Sought Against O.J.
By Denise Levin
Having struck out both with the district attorney and the Los Angeles County grand jury, attorney Gloria Allred and the siste...
Judge Reverses $6.6M Jury Verdict in Toxics Case
By Martin Bergn
A judge has reversed a jury's $6.6 million verdict in Los Angeles Superior Court earlier this year to a man who contended he ...
Robbery-String Defendant Enters Insanity Plea
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - The leader of a religious group accused of a string of robberies in San Diego and Riverside counties last year an...
Yaroslavsky Seeks Ban on Gun Shows at Fairgrounds
By Lauren Bartlett
In light of recent shootings including the murder of a postal worker and rampage at the North Valley Jewish Community Center,...
Woman of The Left Bank
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - It is official Berkeley doctrine for city agencies to shun Salvadoran coffee and to boycott goods from Burma,...
Jurist Promotes Patience, Fairness
By Rebecca Kuzins
Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner H.M. "Trip" Webster III likes to joke that "being on the bench is like being an ombud...
Prior Restraint Order Against Paper Is Lifted
By Denise Levin
In an abrupt reversal, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge lifted a court order Monday that barred the Daily Journal from publ...
Probe of Death Row Label Keeps Spinning
By Garry Abrams
A 3-year-old federal grand jury criminal investigation into Death Row Records that once appeared dormant is ongoing and is ex...
Court Restrains Newspaper From Publishing Story
By Denise Levin
In what First Amendment experts are calling an unconstitutional prior restraint, the Los Angeles Superior Court has ordered t...
Cigarette Distributors Fuming
By Lauren Bartlett.
A group of discount cigarette distributors has sued the 46 states and major tobacco companies involved in a global settlement...