Two Bay Area lawyers with a side patent business will get $7.5 million following a settlement they reached with the educationa...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles County Superior Court jury has paved the road to punitive damages against Dole Food Co. in the cas...
Commissioner Kenneth J. Fernandez's courtroom is filled with stuffed animals and candy - it's all an effort to make the child...
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
Immigration
Nary a Lawsuit Slows Start of S.F.'s Trans-Bay Cable Project
By Dennis Pfaffn
SAN FRANCISCO - If someone were to propose cutting a 6-foot-deep trench for 50 miles through the mud under one of the most env...
Focus Column - By Ken Moscaret - When attempting to obtain attorney fees at trial, lawyers should remember that the reputation...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Should Sports Receive Special Treatment When It Comes to Liability Issues?
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By Michael Willemsen - Should the physical extremes routinely endured by athletes be subject to unique treatmen...
Firm Watch
Probate Partner Balances His Law Practice, Military Duty
By Devan Mcclainen
Industry Watch - By Devan McClaine - Nick Tooliatos gives new meaning to work/life balance. ...
Forum Column - By Richard Brent Reed - On Veterans Day, a columnist looks at a recent attack on the right to have a traditiona...
SAN FRANCISCO - A memorial service will be held Nov. 29 for Peter Belton, a former senior staff attorney and influential force...
Industry Watch - By D. Heimpel - She's the only eighth-grader with her white polo shirt - part of her school uniform - untucke...
Law Practice
Board Favors Insurance Disclosure but Disagrees on Specifics
By Amy Yarbroughn
LOS ANGELES - It's back to the drawing board for a controversial proposal to require attorneys to tell their clients that they...
Government
Discipline Woes Might End Illustrious and Embattled Career
By Amy Yarbroughn
For the past four years, Richard I. Fine has been fighting State Bar misconduct charges and is now in jeopardy of being disbar...
LOS ANGELES - New Jersey-based Merck & Co. is still taking its Vioxx-related litigation one case at a time. But now, inst...
Industry Watch - By Devan McClaine - Although he's not a practicing attorney, Daniel Velton isn't waiting to make an impact on...
Riverside County prosecutors say 1,600 people, including Paul Hering, entrusted Heath & Associates with their savings and ...
With Honors
On the Move
As presiding judge of the Alameda Superior Court, George C. Hernandez Jr. has to please judges, commissioners, community ...
Richard H. Millen talks about mediation in an almost-mystical way, but he's decidedly down-to-earth in his approach. The 87-ye...
Government
Emissions Lawsuit Against EPA Garners Support of 14 States
By David Houstonn
SACRAMENTO - Fourteen states pledged to support a lawsuit Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger filed Thursday demanding the federal Envi...
Employment Column - By Karen L. Gabler and Jenna H. Strauss - New technological developments make it easier than ever for empl...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Should Security Concerns or Moral Leadership Win Out in Genocide Debate?
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By John A. Hall - The passage of a congressional resolution condemning the Armenian Genocide would have given t...
Forum Column - By Richard M. Mosk - A new book on former California Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh recalls the Golden State's po...
Focus Column - By Larry Steinberg - A case argued before the California Supreme Court earlier this week may alter fundamentall...
Verdicts
Elderly Driver Will Pay Family of Killed Cyclist $12.5 Million
By Rebecca U. Cho
LOS ANGELES - Thousand Oaks dental surgeon Glenn Garvin was riding in the bicycle lane with a friend in the fall of 2006 when ...
SANTA ANA - A special faculty committee at the University of California, Irvine, has concluded that the campus's chancellor ma...
SAN FRANCISCO - A woman who was fired from her data entry job after taking leave to treat a skin condition has won a $353,000 ...
SAN JOSE - Lois Abraham describes her legal career as a bit of an accident, that of a mother in her late 30s who decided to go...
SAN JOSE - Attorneys representing former KLA-Tencor Corp. Chief Executive Officer Kenneth Schroeder, facing civil charges as w...