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Government


Sentencing Bill Would Worsen State's Prison Crisis

Mar. 27, 2007
By Eric Berkowitzn

Forum Column - By Jeff Adachi - San Francisco's public defender isn't impressed with state Senate Bill 40, which would make it...


Law Practice


Appellate Lawyer Was Trained Opera Singer

Mar. 27, 2007
By Emma Dewaldn

LOS ANGELES - Appellate lawyer Patricia Lofton, who became a lawyer after a career in the performing arts, has died after a lo...


Government


Panel Returns Foster-Services Case to Judge

Mar. 27, 2007
By Susan Mcraen

A federal appeals panel ruled Friday that U.S. District Judge A. Howard Matz of Los Angeles applied the federal Medicaid Act i...


Law Practice


IP Partner Moves to Smaller Greenberg

Mar. 27, 2007
By Andrew Harmon

Industry Watch - By Andrew Harmon - Intellectual property attorney Steven Weinberg recently traded one Greenberg for another. ...


Law Practice


Slightly Unsettled Mediation

Mar. 27, 2007
By Eric Berkowitzn

Focus Column - By Ronald A. Hartmann - A new decision treads the bumpy ground of court-ordered mediations. ...


Litigation


WASHINGTON - Democrats in Congress and Republicans in the White House have spent the last week staring each other down over wh...


Litigation


Court Will Mull Standards for Going to Trial

Mar. 27, 2007
By Brent Kendall

WASHINGTON - In 14 detailed, bullet-pointed pages, investors who lost money in telecommunications specialist Tellabs Inc., pai...


Law Practice


Changing Firms: A Diamond Sealed This Deal

Mar. 27, 2007
By Emma Dewaldn

Industry Watch - By Emma Dewald - LOS ANGELES - Networking events don't always involve crowded Westside bars with $10 cocktai...


Judicial Profile


SANTA BARBARA - When Joseph L. Lodge was elected to the bench in 1958, judges didn't have to be attorneys and the right to be ...


Law Practice


Industry Watch

Mar. 26, 2007
By Alexa Hylandn

On the Move


Judicial Profile


Open to Options

Mar. 26, 2007
By Pat Alston

Whether serving as 'air-traffic controller' for the North Justice Center or presiding over a DUI Court pilot project, Judge Do...


Judicial Profile


New Horizon

Mar. 25, 2007
By Susan Mcraen

Recently elected Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Bobbi Tillmon, a family-law commissioner for 12 years, finds that muc...


Litigation


Deal Lets Joyce Scholar Publish

Mar. 24, 2007
By Martin Bergn

Stanford intellectual property expert Lawrence Lessig brokered a settlement between James Joyce’s heirs and a university colle...


Government


In Historical Preservation, L.A. Misses the Mark

Mar. 24, 2007
By Eric Berkowitzn

Forum Column - By Elizabeth Byrne Debreu - A Superior Court judge got it all wrong in ruling that a historic-preservation ordi...


Law Practice


Self-Assessment Test

Mar. 24, 2007
By Aris Davoudiann

Focus Column - Unless a court order imposes a limitation, a litigant has the right to discover any nonprivileged relevant mate...


Verdicts


The city of Modesto has settled one gender-discrimination lawsuit but faces a similar legal battle in a suit that is set for a...


Technology & Science


Withdrawn Cases Still Achieve Goals

Mar. 24, 2007
By Craig Anderson

SAN JOSE - For the state attorney general's office, a Santa Clara County judge's decision last week to effectively kill its pr...


Criminal


Domestic Violence on Courts' Agenda

Mar. 24, 2007
By Amy Yarbroughn

SAN FRANCISCO - The first time Alameda County held a civil domestic violence court, Chief Assistant District Attorney Nancy O'...


Verdicts


SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco jury has awarded $23 million in damages to a woman who suffered permanent brain damage when sh...


SAN FRANCISCO - When a major pharmaceutical company reached a settlement with about a million consumers who felt misled by a c...


Government


Court Will Hear Case on Banks' Use of Funds

Mar. 24, 2007
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - Not so fast, the California Supreme Court has warned banks that dip into customers' accounts to hold Social Se...


Judges and Judiciary


LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Jeffrey Semow, the prosecutor who tried Whitewater scandal figure Su...


Litigation


Transcripts Off-Limits to Wrongly Convicted Man

Mar. 24, 2007
By Jennifer Hammn

LOS ANGELES - A judge on Thursday turned down a request by a man who was wrongly convicted of murder to see the transcript of ...


Technology & Science


On the Front Line of e-Discovery

Mar. 24, 2007
By Eric Berkowitzn

Employment Column - Employment litigation just got a lot tougher. A specialist provides guidance for defense counsel on how to...


Judges and Judiciary


SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco's U.S. attorney during the Reagan administration is ready again to serve at the pleasure of the ...


Verdicts


Mediator Creates Healthy Settlement Environment

Mar. 24, 2007
By Gabe Friedmann

In summer 1994, a smokestack on a Unocal Corp. oil refinery in San Francisco's East Bay spat a dirty chemical into the air and...


Government


Governor Puts Prosecutor of Gangs on Court

Mar. 24, 2007
By Amy Yarbroughn

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has named a gang prosecutor to the San Bernardino County Superior Court, one of the...


Litigation


NORCO - State authorities are investigating a Norco grandmother for posting signs in her front yard protesting a next-door gro...


Military Law


SAN FRANCISCO - California coastal regulators on Thursday charted a collision course with the U.S. Navy over the state's abili...


Immigration


Immigration Courts Get New Chief

Mar. 24, 2007
By Sandra Hernandezn

LOS ANGELES - David L. Neal, a former Los Angeles lawyer, has been named top U.S. immigration judge, ending speculation over w...