On Oct. 23, 1990, an Iranian-born academic and political dissident was gunned down outside his Paris apartment. ...
Disbarments, Resignations and Suspensions ...
FORUM COLUMN - By Philip A. Rafferty - No one disagrees that drunken driving is wrong, but California's jury instructions make...
Judges and Judiciary
Changes in Application Reflect Worries About Judicial Diversity
By Amy Yarbroughn
SAN FRANCISCO - Roughly a decade ago, McGeorge School of Law professor J. Clark Kelso heard stories of attorneys with judicial...
SAN FRANCISCO - A tort-reform organization Thursday asked the California State Bar to investigate a Novato law firm and one of...
State Bar & Bar Associations
S.F. Bar Group Calls for Ethics Probe of Stimson
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - An apology isn't good enough for the Bar Association of San Francisco. ...
The California Supreme Court made class-action lawyers' lives easier Thursday by allowing broader access to information about ...
FORUM COLUMN - By Roderick Walston - The 9th Circuit got it wrong when it reversed the EPA's approval of Arizona's application...
EMPLOYMENT - By Jonathan Fraser Light - 2006 saw little employment legislation but several court decisions that gave employees...
Judges and Judiciary
Maverick Federal Judge Seeks New Job Nabbing Bad Guys
By Jennifer Hammn
LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Judge Dickran Tevrizian, the unlikely candidate for U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, brings with him ...
Prosecutor Deserved More Severe Sanction
In the nation’s first class action to challenge overcrowding in facilities for immigration detainees, the American Civil Liber...
To hear the state's top trial lawyers tell it, these are hard times for plaintiffs in California. ...
FORUM COLUMN - By Betty R. Kazmin - Before civil libertarians get in too much of a huff over new federal regulations allowing ...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Lothar Determann and Eugene Lim - American exporters should pay attention to rules the Chinese government ha...
Judges and Judiciary
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Court to Review Appeal-Level Argument of Race Bias in Jury Selection
By Itir Yakarn
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to take a new look at alleged racial bias in jury selection in a...
SAN FRANCISCO - Superior Court Judge Katherine Feinstein was appointed by the California Supreme Court Wednesday to the state ...
Government
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Vandal Can't Be Billed for City's 'Ugly' Gray Paint
By Laura Ernden
Santa Cruz City Council members didn't like the boring Plymouth Gray paint used to cover up graffiti on a retaining wall near ...
The Daily Journal presents its annual list of California’s top plaintiffs verdicts. The biggest verdict, $306.9 million and co...
FORUM COLUMN - By Robin J. Samuel and Laura M. Wilson - San Francisco's new mandatory paid-sick-leave ordinance is the stronge...
Nicole A. Tutt, an attorney and specialist in water and public agency law, died Monday after a yearlong battle with breast can...
WASHINGTON - A powerful Democratic woman from the Bay Area will play a key role pushing immigration reform in Washington, D.C....
Discipline
Appeals Panel Reinstates Rape Victim's Suit Against Her Lawyers
By Laura Ernden
An Escondido woman raped by an intruder in the laundry room of her apartment complex had the makings of a strong suit against ...
LOS ANGELES - Just two days after New York's Simpson Thacher & Bartlett upped the ante to $160,000 for starting associate ...
Florida lawyer Robert "Speedy" Udell says moving a trial forward gives him a courtroom edge, which may explain the hasty pace ...
Litigation
Geragos Says Jet Firm's Lawyer OK'd Installing Hidden Cameras
By Rebecca Beyer
LOS ANGELES - An attorney for a private jet company signed off on a plan to install hidden cameras on a plane used by Michael ...
His boss might have called him "my bitch" and "my boy toy," but that doesn't give a university employee the right to sue a man...
LOS ANGELES - George B. Newhouse Jr. is leaving his job as national chairman of the white-collar defense group at Thelen Reid ...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Brian T. Hafter - Try explaining to your 15-year-old who decides whether a claim is arbitrable. A seasoned l...
FORUM COLUMN - By Douglas N. Silverstein and Alexandra M. Steinberg - The 2nd District Court of Appeal and the California Supr...