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Alternative Dispute Resolution


Neutral Follows Science to Heart of Mediation

Jan. 27, 2007
By Anne Marie Ruff

Sometimes, Lynn Bassis finds too many amygdalas in the mediation room. ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Admissions Essays Get Second Look

Jan. 27, 2007
By Anna Oberthurn

The high standards of law school admissions have led some would-be students to seek professional editing help with the persona...


Judicial Profile


The Robes Fit

Jan. 27, 2007
By Linda Rapattoni

FRESNO - David Gottlieb has been on the bench for less than two years, but he already has cleared a backlog of preliminary hea...


Insurance


Think Before Suing

Jan. 27, 2007
By Eric Berkowitzn

FOCUS COLUMN - By Barry Zalma - Before your clients get excited about bad-faith claims, you should make sure they did not give...


Appellate Practice


Appointments Panel OKs 1st District Justice

Jan. 27, 2007
By Donna Dominon

SAN FRANCISCO - Henry E. Needham was unanimously confirmed Thursday as a justice on the 1st District Court of Appeal, Division...


Judges and Judiciary


WASHINGTON - Three federal judicial nominees from California moved a step closer Thursday to confirmation by the U.S. Senate. ...


Criminal


Panel Considers Suit Against Iran

Jan. 27, 2007
By Martin Bergn

On Oct. 23, 1990, an Iranian-born academic and political dissident was gunned down outside his Paris apartment. ...


Discipline


DISCIPLINARY ACTIONS

Jan. 27, 2007
By Jim Adamekn

Disbarments, Resignations and Suspensions ...


Judges and Judiciary


DUI-Murder Standards Are Not Driven by Reason

Jan. 27, 2007
By Eric Berkowitzn

FORUM COLUMN - By Philip A. Rafferty - No one disagrees that drunken driving is wrong, but California's jury instructions make...


Judges and Judiciary


SAN FRANCISCO - Roughly a decade ago, McGeorge School of Law professor J. Clark Kelso heard stories of attorneys with judicial...


Personal Injury & Torts


Tort Group Seeks State Bar Probe of Brayton

Jan. 27, 2007
By Donna Dominon

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


SAN FRANCISCO - An apology isn't good enough for the Bar Association of San Francisco. ...


Litigation


Ruling Benefits Discovery in Class Actions

Jan. 27, 2007
By Itir Yakarn

The California Supreme Court made class-action lawyers' lives easier Thursday by allowing broader access to information about ...


Environmental


Ninth Circuit Is Wrong to Overturn EPA

Jan. 27, 2007
By Eric Berkowitzn

FORUM COLUMN - By Roderick Walston - The 9th Circuit got it wrong when it reversed the EPA's approval of Arizona's application...


Labor/Employment


Plaintiffs Getting the Edge

Jan. 27, 2007
By Eric Berkowitzn

EMPLOYMENT - By Jonathan Fraser Light - 2006 saw little employment legislation but several court decisions that gave employees...


Judges and Judiciary


LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Judge Dickran Tevrizian, the unlikely candidate for U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, brings with him ...


Discipline


Letters to the Editor

Jan. 26, 2007
By Eric Berkowitzn

Prosecutor Deserved More Severe Sanction


Government


In the nation’s first class action to challenge overcrowding in facilities for immigration detainees, the American Civil Liber...


Litigation


Rounding Up the Big Wins

Jan. 26, 2007
By David Houstonn

To hear the state's top trial lawyers tell it, these are hard times for plaintiffs in California. ...


Education


Discrimination Fears Obstruct a School Solution

Jan. 26, 2007
By Eric Berkowitzn

FORUM COLUMN - By Betty R. Kazmin - Before civil libertarians get in too much of a huff over new federal regulations allowing ...


International


Pollution Controls

Jan. 26, 2007
By Eric Berkowitzn

FOCUS COLUMN - By Lothar Determann and Eugene Lim - American exporters should pay attention to rules the Chinese government ha...


SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to take a new look at alleged racial bias in jury selection in a...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge Feinstein Joins Watchdog Panel

Jan. 26, 2007
By Donna Dominon

SAN FRANCISCO - Superior Court Judge Katherine Feinstein was appointed by the California Supreme Court Wednesday to the state ...


Santa Cruz City Council members didn't like the boring Plymouth Gray paint used to cover up graffiti on a retaining wall near ...


Litigation


2006 Top 10 Plaintiffs Verdicts

Jan. 26, 2007
By Alexa Hylandn

The Daily Journal presents its annual list of California’s top plaintiffs verdicts. The biggest verdict, $306.9 million and co...


Labor/Employment


Legally Sick

Jan. 26, 2007
By Eric Berkowitzn

FORUM COLUMN - By Robin J. Samuel and Laura M. Wilson - San Francisco's new mandatory paid-sick-leave ordinance is the stronge...


Law Practice


Attorney Specialized in Water-Use Issues

Jan. 26, 2007
By Amanda Becker

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....


An Escondido woman raped by an intruder in the laundry room of her apartment complex had the makings of a strong suit against ...


Firm Watch


More Firms Offer $160,000 Starting Pay

Jan. 26, 2007
By Robert Iafolla

LOS ANGELES - Just two days after New York's Simpson Thacher & Bartlett upped the ante to $160,000 for starting associate ...