Alternative Dispute Resolution
Unlocking the Arbitration Trap With a Warranty to Follow the Law
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Eliot G. Disner - Uncharacteristic of any other professional sport in the United States, the very best baske...
WESTMINSTER - At first glance, Orange County Superior Court Commissioner Kenneth I. Schwartz looks like any other bench office...
Corporate
Biotech, Casino Deals Help Make It a Safe Bet That 2006 Will Be a Record Setter
By Rick Kennedyn
DEALS - Rick Kennedy - Biotech again led the way last week, as pharmaceutical giant Merck placed a $1.1 billion bet that the g...
COLUMN - Peter Blumberg - When Sandra Day O'Connor lectured California court leaders on Friday afternoon about rising threats ...
FORUM COLUMN - By Charles S. Doskow - America's introduction to Jose Padilla, an American citizen, occurred on May 8, 2002, wh...
FOCUS COLUMN - By David Birka-White - The plumbing inspector lowers himself down into the crawl space under a house and looks ...
Judges and Judiciary
Supreme Court Debates Timing of Freed Prisoner's Police Suit
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Andre Wallace, sent to prison for a 1994 murder in Chicago, spent years arguing that his conviction was the produ...
Environmental
Court to Hear Water and Land-Use Conflict With Statewide Impact
By Dennis Pfaffn
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court today will wade into a dispute over a mammoth Sacramento-area housing developmen...
Judges and Judiciary
Minister Sees Controlling Wayward Judiciary as His Calling
By Amy Yarbroughn
SAN FRANCISCO - Most South Dakotans don't know who Ronald Branson is. ...
LOS ANGELES - In the last two weeks, hospitals have dropped off six patients discharged from emergency rooms on Skid Row - all...
ORANGE - On a recent Thursday afternoon, a husband and wife appeared in pro per in Orange County Superior Court Commissioner T...
LOS ANGELES - In a closely watched case that turned on the culpability of an in-house corporate attorney, a San Francisco fede...
SAN FRANCISCO - Monterey County Superior Court Judge Jose A. Velasquez's days on the bench appeared numbered Friday when a dis...
LOS ANGELES - After eight years pursuing Zen studies, Los Angeles attorney Angela Oh returned to full-time legal practice as o...
FORUM COLUMN - By Keith Paul Bishop - Two years ago, the Financial Accounting Standards Board, or the FASB, issued a new rule ...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Doris Ng - Within a year of each other, the state Supreme Court and then the U.S. Supreme Court decided case...
Securities
Sentencing Guidelines Encourage Draconian Punishments for Securities Fraud
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Howard M. Privette - In the wake of the post-1990s wave of accounting scandals involving companies such as E...
SAN FRANCISCO - David T. Mittelman, former legal branch chief of the Security and Exchange Commission's Division of Corporate ...
Judges and Judiciary
Witness' Assassination Scuttles S.F. Murder Trial
By Dennis Opatrnyn
SAN FRANCISCO - A judge has dismissed charges against two men accused of a gang-related 2005 murder because the key witness wa...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
L.A. Bar Program Finds Plenty to Mediate in Middle Schools
By Susan Mcraen
LOS ANGELES - When friendships sour, Paige Gruenwald knows just what to do: mediate. ...
WASHINGTON - It was just six years ago that a deeply divided U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Nebraska law banning a procedure...
Californians will cast votes in 10 Superior Court races on Tuesday. If they need help choosing, the major political parties ha...
RIVERSIDE - In a flurry of judicial appointments, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday named two state prosecutors, a federal ...
As a young attorney in the mid-1980s, Bruce E. Chan saw Asian-American defendants with drug problems shuffled in and out of Sa...
Law Practice
Beverly Hills Lawyer Draws Profitable Blood With Vampire Wine Business
By Emma Dewaldn
LOS ANGELES - In the dark of the Transylvania winter, the wine maker started screaming at the word "vampire." ...
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith has announced the opening of an office in Lafayette, La.
Judicial Profile
Santa Ana Judge Blends Common Sense and Intellect
By Don De Benedictis
SANTA ANA - Back when Orange County Superior Court Judge W. Michael Hayes was a lawyer and a police officer, it was common for...
LOS ANGELES - When your highest-earning client has been dead since 1962, it's time to start expanding your clientele. ...
SAN JOSE - Four plaintiffs' law firms were appointed co-lead counsel Thursday of a consolidated derivative complaint against o...
FORUM COLUMN - By Howard R. Weingrad and Sara L. Edelman - YouTube, the immensely popular video-sharing site, touts its more t...