LOS ANGELES - Just three days after Los Angeles County Superior Court Commissioner Donald S. Kennedy's recent transfer to the ...
WASHINGTON - Criminal defendants enjoyed a banner year in 2004 when the Supreme Court handed down a pair of landmark criminal-...
COLUMN - By Peter Blumberg - Judge politics may be the last thing on Jerry Brown's mind as he contemplates the next four years...
FORUM COLUMN - By John McMickle - One year ago, America's bankruptcy laws changed, altering the legal landscape for consumers,...
LOS ANGELES - Working as a defense attorney 21 years ago, Los Angeles County Superior Court Supervising Judge David S. Wesley ...
FORUM COLUMN - By Howard M. Ehrenberg - Last spring, Congress passed and the president signed the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention ...
Labor/Employment
'Romaneck' Undermines Congressional Intent in Passing Sarbanes-Oxley
By Eric Berkowitzn
EMPLOYMENT COLUMN - By Arthur F. Silbergeld and Dawn M. Irizarry -The United States District Court for the Northern District o...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Neutral Serves Up Food, Savvy to Settle Disputes
By Craig Anderson
WALNUT CREEK - Malcom Sher, an independent mediator and arbitrator, says he always serves good food to the litigants and their...
Government
Untangling a Decade of Dilution Cases, Just in Time for Revisions
By Eric Berkowitzn
FOCUS COLUMN - By Robert E. Lyon - On Oct. 6, President Bush signed the Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2006. ...
SAN JOSE - Derivative complaints against company officers are often afterthoughts to the main event in shareholders' litigatio...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles police officials deny critics' contention that they are fabricating the number of beds available on ...
Law Practice
Riverside's District Attorney Will Join Best, Best & Kreiger
By David Houstonn
SANTA ANA - Grover Trask, Riverside County's district attorney for a quarter of a century, will join Best, Best & Kreiger ...
LOS ANGELES - Catholic Church officials have agreed to pay $10 million dollars to seven men and women who said they were sexua...
David Eric Brockway, 59, Marina del Rey (Sept. 7) - In a Review Department opinion, Brockway was suspended for two years and p...
WASHINGTON - Joseph W. Cotchett is in good spirits as the 2006 congressional elections approach. ...
While Nancy Pelosi frantically raises cash from California attorneys who are loyal Democrats, a Republican lawyer from Sacrame...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Retailers Sue San Francisco Over Its Ban on Bisphenol-A
By Donna Dominon
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco's newly approved ordinance that bans the substance bisphenol-A, which is used to make baby bottl...
FORUM COLUMN - By Jeremiah Reynolds - In recent years, attorneys' free speech rights have been curtailed by ethical rules and ...
FORUM COLUMN - By Joseph Sorrentino - Prosecutors face legal and ethical challenges at numerous stages of a criminal action, b...
Intellectual Property
New Rules Provide Businesses Little Aid With Privilege Issues
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Joseph S. Wu - One of the key drivers of today's high-cost electronic discovery is the need to preview recor...
SAN FRANCISCO - The respective chairmen of San Francisco-based Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe and New York's Dewey Ballanti...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Tobacco Tax Measure's Antitrust Provision Stirs Debate
By Anne Marie Ruff
LOS ANGELES - The highly publicized Proposition 86 would raise an additional $2.60 in taxes for every pack of cigarettes sold ...
LOS ANGELES - David P. Conn, the dashing deputy district attorney credited with rescuing the Menendez brothers' prosecution af...
Government
After Election, Litigators May Get Leverage but Not Results
By Aris Davoudiann
WASHINGTON - If the Democrats win control of the House of Representatives on Election Day, trial lawyers will have new leverag...
LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors across the state may be forced to adjust their public-records policy in light of an attorney general...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Bar Group Leader Says She Plans to Step Down
By Jim Adamekn
IRVINE - Donna Fouste, a leader among bar association executives in California and nationally, will retire after 15 years over...
A Bay Area lawyer was wrongly convicted of making a criminal threat when he unleashed an angry tirade against a bail bondsman,...
PLACERVILLE - Peering from a window in Judge James Wagoner's dark-wooded chambers, a visitor can look down on Main Street and ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Californians soon could prevent government from carrying out many of its current functions by passing a ballot...
Judges and Judiciary
'Larger-Than-Life' Judge Rode Motorcycles, Had Black Belt in Karate
By Donna Dominon
Santa Clara Superior Court Judge Robert L. "Bud" Ambrose, a 16-year bench veteran who rode motorcycles and had a black belt in...