Law Practice
Changing Organization's Name Won't Change the Image of Trial Attorneys
By David Minkown
Letter to the Editor - The Association of Trial Lawyers of America's latest attempt to change its image by simply changing nam...
Constitutional Law
Judge Is Committed to Full Disclosure by Both Government and Press
By PETER BLUMBERG
When he took to the streets last year to film a clash between police and anarchist demonstrators, Josh Wolf may have had no id...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Public Defender Kicks Off Campaign With ABA Award
By Donna Dominon
San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi will kick off his re-election bid at a reception Thursday in which he will receive t...
Administrative/Regulatory
State Panel Recommends Law Requiring Recording of Police Interrogations
By Ryan Oliver
LOS ANGELES - Concerned that false confessions are putting innocent people behind bars, a blue ribbon commission recommended T...
SAN FRANCISCO - Competition in the marketplace has catapulted cost-cutting measures to the forefront of the law-firm operating...
Judges and Judiciary
Schwarzenegger Appoints Assistant County Counsel to Bench
By Victoria Fine
LOS ANGELES - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday appointed Solano County Assistant County Counsel Wendy G. Getty to the So...
International
Redefining Relationship Between Trade Secrets, Public Interest
By David Minkown
Focus Column - Are all trade secrets equally deserving of relevant discovery to enforce their protection?
Appellate Practice
Panel Rebuffs Cardinal's Bid to Unseal Psychological Records
By Sandra Hernandezn
LOS ANGELES - A California appellate court has rebuffed Cardinal Roger Mahony's efforts to unseal confidential documents alleg...
When law firms collide, the writs hit the fan. And the suits are still flying - seven years after a sport utility vehicle dri...
Entertainment & Sports
Jury Finds a Horn of Plenty in Band Leader's Will
By Rebecca Beyer
LOS ANGELES - It took a jury only 90 minutes to award half of band leader Artie Shaw's estate, $1.42 million, to his former wi...
LOS ANGELES - Ralphs Grocery Co. will plead guilty in Los Angeles federal district court today to charges that it secretly reh...
Military Law
Serving in Combat Shares Similarities With Practicing Law
By David Minkown
Forum Column - I read with interest "Army Officer Worried About War Crimes Faces Tough Legal Battle" (Daily Journal, July 13)....
Law Practice
Everything You Wanted to Know About Litigating in U.S. Court
By David Minkown
Forum Column - The second edition of "Business and Commercial Litigation in Federal Courts" (Thomson West, 2005) is comprehens...
A former French banking executive was fined $1 million, placed on five years' probation and banished from the United States fo...
Environmental
Panel Tosses Cases on Rules for Shipping Radioactive Materials
By Dennis Pfaffn
Nuclear skeptics, including a waste truck driver, failed to show how they would be harmed by new rules governing radioactive s...
Immigration is increasingly grabbing headlines across the U.S. Judges, attorneys, advocates for both tighter borders and more ...
SAN FRANCISCO - He completed community service for his crimes, but one of San Francisco's most prolific graffiti vandals now m...
Immigration is increasingly grabbing headlines across the U.S. Judges, attorneys, advocates for both tighter borders and more ...
LOS ANGELES-Federal prosecutors are complaining that they're being hampered by budget cuts, and two members of Congress want t...
Forum Column - Real just isn't good enough anymore. Actuality pales in the light of fake.
SAN FRANCISCO - Robbins Palmer & Allen, an East Bay law firm started in 1998, was formed when a group of business attorney...
SAN FRANCISCO - Advanced Micro Devices' proposed $5.4 billion acquisition of leading graphics chip maker ATI Technologies is a...
LOS ANGELES - Summer's well under way, and so is the baseball season. For Major League Baseball fans that means hot dogs, cott...
SAN DIEGO - Opening a new front in its fight for religious causes, a conservative legal coalition has sued California's state ...
LOS ANGELES - Michael Allen had few dealings with legal search companies as a practicing attorney, but they were enough to con...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Anderson Initiative Goes to Extraordinary Lengths to Limit Eminent Domain
By David Minkown
Focus Column - Anita S. Anderson, an obscure California homeowner, may have a surprising, profound - even revolutionary - effe...
Letter to the Editor - I sympathize with the argument in the recent column by Andrea Lafferty, director of the Traditional Val...
Deciding the fate of lawsuits filed before the state's voters reined in the Unfair Competition Law two years ago, the Californ...
WASHINGTON - When a new crop of students enters Stanford Law School's Supreme Court Litigation Clinic this fall, they'll learn...
Appellate Practice
3rd Circuit Splits From Other Courts on Fair Opportunity Doctrine
By David Minkown
Focus Column - Cases implicating federal conflicts of authority in May 2006 centered around two distinct and unrelated themes:...