FOCUS COLUMN - By Laura W. Brill, Alana B. Hoffman and Ted M. Sichelman - Federal appellate courts have recently created or de...
FORUM COLUMN - By Eliza M. Rodrigues - I would not be where I am today, a senior attorney in Stoel Rives' San Francisco office...
LOS ANGELES - A prominent California real estate law firm has lost the leader of its emerging growth and venture capital pract...
SAN FRANCISCO - Citing constitutional concerns, a federal judge has blocked enforcement of a tough new sex-offender law overwh...
Judges and Judiciary
Supreme Court Appears Split on Late-Term Abortions
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - In a highly charged atmosphere that saw a screaming anti-abortion spectator dragged from the marbled courtroom, t...
WASHINGTON - The mid-term election victory for the Democrats Tuesday night drastically alters the landscape in Congress on vit...
Los Angeles domestic violence suspect Jeffrey M. Galen figured he would post the standard $50,000 bail and get out of jail. ...
Judges and Judiciary
Indolent Courts Wall Off Citizens From Their Democracy
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By Michael Halley - The apathy of the federal judges who couldn't make the time to decide whether significant p...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Concord attorney accused of misappropriating a client's money and charging her for services he didn't perfor...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Joseph S. Wu - There has been much public criticism about how little the new Rule 37(f) will protect litigan...
LOS ANGELES - Opening statements are set to begin Wednesday in California's second Vioxx liability trial, the first combining ...
Judges and Judiciary
L.A. Court Will Begin Charging for Parents Without Conflict Program
By Pat Alston
Beginning Dec. 11, each participant in the Los Angeles County Superior Court's Parents Without Conflict program will pay a $25...
Government
Winning Detainee Hamdan's Case Didn't Prevent Navy Lawyer's Promotion
By Eric Berkowitzn
FORUM COLUMN - By David Frakt - A recent Los Angeles Daily Journal forum article by Erwin Chemerinsky ("Navy Is Wrong to Force...
Judges and Judiciary
Wunderkind's Special Needs Ineligible for State Support
By Laura Ernden
At the tender age of 9 years old, Levi M. Clancy passed the state's high school proficiency exam. He enrolled in college at ag...
Government
State Justices May Permit Police Searches From Anonymous Tips
By Itir Yakarn
SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court seemed poised Tuesday to rule that a 911 call by an anonymous tipster who said he ha...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
AIDS Patient Loses Appeal but Boosts Doctors' Medi-Cal Clout
By Laura Ernden
An AIDS patient who was denied Medi-Cal coverage for an anti-wasting drug lost his case in a state appellate court in Los Ange...
SAN FRANCISCO - Morrison & Foerster found a million-dollar baby in an unusual Proposition 65 deal that saw the defense fir...
SAN FRANCISCO - For Ellen Dixon, it was bad enough to suffer a spinal injury while her husband died in a helicopter crash, and...
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...