Judges and Judiciary
Surfing San Diego Biker Presides Over Family Law Cases
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Commissioner Adam Wertheimer is an admitted thrill seeker, equally fond of surfboards and his Harley. But when he...
Judges and Judiciary
Ryan Rebuilds U.S. Attorney's Office After Brain Drain
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Turnover is the talk of Kevin Ryan's tenure. More than 40 prosecutors have left since Ryan came aboard as the ...
SAN FRANCISCO - H. Joseph Escher, best known for his work representing tobacco companies such as R.J. Reynolds in litigation ...
SACRAMENTO - California's courts and the State Bar would gain more authority to stop nonattorneys from practicing law under a ...
LOS ANGELES - San Diego has hired a Philadelphia-based law firm to represent the city before the Securities and Exchange Commi...
INDUSTRIAL SANTA CLARA COUNTY - FirstCal, a joint venture between First Industrial Realty Trust Inc. and the California State ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Right out of the gate in 2002, Northern California's top federal prosecutor scored some impressive victories. ...
Forum Column - By Terri R. Brown - Hurricane Katrina's fury showed no mercy to numerous lawyers, law offices and courthouses i...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Association of Legal Administrators will hold its 7th Annual Community Challenge Weekend Oct. 14-16. ...
Zoning, Planning and Use
City, County General Plans Rule in Land-Use Disputes
By Columnist
Focus Column - Land Use Law - By Daniel J. Curtin Jr. - For the last three decades under California land-use law, basically al...
LOS ANGELES - A memorial service will take place in October for Pasadena attorney and community leader Kenneth O. Rhodes. Rho...
Administrative/Regulatory
Red Cross Seeks Volunteers for Katrina Relief
By Blair Clarkson
LOS ANGELES - The American Red Cross is recruiting Los Angeles County employees, including prosecutors and public defenders, ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Roman Catholic Archdiocese recently settled four lawsuits filed by victims of defrocked Mons...
LOS ANGELES - The nation's premier school for neutrals is looking for a new chief. A search is under way for a new director to...
SAN FRANCISCO - Appellate Justice Patricia Bamattre-Manoukian of the 6th District Court of Appeal in San Jose and Presiding Ju...
Judges and Judiciary
Roberts Hearings Compete With Civilization's Collapse
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Only a few days ago, the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearings on John G. Roberts Jr.'s nomination ...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a case closely watched by members of the securities bar, a federal judge has thrown out a Securities and E...
INDUSTRIAL SIMI VALLEY - D&B Simi LLC has sold two buildings at the Tapo Business Park for a total of $4.1 million. 4583 I...
Forum Column - By Robert D. Richards - Come late summer, college and university campuses begin to crackle with excitement over...
Forum Column - By Hirbod Rashidi - In a letter to the editor of the Los Angeles Times, which, to the paper's credit, it publis...
Labor/Employment
Circumstantial Evidence Has Key Role in Proving Unlawful Discrimination
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - Elysa Yanowitz, a former regional sales manager for L'Oreal, was placed in the une...
Focus Column - Family Law - Sometimes, one party to marriage feels "misled" by the other party, and sometimes the first party,...
LOS ANGELES - Retired 4th District Court of Appeal Justice Robert Gardner Jr., known for his witty opinions and no-nonsense j...
LOS ANGELES - A recent appellate opinion chips away at the scope of a judge's immunity from civil liability, according to an ...
SAN JOSE - A panel of three retired judges has chosen the Dechert firm and Palo Alto-based partner Chris Scott Graham to inve...
SAN FRANCISCO - A commercial litigator by trade, Stephen Dunham has worked on cases ranging from intellectual property to ant...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Bay Area biotechnology company has won a permanent injunction on top of $36 million in damages against a ma...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Neutral Relies Partly on Formula for Success
By Eron Yehuda
LOS ANGELES - A widowed elderly father "carrying on with younger women" concerned his children and their spouses, attorney Ren...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Sutter Health Countersues Its Uninsured Patients for Payment
By Lorelei Laird
LOS ANGELES - Faced with a lawsuit by uninsured patients saying they can't afford their medical bills, a health care provider...
BAKERSFIELD - Commissioner Linda S. Etienne learned early on that getting through the pro per-packed calendar of small-claims ...