LOS ANGELES - When Allison Margolin was chosen to speak at her junior high school's D.A.R.E. - Drug Abuse Resistance Education...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Agencies Still Flub Basic Duty for Taking Property
By Amy Kalinn
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - It is very strange. One would have thought that the elementary concept that the governm...
Intellectual Property
Firms Serving Online Merchants Must Protect Themselves Legally
By Amy Kalinn
Focus Column - By Theodore F. Monroe, Bradley O. Cebeci and Jonathan Dekel - E-commerce and direct marketing have revolutioniz...
Letter to the Editor - I was fascinated by your May 2 article on the lawsuit against Joseph Cavallo for invasion of privacy ("...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Caring Mediator Extolls the Virtues of Diversity
By Tamadhur Alaqeeln
LOS ANGELES - Mediator Elizabeth A. Moreno is passionate about diversity. Moreno is the diversity chair of the dispute resolu...
Appellate Practice
Panel Upholds Jury's $1.4 Million Award to All-Nude Strip Club
By Jim Adamekn
SAN BERNARDINO - A state appellate court Thursday affirmed a jury's $1.4 million award to an all-nude strip club, ruling the c...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Irvine's Payne & Fears Snags Louderback Law Firm in S.F.
By William Arthur Haynes
SAN FRANCISCO - Irvine-based Payne & Fears, a small labor and employment firm, announced Thursday that it absorbed the Lou...
Investments
Socially Responsible Investing Does Not Have to Be a Liability
By Anna Oberthurn
American lawyers need to change their thinking on socially conscious investing. That's the opinion of Paul Watchman, a senior ...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge has refused to let a Drug Enforcement Administration chemist testify about how much PCP could ha...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
GOP Tort Reformers Let Go of California Model
By Peter Blumberg
WASHINGTON - Republican senators swapped Texas for California as a model for tort reform, but they still couldn't muster the v...
Forum Column - By Keith Paul Bishop - American entertainer W.C. Fields once quipped, "I never vote for anybody, I always vote ...
Focus Column - By Jason H. Anderson - The U.S. Supreme Court recently held that arbitration clauses in contracts governed by t...
Administrative/Regulatory
Justices Take Up Challenge to Court-Security Fee
By Itir Yakarn
No amount in court fees is too little to fight over? So it seems after two criminal cases challenging a $20 court security fee...
LOS ANGELES - The City Council halted conversions of single-room-occupancy hotels Wednesday in an effort to preserve the dwind...
Law Practice
Web Site Aims to Make Headhunting Convenient for All Parties
By Alexa Hylandn
LOS ANGELES - One day last fall, David Derrico received five calls from headhunters trying to entice him away from his fourth-...
Column - By Garry Abrams - The lead story in "The Arts" section of Wednesday's New York Times was an account of disgraced cele...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Five Honored for 70s Fight Against Sterilization Without Consent
By Tamadhur Alaqeeln
LOS ANGELES - Women can't be sterilized when they check into a hospital to give birth. This is an obvious statement now, but i...
Government
Killing in S.F. Shines Light on DA's Witness Intimidation Crisis
By Dennis Opatrnyn
SAN FRANCISCO - Acknowledging a crisis with unsolved homicides, San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris pledged Wednesda...
Product Liability
Chevron's Anti-Punitives Measure in California Fizzles
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - After it became apparent Chevron Corp. was their only major backer, a tort reform group announced Wednesday it wo...
LOS ANGELES - Rudolph Arrigale's life's work as a trucker included plenty of heavy lifting on loading docks. Arrigale began t...
LOS ANGELES - The leak of confidential FBI memos in the investigation of rogue private detective Anthony Pellicano has spawned...
Focus Column - By Marshal A. Oldman - In the Estate of Rossi, the 3rd District Court of Appeal determined that an attack on ...
Forum Column - By J.H. Snider - Popularly known as the public airwaves, "spectrum" is becoming to the information era what lan...
Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - California has almost 85,000 children living in foster care. This is a staggering num...
Entertainment & Sports
49ers' General Counsel Turns in His Playbook
By William Arthur Haynes
SAN FRANCISCO - The head of the San Francisco 49ers legal affairs is stepping down at the end the week. Edward T. Goines, gene...
LOS ANGELES - Milberg Weiss partner David Bershad has hired prominent Berkeley-based litigator Cristina C. Arguedas to represe...
Dewey Ballantine has promoted three attorneys in its East Palo Alto office including Jeannine Y. Sano, the managing partner wh...
LOS ANGELES - Stand-up comics had a field day when the nation's highest court agreed to hear the case related to former strip...
SAN DIEGO - In a case that has reminded court administrators statewide of the need for tight controls on handling money, a lo...
LOS ANGELES - A convicted child molester will be given another chance to prove he's not a sexually violent predator, thanks to...