If you are an attorney admitted to practice law in a jurisdiction outside California, you are what the Committee of Bar Examin...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Firm Undertakes Defense of Personal Injury Action
By Contributing Writer
Two Performance Questions and Answers The two performance tests measure the applicant's ability to handle real-life legal task...
Constitutional Law
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Parental-Notification Law
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - With partisan passions sky-high over judicial nominations and speculation rampant about high-court retirements, t...
SAN LUIS OBISPO - Sheila McCann knew it was time to give up her legal career when she burst into tears after a client was sen...
INDUSTRIAL LOS ANGELES - TC Rich LLC purchased a 36,750-square-foot industrial building at 132 W. 132nd St. from Eun Hee Lee ...
QUESTION 4 PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY Ann represents Officer Patty in an employment discrimination case against City Police ...
Forum Column - By John Burris - When the verdicts in the Oakland "Riders" criminal police corruption trial were announced, I h...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Bay Area Law Schools Top Moot-Court Competition
By Pat Alston
Three San Francisco-area law schools took top honors in the 2005 Roger J. Traynor California Moot Court Competition. Hastings...
Criminal
In An Era of Great 'CSI' Expectations, Trial Attorneys Face New Challenges
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Patrick Mattimore - Last month at the Western Psychological Association Annual Convention, UC Irvine profess...
Forum Column - By Charles S. Doskow - Immigration issues continue to generate new approaches to dealing with what appears to b...
2005 Bar Exam Feature - LOS ANGELES - Bryan Thistle and Patty DeGaetano both found out at 6:01 p.m. Friday that their decision...
LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve Cooley and Assessor Rick Auerbach have asked the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors...
SAN JOSE - The second time was the charm for Mary Greenwood, a veteran administrator in the Santa Clara County public defende...
WASHINGTON - In a significant victory for federal, state and local governments, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a p...
SAN DIEGO - A sharply divided federal appellate-court panel ruled Monday that judges are on safe constitutional ground when t...
LOS ANGELES - Since accessing his Bar Exam results Friday evening, 35-year-old paralegal and ex-Marine Michael Ehline has bee...
SAN FRANCISCO - A leading First Amendment attorney who successfully challenged a federal child pornography law should not rec...
LOS ANGELES - Skyway Airlines finalized an $8 million settlement Monday with a 40-year-old Los Angeles woman who fell down a ...
LOS ANGELES - Jordis Moore and her co-workers at the Bank of America in Los Angeles always wondered what wild tales would come...
Criminal
Where's the Beef? Prosecutors Mince Media in Fund-Raising Trial
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - The current Los Angeles federal-court trial of Hillary Rodham Clinton's former senatorial campaign ...
David Bradford spent 20 years as an in-house counsel and an entrepreneur in the software industry. But he says it was his last...
INDUSTRIAL MONTEBELLO - OMP Industrial LLC purchased a 112,000-square-foot industrial building at 7171 Telegraph Road from th...
SAN FRANCISCO - The guy who claimed he caught and was then robbed of Barry Bonds' record-setting home run ball in 2001 is stil...
To earn a driver's license, teenagers must pass a series of tests to show they know what they're doing on the road. Receiving ...
A talent agency claiming to represent Richard Schiff, who portrays high-strung White House staffer Toby Ziegler on "The West W...
On May 5, actress Geena Davis warmed up guests of the California Women's Law Center with an intelligently funny speech at "Jus...
A Delaware jury awarded Orange County eye care manufacturer Advanced Medical Optics $94.8 million in its patent infringement l...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Firm Pays $1.6 Billion for 24-Hour Fitness Club Chain
By Geneva Whitmarsh
Health club chain 24-Hour Fitness has been snapped up by a New York investment firm for $1.6 billion. Palo Alto-based Wilson S...
Public Interest
Film Portrays Holocaust Survivors' Struggle for Justice
By Draeger Martinez
As the audience watched the Holocaust documentary flicker on the screen, their emotions ratcheted like pistons. File footage o...
Daniel Judgeson made it easy for investigators the day he was interrogated for stabbing to death a 67-year-old woman with a ca...