SAN FRANCISCO - Old friendships die hard, and for Daniel Deshon, the newest partner of Nixon Peabody's San Francisco office, ...
Corporate
Board Directors Learn Glory and Horror of Regulation, Litigation
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Stanford Law professor Joseph Grundfest took the opportunity during this year's installment of his annual Dir...
LOS ANGELES - No space in the budget or not enough work for a full-time general counsel? For Michael Oswald and Stuart Blake,...
LOS ANGELES - Rosie O'Donnell's got one so she can share her poetry with the world. Your neighbor's uncle probably has one fo...
LOS ANGELES - Even when Michael Leibovitz was an international tax law partner in Baker & McKenzie's downtown San Diego o...
LOS ANGELES - McDermott Will & Emery snatched litigator Dana Levitt from Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan for its tri...
Family
Panel Chastises Imperial Judge Over His Handling of Juvenile Cases
By Dan Evans
LOS ANGELES - For the second time in six weeks, a state appeals court has criticized an Imperial Superior Court judge for fai...
SAN FRANCISCO - Is it the State Bar Board of Governors' job to endorse a filmmaker's project, even if it deals with an aspect...
Column - By Garry Abrams - The federal trial of the wrongful-death civil suit stemming from the murder of rap mogul Notorious ...
SAN DIEGO - Michael N. Pancer, the legal magician, once persuaded a jury to acquit a client who had skipped town in the middle...
Newmeyer & Dillion, an Orange County-based real estate law firm, opened an office in Walnut Creek last Monday. Jan A. Grue...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Thursday removed the most serious legal challenge faced by the California Coa...
INDUSTRIAL SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO - Raymarc Automotive Inc. signed a 10-year, $5.5 million lease for a 39,250-square-foot industr...
Constitutional Law
Takings to Help Developers Are Legal, Justices Decide
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - A divided Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a struggling Connecticut municipality can seize property in a working...
Focus Column - International Law - By Chris Van Gundy - It seems commonly accepted that enforcing foreign arbitral awards gene...
Forum Column - By Elliot S. Berkowitz - About a year ago, I wrote a column predicting how SB899 - the state's so-called worker...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Suggestion Box: A Possible Cure for ADA Abuse
By Contributing Writer
Letter to the Editor - The following is an open letter to U.S. District Court judges regarding Americans with Disabilities Act...
Labor/Employment
Ignorance is Bliss for Employers Fighting Off Discrimination Claims
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Anthony J. Oncidi - In a far-reaching new opinion that will have implications for many employers, the 2...
Administrative/Regulatory
Political Watchdog Agency Seeks Input on Its Future
By Donna Domino
SACRAMENTO - The state's political watchdog agency is taking a hard look at itself and inviting others to suggest the directi...
SAN FRANCISCO - Joseph Kenneth Sorden of Pacifica did his time for a 1983 rape conviction and had been out of prison for more...
Litigation
Justices Loosen Requirements for Plaintiffs to Join Federal Class Actions
By Lawrence Hurleyn
WASHINGTON - A divided U.S. Supreme Court held Thursday that plaintiffs can join class actions in federal court even when the...
LOS ANGELES - A retired Los Angeles police detective testified Thursday he believed there was sufficient evidence to charge M...
Criminal
DNA Leads to Suspect in 1988 Death of Santa Clara Prosecutor
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - The Santa Clara County district attorney's office announced Thursday that it has solved the 17-year-old murder of ...
LOS ANGELES - Martin Berg, editor of the San Francisco Daily Journal, will take over Monday as editor of the Los Angeles Dail...
SACRAMENTO - In what some labor lawyers are calling a gift to Big Business, state Labor Commissioner Donna Dell has endorsed ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A physician portrayed in the media as a poster boy for incompetent health care in California's prisons fired ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Elaine Rushing, who has handed down maximum sentences in DUI cases she has...
LOS ANGELES - In a rare move, the state Supreme Court took it on its own motion to disbar an infamous Pacific Palisades attorn...
Judges and Judiciary
Democrats Urge Bush to Consult on High-Court Nominees
By Lawrence Hurleyn
WASHINGTON - Democratic senators have written a letter to President Bush imploring him to put aside partisan differences and ...
INDUSTRIAL IRVINE - Takagi USA signed a six-year, $1.8 million lease for a 30,848-square-foot industrial building at 5 Whatne...