Judges and Judiciary
Public Service Called Commercial Litigator to the Bench
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - After spending his first two years on the bench in the foreign legal territory of misdemeanor criminal and family c...
Personal Injury & Torts
Work Injury Liability Rests On Who Is in Control of Site
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Lawrence R. Booth - Since 1993, the law governing the liability of a general contractor for injuries to an e...
Forum Column - By Robert S. Huie - Every Feb. 1, roughly one-third of California attorneys must certify their compliance with ...
Marketing
Marketing Materials Won't Succeed Without Vigorous Pursuit of Clients
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Gunnar Birgisson - A friend at another law firm told me about a discussion from a recent firm meeting. The i...
LOS ANGELES - An Irvine health care products company won $265 million in the settlement of a patent case over equipment used ...
SAN FRANCISCO - As a journalist in Alaska, I was dispatched to a small fishing village called Cordova the day after a federal ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Kenneth W. Starr, dean of Pepperdine University's law school, planned today to petition Gov. Arnold Schwarzene...
SACRAMENTO - State Sen. Joe Dunn, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, had to ask several questions to learn how the S...
LOS ANGELES - In what a state appellate panel called "an unfortunate but blessedly rare" occurrence, the justices have affirm...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court criticized Ventura police for conducting a "classic fishing expedition" by searching a...
LOS ANGELES - Scott Douglas never finds his work as a mediator boring. Every day brings an interesting problem to solve, he sa...
Judges and Judiciary
Switch to Civil Cases Proves Easily Surmountable Hurdle
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Jay M. Bloom was an experienced appellate attorney in 1986 when he went to the U.S. Supreme Court to argue a deat...
Environmental
House Bill Would Take Bite Out Of California's Food Regulation
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Health and environmental activists, as well as state Attorney General Bill Lockyer and officials of other sta...
Entertainment & Sports
Tougher Guidelines Proposed in Wake of Light Steroid Sentences
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - If the Bay Area's sports doping scandal had been about amphetamines instead of steroids, the personal trainer ...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' payments to outside lawyers have almost doubled in the past six years, and the city attorney has be...
LOS ANGELES - A pair of cowboy boots is probably a good idea for a man who enjoys dancing in the snake pit of litigation. But...
SUSPENSIONS Agravante, Juvenal Federico , Long Beach Bajgrowicz, James Joseph , Santa Rosa Evans, John W. , Walnut Creek Green...
NO GO FLYING INCOGNITO - If John Gilmore wants to get on a commercial airliner, he'll have to show identification or be search...
LAKEWOOD - Advance Real Estate purchased the Lakewood Manor Apartments, a 661-unit residential community adjacent to the Lakew...
SAN FRANCISCO - When Michael Dell's image began appearing on boxes of men's underwear in Beijing, Henry Garrana, Dell Inc.'s v...
Focus Column - By Steven B. Katz - On Jan. 9, the 1st District Court of Appeal held in In re: Microsoft I-V Cases , 2006 DJDAR...
Forum Column - By Roderick E. Walston - The U.S. Supreme Court recently decided to review three environmental cases, the first...
SACRAMENTO - The State Senate Rules Committee on Wednesday appointed former state Attorney General John Van de Kamp to head a ...
Public Interest
Bet Tzedek Tonight Honors Its Hands-On 'Big Thinker'
By Anne Marie Ruff
LOS ANGELES - In 2001, when Bet Tzedek had to move its annual dinner to a ballroom still under construction, President James N...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Skadden Team Aids Disney's Purchase of Pixar
By Geneva Whitmarsh
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles attorney Brian McCarthy, who represented the Walt Disney Co. in its $7.4 billion acquisition of Pix...
Firm Watch
Three Trial Lawyers Will Start Boutique for High-End Tort Cases
By Kenneth Davis
LOS ANGELES - Noted Los Angeles trial lawyer Jerry Ringler is forming a new firm, Ringler Kearney Alvarez. Ringler is current...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court unanimously agreed Wednesday to review the environmental impact of a 30-year prog...
SANTA ANA - Prominent Orange County lawyer and former State Bar President Andrew J. Guilford was nominated by President Bush ...
Government
Constitutional Crap: Smell Test Becomes a National Obsession
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - It's not clear when the United States became a reeking republic of political poopy diaper sniffers. But future h...
Appellate Practice
IP Firm on the Hook for Most of $30 Million Malpractice Award
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco appellate court has upheld most of a $30 million malpractice award against prominent intellect...