Administrative/Regulatory
Firm Administrators Help Clothe Shelter Residents
By Don De Benedictis
By Don J. DeBenedictis Law-office administrators from around Orange County helped homeless and battered women move forward wit...
Litigation
Attorney Objects to Judges Opening Court Sessions by Reciting Pledge
By Eron Yehuda
Criminal defense attorney William T. Mayo of Chico recently sued to stop two judges from continuing to open court sessions by ...
Academic politics are so bitter because the stakes are so small, Henry Kissinger once said. So the level of acrimony is especi...
After eight years of litigation and three appeals, an infringement dispute between two Southern California orange-drink compet...
Column - Adviser - By William L. Buus - Successfully proving loss of profits at trial, especially before a jury, may be diffic...
For boxing's "Golden Boy," Oscar De La Hoya, the last few weeks have wobbled from good news to bad. On Sept. 18, Bernard Hopki...
Squire, Sanders & Dempsey brought in a new corporate partner to co-chair the firm's private equity and technology practice...
SAN JOSE - A prominent attorney who specialized in estate and trusts, and who was honored by a local magazine recently as one ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal prosecutor Thursday drilled into the defense of disgraced plaintiffs attorney Nikolai Tehin, picking...
WASHINGTON - This election cycle, Republicans have done well in amassing campaign contributions from the legal community. The ...
Personal Injury & Torts
Damages Caps Benefit Big Business, Not the Little Guy
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Laurie Beacham - As Congress reconvened this month to deal with pressing matters like Iraq and terrorism, a ...
Construction
'Siegel' Court Supports Rule of 'Accrual at Time of Discovery'
By Columnist
Focus Column - Construction Law - By Terri Brown - Should the subsequent owner of a home containing latent construction defect...
LOS ANGELES - A Catholic priest pleaded not guilty at a court arraignment Thursday to charges of sexually abusing three teenag...
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed into law a proposal that seeks to provide hate-crime victims and their families a protec...
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed measures this week that were intended to protect the rights of homeowners and d...
LOS ANGELES - A memorial is planned today for Gordon Kennedy Wright, a former vice president of the State Bar from in 1970-71 ...
SAN JOSE - In an historic ruling, a federal judge Thursday ordered an Ohio-based maker of electronic voting machines to pay da...
SAN DIEGO - The Real Deal turned out to be anything but in the company's video showing the destruction of toy cars that had be...
Judges and Judiciary
Electrophysics Whiz Applies Sharp Intellect to Appeals
By Dan Evans
SANTA ANA - When you ask Orange County attorneys what they think of Justice Raymond J. Ikola, one adjective consistently comes...
SACRAMENTO - Visitors to Justice Coleman Blease's chambers may notice the same message on both sides of the door: "The sign on...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco doctor accused of wrongly treating patients with alternative therapies got a bum deal when med...
SACRAMENTO - Advocates for the elderly hailed a bill Thursday signed by the governor they hope will encourage lawyers to pursu...
Personal Injury & Torts
Lockyer Says Proposition 64 Would Hurt Californians
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer and environmental groups Thursday launched a spirited defense of the state's Un...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Diego attorney apparently overwhelmed by a family crisis is now facing discipline for abandoning a death...
Criminal
AG Agrees to Prosecute Judge For Campaign Fund Violations
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA MARIA - Despite initial reservations, the California attorney general's office has agreed to prosecute Santa Barbara Cou...
LOS ANGELES - Santa Fe Springs attorney Joel Beckman refers to his most memorable matter before Los Angeles Superior Court Jud...
Personal Injury & Torts
'Campbell' Provides Road Map For Appealing Punitive Award
By Columnist
Focus Column - Litigation - By Laura Grisolano and Catherine Barrad - For defendants hit by big punitive-damages awards, the U...
Criminal
Privatizing State's Prisons Will Lower Costs, Improve Rehabilitation Efforts
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Alexander Tabarrok - It's going to take more than a giant garage sale to balance California's budget. In one...
LOS ANGELES - Defense attorney M. Gerald Schwartzbach asked a judge Wednesday to let him present evidence in Robert Blake's u...
SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' Web site offered a new service Wednesday, allowing easy public access t...