Appellate Practice
Court Holds School Isn't Liable For Unforseeable Criminal Act
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Focus Column - Tort Law - By Michael Paul Thomas - In Wiener v. Southcoast Childcare Centers Inc., 2004 DJDAR 5420 (Cal...
Education
Do It for Kids: Wise Policy-Making Depends on Research Act's Passage
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Forum Column - By Amy Jordan and Sandra Calvert - On May 19, Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., introduced the Children and Media Re...
Intellectual Property
Patent Policies Create More Problems Than They Solve
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Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Michael Farn - Technical standards are often used to ensure that products from diffe...
Real Estate/Development
Proposed Housing Changes Would Harm Low-Income Families
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Forum Column - By Barbara Schultz - Opal Fox is a senior with a disability who believes in giving back to her Long Beach commu...
SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Superior Court has hired a former lawyer for the state Assembly as a new discovery commissio...
Appellate Practice
Police Can't Keep Freelance Journalists Away, Panel Decides
By Erica Williams
LOS ANGELES - In what one advocate called a major victory for journalists and the press, a state appeals court has ruled that ...
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has named Michael Hersek, a California Supreme Court staff attorney, as the state's ne...
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Liz Valsamis - Environmental lawyer Michele Corash has had impeccable timing while building h...
LOS ANGELES - The target of a courtroom tirade got the last laugh Friday, when a judge fined criminal defense attorney Thomas ...
Column By Philip Carrizosa - SAN FRANCISCO - In the 1950s through 1963, there was a bar and restaurant in San Francisco's Nort...
LOS ANGELES - Four years ago, the Los Angeles County district attorney's office extradited the mother-and-son grifter team, Sa...
SAN JOSE - In bringing fraud charges against a sales executive of Legato Systems Inc., lawyers at the Securities and Exchange ...
LOS ANGELES - A U.S. appellate judge said he is "outraged" that a 9th Circuit committee adopted a rule punishing complainants ...
Former Arnold & Porter partner Craig Hentschel joined the five attorneys at the Pasadena outpost of Detroit-based Dykema G...
LOS ANGELES - Ten years after O.J. Simpson's criminal trial, its legacy is felt not in the courtroom but in the newsroom and t...
LOS ANGELES - For now, Richard Ozar still owns and operates the Victoria Village Pharmacy in Ventura. With a 33-count federal ...
SAN FRANCISCO - When Roxana Yang started a solo practice at her home in Los Altos Hills in November 2001, she had no apprehens...
SAN FRANCISCO - When lawyers arrange with clients that their legal fees will be paid out of prospective civil lawsuit recoveri...
Employment Column - By Jonathan Fraser Light - Mary is going out on a workers' compensation leave of absence, and she wants to...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Timing of Mediation Is Just as Important as Picking of Neutral
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Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By John Seitman - The notion that timing is a large part of success or failure...
SAN FRANCISCO - A divided appeal court said Thursday that public confidence in the integrity of the judicial system requires t...
Appellate Practice
Justices Strike Sentence of Drug Defendant
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A state appellate court has struck a drug defendant's sentence, saying the judge in the case engaged in "illegal p...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge certified as a class action Thursday the civil rights lawsuit against San Francisco county jai...
Judges and Judiciary
Panel Probing Judicial System Eyes Complaints About Judges
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The new committee appointed by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist to study how the federal judicial system is dea...
LOS ANGELES - Five years ago, former District Attorney Gil Garcetti rejected a Los Angeles sheriff's case accusing Orange Coun...
SAN FRANCISCO - Government tax attorneys might be well advised to have IRS agents wear sunglasses to reduce the "glare" factor...
LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Sunday in Georgia for David W. Carroll, professor emeritus at USC Law School. Carroll, ...
American Online Inc. has settled its copyright dispute with science fiction author Harlan Ellison, four months after a federal...
SACRAMENTO - A respected Sacramento jurist has been accused in a lawsuit of abusing his authority by seeking to punish a young...
SAN FRANCISCO - On the heels of a fourth departure in two weeks, the remaining partners in Clifford Chance's San Francisco off...