Employment Column - By Lin Meyer - Today there seems to be a pervasive attitude amongst lawyers that everyone is out for thems...
Focus Column - Land Use Law - By Daniel J. Curtin, Jr. - Cities and counties sometimes attempt to revoke land-use, building or...
Personal Injury & Torts
Trial Lawyers' Aid to Families Pays Tribute to Victims of Terrorist Attack
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Forum Column - By Mary Alexander - Trial lawyers often face criticism - even in the current presidential campaign, for example...
Forum Column - By Vince Imhoff and Claudia Rosenbaum - Leondro Andrade took nine videotapes from Kmart, intended as Christmas ...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge abused his discretion when he shortened the time required for a debtor to res...
SAN FRANCISCO - A prospective juror opposed to the death penalty should not be excluded based solely on answers to a questionn...
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danser's convictions earlier this year on felony conspiracy and oth...
SAN FRANCISCO - More than 100 sex abuse claims against Roman Catholic priests in Northern California, which seek million of do...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Faces Hearing on Media Appearances, Other Charges
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - The Commission on Judicial Performance on Thursday set Sept. 13 for a formal hearing into a complaint against Lo...
LOS ANGELES - The co-publisher of a legal-affairs newspaper and a deputy public defender will join the State Bar Board of Gove...
LOS ANGELES - A Santa Monica judge reversed part of her earlier tentative ruling Thursday, largely denying a bid to keep secre...
SAN FRANCISCO - For once, asking which federal jurist is the fairest in the land has no relation to the judge's philosophy. A ...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Earns Accolades for His Decisiveness, Research
By Erica Williams
LOS ANGELES - In his 14 years on the bench, Judge Kenneth R. Freeman has never wavered from the notion that the biggest challe...
SAN FRANCISCO - The bald eagle can't help the bison, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday. In a unanimous dec...
SAN FRANCISCO - Whether scolding combative lawyers or putting bad guys in prison, the judge retrying the Oakland Riders case h...
Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk A. Pasich - Liability policies typically obligate insurance carriers to defend and inde...
Forum Column - By Glenn C. Smith - As a professor who closely follows the U.S. Supreme Court and is not always enamored with t...
Entertainment & Sports
Manufacturers Must Negotiate Product Placement Contracts
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Focus Column - Entertainment Law - By Eric Weissmann - Product placement - using a product such as a car, champagne or cell ph...
Judges and Judiciary
Re-Electing President Poses Danger to Independent Judiciary
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Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - While trying to convince skeptical conservative activists of his father's Christian bona fid...
SANTA ANA - Barely two weeks after a mistrial in a rape case that could have sent him to prison for 55 years, the son of an Or...
SAN FRANCISCO - Jack C. Oppenheimer, a long-time lawyer with the federal government, has died after a brief illness. He was 86...
LOS ANGELES - The June 29 bail hearing for Christopher Kim lasted three hours and 15 minutes. Federal prosecutors and Kim's de...
WASHINGTON - The Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday became the second federal appeals court to ru...
SANTA ANA - A suspended Orange County attorney pleaded not guilty Wednesday to 25 felony counts of theft, forgery and tax evas...
RIVERSIDE - District Attorney Grover Trask, one of the longest serving top prosecutors in the state, announced Wednesday that ...
SACRAMENTO - Doctors are not going to believe this, but trial lawyers are coming to their rescue. The lawyers feel bad that do...
LOS ANGELES - A Santa Monica judge tentatively agreed Wednesday to unseal the detailed California High Patrol report of the Fa...
SAN FRANCISCO - The state's highest court hopped on the Blakely bandwagon Wednesday, agreeing to take a closer look at the rol...
SAN FRANCISCO - Contingency planning or attempted coup? The Bush administration's bid for authority to cancel and reschedule t...
YOSEMTE NATIONAL PARK - In December, just six months shy of qualifying for full retirement, appellate Justice William M. Wunde...