Discipline
California Plays Catch-Up With Bill Creating Exception to Confidentiality
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Focus Column Legal Ethics By Charles S. Doskow Consider this situation: A client informs his lawyer that he intends to commit...
Focus Column Criminal Law By Michael C. McMahon Untrustworthy testimony poses some of the most challenging ethical and legal ...
Forum Column By Don Edward Green The article written by Laura Fry titled "Tug of War; New Legislation Governing Guardianships...
SAN DIEGO - Judges throughout the county are expected to be unusually busy today as the Superior Court reopens after an unpre...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights will introduce Maria Blanco as its executive director tonight during ...
WASHINGTON - Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee could vote today on the appellate court nomination of state Supreme Co...
SAN FRANCISCO - Wrongful convictions can and do occur in San Francisco. What can be done about it? That is the topic of a sym...
Personal Injury & Torts
Dickensian Legal Spat Strings Out Depositions Forevermore
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams It's the day before Halloween, the perfect time to revisit "the deposition from hell!" If it's possibl...
LOS ANGELES - Striking Southern California grocery unions hit their employers with a pair of lawsuits Wednesday. Both suits a...
SAN FRANCISCO - Hamlet or omelet? On Tuesday morning, Golden Gate University School of Law Dean Peter Keane endorsed Bill Faz...
Judges and Judiciary
Traveling Commissioner Careful to Explain Everything
By Philip Carrizosa
SACRAMENTO - If it's Wednesday, this must be Sutter, but if it's Friday, it must be Yuba. Of course, if it's Monday, this mus...
Constitutional Law
Justices Find Times Entitled To Legal Fees
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
LOS ANGELES - Reversing a lower court, a state appeallate court ruled Wednesday that the Los Angeles Times is entitled to att...
SAN FRANCISCO - Terence Hallinan and John Ashcroft don't agree on much, but San Francisco's progressive district attorney and...
LOS ANGELES - Juan Reveles was barely 14 when his mother sent him to the United States to find work so he could help support ...
Forum Column By Judith F. Daar By commandeering Terri Schiavo from the throes of death back into the twilight of a persistent...
Commercial Law
Researching UCC Issue Is Not As Difficult as Attorneys Think
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Focus Column Business Law By Christopher H. Hoving Many attorneys find the Uniform Commercial Code intimidating, either becau...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court panel has vacated a judgment in favor of Citicorp Real Estate Inc. because the trial jud...
LOS ANGELES - Professional beach volleyball player and model Gabrielle Reece has filed a discrimination suit, contending a nu...
Constitutional Law
Touch-Screen Ballots OK, 9th Circuit Panel Rules
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - "No balloting system is perfect," the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declared Tuesday in approving Riversi...
SAN FRANCISCO - Muslims invest billions of dollars around the world, some of it in the West. Some of them do so with at least...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Mauling Building's Landlord Cheated Tenants, DA Says
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - The owner of the Pacific Heights apartment building where giant dogs mauled Diane Whipple to death nearly thr...
LOS ANGELES - One of Los Angeles' most prestigious boutique firms, O'Neill & Sun, has decided to close its doors, with ha...
WASHINGTON - The filibuster - that legislative procedure that gives a minority of U.S. senators the ability to kill a bill or...
Government
Belmont Allegations Could Jar Cooley's Road to Re-Election
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Fresh allegations that Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley bungled the Belmont school project inv...
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal regulators have fired a warning at companies and individuals who might unscrupulously use the patent ...
SAN BERNARDINO - A wildfire roaring through the San Bernardino mountains forced the closure Tuesday of the Superior Court in B...
SAN FRANCISCO - Jeff Brown and Peter Keane, two well-regarded local legal figures, said Tuesday that they will endorse Bill F...
MODESTO - Walking around downtown Modesto, Judge John E. Griffin is clearly at home. On one corner, he points out the site of...
Government
Playing Chicken With the Apocalypse Provides Food for Thought
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams As much as I love living in California, there are times when I wish the state would quit playing chick...
SAN BERNARDINO - Wildfires ravaging San Bernardino County forced at least five Superior Court judges to evacuate their homes ...