Government
The Past Is Never Past, as Any Alleged Terrorist Should Know by Now
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - The finger-pointing and hand-wringing over the Sept. 11 attacks appears to be reaching a bone-crackin...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court now wants to know why it should nullify more than 4,000 San Francisco marriage li...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed unanimously Wednesday to review a controversial appeal court ruling that ...
Forum Column - By Emma T. Suarez - In August and September of 2001, the devastating Star Fire swept through the El Dorado and ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Arbitrator-Neutrality Rule Reflects Change in Ethics
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Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Richard Chernick - A well-drafted arbitration clause specifies the number o...
SACRAMENTO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer says blame an outmoded 80-year-old legal policy for the state's inability to win ba...
LOS ANGELES - An attorney for UCLA's troubled willed-body program told a court commissioner Tuesday that the school wants to u...
SAN FRANCISCO - Andrew P. Bridges, an eminent trademark and copyright law specialist, has left Palo Alto's Wilson, Sonsini, Go...
LOS ANGELES - Leroy Stanley Walker, a Los Angeles employment attorney who helped secure key legal protections for gays and les...
SAN DIEGO - A memorial service for Alpha L. Montgomery, the second black appointed to a Superior Court judgeship in San Diego ...
SACRAMENTO - The Assembly Judiciary Committee approved a bill Tuesday that would protect hapless litigants whose complaints ma...
SACRAMENTO - Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante has agreed to pay $263,000 - the largest penalty ever assessed a candidate by the state'...
SAN DIEGO - James O. Sullivan, a prominent trial lawyer whose legal career spanned 54 years, died Sunday of congestive heart f...
SANTA ANA - A videotape showing three youths allegedly having sex with an unconscious 16-year-old girl can be used at the teen...
Appellate Practice
Judge Agrees With Himself After Appeal Of Fee Ruling
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - On orders from an appeals court, San Francisco Superior Court Judge John Munter reconsidered the $16 million i...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California State Controller's Office has acknowledged that, for years, it has ignored a legal requirement ...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith has acquired 13 attorneys and two offices in Arizona, giving ...
HAYWARD - Alameda Superior Court Judge Robert Fairwell has been handling a busy misdemeanor calendar for most of his 38 years ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Fresno employer does not have a right to probe the citizenship status of 23 Latina and Southeast Asian women...
INDUSTRIAL CARSON - Watson Land Co. has signed AMCO Distribution Services to a five-year lease at a 168,398-square-foot build...
Focus Column - Family Law - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and Robert Burch - In a case of first impression, Raphael v. Bloomfield
Forum Column - By Joyce Tischler - A new field of law is gaining ground fast, and if you haven't met an attorney who specializ...
Notebook - By Peter Blumberg - SAN FRANCISCO - Twice in a month the California Supreme Court has ruled on cases involving preg...
Discipline
Bar Court Judge Advises Attorney's Disbarment
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A State Bar Court judge has recommended that a Riverside immigration attorney be disbarred for "frivolously" filin...
WASHINGTON - In a letter made public Monday, Justice Antonin Scalia apologized for the actions of a federal marshal who confis...
LOS ANGELES - Project Islamic HOPE founder Najee Ali was ordered Monday to stand trial in Los Angeles Superior Court for felon...
SACRAMENTO - Proponents of two major legal initiatives, one dealing with tort reform and the other with DNA testing, announced...
LOS ANGELES - An alleged sexual-assault victim of John Gordon Jones settled her lawsuit last week with the attorneys she claim...
LOS ANGELES - The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund has tapped Ann Marie Tallman to serve as its president a...
Administrative/Regulatory
Schools Choose Civil Rights Pro to Be Counsel
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Civil rights lawyer Kevin S. Reed will be appointed general counsel of the Los Angeles Unified School District, ...