SAN FRANCISCO - If San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom wins the authority to interpret the Constitution as he sees fit, what next...
When Pillsbury Winthrop attorneys Nate Cartmell and Brad Kohn helped billionaire Phil Anschutz acquire the San Francisco Exami...
Column - Malicious Prosecution - By Susan Page White - When people are sued, they typically are relieved if their insurer pote...
Yeda Research and Development Company Ltd. won a summary judgment in federal court recently in a patent infringement case file...
Bank of America agreed this month to a $33 million settlement for a class action brought by 2,600 beneficiaries of trust accou...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Jeffrey Brill - The patent statute includes an often misunderstood requirement that a patent sp...
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - The war against world hunger is facing a major battle in this country, as the Bush adminis...
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Julia Lapis Blakeslee - Most people assume that the Age Discrimination in Employment Act pr...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Marvin Lager has told lawyers in the massive Southern California clergy sexual ...
LOS ANGELES - Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund took up an invitation from the state Supreme Court Friday and filed a di...
SAN FRANCISCO - A judge ruled Friday that Justin Helzer, the younger of two brothers charged in a series of gruesome Bay Area ...
Appellate Practice
Panel Lifts Restraining Order Against Superior Court Jurist
By Jory Farr
LOS ANGELES - A restraining order issued against a Los Angeles Superior Court judge who allegedly threatened to kill a man he ...
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Eron Ben-Yehuda - What surgery is to the patient, litigation is to the client. So says profes...
Judges and Judiciary
Former Orange County Judge Faces Felony Drunken-Driving Charges
By Dan Evans
SANTA ANA - A former presiding judge of Orange County, who severely injured a motorcyclist during a collision last December, n...
Judges and Judiciary
Kids Come First for L.A. Judge Who Runs a Family Law Court
By Tina Spee
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Marjorie Steinberg admits she's guilty of one bias. In her family law courtroom...
SAN DIEGO - A jury has awarded the San Diego Unified Port District $21.3 million in back rent and demolition costs that a form...
Forum Column - By Michael L. Mallow and Matthew G. Ball - California courts might finally be bringing fairness to California's...
LOS ANGELES - In August, Shearman & Sterling, one of the most prominent law firms in the United States, took what many leg...
SAN FRANCISCO - In an unusual move, attorneys for two of three men charged with assault in the infamous police Fajitagate case...
Forum Column - By Michael Rushford - Last weekend California marked the 10-year anniversary of its adoption of the toughest ha...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Mediators Could Face Suits Over Confidentiality Issues
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Focus Column - Legal Ethics - By Jeff Kichaven - As mediation becomes a more significant commercial enterprise, more litigatio...
Forum Column - By Joe Domanick - One May morning in 1998 I was riding shotgun with Mike Reynolds as he tooled through downtown...
Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - There is a fine line between appropriate job search follow-up and pestering. Prop...
Litigation
Collection-Law Expert Was Active Republican
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Services have taken place for LeMoyne "Lee" S. Badger, a longtime general practitioner who at one point was a play...
LOS ANGELES - Civil litigator Samuel W. Gordon died March 3 after a brief illness. He was 57. Gordon was known for his brillia...
LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court ruled Thursday that a man can pursue his lawsuit alleging Mercury Insurance Co. charged ...
LOS ANGELES - The executive director of the Beverly Hills Bar Association has stepped down, citing undue stress stemming from ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Glenn Taylor Helzer, one of two brothers accused in a series of gruesome Bay Area murders, entered a surprise ...
SAN FRANCISCO - State Supreme Court justices expressed skepticism about prosecuting a sex offender twice - once for failing to...
LOS ANGELES - Marcia Wilbur, a former dean of Western State University College of Law, died Tuesday in Orange after a brief ba...