SAN FRANCISCO - When does a lawyer's duty to society override his or her duties to a client? Delegates to the American Bar As...
RIVERSIDE - Brian Kritz, law books and mosquito repellent packed in his suitcase, is a man on a mission. He hopped on a plane...
WASHINGTON - In the wake of Attorney General John Ashcroft's mandate requiring prosecutors to report on federal judges who "d...
SACRAMENTO - Walk too fast through the plaza of the federal courthouse and you could almost miss them: a bear, two eagles, fo...
Intellectual Property
Companies Can Protect Assets With a Strong Patent Portfolio
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Focus Column Intellectual Property By John Carson, Eric Nelson and Nathaniel Durrance A patent portfolio can be the most effe...
Labor/Employment
Interview 'Closing Argument': Making Good Last Impression
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Employment Column By Valerie A. Fontaine Making a good last impression in an interview is almost as important to making a goo...
LOS ANGELES - The petitioner and the respondent sat at the counsel table, clutching tattered folders filled with handwritten ...
Forum Column By Kenneth J. Theisen The U.S. military generally has been subject to environmental-protection laws that were en...
LOS ANGELES - The state Supreme Court gave the go-ahead Thursday for courts to modify the sentences of juveniles who commit a...
SAN DIEGO - A former employee in the San Diego office of a foster-care agency was fired because she refused to overlook discr...
SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court announced Thursday that from now on it will reject habeas corpus pleadings filed by...
SANTA ANA - Gov. Gray Davis on Thursday appointed a federal prosecutor, two attorneys and a commissioner to fill four vacanci...
SAN FRANCISCO - The lid is off campaign spending in the San Francisco district attorney's race, candidates said Thursday. Tha...
Judges and Judiciary
Former Clerks Vindicate their Boss, William O. Douglas
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Don't get U.S. District Judge William Alsup started on the recent, critical biography of Supreme Court Justic...
Firm Watch
O'Neill Lysaght Founder Leaves To Head Piper Rudnick Litigation
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Veteran trial lawyer Brian Lysaght is leaving the Santa Monica-based litigation boutique he founded in 1985 to ...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a dramatic move, the California Supreme Court refused Thursday to intervene in the recall election against...
SAN FRANCISCO - Assistant U.S. Attorney John Hemann of San Francisco has landed the plum assignment as a lead counsel on the ...
LOS ANGELES - He's not the first Los Angeles police chief to target the scratchy, enigmatic gang-related scribblings that appe...
Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - We all know that the U.S. military assassinated Uday and Qusai Hussein in a villa in Mosul, ...
Immigration
Counsel Must Attack Designation of Alien's Crime as Aggravated Felony
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Focus Column - Immigration Law - By Brian D. Lerner - Noncitizens inside the United States who commit crimes are at risk of be...
Real Estate/Development
Business Isn't Liable for Injuries Sustained After Rave
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Focus Column - Real Property - By Michael Paul Thomas - Are all-night dance parties for teenagers, known as "rave" parties, in...
Forum Column - By Gloria Allred and Ruth Graf Urasaki - In the intense media frenzy surrounding the allegations that Kobe Brya...
Reporter's Notebook By Craig Anderson SAN JOSE - The cast of characters in the legal drama surrounding Thomas Spielbauer, the...
SACRAMENTO - Superior Court Judge Steven Rodda's family goes back nearly 150 years in Sacramento, and Rodda is about as well ...
SAN FRANCISCO - As expected, a San Francisco judge Wednesday declared police Chief Earl Sanders "factually innocent" of crimi...
State Bar & Bar Associations
ABA Will Install First Minority President
By Don De Benedictis
LOS ANGELES - The American Bar Association's annual meeting, opening today in San Francisco, will be like the organization's p...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Meeting Is an Opportunity to Show Off a Bit, Host Bars Say
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - State and local bar leaders plan to make the most of their chance to show off their programs, ideas and exper...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a blistering order Wednesday, Northern California's chief federal judge threw down the gauntlet over U.S. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Barraged with lawsuits demanding urgent attention, the California Supreme Court suddenly finds itself at cent...
Forum Column By Steven Zak The tragic Laci Peterson double murder case should be about more than self-serving semantics, but ...