Appellate Practice
Post-Judgment Conduct Can Cost Party Its Right to Appeal
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Focus Column Appellate Law By James Harris and Frank Menetrez It is hard enough to get an appellate court to reverse a judgme...
SAN FRANCISCO - After eight years in crowded, temporary quarters at the War Memorial Building, the San Francisco Law Library ...
LOS ANGELES - David Casey Sr., a prominent San Diego trial attorney and the first plaintiffs' attorney elected president of t...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court told an ex-convict Tuesday that he cannot sue the federal government for scientific e...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a reshuffle of his top management team, U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan on Tuesday promoted 22-year veteran Ross ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Three prominent lawyers listed as supporters in a Terence Hallinan campaign mailer protested the use of their...
LOS ANGELES - Knocked off balance by the recall campaign against Gov. Gray Davis and City Councilman Jack Weiss' refusal to g...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge's Journey to Bench Reveals Power of Dreams
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Sometimes, Amalia L. Meza drives along Whittier Boulevard in East Los Angeles to the business where her father cr...
Focus Column Litigation By Jeff Kichaven You are at a painful point in a difficult negotiation, and your legal training hardl...
Forum Column By Tamara Lange As everyone now knows, on June 26 the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Texas' sodomy law and redre...
LOS ANGELES - In the era of instant information, it didn't take long for the name of Lakers guard Kobe Bryant's alleged rape ...
Reporter's Notebook By Dennis Opatrny SAN FRANCISCO - You've heard of the man behind the throne. Now meet the guy in front of...
LOS ANGELES - Scott Baugh, former Republican minority Assembly leader, joined Chicago's Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw from the...
Appellate Practice
Davis Cites 'Bush v. Gore' To Argue for Recall Delay
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Ratcheting up pressure on the California Supreme Court to postpone October's recall election, Gov. Gray Davis...
LOS ANGELES - In a victory for the building industry, the state Supreme Court on Monday shot down a class action by disgruntl...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Judges Association has chosen Stanley Bissey as its new executive director, replacing Keenan G...
SUNNYVALE - Ed Taylor's career as a patent lawyer started innocuously enough. As the youngest associate in a small patent fir...
SAN FRANCISCO - A sharply divided state Supreme Court on Monday upheld the principle of gay and lesbian adoption, wading deep...
Adding criminal defense and class-action expertise to its menu of services, Westwood's Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regens...
Following an extensive negotiation process, the San Fernando Swap Meet is in the hands of new owners, and the 34-acre lot one ...
HEMET - Pacific Coast Capital Partners and its affiliate, Redwood Capital Finance Co. , closed a $17.5 million senior loan to...
Michelle Hallsten left Pillsbury Winthrop at the height of the dot-com boom in 2000 only to return when the bubble burst. Hall...
Sterling Brennan, who served as managing partner of Morrison & Foerster's Orange County office for the last 2 1/2 years, h...
Two Florida-based real estate firms are buying Newhall Land & Farming Co., a major Southern California developer, for $990...
With a car license plate that reads "MAY GOLF," one would think former San Diego County Superior Court Judge Robert E. May cou...
Daily Journal Extra Feature - The GenRich account for 10 percent of the American population; they all carry synthetic genes - ...
Encino's Greenberg & Bass has added Edwin Duncan, a litigator with a diverse business practice, the firm announced in July...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Motivations in Negotiation Process Influence Outcome
By Contributing Writer
Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Paul W. Taylor - Parties in the middle of a legal dispute often claim, "It's not ...
Clifford Hyatt has moved his securities-litigation practice to the Los Angeles office of Chadbourne & Parke. Hyatt joined ...
The motto for west Riverside County's Norco is "City Living in a Rural Atmosphere." Much of the municipality, with a populatio...