Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - Recently, in an attempt to gain support for anti-terrorism legislation, Attorney General J...
Litigation
Retroactivity Is Only One Issue Reaised By Statute of Limitations' Extension
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Focus Column - Litigation - By Darren Le Montree - Practitioners have been talking a lot about whether the extension of the st...
Forum Column - By Nathan D. Wirtschafter - The balance of power has shifted. Since the Federal Trade Commission inaugurated it...
SAN FRANCISCO - Formal U.S. Bankruptcy Court hearings on a compromise plan to restore Pacific Gas and Electric Co. to financia...
SAN FRANCISCO - All the San Francisco lawyers and associates at the rapidly dissolving Altheimer & Gray have found new hom...
Administrative/Regulatory
Jurist Rejects Sanctions Against Zoo's Lawyers
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge Wednesday denied a motion for sanctions against lawyers representing t...
WASHINGTON - When House lawmakers voted overwhelmingly last week to gut one of the most controversial provisions of the USA PA...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley said Wednesday that he would retry former Inglewood police officer Je...
SAN FRANCISCO - Public Defender Jeff Adachi on Wednesday announced a billboard campaign to inform those accused of crimes that...
Judges and Judiciary
Reporter's Notebook: Chief Justice Prefers The Personal Touch
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Think you push a lot of paper at work? Try serving as California's chief justice, a job that requires signatur...
LOS ANGELES - It was a routine morning in Compton's delinquency court. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Charles Q. Clay...
SAN FRANCISCO - During a hastily called meeting in March, California's prison director, Edward Alameida, banged his fist on a ...
LOS ANGELES - Legal experts predict a major battle over whether the allegations of Kobe Bryant's accuser's checkered past will...
LOS ANGELES - If the evil Inspector Javert of Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables" had attended college with Judge Lisa B. Lench, he...
Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Jason J. Lee - A recurring issue in property insurance claims is the question of who is enti...
LOS ANGELES - Edwin V. Woodsome and D. Barclay Edmundson left Washington, D.C.'s Howrey Simon Arnold & White to join Orric...
SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County deputy public defender who was fired and charged with a crime for allegedly deceiving a judge ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The last legal question over the validity of San Francisco's domestic partners benefits law was answered Tuesd...
LOS ANGELES - Former veteran Los Angeles prosecutor Paul Philip Halpin was more interested in dogged work than seeking headlin...
Constitutional Law
Electors Can Select Candidate Without Casting Vote on Recall
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A federal judge struck down a section of the state Election Code on Tuesday, ruling that voters can cast ballots f...
SAN FRANCISCO - The top brass of California's prison system face mounting criticism that they tried to thwart recent probes of...
SAN FRANCISCO - Cities and counties can stop banks from giving information about their customers to other companies, a federal...
Forum Column - By Norm Kjono - Should pharmaceutical companies widely distribute nonsmoked nicotine products that are highly a...
LOS ANGELES - In one of the largest judgments of its kind, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Monday ordered a Whittier aut...
Real Estate/Development
Case Gives Judicial-Reference Provisions Renewed Viability
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Focus Column - Real Property - By William M. Hensley - For lawyers drafting sales/purchase contracts or subdivision instrument...
Forum Column - By Stephen Yagman - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently granted my request for publication of an unp...
Forum Column - By Bruce G. Iwasaki - The now-stalled debate on whether 6.5 million low-income working families should receive ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Bar Balances Budget With Job Cuts, Fund Shifts
By Don De Benedictis
LOS ANGELES - Averting a financial crisis, the State Bar board of governors approved a balanced budget for 2004 on Saturday th...
Judges and Judiciary
Jurist Even-Keeled In the Face of Terrible Crimes
By Pamela Mac Lean
STOCKTON - San Joaquin County Superior Court Judge Richard Mallett bears a striking resemblance to Clark Kent and he is just a...
Litigation
As Deposition Drags on, Attorneys Try to Pull the Plug on Witness
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - OK, kids, time to put on our fireproof playsuits. Today, we're taking a thrilling ride through "the d...