Question Four - Professional Responsibility - In 1995, Lawyer was hired by the City ("City") as a Deputy City Attorney to hand...
Question One - Civil Procedure - Petra, a State W resident, recently patented a new design for a tamper-free bottle cap for so...
Performance Test A - Memorandum To: Applicant - From: Jane Kimmel - Re: Morales and Vargas v. Parsons ...
Performance Test B - Memorandum To: Applicant - From: Rachel Bergman - Re: Reese v. Kennel Kare, Inc. ...
Question Six - Community Property - Henry and Wanda married in 1980 when both were students at State X University. State X is ...
Column by Trey Ryder - As a new lawyer, you need a simple, straightforward approach to marketing. Here are 16 steps to help yo...
Focus Column - Family Law - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - Will an admission of nonpaternity overco...
Forum Column - By Stephen F. Rohde - Stung by mounting evidence that the state's death-penalty system is fatally flawed, prose...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Ferreting Out Law Positions Is Challenging
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - Keep moving while you wait for the results of the February State Bar Exam, career-services coordinators advise. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Mud and rumor have begun to fly in the early days of the San Francisco district attorney race. Candidate Kama...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to review next term a San Francisco judge's award of $1.4 million to the fami...
SANTA ANA - Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas fired his media relations director Tuesday after she objected to w...
SANTA ANA - Attorney Hilmer Ula Jarboe often found himself standing in front of judges arguing cases for clients. But after a ...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge Tuesday sent the legal dispute over transferring an elephant from the Los Angeles Zoo to Tenness...
LOS ANGELES - California moved a step closer toward admitting a new crop of lawyers this weekend, as 1,564 aspiring attorneys ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The publisher of a small newspaper in Glenn County will gain access to court financial records after the 3rd ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Test Takers Soon Will Have Opportunity to Use Laptops
By Alice Lee
LOS ANGELES - Beginning this summer, all people who take the State Bar Exam will have the option of using a laptop computer fo...
SAN BERNARDINO - Allison Carr couldn't prevent her 13-year-old son from committing suicide after he ran away from a private sc...
LOS ANGELES - The controversial Newhall Ranch project, one of the largest subdivisions ever proposed in California, moved one ...
LOS ANGELES - Training logs on drug-sniffing dogs, including previous false alerts, must be turned over to defense lawyers, a ...
LOS ANGELES - In a departure from its recent expansion of state sovereignty, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday held that state...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Tuesday waded into a controversy surrounding a prosecutor's voir-dire dismiss...
Administrative/Regulatory
PUC Approval Of Bailout for Edison Leaves Court Skeptical
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - California Supreme Court justices expressed concern Tuesday over the legality of the state's closed-door appr...
WASHINGTON - Acting in a case involving an Oxnard farmworker, the Supreme Court on Tuesday sharply narrowed the grounds on whi...
Judges and Judiciary
It's Been Mercifully Quiet in Sonora Since Nesler's Trial
By Donna Domino
SONORA - Tuolumne County Superior Court Judge William G. Polley has been flying high, literally and figuratively, since he too...
Lsan Francisco's Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe has launched an insolvency and bankruptcy practice in its San Diego offic...
The end of April brought a summary judgment ruling in the Redlands water contamination saga, but it likely won't be the end of...
Rachel Krevans was afraid the law school she applied to in 1983 would ask her why she wanted to be a lawyer. "I had no idea," ...
An animal-rights group dedicated to protecting kangaroos is hopping mad with Adidas for its use of the marsupial's skin to mak...