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Judges and Judiciary
Ex-Prosecutor, Sailing Enthusiast Retires From Superior Court Post
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
San Bernardino Superior Court Judge Sylvia Lee Husing, a former prosecutor and sailing enthusiast who adapted to a variety of ...
After a little more than a year serving as managing partner of the Los Angeles office of Reed Smith Crosby Heafey, Janet Kwuon...
Personal Injury & Torts
Jury Awards $5 Million for Wrongful Death of Worker
By Joan Osterwalder
John Craig Escobar was waiting for his turn to pick up a load of asphalt for the El Dorado Irrigation District on a balmy Nove...
Canadian mining company Placer Dome Inc. has completed a $200 million refinancing deal. Placer Dome mines gold, copper and oth...
An Alameda County Superior Court jury has slapped Federal Express Corp., better known as FedEx, with $1.5 million in punitive ...
After 12 years working in the nation's capital, real estate lawyer Howard Parelskin was ready to return to the city of angels....
Chip manufacturer Broadcom Corp. of Irvine has acquired some of the assets of bankrupt company Gadzoox Networks Inc. Broadcom ...
Starting their own firm seemed to be in the stars, or at least in the fortune cookies, for Nedy Williams and Julianna Yasinski...
Partners and partner-track associates face pressure to attract new business to their firms. But if they try to act like tradit...
A Los Angeles entertainment attorney last month agreed to pay $100,000 and issue a written apology to the father of Dodi Al Fa...
3Com Corp. of Santa Clara will sell its CommWorks telecommunications equipment division to UTStarcom Inc. for $100 million cas...
The Scene arrived early for the Anti-Defamation League Pacific Southwest Region's 2003 Jurisprudence Award dinner on March 12....
Milwaukee's Foley & Lardner has hired bankruptcy lawyer Peter Ito to lead its West Coast bankruptcy practice. Ito, who joi...
Chip manufacturer Broadcom Corp. of Irvine has acquired some of the assets of bankrupt company Gadzoox Networks Inc. Broadcom ...
In early January, Marc Beilinson received a tip that Wherehouse Entertainment Inc. had hired a bankruptcy lawyer and likely wo...
Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Alex Ricciardulli - Law enforcement officials have been chasing bad guys in automobiles since...
Forum Column - By Daniel Felizzatto - In upholding the constitutionality of Megan's Law in Connecticut Department of Public...
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara University Law School's new dean once roamed the campus as a junior high school student when his father...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Two Litigators Seek State Bar Presidency
By Don De Benedictis
LONG BEACH - Just two lawyers are running to be president of the State Bar for 2003-04. Anthony P. Capozzi and Nancy Hoffmeier...
LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis on Friday appointed four new judges to the Los Angeles Superior Court bench. The four appointees...
SAN FRANCISCO - Immigration lawyers and human rights advocates are objecting to the federal government's new policy of jailing...
SAN FRANCISCO - The abrupt closure of many U.S. embassies and consulates worldwide as war with Iraq began will harm internatio...
SAN FRANCISCO - Glen "Buddy" Nickerson walked out of San Quentin on Friday after 18 years in prison for a San Jose double murd...
SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County prosecutor is appealing to disqualify a judge from handling a domestic violence trial on groun...
LOS ANGELES - For Iraqi-American Ban Al-Wardi, the silence on the other end of the line spoke as loudly as a B-52 air strike. ...
SACRAMENTO - When he takes office today as acting U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of California, with the expectation t...
SACRAMENTO - Lawrence Brown, who until Friday served as executive director of the California District Attorneys Association, ...
SAN DIEGO - An oceanfront hotel did not discriminate against a black Santa Claus, a Superior Court jury decided Friday. On a 9...
SONORA - Tuolumne Superior Court Judge Douglas C. Boyack seems to fit perfectly the role of a small-town judge. Usually dresse...