SAN FRANCISCO - Superior Court Judge David Garcia, who retired last week, will join JAMS. The private dispute-resolution firm ...
Judges and Judiciary
Years as Educator Taught Jurist Patience on Bench
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Margaret M. Bernal used to call Gerald N. Mansfield "Mr. Mansfield," but that was when he was her high-school he...
Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech
Treatment Complicates Release of Sex Predator
By Karen Coleman
MARTINEZ - A drug regimen designed to keep violent sexual behavior in check but which also may be weakening Cary Verse's bones...
Judges and Judiciary
Gadfly Says Public Means Public Even for the Courts
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - He's a newsman's newsman, an irrepressible defender of the First Amendment who has become a stone in the shoe ...
SAN FRANCISCO - In one of the largest legal malpractice awards ever in California, a San Mateo County judge has hit a prominen...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court jury Thursday cleared tobacco giant Philip Morris of negligence and misrepresentati...
Employment Column By Deanna M. Wilkinson It's finally August. Summer programs are in their final stages, and within the next ...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Preliminary Relief Is Difficult, But Not Impossible, to Obtain
By Columnist
Focus Column - Antitrust Law - By Matthew L. Cantor - Consider the following hypothetical: A small business has developed an i...
LOS ANGELES - Services will take place today for M. Peter Katsufrakis, who as a Municipal Court judge turned the Los Angeles s...
SANTA ANA - Labor leaders at the Orange County Employees Association filed suit Wednesday to force court managers including Pr...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal grand jury has indicted Nikolai Tehin, the suspended San Francisco attorney, on 13 new counts of bil...
SAN FRANCISCO - A dentist who alerted a police officer's superiors that he suspected the officer was abusing painkillers did ...
SAN DIEGO - A federal judge ruled Thursday that the city of San Diego's $1-per-year lease of public parkland to the Boy Scouts...
SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Bell Internet Services, flooded with hundreds of subpoenas by the record industry and copyright enforc...
International
Unocal Must Defend Slave Suit Under State Law, Judge Rules
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - In a case with far-reaching implications for international corporations, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge...
Judges and Judiciary
Family Law Bench Officer Gets Raves From Counsel
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - For Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Luis A. Lavin, tears are part of the everyday challenges facing family law ...
SAN FRANCISCO - In another slap at aggressive police tactics, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a warrantless s...
Government
Seven Lawyers Lose Jobs in City Attorney's Office in S.F.
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - City Attorney Dennis Herrera has laid off seven lawyers, according to documents the office released Thursday....
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - The Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency thought that it had some good ideas to re...
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...