After three years chalking up experience as an assistant U.S. Attorney, Scott Frewing has returned to Baker & McKenzie to...
Litigation
Reporter's Notebook: Escutia Sends 'Friend of the Court' Letters on 17200
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - The chairwoman of the Senate Judiciary Committee recently asked two judges to extend stays in two cases, telling ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Brobeck Phleger & Harrison has issued an urgent appeal to its former partners to help it avoid being forc...
Administrative/Regulatory
Time Gap Puts Decisions to Protect Ocean at Risk
By Columnist
Forum Column - By John J. Lormon - Absent a saving hand being extended by the state Supreme Court, the legal authority of the ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Plaintiffs suing the state on behalf of millions of California schoolkids have secured permission to depose f...
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer has launched a wide-ranging investigation into the use of money from public int...
Intellectual Property
Counsel Can Use Invalidating Prior Art to Avoid Patent Suit
By Columnist
Focus Column Intellectual Property By Michael Plimier Attorneys use prior art references to prove that claims of a patent bei...
Litigation
Priest's Jilted Lover Finds Little Consolation in 1st DCA
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A pastor thinking about sexually seducing an adult parishioner might want to consult a lawyer first. A three-...
Column By Garry Abrams - The sentencing of four former Symbionese Liberation Army radicals in Sacramento Friday for the 1975 m...
SAN FRANCISCO - Secretary of State Colin Powell took a break from charting the course of a nation seemingly headed toward war...
By Toni Vranjes Illegal downloading of songs and intense competition from discount retailers haven't been music to the ears o...
LOS ANGELES - Convicted felon and suspended lawyer Rex DeGeorge won a civil jury verdict last week against an insurance compa...
WASHINGTON - Debate on the nomination of Miguel A. Estrada to serve on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of C...
Forum Column - By Peter M. Douglas - The coast is never finally saved. It is always being saved. The recent Court of Appeal de...
Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - The advent of e-mail as a business tool has revolutionized recruiting, just as it...
MURRIETA - Judge James Warren has a long list of reasons to be thrilled that Southwest Justice Center is finally open. Warren ...
LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Saturday for George C. Bond, retired vice president and general counsel of Unocal Corp....
Litigation
Lawyers Oppose Coordinating Abuse Lawsuits Against Priests
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for alleged victims of sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests are beginning to line up in opposition t...
Large Firms
Brobeck Quintet Goes to Litigation Boutique
By Melissa Onstad And Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - With San Francisco-based Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison closing its doors today, the firm's lawyers continue to...
LOS ANGELES - Eight months after Rex K. DeGeorge went to prison on a fraud and perjury conviction for sinking his luxury yacht...
Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - When President George W. Bush recently unveiled his tax cut proposals, critics charged ...
Juvenile
Veteran Fought Vigorously for Legal Principles
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - A memorial service will take place Saturday in Riverside for Eugene Robert Thomas, a veteran of the U.S. Navy...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County officials have agreed to pay the promoter of the nation's largest gun show $1.6 million to se...
Judges and Judiciary
Surfer Judge Has Decisive Manner, Peaceful Zen Style
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Robert P. O'Neill prosecuted some mighty bad characters in his decade as a deputy district attorney, including t...
Focus Column - Corporate Law - By Terence McCormick - On Aug. 29, 2002, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued final ru...
BERKELEY - Judge Jeffrey Tauber has played to all kinds of crowds during his 30-year career. Tauber has appeared before congre...
Forum Column - By David L. Brandon - In "1984," George Orwell described one of the most frightening worlds ever conceived in l...
SAN FRANCISCO - City Attorney Dennis Herrera has tapped Farella Braun & Martel of San Francisco to litigate a controversi...
SAN FRANCISCO - Ivory tower combat over tenure for a Muslim scholar at California State University, Hayward escalated Wednesd...
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - Employment cases are not like fender-bender cases. One simply cannot e...