Judges and Judiciary
Quiet Leader, Judge Offered Good Advice
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - Retired San Bernardino County Superior Court Judge Charles S. Havens died Monday of long-term effects of a ch...
LOS ANGELES - Child molestation charges were dismissed Wednesday against former Orange County Superior Court Judge Ronald C. K...
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys can be sued for malicious prosecution if they learn their lawsuits have no merit after they are filed,...
LOS ANGELES - Three years ago, Cuban piano tuner Armando Gomez couldn't get a visa to attend the annual international piano tu...
SAN FRANCISCO - Superior Court Judge Lenard Louie on Wednesday swept aside prosecution objections to immunizing statements by ...
Entertainment & Sports
Six Law Firms Plus One Bear Equal Nothing in Winnie the Pooh Case
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Wednesday was a typical day in Winnie the Pooh Litigation Land. Nothing much happened. But six law fi...
SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda County Superior Court Judge Richard Iglehart, a former prosecutor "with a big heart," keen knowledge o...
Judges and Judiciary
9th Circuit Is Overloaded With Immigration Appeals
By Pamela Mac Lean
Reporter's Notebook - By Pamela A. MacLean - Increased scrutiny of foreigners following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has beg...
Appellate Practice
Material Outside of Record Is 'Forbidden Fruit' for Attorneys
By Columnist
Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Paul D. Fogel and Raymond A. Cardozo - Materials outside the record on appeal are the appell...
Forum Column - By Kevin S. Bankston - Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its 6-3 decision in United States v. Am...
WASHINGTON - Despite headline-grabbing rulings on affirmative action and gay rights that gave a liberal cast to a conservative...
OAKLAND - An Alameda County Superior Court judge rejected a motion for a mistrial Tuesday in the prosecution of three former O...
Appellate Practice
9th Circuit Manges to Hold Its Own, With 78 Percent Reversals
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Well, it's a start. For the second term in a row, the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals manag...
RIVERSIDE - The murder trial of a woman accused of feeding her baby methamphetamine-laced breast milk hit a detour Tuesday as ...
LOS ANGELES - Back when detectives wore fedoras and bandits toted machine guns, Los Angeles County Sheriff William I. Traeger ...
SACRAMENTO - State Assemblyman Robert Pacheco, R-Walnut, a lawyer who sits on the Assembly Judiciary Committee, has agreed to ...
LOS ANGELES - The independent movie smash "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" has spawned a rather large lawsuit that claims it will ex...
SACRAMENTO - Prosecutors and defense lawyers said Tuesday they are much closer to agreement on a measure that would implement ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Partners at Cooley Godward and Venture Law Group are divided into factions over their respective merger prospe...
LOS ANGELES - A long-simmering business dispute over a building once owned by some of the state's most prominent trial lawyers...
State Bar & Bar Associations
FTC Won't Fine Lawyers Who Did Not Send Privacy Notices
By Toni Vranjes
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers have won a round in a dispute over whether they are covered by a 1999 federal law that requires financia...
LOS ANGELES - Unable to meet a restructuring plan proposed two weeks ago, Cleveland's Arter & Hadden has decided to close ...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court's 2002-03 term will be remembered for the justices' landmark decisions on affirmative acti...
SACRAMENTO - A taxpayers group has sued the state over the tripling of California's vehicle license fee, raising serious quest...
SAN FRANCISCO - With no state budget in place, some of the state's trial courts are unable to pay vendors and contract workers...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Legal-Malpractice Plaintiff Can't Sue for Value of Lost Punitives
By Columnist
Focus Column - Legal Malpractice - By Alec H. Boyd - In Ferguson v. Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein , 30 Cal.4...
Forum Column - By Jayashri Srikantiah - Rebecca Gordon and Jan Adams are longtime peace activists who live and work in San Fra...
Forum Column - By Robert R. Eberle - There is a saying in America that, "There are only two sure things in life: Death and tax...
LOS ANGELES - Members of the Los Angeles City Attorneys Association have voted overwhelmingly to affiliate with the Service Em...
SAN FRANCISCO - Linda Ekstrom Stanley, the outspoken former bankruptcy trustee in Northern California who monitored the $13 b...