Labor/Employment
Job Seekers Should Use Time Wisely to Enhance Their Skills
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Craig A. Blumin - With the slumping stock market and job layoffs, it is no wonder that job seekers are ...
Dicta Column - By David H. Brickner - Voir dire can present many challenges. For instance, what do you do when, either right a...
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - For nearly its entire existence, the California Coastal Commission has been at war with ...
Forum Column - By Mike Schmier - The California State Bar should follow the American Bar Association lead and work to eliminat...
LOS ANGELES - An attorney Wednesday asked Los Angeles jurors to return a record $6.7 to $20 billion punitive damage award agai...
SANTA ANA - Services are planned for Oct. 17 for retired Orange County Superior Court Judge Myron S. Brown. Brown died Monday ...
Personal Injury & Torts
Jury Scofflaws Study Is Alarmist, Judicial Council Says
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - A study released Wednesday by the American Tort Reform Association charges that too many Californians are dodg...
SAN FRANCISCO - Linda Ekstrom Stanley, until recently the federal government's chief bankruptcy watchdog in San Francisco, sai...
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers who dread and deplore the massive bankruptcy overhaul bill currently before Congress can thank anti-ab...
LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court Wednesday threw out a San Diego man's robbery convictions because jurors were improperly ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Long before he was a lawyer, Ren Auguste Chouteau kept the company of judges. A fourth-generation San Francisc...
Personal Injury & Torts
Settlement Talks in Earth First Bomb Case At a Standstill
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Earth First post-trial settlement talks went nowhere this week as opposing counsel disputed a $4.4 million fed...
Personal Injury & Torts
Unpublished Case Sheds Light on Liability for Assault
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Focus Column - By Michael Paul Thomas - Unpublished appellate opinions generally may not be relied on for precedent or even c...
LOS ANGELES - The largest foster care system in the nation has racked up another embarrassing statistic: It has lost 444 of th...
Personal Injury & Torts
Judge Awards Senior $1 Million for MTA Injury
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge has awarded $1.36 million to a 97-year-old Los Angeles woman severely injured when a Red Lin...
Column by Garry Abrams - The country's corporate scandals are beginning to resemble an episode of "The Simpsons" in which Bart...
SAN FRANCISCO - Taking up an appeal from a Hollywood actor jailed on murder charges, the California Supreme Court ordered Los ...
Dicta Column - Movie Review - By Stephen Zager - Lawyers are often portrayed in motion pictures as being incapable of true emo...
Dicta Column - By Alexander S. Polsky - What should a lawyer do on discovering that the terrific case just taken on is a dog a...
Appellate Practice
Federal Circuit Has Jurisdiction In a Number of Different Areas
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Focus Column - By Laura M. Grisolano and Catherine Valerio Barrad - Twenty years ago this week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for ...
Forum Column - By Gloria Allred and Michael Maroko - In 1996, the state Supreme Court in In Re Marriage of Burgess , 13...
LOS ANGELES - Continuing the defection of partners throughout its 11 offices, San Francisco-based Brobeck, Phleger & Harri...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles chapter of American Friends of the Hebrew University has awarded its inaugural Harvey L. Silbert...
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis has signed several bills that for the first time would regulate alternative dispute resolution pr...
SAN FRANCISCO - Medi-Cal's lack of a refund procedure mandated under federal law, coupled with a Catch-22 under state law, has...
Government
Citizens Aren't Meeting Jury Duty Obligations, Study Finds
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Jury participation in Los Angeles County and other large urban centers of California is in serious trouble becau...
LOS ANGELES - In a surprise move, Gov. Gray Davis vetoed a bill that would have protected lawyers for public agencies who repo...
SACRAMENTO - Consumers will suffer because Gov. Gray Davis has vetoed legislation that would have barred businesses from filin...
LOS ANGELES - Memorial services took place Tuesday for Harvey L. Silbert, a Los Angeles business and entertainment lawyer admi...
WASHINGTON - Returning from its summer recess, the Supreme Court announced Tuesday that, early next year, it will review two m...