SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney General John Ashcroft's war on the attorney-client privilege, asserts radical lawyer Lynne F. Stewart...
Litigation
Jury Burns Counterfeiter of Zig-Zag Cigarette Papers for $2 Million
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - If they wanted to, the French maker and the U.S. distributor of Zig-Zag cigarette papers could roll t...
EL CENTRO - A hearing set to begin this morning in the Imperial County courtroom of Judge James H. Harmon will offer one of th...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared ready to give a black Texas death row inmate another shot at proving that...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Judge Rules Suits Against El Paso Can Move Ahead
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - El Paso Corp., the nation's biggest natural gas pipeline company, failed to persuade a San Diego judge Wednesd...
SAN FRANCISCO - A former San Francisco Unified School District custodial supervisor and a Hayward software company were indict...
SAN DIEGO - One of Kristin M. Rossum's former co-workers testified Wednesday that he had observed signs of a romantic relation...
LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis on Wednesday unveiled four judicial appointments, including those of civil litigators Rafael A. ...
Judges and Judiciary
Hear the One About the Judge Who Fell On His Gavel?
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Sandwiched between sessions on retirement planning and the latest appellate opinions, one of the liveliest ses...
LOS ANGELES - Organized crime officers Wednesday arrested a Westwood man on charges of threatening a Los Angeles Times writer ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Oakland's Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May confirmed Wednesday that a vote on its union with Pittsburgh's Reed ...
LOS ANGELES - A former Locke High School art teacher was forced out by the Los Angeles Unified School District because she enc...
SAN FRANCISCO - It is now five judges and counting in the protracted dispute between two stock market groups and the state Jud...
Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk A. Pasich - Many lawsuits involve allegations that a defendant acted intentionally or s...
Labor/Employment
'Schlage' Is Victory for Employees, But Carries Mixed Message for Employers
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Anthony J. Oncidi and Christine de Bretteville - The California Court of Appeal has put an ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A North Carolina energy company pleaded guilty Tuesday to two counts of felony grand theft and agreed to pay $...
SAN DIEGO - A prosecutor on Tuesday portrayed former medical examiner's toxicologist Kristin M. Rossum as a woman so protectiv...
Communications
Court Broadens Paper's Right Of Access to Settlement Data
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - A federal appellate court has broadened the right of access to documents in once-sealed court files in a case in...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles attorney Tuesday pleaded guilty to 12 felony counts stemming from accusations he bilked clients ou...
LOS ANGELES - The San Diego office of Boston's Fish & Richardson has expanded into the corporate and securities practice a...
MONTEREY - California's third branch of government has become a force to be reckoned with. That was the message conveyed to me...
SAN FRANCISCO - The flowers that Vernon Norviel sent to his wife, Carmencita, on their 15th wedding anniversary may prove to b...
SAN FRANCISCO - For seven weeks, a San Francisco jury heard detailed evidence about complicated loans that passed between two ...
Judges and Judiciary
Deadpan Judge's Courtroom Called The Gold Standard
By Xenia Kobylarz
HANFORD - Kings County Superior Court Judge Peter Schultz runs his courtroom with the precision and efficiency of a well-wound...
SAN FRANCISCO - Don't expect Jerry Spolter, Elaine Leitner and Harris Weinberg to be the last panelists to leave the American ...
WASHINGTON - In 1992, California tax officials concluded that inventor Gilbert P. Hyatt had falsely reported moving from Orang...
Forum Column - By Peter M. Douglas - As usual, when Michael M. Berger gets on his soapbox to bash the Coastal Commission, his ...
Law Practice
Judge's E-Mail Criticizing Promotion Outrages DA
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - District Attorney Grover Trask on Tuesday filed a complaint with the Commission on Judicial Performance charging t...
State Bar & Bar Associations
New Group Replaces Conference of Delegates
By Don De Benedictis
MONTEREY - As the State Bar's 2002 annual meeting drew to a close Sunday, so too did its lively but controversial offspring, t...
SANTA ANA - The inner workings of judicial politicking were revealed Tuesday when Orange County judicial candidate Gay Sandova...