LOS ANGELES - County officials will consider Jan. 8 whether to renew the Los Angeles city attorney's lease of office space at ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court on Wednesday overturned a Kern County double-murder conviction and death sentence, hol...
SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran Judge James I. Aaron, of Fresno County Superior Court, is the target of formal charges into alleged li...
Employment Law Practitioner Column by Johnny Darnell Griggs - In Swenson v. Potter, 2000 U.S.App.Lexis 25902 (9th Cir. ...
Judges and Judiciary
Davis Makes Six Appointments To District and Superior Courts
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LOS ANGELES - In a flurry of holiday appointments, Gov. Gray Davis has elevated Orange County Superior Court Judge Richard D. ...
Forum Column by Fred Silberberg - It is not uncommon in family law cases to require parties to undergo vocational evaluations....
Forum Column by David A. Rosen - The essential synergy between workers' compensation benefits and third-party liability is dec...
VIEWPOINT By David D. Kadue Donald C. Potter In this second in a three-part series on deposition skills, the authors address ...
LOS ANGELES - Though 2001 brought a recession that forced California law firms to fire an unprecedented number of lawyers, the...
LOS ANGELES - The dragging economy of 2001 did little to slow the flurry of activity among California law firms - and, in many...
LOS ANGELES - Large-firm lawyers took three giant steps back in 2001. "The last three years of growth were recaptured in one y...
Forum Column by Cary L. Schatz - The Department of Justice's recently enacted regulation allowing the monitoring of conversati...
SAN JOSE - Last week's trial of trainer Mark Gebel for alleged elephant abuse provided animal rights activists with a major me...
SAN FRANCISCO - The fine balance between an arresting officer's privacy interests and a criminal defendant's right to learn re...
SAN FRANCISCO - It's been only two months since Teveia Rose Barnes moved into the corner office that her predecessor, Drucilla...
LOS ANGELES - William R. Hollingsworth, a retired Los Angeles Superior Court judge sitting on assignment in Torrance, has a re...
SAN FRANCISCO - The annual report for the U.S. attorney's office in Northern California shows that the number of criminal case...
Transactional Law Practitioner Column by Robert C. Barnes - As most transactional attorneys know, Article 9 of the Uniform Com...
SACRAMENTO - Sacramento's largest law firm, Downey Brand Seymour & Rohwer, has named litigator Stephen J. Meyer as its new...
LOS ANGELES - For the Los Angeles County district attorney's office, 2001 was the year of Steve Cooley. The veteran prosecutor...
SACRAMENTO- Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker, named Friday as the first female dean of McGeorge School of Law, said international la...
LOS ANGELES - Judge Aurelio Munoz is the last of a retiring breed. Of 25 judges selected in 1988 to pioneer the Fast Track pro...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate has approved five new judgeships sought by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., to relieve the beleag...
LOS ANGELES - A downtown jury on Friday rejected a 28-year-old quadriplegic's claim that the city's policy of paying most trip...
OAKLAND - Three East Bay advocacy groups have won a $300,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to create a project tha...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a flurry of year-end appointments, Gov. Gray Davis has elevated four Bay Area judges to the 1st District Co...
RIVERSIDE - Heating up Riverside County's race for top prosecutor, District Attorney Grover Trask is seeking an injunction to ...
Criminal Law Practitioner Column by Laurie L. Levonson - Last term, the U.S. Supreme Court held that roadblocks conducted for ...
LOS ANGELES - Two weeks after Steve Cooley took over the district attorney's office last December, he was briefed by prosecuto...
SAN FRANCISCO - Stanley Young has replaced Michael Charlson as managing partner of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe's Menlo...