SAN FRANCISCO - A panel of legal experts has been named to review ethical standards for contractual arbitrators in California....
SAN FRANCISCO - Funeral services will be held today for Howard Gilbert, who in his long legal career earned a reputation as an...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court on Wednesday by a 7-4 vote upheld the use of interest from client trust accounts for l...
SAN FRANCISCO - A man who raised another's child as his own will have a chance to prove to the California Supreme Court that h...
Health Care & Hospital Law
U.S. Judge Tells Pot Clinic the DA Can See Its Patient Files
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal prosecutors can view about 6,000 client and patient files seized from an attorney-physician couple who...
SAN FRANCISCO - Rongjie Ma couldn't be happier. The gregarious, gentlemanly Chinese lawyer is busy doing what he likes best: m...
LOS ANGELES - Terry W. Bird, a top white-collar defense and civil litigation lawyer in Los Angeles, was named to a bipartisan ...
SAN DIEGO - A veteran prosecutor has filed a lawsuit alleging that he was denied a promotion and harassed after telling his bo...
LOS ANGELES - Few lawyers can recall a case in which a defendant successfully withdrew a guilty plea, but then most cases aren...
Dear Sara Jane Olson, Won't you please make up your mind? Or is the real problem that you need new lawyers? The news Wednesday...
Product branding has been prevalent for years. Law firm branding, however, is relatively new. ...
As time has passed since Sept. 11, insurance issues now are becoming a focal point of discussion, as people attempt to deal w...
When is it appropriate to smile again, to laugh, to enjoy trivial pursuits? Posing the question in assorted ways, many of us s...
Professor Edwin A. Locke's salute to Veterans Day, "Honor Veterans Day by Refusing to Sacrifice Values," Forum, Nov. 12, opine...
In the midst of our national chaos, Attorney General John Ashcroft has found it wise to heap additional misery on a most unlik...
After the attacks on the World Trade Center, businesses located in the buildings will attempt the seemingly impossible task of...
WASHINGTON - President Bush's decision to try terrorists in special military tribunals could make it easier to obtain convicti...
Mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution are praised as ways to avoid trial. Much is written in favor of me...
When may a minor [or other incompetent person] proceed in arbitration without a guardian or a guardian ad litem? The answer sh...
The American Heritage Dictionary defines "art" as "methods employed in the performance of activities." The tome defines an art...
Customers attacked by other patrons at a Los Angeles fast-food restaurant claimed that employees not only failed to stop the a...
The attorney minimized fallout from a manager's failure to talk to a co-worker, who supported the plaintiff's claim by pointi...
When vacation comes to mind for many overworked Americans, taking the entire family mountain climbing at Kilimanjaro might be ...
Judges and Judiciary
Fearless Judge Approves of Cameras in the Courtroom
By Claude Walbert
Los Angeles attorney Paul Alvarez recognizes that his specialty, defending businesses against personal-injury claims, isn't al...
SAN FRANCISCO - Sixth and Mayhem moved to the San Francisco Examiner's executive suite Tuesday as a lawsuit threat frayed publ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Trailing at the polls, city attorney candidate Dennis Herrera was expected to come out swinging during a debat...
OAKLAND - An unusual lawsuit claiming an East Bay tenants advocacy project violates state business laws by preparing fraudulen...
RIVERSIDE - The waste from an illegal drug lab is what a prosecutor calls "really the bottom of the food chain" for methamphet...