This is the time of year when new associates finally are understanding what it means to join The Firm. Fresh out of law school...
In one sense, it is unfair to blame President Bush and Attorney General John Ashcroft for their incompetent blundering in tryi...
What should a deep-pocketed American corporation do when faced with class actions of little merit but much potential to sap it...
"I see that you are a judge," my new physician said as he opened the file his nurse had created for my first annual physical. ...
Since the California Supreme Court revitalized the "economic loss" rule in its recent ruling in Aas v. Superior Court , 24 ...
Arbitration offers many advantages over litigation, including speed and cost-savings. But these advantages only flow to those ...
Defense attorney Timothy Lambirth loves a good mystery, especially lawsuits that involve fraud and forgery. ...
Sylvia Wagner and her brother Barney fought for years over money that they inherited from their father. And the battle continu...
Jurors often assess witnesses through "stereotyping," which can become the basis of the jurors' initial impression of those wi...
The case was more than complicated. It was fraught with pitfalls and filled with twists and turns including allegations of dru...
Government
Law Enforcement, Welfare Agency Tussle Over Access to Fingerprints
By Matthew Heller
SAN LUIS OBISPO - For San Luis Obispo County sheriff's investigators, the digitized images of a welfare applicant's fingerprin...
SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Co. need not file a lawsuit to prove that much of the state's authority over the comp...
SAN FRANCISCO - The legal battle over Jerry Garcia's famed guitars will play out in court after all, after settlement talks co...
LOS ANGELES - A San Fernando judge has dismissed a lawsuit that claimed better security at the North Valley Jewish Community C...
SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Co. need not file a lawsuit to prove that much of the state's authority over the comp...
Law Practice
Brosnahan Is Retained to Defend U.S. Man Fighting With Taliban
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Prominent San Francisco trial attorney James J. Brosnahan will represent John Walker Lindh, the 20-year-old fo...
SACRAMENTO - Lawyers should be able to practice law in another jurisdiction to serve a client on a temporary basis without bei...
SAN DIEGO - Over the objections of the Public Defenders Association and the Deputy District Attorneys Association, the Board o...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate court wrestled Tuesday with the First Amendment question of whether the news media should ...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved a $1.1 million contract with GKK Corp. for desig...
SAN DIMAS - Services have taken place for Raymond G. Lamb, a prominent Pomona Valley lawyer and community leader. Lamb died Th...
VAN NUYS - For Judge John S. Fisher, a former prosecutor and son of a Los Angeles police officer, the Rampart scandal was an e...
SAN FRANCISCO - Marin County authorities dropped plans Tuesday to take an assault allegation against a San Francisco prosecuto...
Constitutional Law
9th Circuit Will Reconsider Inmate's 'Right to Procreate'
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals announced Tuesday that it will reconsider a controversial decision that gra...
LOS ANGELES - It's not too often lacrosse helps to save someone's life. But that's what happened, at least for a time, in the ...
WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans are complaining that hearings on the Bush administration's controversial new anti-terrorism le...
On March 3, 1999, a middle-aged African-American man named LaFrance Hamilton was bicycling near his home, when he was stopped ...
You've obtained a significant win for your client - the Court of Appeal has reversed the dismissal that your opponent obtained...
Basic principles of parliamentary procedure hold that a majority decides but that a minority has a right to be heard and that ...