SAN FRANCISCO - Michael A. Kahn is becoming a very busy man. Already a name partner at his firm and a member of Gov. Gray Davi...
I've not seen much written about the fear of courtroom appearances. I'm thinking of the Hemingway version of fear - fear of no...
Corporate
Rambus' Lawyers Travel the Globe to Enforce Product Patent Rights
By Marisa Navarro
Rambus Inc.'s microprocessors have achieved worldwide popularity. From Japan to the United States, its devices appear in video...
LOS ANGELES - The federal judge presiding over the consent decree between the LAPD and the U.S. Justice Department questioned...
Technology & Science
For Investors, Web Site Offers an Online Marketplace
By Contributing Writer
Although it seems that every other day another company shelves its initial public offering, one man is feeling positive about ...
Call it a belated holiday present. The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Gitlitz v. Commissioner, 2001 Daily Journal D.A.R. 259...
The Court of Appeal in Kawasaki struggles to determine which standard for review to use. ...
The personal computer has been the growth engine for technology stocks for more than a decade. The earning season now unfoldin...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge on Thursday allowed state officials to rope 18 school districts into an ambitious lawsui...
Judges and Judiciary
Fun at Tahoe: A Little Skiing, A Little Matrimony
By Contributing Writer
SACRAMENTO - Judge Darrel Lewis recently combined two of his favorite activities - skiing and performing weddings. Lewis offic...
In 1996, President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, "ending welfare as...
SAN FRANCISCO - The State Bar and a group of critics announced an agreement Wednesday to reform how the bar conducts its elect...
LOS ANGELES - The California State Board of Education on Thursday delayed a decision on whether to allow sections of the schoo...
Judges and Judiciary
County Dedicates Court to Congressman
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - George E. Brown Jr. marched alongside Martin Luther King Jr. more than 40 years ago to advocate civil rights. The ...
LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Saturday for John Gregory Thorpe, real estate attorney and founding partner of Los Ange...
Discipline
Court May Sanction Lawyers for 'Reckless' Mischaracterization
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - A judge may sanction a lawyer for making "reckless" statements if the judge finds that the statements are frivol...
Judges and Judiciary
Former Public Defender Alan Oberstein Dies
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
PALM DESERT- Alan Oberstein, a former Riverside County public defender, died Tuesday of a heart attack while vacationing in Ha...
LOS ANGELES - Despite complaints that police officers abused a policy that prohibits them from picking up suspected illegal al...
SANTA ANA - The Orange County district attorney's office has joined with the Los Angeles district attorney's office and the Ca...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Police Department and the city attorney's office are among a handful of city departments that ha...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Tenants Lose Powerful Tool In Fighting Ellis Evictions
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco appeal court has ruled that tenants may not use the retaliatory eviction defense against landl...
LOS ANGELES - In a case of legal turnabout and soured alliances, the Los Angeles Unified School District has sought to disqual...
LOS ANGELES - As federal officials reportedly began arriving in Los Angeles to begin a civil rights investigation into the tre...
SAN FRANCISCO - An obscure patent dispute between jelly maker giant J.M. Smucker Co. and a 100-employee food manufacturing com...
Appellate Practice
Judges Lack Standing to Contest Their Disqualification
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Superior court judges have no right to appeal their own disqualification from a case, a unanimous state Suprem...
Appellate Practice
Justices Struggle to Put the 'Bush' Decision Behind Them
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Nearly two months after the Supreme Court's 5-4 decision effectively handing the presidency to George W. Bush, th...
LOS ANGELES - A man sentenced to more than 155 years in prison for the rape of an attorney and attempted murder of two police ...
Where the stock market leads, the legal job market follows. As the stock market rose to record levels, law firm hiring followe...
While much has been said about legal writing, this trial tip discusses but one aspect of this vast area: avoiding argumentativ...
SAN RAFAEL - Drug dealers trying to intimidate prosecutors are behind the effort to recall her, Marin County District Attorney...