Large Firms
A judge must bear in mind that when he tries a case he is himself on trial. Philo Wilson Sonsini CORPORATE LAWYER JOINS VALLE...
^^Alternative Dispute Resolution Reflect, Not Reflex Consider Pros and Cons Before Arbitrating Rather than simply giving in t...
By Don J. DeBenedictis The next president of the State Bar of California, Andrew J. Guilford, may be a well-known litigator a...
Solo and Small Firms
Musick Peeler Adds Three Lawyers in S.F.
By Leslie Gordon, Jennifer Byrd & T. Scott
SAN FRANCISCO - The local, five-attorney firm of Hovis Smith Stewart Lipscomb & Cross has dissolved, and three of its lawy...
By Arturo J. Gonzlez Mario Paz, a 64-year-old father of six, was killed Aug. 9, 1999, during a raid of his Compton home. A ma...
By Chris Ford Los Angeles Municipal Court Presiding Judge Veronica McBeth received a phone call several years ago from a cons...
By Jennifer Byrd San Francisco attorneys Dale Minami and Donald K. Tamaki have reshaped history for Japanese-Americans. In th...
State Bar & Bar Associations
SALARIES RAISED FOR TRUCKER HUSS ASSOCIATES San Francisco's Trucker Huss, a 13-attorney employee benefits firm, has raised it...
Corporate
(Jim could you place this correction at the end - thanks!) CORRECTION The Sept. 20 issue of California Law Business reported ...
Government
Bomb Victims Can Raise Law Enforcement Conspiracy Question
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Clearing the way for a civil rights trial over the handling of the 1990 car bombing of two Earth First activi...
Despite assertions from Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky that the district attorney's office has enough funds in...
Investments
State Settles With Broker After Company Goes Bust
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - When thousands of investors decided to sink their dollars into five limited partnerships controlled by Newport Be...
SAN DIEGO - Senior U.S. District Judge Leland C. Nielsen, described by those who knew him best as a fine jurist who dedicated...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Rock 'n' Roll Discord Led to ADR War
By Philip Carrizosa
Although the battle over mandatory arbitration has intensified in recent years, the war actually began more than 20 years ago...
Constitutional Law
Court Constrains Catwoman's Complaints Concerning Cop
By Denise Levin
A catfight over a zoning ordinance has turned into a constitutional law conundrum in which a judge has prohibited a woman from...
Intellectual Property
Judge Upholds $220M Award For Litton in Honeywell Fight
By Martin Bergn
U.S. District Judge Mariana Pfaelzer upheld most of a jury's $250 million award to Litton Systems Inc. late last week, while ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Courts throughout the nation are only beginning to come to grips with mandatory arbitration: what it really m...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court's docket for the 1999-2000 term is short on quantity but long on quality. "I think this will b...
A memorial service will be held today for Steven W. Brown, vice president and insurance counsel for Pacific Life Insurance Co...
Personal Injury & Torts
Family Files Death Suit in Shooting by Inland Sheriff
By Daniel Jennings
SAN BERNARDINO - The family of a man who was shot to death by San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies Aug. 26 has filed a wr...
Memorial services were held Wednesday for Jerry Fine, transactional business attorney and founder of the American Media Counc...
Knock, Knock Self-Created Exigencies Violate the Fourth Amendment By Alex Ricciardulli Assume the police have developed proba...
SAN DIEGO - A veteran stockbroker, whose lifelong love of baseball led him to form a women's baseball league and pay for it w...
Constitutional Law
First Amendment Champion Stanley Fleishman Dies At 79
By Liz Valsamis
Stanley Fleishman, an attorney recognized for his work protecting First Amendment rights and the rights of the physically dis...
Utilizing a law for which there is little precedence, a former Target employee who worked a reduced schedule under the Califo...
Charges that an Encino attorney conspired to cultivate marijuana have been dismissed after he and his wife agreed to testify ...
RIVERSIDE - Gary Windom, a veteran public defender who took charge of the troubled Riverside County office Wednesday, plans t...
Two prominent lawyers from the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles will be leaving their posts to open the Southern Califor...
^^Criminal Law^^ Inspector's Gadgets Courts Respond to the Use of High-Tech Devices Gone are the days when law enforcement wi...
Straight Outta Compton California Court Holds Police Officer Not Disabled Under ADA By Leonid M. Zilberman In one of the firs...