Lawyers representing the British maker of electronic identification chips and attorneys for pharmaceutical giant Pfizer squar...
Public Interest
'Don Quixote' and 'Sancho' Battle More Than Windmills in San Diego Court
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Nobody who encounters Lance L. Holgate would leave with the impression that he has trouble expressing himself. Ho...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Medical Malpractice Litigator Cyril Stanfield Dies
By Elizabeth Freudenthal
Lt. Col. Cyril C. Stanfield, a medical malpractice defense litigator and decorated Air Force Reserve pilot, died Sunday at Ri...
SAN BERNARDINO - A convicted murderer and rapist who told his attorney that he was taking legal advice from the spirit of a d...
Judges and Judiciary
CJP Criticized for Prosecuting 'Trivial' Misconduct of L.A. Jurist
By Jean Guccione
SAN FRANCISCO - One of the state's leading defenders of accused judges strongly criticized the Commission on Judicial Perform...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Assembly Gives the Nod to State Bar Bill, 44-31
By Don De Benedictis
SACRAMENTO - Legislation creating a streamlined State Bar of California to replace the entity brought to the brink of destruc...
Government
Court Revives Class Action By Victim Of Radiation Experiment
By Pamela Mac Lean
A federal appeals court revived a class-action suit Thursday by a former Oregon prison inmate who was subjected to government...
Judges and Judiciary
After the Inquisition: Kline Reflects on Jurisprudence
By Jean Guccione
As the winner in a year-long battle with state disciplinary authorities, appellate Justice J. Anthony Kline says that if he c...
SAN DIEGO - In a decision seen as a blow to state requirements regulating entry into a variety of professions, a federal judg...
The state Supreme Court ruled Thursday that police who find the door of a house open and the premises in shambles can enter a...
A girl named Roberta, who immigrated to the United States in 1997, is scheduled to be sent back to Romania Friday even though...
Tilting the Balance Policies That Attempt to Shift the Allocation Burden By Grace A. Carter and Eve M. Coddon Recently, a num...
By Paul O'Brien Just Desserts Jailhouse Blues and a Month Without Sundaes A judge I know once pondered the question of whethe...
By Kirk A. Pasich In 1992, the California Supreme Court decided Bank of the West v. Superior Court , 2 Cal.4th 1254 (1992), w...
SAN FRANCISCO - A political rival to San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan charged Wednesday that the city's top p...
In an effort to reduce crimes affecting the quality of life in neighborhoods, such as public intoxication and the defacement ...
A father and son who once worked as auditors for the Internal Revenue Service have pleaded guilty to federal charges stemming...
NORWALK - An Orange County Superior Court judge testified at a Norwalk hearing Wednesday that she still lives in fear of the ...
Product Liability
Proposed Law Would Seek Safety Standards for Guns
By Lauren Bartlett
Reacting to recent shootings across the country, including the rampage at the North Valley Jewish Community Center, Los Angel...
Public Interest
State Bar Wrongly Used Dues On Ideology, Court Concludes
By Don De Benedictis
Dealing a blow to the State Bar of California on an old and contentious issue, a Sacramento Superior Court judge has ruled th...
SAN FRANCISCO - The subjects of hidden camera exposes cannot sue claiming federal wiretap violations unless they can also sho...
Criminal
O.C. Prosecutors Drop Charges In Slaying Of Police Officer
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - In a rare move, Orange County prosecutors Wednesday dropped the charges against a criminal defendant who sat behi...
SAN FRANCISCO - Graham & James has lost nine litigation attorneys from its Palo Alto office to Oppenheimer Wolff & Do...
SAN DIEGO -- When Ben Shapiro taped together four 81/2-by-11 sheets of paper for his four-word message, he expected no proble...
SAN FRANCISCO - Menlo Park-based Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian is opening a third office, this...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Law Students Get the Mediation Experience
By Martin Kruming
^^San Diego Watch / Martin Kruming^^ For almost two years, students from three San Diego law schools have been teaming up as ...
^^Health Care Law^^ Doctor's Labor Definition of 'Employee' Makes Physician Unionization Difficult A close look at the legal ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Boalt Hall, one of the nation's premier law schools, is likely to have an outsider as dean next year, the fir...
With at least two Los Angeles County supervisors calling for the end of gun shows on county property, the Board of Supervisor...
Holding up a newspaper with an article giving detailed allegations from a sealed insurance fraud lawsuit as well as the names...