State Bar & Bar Associations
Bar Nemeses Fail in Lawsuit Over Politics
By Don De Benedictis
A federal appellate court Thursday rejected a First Amendment claim by three lawyer-lawmakers who challenged lobbying by the ...
SAN JOSE -- To Judge Robert P. Ahern, a lengthy jury trial is similar to a long unfolding mystery novel, full of unusual detai...
Retired Los Angeles lawyer, author and political activist Gerald H. Gottlieb will be buried in a New York City family plot Se...
Lying just beneath the surface of a complex, multimillion-dollar insurance fraud lawsuit brought by Allstate Insurance Co. is...
Spurned Speech State Constitutional Rights Lose to Private Property Interests By Janine C. Ogando In what can be considered a...
Telemarketer Is Convicted in O.C. SANTA ANA - The last of seven people charged with bilking half a million dollars from elder...
^^Real Property^^ Riverdance Litigation Involving Levee Failure in 1986 Is Continuing The record ran to 52,000 pages of appel...
^^Bench Press^^ Post-Graduate Education Diving into legal work can mean enrolling in the school of hard knocks Gregory C. O'B...
SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. District Judge Stanley A. Weigel, who epitomized a fierce judicial independence that left him undeterred ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Minority enrollment at University of California law schools continues to decline following passage of the UC ...
By Barbara Blinderman On Saturday, Aug. 21, the 740-seat Walk Festival Hall at Teton Village, Wyo., was filled to overcapacit...
L.A. Lawyer Heads International Group Los Angeles attorney Malcolm S. McNeil has been elected president of the Association of...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Los Angeles office of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson has added securities litigation partner...
SAN FRANCISCO - One of California's biggest polluters has been repeatedly cited for violations at locations it operates throu...
LAGUNA NIGUEL - The well-manicured homes lining the Snipe Lane cul-de-sac in the hills of Laguna Niguel look like the ideal l...
WASHINGTON - Cut Roger Cossack, the Los Angeles lawyer-turned-host of CNN's "Burden of Proof" says, and he'll bleed blue and ...
Litigation
Justices Will Review the State's Son of Sam Law in Sinatra Case
By Anna Marie Stolley
The California Supreme Court voted unanimously Wednesday to consider a challenge to the constitutionality of California's Son...
SAN JOSE - Setting the stage for a major civil rights ruling, the California Supreme Court decided Wednesday to take its own ...
The state Commission on Judicial Performance on Wednesday took the rare step of publicly admonishing Los Angeles Superior Cou...
MoFo Still Tops for Moms Who Work SAN FRANCISCO - Morrison & Foerster was the only law firm selected this year by Working...
Litigation
Justice Department: Plaintiffs Do Better Before Judges Than Juries
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - Plaintiffs won 52 percent of nearly 16,000 civil cases decided at trial in 1996 in the nation's 75 largest count...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Arbitration Bill Shelved After Severe Pruning
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - A severely pruned bill to ban mandatory arbitration clauses in many employment contracts has been shelved for th...
SEPT. 9 The San Diego IREM chapter presents "Plugging Into New Opportunities in the Millennium" at its monthly luncheon meeti...
At the rudder Terry Vani architecture experience gave him an idea. Develop a CAD-based floor planning and presentation system...
Granite Bay Solid deals Bob Kuhl, senior consultant with the Roseville office of TRI Commercial Real Estate Services Inc./Onc...
Sacramento lawyers Trainor Robertson added Thomas Morton and Sherrie Duncan to its Real Estate Transaction Group as an associ...
Oakland/San Francisco Ship to shore The Bay Area arts scene is one of the liveliest in the nation. It is also among the most ...
Westwood Fun and Bubbles Southland Industries donated a Starlight Children's Foundation Fun Center to Mattel Children's Hospi...
Law RevisionGroup Picks San Diegan SAN DIEGO - Assemblyman Howard Wayne, a member of the California Law Revision Commission s...
San Diego Child's play The San Diego chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers recently asked kids from Mary Chas...
