Judges and Judiciary
Fearless Judge Approves of Cameras in the Courtroom
By Claude Walbert
Los Angeles attorney Paul Alvarez recognizes that his specialty, defending businesses against personal-injury claims, isn't al...
SAN FRANCISCO - Sixth and Mayhem moved to the San Francisco Examiner's executive suite Tuesday as a lawsuit threat frayed publ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Trailing at the polls, city attorney candidate Dennis Herrera was expected to come out swinging during a debat...
OAKLAND - An unusual lawsuit claiming an East Bay tenants advocacy project violates state business laws by preparing fraudulen...
RIVERSIDE - The waste from an illegal drug lab is what a prosecutor calls "really the bottom of the food chain" for methamphet...
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County prosecutor Rolanda Pierre-Dixon remembers what it used to be like: A woman would call police to ...
Immigration
Advocates Oppose Closed-Door Hearings on Two Visa Violations
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - When two Pakistani students appear in U.S. immigration court in Lancaster on visa violations, they, like hundred...
Law Practice
'Dapper, Debonair' Entertainment Lawyer Traveled Widely
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Leonard A. Kaufman, a Harvard Law School graduate who for many years devoted himself to the American Civil Liberti...
With more jobs lost in September than in any month in over a decade, America needs an economic-stimulus measure that is effect...
Here is a glimpse at the possible telephonic future, which may look similar to our telephonic past. Traditional long-distance ...
The Federal Arbitration Act applies to contracts "evidencing a transaction involving commerce." 9 U.S.C. Section 2. That secti...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Manatt Phelps & Phillips has found a managing director for its international consulting subsidi...
Litigation
Three-Strikes Case Is Back for Fourth Time
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - It's a three-strikes case that would leave most lawyers' and judges' heads spinning. In 1996, Riverside County Jud...
LOS ANGELES - Former city Councilman Mike Feuer, who lost a bid for city attorney in June, joined the Los Angeles office of Mo...
SAN FRANCISCO - Robert Treuhaft, an attorney who litigated civil rights cases in the Bay Area from the immediate post-World Wa...
Criminal
Rampart's Investigatory Afterlife Could Lead to Reopening of More Cases
By Garry Abrams
Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley made headlines last week when he said his office probably will wrap up its investig...
A California appellate court recently commented on the rules governing the making of gifts of jewelry between spouses and the...
Dear Anne: We already were in a slowing economy before the tragic events of Sept. 11. Our business definitely is do...
In a patently illegal use of armed force, United States and British bombs are falling on the people of Afghanistan. There alre...
According to Money magazine's annual job survey, paralegals have passed up lawyers to become those with the 11th best professi...
In the criminal justice system, there are two distinct but equal groups: the police who enforce the laws and the district atto...
Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that has far-reaching implications in the area of prisoner r...
Nine months after "VH1 Divas Live" premiered in 1998, the producers were bombarded with phone calls from a musician who played...
Transactions
Cravath Swaine: IBM AGREES TO PAY CASH FOR BURLINGAME'S CROSSWORLDS
By Staff Writer
International Business Machines Corp. of Armonk, N.Y., has agreed to purchase Burlingame-based CrossWorlds Software Inc. for $...
Transactions
Wong & Suarez: LONG BEACH SCHOOL DISTRICT SELLS $34 MILLION IN BONDS
By Columnist
The Long Beach Community College District has raised $34 million in a bond financing. San Francisco's Sutter Securities served...
The USA Patriot Act answers many questions dot-coms had before Sept. 11 about how to comply with judicial orders to examine do...
State Bar & Bar Associations
INN OF COURT IN SAN DIEGO TAPS KOSMO AS PRESIDENT
By Staff Writer
The William L. Todd Jr. American Inn of Court has elected as its new president Frederick W. Kosmo Jr., a partner with San Dieg...
For William Quicksilver, it was certainly a transaction that hearkened back to the good old days - of 2000. Quicksilver, a par...
Solo and Small Firms
PAIR WILL TAKE TOP SPOTS ON RECREATION COMMISSION
By Staff Writer
Two Bay Area lawyers will lead the California State Park and Recreation Commission. Joseph W. Cotchett and Caryl Hart are the ...