State Bar & Bar Associations
Lawyers Must Break Silence Cloaking Domestic Violence
By Columnist
Although crime rates around the country are down, one insidious crime still flourishes in homes across America. It is a crime ...
As the word "wireless" replaces previous buzzwords such as "push," "B2B," "broadband" and "New Economy" as the Next Big Thing,...
SAN JOSE - Patricia White, a partner at Littler Mendelson in San Jose, has been chosen president-elect of the Santa Clara Coun...
ROUNDTABLE: Rick O'Hare, of Santa Rosa's Rivkin Radler, recently hosted a discussion of patent litigation issues in light of n...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court agreed Tuesday to take a second look at a groundbreaking decision that allowed a forei...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge, 69, Plans Retirement, Reflects on Career
By Contributing Writer
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge David B. Finkel has discovered that courtroom drama can occur in the unlikelies...
LOS ANGELES - An attorney for former Sonoma County Judge Patricia Gray asked the Commission on Judicial Performance Tuesday to...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate confirmed four district court nominees on Thursday, even as Republicans held up approval of the f...
LOS ANGELES - J. Bruce Robertson, a civil litigator who dedicated his courtroom skills to causes ranging from death-penalty ap...
LOS ANGELES - A former Los Angeles attorney has been sentenced to more than two years in federal prison for helping to launder...
LOS ANGELES - When members of the Board of Supervisors agreed three months ago to place on the March ballot two measures that ...
LOS ANGELES - McKenna & Cuneo and Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton have called off their merger talks, citing client ...
LOS ANGELES - The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California filed suit Tuesday in federal court to stop the city o...
LOS ANGELES - Julie Su, an attorney with the Asian Pacific-American Legal Center, will receive a $500,000 grant today from the...
LOS ANGELES - Judge Melvin B. Grover, "Barney" to those who knew him best, made a pledge to always do what was right, even if ...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a boon for defendants, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that government prosecutors cannot characteriz...
Civil Rights
Racial Bias in Jury Selection Nets New Trial for Convicted Murderer
By Amy Tatko
LOS ANGELES - A Hispanic murder defendant will get a new trial because a prosecutor violated his right to a representative jur...
Civil Rights
Theme Park Wins Summary Judgment in Bias Suit
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A federal judge has gutted a race-discrimination lawsuit against Six Flags Magic Mountain, granting summary judgme...
SAN JOSE - The cyberstalking trial of a Fremont man accused of making terrorist threats against a Michigan couple began Monday...
During law school orientation, new students are told to look at the person sitting on their right and then the one to their le...
SAN DIEGO - San Francisco outsider Pillsbury Winthrop has nabbed three attorneys for its intellectual-property and corporate p...
LOS ANGELES - San Francisco attorney Pauline H. Tesler and psychotherapist Nancy Ross will describe the collaborative approach...
There are many different ways of looking at the world, and the attitude that your jurors have will affect the verdict. This id...
It is probably not surprising that, under U.S. tax principles, an executor of an estate has certain tax filing and reporting ...
Terrorism comes in many forms. It is inflicted on women and children around the world, not just in the form of indiscriminate ...
WASHINGTON - When Lucas Guttentag was facing back-to-back hourlong arguments in the Supreme Court last April, he turned to the...
Judges and Judiciary
Three Justices Win Confirmation to 2nd District
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - The Commission on Judicial Appointments announced Monday the confirmation of three justices to the 2nd District ...
LOS ANGELES - A Rolling Hills woman will fill a vacancy on the 2001-02. Los Angeles County civil grand jury. The juror, Carole...
Personal Injury & Torts
Tosco Settles Case Brought By Workers In Explosion
By Matthew King
OAKLAND - Rather than proceed with a trial that posed risks for both sides, Tosco Corp. and two former employees have reached ...
LOS ANGELES - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo unveiled his plan Monday to reorganize his office using a corporate model that en...