^^Entertainment Law^^ Tease: Writer who contributed to the script and direction of Malcolm X not a co-author. Page 7. Phantom ...
CARROLL BURDICK PUTS NEW FACES INTO THREE BRANCHES San Francisco-based Carroll, Burdick & McDonough added new partners in...
TECHNOLOGY The CIA and Silicon Valley are using tax dollars to fund a nonprofit organization that invests in high-tech compan...
Wilson Sonsini CENTILLIUM COMMUNICATES THROUGH $82M IPO FILING Centillium Communications is issuing an initial public offerin...
SANTA CRUZ -- Former District Attorney Peter Chang pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor violation of a court order Friday in order ...
Loyola Law School's new dean, David Burcham, already has a reputation for being No. 1 at the school. He graduated with the hig...
Just one day after the U.S. Senate voted to amend an 80-year-old maritime law that limits awards of monetary damages to famili...
SACRAMENTO - When voters soundly rejected a plan to expand bad-faith lawsuits against insurers, they may have administered mor...
Who really is Edward Masry, the lawyer depicted in the film "Erin Brockovich," which opens this Friday at a theater near you? ...
DICTA On 'Family Law,' a humane result requires law-defying actions. ...
DICTA On 'Ally McBeal,' if it's worth saying, it's worth saying twice. Page 8. ^^Ally McBeal^^ By Renee Laurents OK, if it's w...
DICTA The application of law within 'Judging Amy' is like the Boeing 707 in the movie 'Airport' - merely a setting for panic a...
FORUM Family law attorneys and judges should receive training regarding how to craft safe custody and visitation orders. ...
FORUM Teaching about the Bible as history and literature is possible without violating the First Amendment. Page 6. By Martha ...
Brentwood-based Belin Rawlings & Badal, in an effort to provide an "entrepreneurial" alternative to large law firms, has ...
^^Litigator Profile^^ By Anne La Jeunesse Verdicts & Settlements Staff Writer Trying to get fair representation for poor p...
DICTA This week's 'Law & Order' shows why good cops go bad. ...
^^SPECIAL ISSUE: CONSUMER ATTORNEYS^^ By Brian S. Kabeteck and Carolyn P. Bell Last year, responding to perceived abuses by he...
^^SPECIAL ISSUE: CONSUMER ATTORNEYS^^ By Gregg S. Garfinkel Presented with a scenario reminiscent of the movie "The Money Pit,...
A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit against Rite Aid that claimed some employees were not getting their paychecks. Cour...
By Jeff Jacoby Are black Americans owed reparations for the 240 years that their forebears were enslaved in this country? Some...
^^SPECIAL ISSUE: CONSUMER ATTORNEYS^^ Sharon J. Berman Litigators may recall the wonderful "gravy days" of business. Client li...
SAN FRANCISCO - Buyer beware. That was the essential message of a California Supreme Court ruling Thursday. By a 6-1 vote, the...
The FBI's ability to investigate the Los Angeles police corruption scandal has not been compromised, a top official of the age...
^^SPECIAL ISSUE: CONSUMER ATTORNEYS^^ By Julie Campanini Voir dire is the first opportunity for an attorneys to meet the audie...
In the wake of this week's primary election and the defeat of propositions 30 and 31, Consumer Attorney Association of Los An...
WASHINGTON - The rhetoric flew for the final time, the vice president hovered to break any ties, and by the end of Thursday, t...
"Do I stay or do I go?" This is the theme song symbolizing the career questions confronting lawyers today. A high percentage o...
FORUM Proposition 22 was supposed to embed an invidious distinction in the law beyond the ability of the Legislature to change...
SAN FRANCISCO - Rumored for months, the merger between San Francisco-based Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and London's Bir...