Judges and Judiciary
Maverick Federal Judge Seeks New Job Nabbing Bad Guys
By Jennifer Hammn
LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Judge Dickran Tevrizian, the unlikely candidate for U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, brings with him ...
Prosecutor Deserved More Severe Sanction
In the nation’s first class action to challenge overcrowding in facilities for immigration detainees, the American Civil Liber...
To hear the state's top trial lawyers tell it, these are hard times for plaintiffs in California. ...
FORUM COLUMN - By Betty R. Kazmin - Before civil libertarians get in too much of a huff over new federal regulations allowing ...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Lothar Determann and Eugene Lim - American exporters should pay attention to rules the Chinese government ha...
Judges and Judiciary
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Court to Review Appeal-Level Argument of Race Bias in Jury Selection
By Itir Yakarn
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to take a new look at alleged racial bias in jury selection in a...
SAN FRANCISCO - Superior Court Judge Katherine Feinstein was appointed by the California Supreme Court Wednesday to the state ...
Government
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Vandal Can't Be Billed for City's 'Ugly' Gray Paint
By Laura Ernden
Santa Cruz City Council members didn't like the boring Plymouth Gray paint used to cover up graffiti on a retaining wall near ...
The Daily Journal presents its annual list of California’s top plaintiffs verdicts. The biggest verdict, $306.9 million and co...
FORUM COLUMN - By Robin J. Samuel and Laura M. Wilson - San Francisco's new mandatory paid-sick-leave ordinance is the stronge...
Nicole A. Tutt, an attorney and specialist in water and public agency law, died Monday after a yearlong battle with breast can...
WASHINGTON - A powerful Democratic woman from the Bay Area will play a key role pushing immigration reform in Washington, D.C....
Discipline
Appeals Panel Reinstates Rape Victim's Suit Against Her Lawyers
By Laura Ernden
An Escondido woman raped by an intruder in the laundry room of her apartment complex had the makings of a strong suit against ...
LOS ANGELES - Just two days after New York's Simpson Thacher & Bartlett upped the ante to $160,000 for starting associate ...
Florida lawyer Robert "Speedy" Udell says moving a trial forward gives him a courtroom edge, which may explain the hasty pace ...
Litigation
Geragos Says Jet Firm's Lawyer OK'd Installing Hidden Cameras
By Rebecca Beyer
LOS ANGELES - An attorney for a private jet company signed off on a plan to install hidden cameras on a plane used by Michael ...
His boss might have called him "my bitch" and "my boy toy," but that doesn't give a university employee the right to sue a man...
LOS ANGELES - George B. Newhouse Jr. is leaving his job as national chairman of the white-collar defense group at Thelen Reid ...
FOCUS COLUMN - By Brian T. Hafter - Try explaining to your 15-year-old who decides whether a claim is arbitrable. A seasoned l...
FORUM COLUMN - By Douglas N. Silverstein and Alexandra M. Steinberg - The 2nd District Court of Appeal and the California Supr...
LOS ANGELES - A celebration of life is scheduled Feb. 1 for Raoul Magana, one of the first inductees into the Consumer Trial A...
LOS ANGELES - Thirteen years ago, Dolores Macias' children testified that their mother intentionally drowned their 4-year-old ...
LOS ANGELES - State officials have temporarily blocked the release of a former Catholic priest convicted of molesting a boy to...
Environmental
Bankruptcy Puts Lumber Company's Environmental Deal in Doubt
By Dennis Pfaffn
SAN FRANCISCO - The bankruptcy of one of Northern California's favorite environmentalist targets, Pacific Lumber Co., may allo...
LOS ANGELES - When Robert B. Axel was elected a Superior Court commissioner in 1974 at age 31, he was the youngest bench offic...
Enough With the Warning Laws; Open Your Eyes
Despite warning signals, lawmakers seemed to be caught off-guard Monday by the U.S. Supreme Court's decision throwing out the ...
LOS ANGELES - Sidestepping lawyers from Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo's office, the City Council has retained an ...
RIVERSIDE - A lawyer representing a Riverside judge under fire for making untimely decisions and backdating civil case orders ...