SAN JOSE - Monterey County Superior Court Judge Jose Velasquez defended himself Monday against misconduct charges, saying he t...
LOS ANGELES - Globalization has led to the outsourcing of factories and service centers to other countries, but several law fi...
Labor/Employment
Supreme Court Confirms Doctrine of At-Will Employment
By David Minkown
By Arthur A. Hartinger and Jesse J. Lad The California Supreme Court has been faced with numerous controversies regarding th...
SAN FRANCISCO - When San Francisco opened its new jail last week, it was legal history in the making. ...
Judges and Judiciary
U.S. Justices Will Give Guidance on Excluding Expert Testimony
By David Minkown
By David M. Axelrad and Mary Christine Sungaila In "Will State Supreme Court Shift Balance of Power Between Judges and Jurie...
Judges and Judiciary
Fascination With Language Finds Malapropism Spilled on the Page
By David Minkown
I enjoy words, so I liked the story entitled "Fascinated by Language" by Anat Rubin (Daily Journal, August 15). ...
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for the Roman Catholic bishop of San Diego filed a motion Monday seeking to make public the names of 1...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Cooley Godward Will Join Hands With Kronish Lieb
By Anna Oberthurn
SAN FRANCISCO - After years of speculation surrounding Cooley Godward's search for a merger partner, the firm has tied the kno...
Judges and Judiciary
2nd District Opinion Faults Judge for 'Variety of Reasons'
By John Roemer
Nobody's perfect, but sometimes judges' flaws go too far. Conceding that "an error-free trial exists more in imagination than ...
Judges and Judiciary
9th Circuit Puts Pacific Gas Judge on Bankruptcy Panel
By Amelia Hansen
SAN FRANCISCO - Dennis J. Montali, the U.S. bankruptcy judge who presided over the reorganization of the Pacific Gas & Ele...
Intellectual Property
Judge to Wait to See FTC Remedy in Rambus Case
By Anna Oberthurn
SAN JOSE - A federal judge on Tuesday postponed the last phase of a patent infringement complaint filed by Rambus Inc. against...
A police officer failed to knock and announce himself before he walked into a Pittsburg home to arrest a juvenile drug dealer....
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Denies He Had Financial Interest in Two Cases' Litigants
By Amelia Hansen
Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Harry Pregerson defended himself Tuesday against allegations that he had a financial...
Corporate
In and Out: Firms at Both Ends of the Private Equity Pipeline
By Rick Kennedyn
Two recent deals in California show companies at opposite ends of the private equity pipeline, one entering with high hopes an...
Civil Rights
9th Circuit Was Wrong to Let School Censor Student's T-Shirt
By David Minkown
By Michael Oberst It is axiomatic in a country that values and protects the right of free speech and academic freedom that th...
SAN FRANCISCO - In its ongoing cost-benefit study of the state's drug courts, an advisory committee to the Judicial Council of...
Agriculture
Farm Labor Agency Files Rare Suit Over Use of Illegal Pickers
By Jim Adamekn
SANTA ANA - An Orange County lawyer has filed an unusual antitrust lawsuit accusing a large Kern County farm of hiring illegal...
Presiding Judge Stephen O. Hedstrom, a former county prosecutor, often sees the dark side of Clearlake, a secluded rural commu...
Cox, Castle & Nicholson has bolstered its litigation practice with the addition of veteran commercial litigator Jonathan S...
Letters to the Editor ...
Forum Column: The American Bar Association is at it again. Recently, its Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary unanimous...
Forum Column: Ruben Cantu was only 26 years old when he was executed by the state of Texas for a murder and robbery. A single ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Nicholas S. "Nick" Freud of San Francisco, a distinguished international tax lawyer who was a direct descenden...
SAN FRANCISCO - While Alix Rosenthal was working as a San Francisco elections commissioner in 2002, her managing partner at Th...
Personal Injury & Torts
Panel Says Plaintiff May Collect Pre-Judgment Interest
By John Roemer
A plaintiff whose repeated efforts to settle are turned down, and who then wins at trial, may get to collect some extra cash u...
Litigation
Whittier Company First to Clear Bankruptcy In Asbestos Litigation
By David Houstonn
LOS ANGELES - Asbestos litigation in Southern California recently reached a turning point with the implementation of a $377 mi...
SAN FRANCISCO - Do drug addicts suffer from a chronic disease that should be treated, or are they exhibiting anti-social behav...
Immigration
Panel Decides Cross-Dresser Deserves Asylum Consideration
By Amelia Hansen
A Mexican gay man who dressed as a woman should not have been denied political asylum in the United States just because he did...
Friends who provide medical care to elders must prove they did not engage in deceit or pressure tactics to win an inheritance,...
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Gibson W. Lee relies on an arsenal of discipline, humor and respect to get youthful offenders...