Entertainment & Sports
In 2030, Lawyers Will Continue to Make Century City Uninhabitable
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - The gulf between legal reality and legal television drama is starkly delineated this week with the pr...
SAN FRANCISCO - Seeking to add another layer of protection for investors, the Securities and Exchange Commission has issued ne...
SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer of San Francisco has reacted to bias claims from convicted heroin dealer...
LOS ANGELES - Urban farmers on Tuesday gained a victory when a judge halted their eviction from a 14-acre garden in South Los ...
Forum Column - By Karen Bond - The press announced with glee that Martha Stewart is going to prison. What a travesty! High-pro...
Forum Column - By MKB Darmer - The conviction of Martha Stewart and her former broker, Peter Bacanovic, on March 5 was a spect...
Focus Column - Probate Law - By Marshal Oldman - In the matter of American Contractors Indemnity Co. v. Saladino, B1585...
Government
Technological Advances in Voting May Cause More Problems Than They Solve
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Forum Column - By David Mark - First-year medical students are often told, "First, do no harm." Elections officials should hee...
LOS ANGELES - State Attorney General Bill Lockyer on Tuesday won a default judgment that could be worth $1 million against a c...
WASHINGTON - The issue of judges who "downwardly depart" from federal sentencing guidelines continues to be a sore point in re...
SAN FRANCISCO - Former U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Q. Todd Dickinson has been named General Electric Co.'s vice ...
LOS ANGELES - Donald C. Petersen, founding partner of the Glendale law firm Knapp, Petersen & Clarke, died March 4 at Tarz...
LOS ANGELES - In 1974, James D. Otto got his first assignment as an associate at the Los Angeles litigation firm of Cummins, W...
SAN FRANCISCO - One of the biggest surprises for new San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris was to learn her 42 investi...
SAN FRANCISCO - A group of Florida lawyers failed Tuesday to piggyback on the fee request of California attorneys who settled ...
MODESTO - Stanislaus County residents who hear the name Whiteside usually equate it first with Carol Whiteside, who worked for...
LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors will no longer try to use information that accused double agent Katrina Leung provided in vo...
SAN FRANCISCO - The two members of the California Public Utilities Commission who opposed an agreement crucial to the bankrupt...
SAN FRANCISCO - Jason Wacha is one of the country's pre-eminent experts on open source software licensing, but the 41-year-old...
Column By Garry Abrams - The seventh anniversary of the unsolved murder of rap mogul Notorious B.I.G. passed without much noti...
Forum Column - By Griffin B. Bell and Alan K. Simpson - Legal reform is bogged down in the clear perception that what's at sta...
Personal Injury & Torts
Legislators Must Overhaul Medical-Malpractice Guidelines
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Forum Column - By Carrie Nixon and James Copland - "So, when do you expect the class action bill to come up in the Senate agai...
Forum Column - By Jennifer Van Bergen - What is today's news? Haiti? Guantnamo? Iraq? Bin Laden? The primaries? Martha Stewart...
Appellate Practice
9th Circuit Establishes New Qualified-Immunity Standard
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Focus Column - Administrative Law - By Stuart Miller - In its recent decision in Cox v. Roskelley, 2004 DJDAR 2227 (9th...
SAN FRANCISCO - Stephen Cowan, a former managing partner of O'Melveny & Myers' San Francisco office and a renowned real es...
LOS ANGELES - In a downtown Los Angeles courtroom last week, a 28-year-old 18th Street gang member was sentenced to a life pri...
SACRAMENTO - In an unusual move Monday, the Fair Political Practices Commission rejected a $16,000 fine recommended by an admi...
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danser's co-defendant pleaded no contest Monday to felony conspira...
SAN FRANCISCO - Environmental rules and regulations have been on the books in the People's Republic of China for more than 20 ...
LOS ANGELES - Major League Baseball teams and Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig shared a victory Monday when U.S. District Judge...