Xenia P. Kobylarz Daily Journal Staff Write SAN FRANCISCO - Edwin A. Heafey, Jr., chairman and name partner of Crosby Heafey R...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Gerald Edelstein, a malpractice attorney who worked for Safeco Insurance Co. for 3...
LOS ANGELES - A funeral Mass will take place today for retired Los Angeles Municipal Court Commissioner Martin J. Blake Sr. Bl...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Gregory C. O'Brien Jr. is looking forward to traveling and meeting with his col...
SAN FRANCISCO - Anonymous critics of Sonoma County's $1 million settlement in the Maria Teresa Macias litigation have mounted ...
Judges and Judiciary
Orrick's Jeffrey White Going to U.S. Bench, Sources Say
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - The White House has selected Jeffrey S. White, a litigation partner at Orrick Harrington & Sutcliffe in Sa...
Column by Sela Seleska - Implementing a quality summer program requires that firms coordinate many pieces and parts to create ...
Intellectual Property
Owners Can Forfeit Trademark Rights If They Don't Exercise Quality Control
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Focus Column - By Robert B. Burlingame - Trademark owners and their attorneys beware! As the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - California has the largest and most expensive prison system in the nation. The state is f...
Q & ADR - By Jeff Kichaven and Deborah Rothman - Question: How could the defense bar be more effective at mediation? - Ans...
Attorney Thomas R. Kaufman started out his career as a plaintiffs' attorney, but knew he wanted to do employment law. ...
In this week's Q&ADR, members of the plaintiffs' bar implore their defense brethren to show a little empathy toward plaint...
Always arguing to get his way, a young F. Scott Page often heard comments from his family and friends that he would become an ...
Column by Richard L. Charnley - Last week, Part I of this two-part series on technology in trial discussed setting up your tec...
Focus Column - By James G. Snell and Huong T. Nguyen - NBC Subsidiary (KNBC TV) v. Superior Court, 20 Cal.4th 1178 (199...
LOS ANGELES - San Francisco-based Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has lost its Los Angeles managing partner to Chicago's Si...
SAN FRANCISCO - Prosecutors need not prove that people who post child pornography on the Internet are trying to profit financi...
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis signed legislation Thursday that gives young victims of sexual abuse more time to sue institution...
Constitutional Law
Mother of Girl Cited by Judges Opposes 'Under God' Decision
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - The mother of the girl named in the appeals court ruling that barred public school children from saying the word...
SAN DIEGO - Little more than two weeks after he was banned from the courtroom as a security risk, the father of slain second-g...
LOS ANGELES - When a civil jury is cloistered, deciding whether a "mentally disordered offender" is safe to release or should ...
SANTA ANA - A former Orange lawyer serving eight years in prison for ripping off clients has been sued by the State Bar - for ...
Civil Rights
Child at Center Of Pledge Suit Hires Lawyer, Mother Says
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The Elk Grove girl whose father said she was offended by saying "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance has go...
Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - Is California's Medi-Cal program in compliance with federal and state law? As part of t...
SAN DIEGO - David A. Westerfield "matches FBI profiles" of a possible suspect in an abduction, according to a police affidavit...
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Raymond Davilla spends most of his weekdays meting out stern justice to juv...
SANTA MARIA - A small tin can labeled "Arsenic" is carefully positioned on the edge of Judge Zel Canter's large walnut desk. I...
LOS ANGELES - Memo from the appeals court to lower courts and the district attorney's office: Under Brady v. Maryland, ...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Thomas Patterson, a retired attorney and former Los Angeles Municipal Court judge....
Dicta Column - By The Rodent - As anyone who did not graduate in the top 10 percent of his or her law school class knows, for ...