Cheryl Miller

December 20, 2007 | The Recorder

Richard Ciummo's firm has scored a $38 million piece of California's indigent defense industry, where tightening budgets keep driving private-sector competition.

By Cheryl Miller

13 minute read

July 28, 2009 | Law.com

Ending a tumultuous legal battle, the California Supreme Court late Monday ordered the State Bar to allow Sara Granda, a 29-year-old quadriplegic, to take the bar exam, which starts today. Granda submitted her online exam application earlier this summer but left blank a space for credit card payment information. Granda, whose sole source of income is a monthly disability payment, doesn't have a credit card and contends that the state Department of Rehabilitation paid her $648 application fee.

By Cheryl Miller

3 minute read

March 10, 2011 | The Recorder

On the heels of Michael Nava's failed bid for an S.F. bench seat, the judges' lobby says it will raise money from law firms and others to fund incumbents.

By Cheryl Miller

3 minute read

June 28, 2007 | Law.com

In an extraordinary hearing Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Lawrence Karlton told prisoner lawyers that asking him to order the release of state inmates is "so radical" they ought to "take a deep breath" and think it over. That doesn't mean he won't do it.

By Cheryl Miller

4 minute read

July 24, 2006 | Law.com

Talmadge Jones is a Hopalong Cassidy fan whose office is a small museum of Hollywood memorabilia. He's also a respected judge known for his humanity and perspective.

By Cheryl Miller

5 minute read

July 11, 2006 | The Recorder

Tort reformers pledge a new campaign against what they call Attorney General Bill Lockyer's reckless activism, while Lockyer sees them as corporate pawns.

By Cheryl Miller

3 minute read

January 08, 2007 | Corporate Counsel

If an employer hides a video camera in the workplace, can an employee sue for invasion of privacy, even if her image was never recorded? That's the question the California Supreme Court has agreed to consider, in a case that stems from a September 2003 lawsuit brought by two women who found a working video camera hidden in their shared office. Their employer had installed the camera after a technician reported that someone was downloading pornographic images on a computer in that room at night.

By Cheryl Miller

3 minute read

November 12, 2007 | The Recorder

San Luis Obispo's Don Ernst is set to take the helm at Consumer Attorneys of California over the weekend. The year ahead could involve the trial lawyers group in an initiative to extend term limits and the state's presidential primary.

By Cheryl Miller

4 minute read

July 13, 2009 | Law.com

A California bill that would recognize what may be thousands of same-sex marriages sailed through a policy committee Thursday, increasing the likelihood the latest post-Proposition 8 dilemma will head for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. The bill would recognize the marriages of gay and lesbian couples performed outside California before Prop 8 became official Nov. 5. Same-sex couples married after that date would receive the same rights as heterosexual newlyweds, although the unions would not be called "marriage" in California.

By Cheryl Miller

3 minute read

August 26, 2009 | The Recorder

In pursuit of enough votes to make court-mandated prison reform happen, Assembly lawmakers are compromising in a number of areas.

By Cheryl Miller

4 minute read