Panel Limits Reciprocal Discovery
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - Defendants do not have to provide discovery to prosecutors at hearings held to decide whether their probation sh...
Senator Urges Congress to Rethink Feeney Amendment
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Challenging a controversial law that limits federal judges' discretion in sentencing and requires reports to Cong...
Business Lawyer Taught at USC Law School
By Lorelei Laird
LOS ANGELES - Services are scheduled for Saturday for Theodore G. Johnsen, a business attorney and adjunct professor at USC La...
Vicarious Liability At Issue
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether a nonprofit agency that provides services to d...
S.F. Did Not Deceive Mother Intentionally
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Health officials intentionally withheld information from an adoptive mother that would have warn...
Trial Venue Isn't Bound To Crime's Location
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Although he never set foot in Marin County, a San Francisco drug dealer was properly tried there because he ma...
Prosecutors Deny Allowing Author at Strategy Meeting
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors involved in the murder case against actor Robert Blake are disputing that they allowed a book author...
Move to Oust Peterson Judge May Backfire, Some Say
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Stanislaus prosecutors may live to regret their decision to remove Judge Richard Arnason from presiding over t...
Bankruptcy Stealth Move Sparks Outrage
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - The consumer bankruptcy bar reacted with outrage Thursday to reports out of Washington that House Republicans ...
Clergy-Scandal Attorneys Seek Mediation End
By Joy Shaw
LOS ANGELES - Signaling a breakdown in the year-old attempt to settle civil litigation over the Catholic Church sexual abuse s...
Legal Experts Deliver Split Verdict on State of the Union
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Delivering his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Bush put his administration at the center of a...
Anti-Gay Worker Who Violates Diversity Policy May Be Fired
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Richard S. Rosenberg and John J. Manier - Job-bias statutes frequently put employers strivi...
Jurists See Through Bush's Sophistry
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Stephen Yagman - "The great opportunity of the American bar is and will be to stand ... ready to protect the...
Court Tosses Man's Conviction, Orders Retrial
By Dan Evans
SANTA ANA - Convicted of threatening FBI agents, Erik Erskine thought he was going to spend at most a year in prison. It turn...
Legal Issues Get Big Play In State of Union Address
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Delivering his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Bush put his administration at the center of ...
When Pleading Guilty, Beware
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court strongly indicated Wednesday that it will not order trial judges to give pro se defendants con...
Panel Reanimates Roger Rabbit Case
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - An appeals court Wednesday revived claims that Disney cheated the author of the book behind "Who Framed Roger Ra...
Prison System Woes Exposed
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - California's former inspector general warned state senators Wednesday that the new governor's appointment of R...
Litigator Was Committed to Public Service
By Amy Spees
LOS ANGELES - Paul George Bower, a litigation partner in the Los Angeles office Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, died at home Dec....
S.F. Said to Conceal Adoptee's HIV Data
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Jurors began deliberating Wednesday over whether San Francisco adoption and health officials intentionally dec...
Kenneth Starr Will Teach at Chapman
By Dan Evans
SANTA ANA - Conservative icon Kenneth Starr will teach an advanced constitutional law class at Chapman University in Orange, ...
Veteran Los Angeles Judge Will Retire
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - When Santa Monica family law attorney Ruth L. Estep learned that Los Angeles Superior Court Judge John W. Ouderk...
Sleuth's Lawyers Slam Prosecutors
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for Anthony Pellicano blasted federal prosecutors Wednesday for "desperately and ineffectively" trying...
PUC Asked to Revisit the PG&E Plan
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Opponents, in the first step toward launching a court challenge, have asked the California Public Utilities Co...
When Pleading Guilty: Beware
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court strongly indicated Wednesday that it will not order trial judges to give pro se defendants cont...
Sentencing Mistake Leads to Man's Retrial
By Dan Evans
SANTA ANA - Convicted of threatening FBI agents, Erik Erskine thought he was going to spend at most a year in prison. It turns...
Counties Vie to Host Big Trials, Bring in Profits
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Daniel Fenton, head of the San Jose Convention and Visitors Bureau, sounded like he was making a pitch for the O...
Herrera Is Hip, Says Pink
By Tyler Cunningham
Notebook - By Tyler Cunningham - SAN FRANCISCO - Some government lawyers toil in the relative obscurity of legislative committ...
Lowering of Vehicle Fee Is Illegal, Groups Claim
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Two civil rights organizations and a student group Wednesday asked the California Supreme Court to invalidate Gov...
Local Courts Take on Peripheral Pooh Plots in Never-Ending Story
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - OK, children, time for a quick tour through Winnie the Pooh country to get an update on the latest le...