Lawyer's Disclosure Didn't Violate Client
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - An Oregon lawyer, torn between his ethical duty to keep a client's confidentiality and an attempt to save the...
High Court Hears 'But For' Argument
By Peter Blumberg
LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court wrestled Wednesday with whether to set a lower standard of proof in legal malpracti...
Communications Controversy
By Peter Blumberg
LOS ANGELES - Intel Corp., the chip-making giant, is fighting to prevent outsiders from sending unwanted messages through its...
Two New Premises-Liability Decisions Favor Plaintiffs
By Columnist
Focus Column - Real Property - By Michael Paul Thomas - There can be little question that when it comes to holding those who o...
State High Court Not Sold on Shutdown
By Peter Blumberg
LOS ANGELES - A taxpayer group's effort to shut down state government in the event of a budget impasse this summer met with s...
Church Calls Demand for Files Political Witch Hunt
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - The Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles accused District Attorney Steve Cooley Tuesday of conducting a political...
9th Circuit Won't Allow Parties To Create Appellate Jurisdiction
By Jennifer Orff
Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Catherine Valerio Barrad and Anne Mayer Turk - It is axiomatic that an appellate court will ...
Only a Blue-Ribbon Panel Can Erase Rampart Shadow
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Gregory A. Yates - Concerning the comments of Garry Abrams in the March 6 edition of the Daily Journal ("Ram...
Dubious Dances
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Matthew D. Rifat - The deadline for submission of bills during this session of the state Legislature was Jan...
Court Seems to Protect Parody of Winters
By Peter Blumberg
LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court did not seem terribly troubled Tuesday that two Texas blues-rock musicians were par...
Some Democrats Question 9th Circuit Nominee's Ideology
By Contributing Writer
WASHINGTON - Los Angles Superior Court Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl - a Bush administration nominee for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of...
Court Hears Budget Impasse Plans
By Peter Blumberg
LOS ANGELES - A taxpayer group's effort to shut down state government in the event of a budget impasse this summer met with sk...
Legislature Kills Most Child Safety Measures
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - A package of 12 Republican bills meant to protect children from sexual predators and pornographers was decimated...
Pot Case Juror Takes the 5th
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - One of seven jurors who publicly apologized for voting to convict medical marijuana grower Ed Rosenthal has s...
Deputy DA Wins Top Prosecution Honors
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Deputy District Attorney Sara Danville, who won four first-degree murder convictions last year, has been named Riv...
Dedicated Litigator Often Worked Pro Bono
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
VICTORVILLE - Services have been held for John A. Delatore, a retired civil attorney known as an aggressive litigator who didn...
Judicial Complaints On Rise
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Complaints against California state judges rose slightly during the year 2002, according the annual report of...
Create Misleading.com, Go to Jail, Porn Foes Say
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - If the U.S. House of Representatives gets its way, the federal government may have to expand its prison system...
Award for Eye Doctor Suing Unum Cut to $5 Million
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - A Marin County judge has reduced to $5 million a punitive damages jury award of $30 million against UnumProvi...
Pillsbury Says It's Sorry in Settlement With Ex-Partner
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Pillsbury Winthrop has settled the $45 million defamation lawsuit filed against it by former partner Frode Je...
From the Prosecutor's Table, the Other View
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Inconsistency is in the eye of the beholder. For every defense lawyer's complaint about shameless double-speak...
Critics Decry U.S. Deals to Attract Immigrant Enlistees
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - A boom in immigrant signups for the Iraqi invasion, after an executive order greased the wheels for enlistees to...
Flip-Flop Ethics
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Two boys kill a pizza delivery guy just for the fun of it. When prosecutors can't prove which one fired the le...
Enrollment of Minorities Falls At Law Schools
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - Lower minority enrollments at California-run law schools could foreshadow the future of state-run law schools na...
Affirmative Action Divides Court
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Hearing its most important case in 25 years on the highly charged issue of race, the Supreme Court on Tuesday ind...
DAILY DEALS -- Northern California
By Jack Briggs
DIXON - The John H. Olson Family Limited Trust purchased an 11,520-square-foot building at 1520 N. Lincoln St. (and occupied ...
Government Must Do More to Regulate Dietary Supplements
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Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - Recently, there have been stories of professional athletes and people who are simply tryin...
Crucial Assistance for Victims
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Forum Column - By Susan G. Millmann - Now there is factual evidence that confirms what legal aid attorneys have known anecdota...
'America West' Rejects Strict Standard On Stock Price Effect
By Contributing Writer
Focus Column - Securities Law - By M. Chapman Findlay, David R. Garcia and G. Michael Phillips - Some 15 years ago, the U.S. S...
Church Document Fight Moves Into Open
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - The public could get its first close view today of the Los Angeles Roman Catholic Archdiocese's response to dema...