SFUSD Ups Damages in Fraud Suit
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Unified School District upped the ante Thursday in its lawsuit against Progress Energy Corp...
Judge Allows Blake to Make Bail
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge reversed himself Wednesday and allowed actor Robert Blake to bail out of jail while he aw...
Late Reports
By Susan Mc Rae
SANTA ANA - A federal grand jury in Santa Ana has indicted 13 people, including a former Long Beach attorney, for allegedly en...
Privacy Initiative Parallels Bill
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Privacy advocates, frustrated by years of defeat in the Legislature, moved Wednesday to put a measure on the bal...
S.F. Trial Attorney George Ball, 76
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - George Ball, a "classic" San Francisco trial lawyer who argued more than 100 jury trials, died Saturday after ...
Israeli Father Loses Custody Fight on Appeal
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court invoked Solomon on Wednesday when it decided a custody battle between a mother forced to m...
Mail Fraud Plea by S.F. School Employee
By Pam Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A former San Francisco Unified School District custodial supervisor and a Hayward software company have pleade...
Inadequate Counsel for Poor Frustrates Criminal Defenders
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Forty years after the Supreme Court in Gideon v. Wainright ordered the states to provide counsel to indigent def...
Advocates Sue to Halt Rehab Clinic's Closure
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Health care advocates Wednesday filed what they describe as a groundbreaking lawsuit, the second in less than a...
San Jose Judge's Decisions Are Scrutinized
By Craig Anderson
Reporter's Notebook - By Craig Anderson - February was a rough month for Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danse...
SLA Inmate Appeals Her Term Hike
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Former Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson, who pleaded guilty in 2001 to the attempted bombing...
Signs of Settlement On Offshore Drilling
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - The federal government, in a new court filing, has revealed that it may buy out three-dozen offshore oil deve...
Defense Attorneys Want Cops' Files Reviewed
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - Public Defender Jeff Adachi said Wednesday he wants the Police Department or Board of Supervisors to pay for a...
Misconduct-Tainted Case Ends in Conviction
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - A man was convicted of murdering two people today in a case in which the former prosecutor is under investigati...
Lawyers' Punitives Before High Court
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A couple who blame their lawyers for failing to pursue punitive damages in a massive toxic tort case may be o...
Automatic Stay Can Be a Trap For Attorneys Suing Debtors
By Tina Spee
Focus Column Bankruptcy Law By Don Robinson Bankruptcy law should not be a trap for the unwary, as Bankruptcy Courts are fond...
Members of Judiciary Signal Easy Confirmation for Jurists
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - After perfunctory questioning Wednesday by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, two Orange County Superior...
Suit Against HBO Lands 'Sopranos' Star in Shark-Infested Waters
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - A heavy-set, menacing man walks up to a Hollywood executive and waves a sheaf of papers in the execut...
Automatic Stay Can Be a Trap For Attorneys Suing Debtors
By Columnist
Focus Column - Bankruptcy Law - By Don Robinson - Bankruptcy law should not be a trap for the unwary, as Bankruptcy Courts are...
Taking Charge
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Steven L. Schwarcz - The government needs to balance the necessity for a rigorous standard for rating agains...
Litigator Takes Reins at Reed Smith's L.A. Shop
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Pittsburgh's Reed Smith Crosby Heafey has tapped Peter J. Kennedy to serve as the managing partner in its Los An...
In Check
Forum Column - By Richard A. Nixon - I read with interest the article by Miriam A. Krinsky and Robin Meadow, which argued that...
Tobacco-Settlement Money Follows Political Priorities
By Contributing Writer
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Modisett - Kudos to Ann Woolner for her article describing the states' raiding of the 1998 Master...
League's Award Catches UCLA Lawyer by Surprise
By Christina Landers
LOS ANGELES - It's not easy to catch attorney Joseph D. Mandel off guard, his friends say. "He is so cool and so poised; his f...
Event Honors Southland Firms For Supporting Pro Bono Plan
By Christina Landers
LOS ANGELES - The Anti-Defamation League's Pacific Southwest region will honor several individuals and a dozen law firms at i...
Battle Rages for Right To Painting by Picasso
By Christina Landers
LOS ANGELES - Thomas C. Bennigson had just returned from a day of classes at Boalt Hall last summer when he got the telephone ...
'Little' Applies 'Armendariz' to Some Claims at Common Law
By Columnist
Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By June R. Lehrman - The California Supreme Court has decided Little v. Aut...
A Judge Who Pays Meticulous Attention
By Karen Coleman
FAIRFIELD - The courtroom of Judge Ramona Garrett is an island of civility in the rough-and-tumble world of Solano County crim...
Legal Luminaries Defend Quattrone
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - Silicon Valley investment banker Frank Quattrone, facing civil and criminal investigations for alleged "spinn...
Attorney General Joins Challenge to Ahmanson Ranch
By Wire
ASSOCIATED PRESS CALABASAS - Attorney General Bill Lockyer is joining the legal challenge by opponents of the 3,050-home Ahma...