When Questions Get Tough, Seek High Ground
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - At some point in the interviewing process, virtually all candidates are asked tou...
Bill Proposes Reforms for Election Law
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Lawmakers are scrambling to find fixes for a campaign reform law that allowed a political party to channel nearl...
AG Sues Hollywood Fund-Raiser for Fraud
By Joan Osterwalder
LOS ANGELES - State Attorney General Bill Lockyer on Thursday sued Hollywood fund-raiser Aaron Tonken, lawyer Kevin M. Clarke...
Judge Allows Blake to Make Bail
By David Houston
By David Houston Nevada Journal Staff Writer LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge reversed himself Wednesday and allowed acto...
State Bar Moves Against Trevor Attorneys
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - The State Bar on Thursday moved to stop Trevor Law Group attorneys from practicing law, citing "serious miscond...
Justices Give Triplets' Mom Chance at Suing Blue Cross
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A woman facing $1 million in medical bills for her prematurely born triplet daughters may get a shot at challen...
Lawmakers Must Suppress Predatory Lending Practices
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Forum Column - By Dan Grunfeld and Hernn Vera - For decades, an essential part of the American dream has been the attainment o...
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...