Menesini Loses Costly DA Race
By Karen Coleman
MARTINEZ - A historically competitive and at times downright nasty campaign for Contra Costa County district attorney wound do...
Litigator Ernest Sevier, 70, Was Rainmaker at S.F. Firm
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Ernest Sevier 1922-2002 - Ernest Sevier, a 40-year member of San Francisco's Severson & Werson, died Sunda...
Justices Hear Fear-of-Cancer Arguments
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Workers sickened by exposure to asbestos who want to seek damages because they also fear that they will develop l...
San Diego DA Narrowly Trails Rival
By Jim Adamekn
SAN DIEGO - After a bruising campaign, San Diego County District Attorney Paul Pfingst trailed challenger Bonnie Dumanis on We...
Court Slams Trial Tactics in Eminent Domain Case
By Columnist
Focus Column - Real Property - By Ethan Friedman - The 1st District Court of Appeal has made some significant rulings in an em...
Fraud Suit Says Builder Overbilled Airport Job
By Riley Guerin
SAN FRANCISCO - Hefty political connections have failed to protect California construction giant Tutor-Saliba Corp. from one o...
New California Bills Protect Domestic Partners and Aid Hate-Crime Victims
By Columnist
Focus Column - Family Law - By Boyce Hinman - Several bills passed in 2002 give new rights to lesbians, gays, bisexuals, trans...
Orange County Voters Decide Heated, Messy Races for Bench
By Jenna Bordelon
SANTA ANA - Voters in Orange County on Tuesday shrugged off a challenger's allegations and elected businessman John Adams to r...
Judge Bars Jurors From Media
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - After Winona Ryder was convicted of shoplifting charges Wednesday, Superior Court Judge Elden S. Fox delivered a...
Winnie-the-Pooh Case Becomes Theme Park Only Lawyers Could Love
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - It has been a busy and unusual week in Winnie-the-Pooh Lawsuit Land, a theme park for lawyers best kn...
Some Get Singled Out for Brutality
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Gloria Allred and Dolores Leal - When people socialize and interact with a person whom they believe to be a ...
Disciplined Judges Return to Bench
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Northern California voters, either through ignorance or indifference, brushed aside the judicial misconduct of...
Wounded Fox Casts a Shadow
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - One judge, two baseball fans, four distinguished professors and a veritable fortune in lawyers gathered in a c...
Jurist Braves Her Share of Scares
By Jenna Bordelon
VAN NUYS - Dressed in a blue fleece pullover covered with miniature moose, the woman sat on the witness stand looking neither ...
Hahn Urges Valley Secessionists to Help L.A.
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - An exultant Mayor Jim Hahn called on defeated San Fernando Valley city advocates Wednesday to join him in making...
Court Slams Trial Tactics in Eminent Domain Case
By Columnist
Focus Column - Real Property - By Ethan Friedman - Emeryville is a big "dig" on aggressive trial tactics common in em...
Justices Hear Fear-of-Cancer Arguments
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Workers sickened by exposure to asbestos who want to seek damages because they also fear that they will develop l...
'Wayward Second Son' No More
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Newton Lam wants a bigger courtroom. But the San Francisco Superior Court judge's desire for additional space ...
Jury Acquits Businessman in Woman's Death From Falling
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - After deliberating less than a day and a half, a Pomona jury on Tuesday acquitted a Texas businessman of murderi...
Panel defers to justices on 3-strikes
By Pamela Mac Lean
One day after the U.S. Supreme Court slapped down the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for failing to defer to state court de...
Rubin's Kin Want to See Proof of Suicide
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Family and colleagues of Irv Rubin said Tuesday that they want the government to produce a videotape of the Jewi...
Signaling the End of an Era, Cooley Leaves Sand Hill Road
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - In the latest in a series of retrenchments, Cooley Godward will close its office on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Pa...
Circuit Limits Forest Spraying
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate court ruling barring aerial pesticide spraying on Pacific Northwest forests until water po...
Reassessment Of Innocence Declaration Is Before Court
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court appeared troubled Tuesday that a Los Angeles appellate court second-guessed a trial ...
Justices Seem Likely To OK Three-Strikes
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday indicated it likely will rule that California's three-strikes law does not impose un...
Sarbanes-Oxley Contains New Protections for Whistle-Blowers
By Columnist
Focus Column - Corporate Law - By Arthur F. Silbergeld and Jessica A. Mayer - The Sarbanes-Oxley Act significantly expands pro...
Ruling on Aerial Pesticides May Affect Logging, Farms
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate court ruling barring aerial pesticide spraying on Pacific Northwest forests until water po...
Go With the Flow
By Columnist
Forum Column - By David C. Smith - California State Water Resources Control Board officials have an opportunity this fall to r...
A Sustainable Commitment
By Joseph Sorrentino
BY JOSEPH SORRENTINO CREJ Contributing Writer Like an artists' commune, to become a resident at Eco-Village tenants must demo...
Even Lerach Deserves His Fair Share
By Peter Blumberg
Reporter's Notebook By Pete Blumberg SAN FRANCISCO - San Diego law professor Bob Fellmeth is no fan of famed San Diego litiga...