S.F. Public Defender Wants More Money for Staffing
By Laura Impellizzeri
SAN FRANCISCO - Public Defender Jeff Brown has hit the San Francisco mayor's office with a request for a $900,000 boost in hi...
Motions Are Filed to Open Katzenberg Hearing
By Garry Abrams
Reporters for the Los Angeles Daily Journal and the entertainment trade newspaper Daily Variety on Friday filed a motion in L...
Safety in Numbers
By Tom Orewyler
Most corporate lawyers say that the value of a mergers and acquisitions practice is measured by the number of transactions th...
Environmentalists File Challenge to Headwaters Deal
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - One month after the state and federal governments and Pacific Lumber Co. reached a landmark agreement preserv...
Lockyer Prison Proposal Spurs Controversy
By Wirein
SACRAMENTO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer won bipartisan legislative support Tuesday for his proposal to create a special un...
Withholding of Report Angers Defense Attorneys
By Amy Bentley
VENTURA - Public defenders who represented a man condemned to die for killing a Ventura County sheriff's deputy say they may ...
Attorney Noted As One of the 'Good Guys'
By Jodi Weisberg
PHOENIX, ARIZ. - For more than half a century John Frank has garnered headlines and awards for his efforts to reshape U.S. cr...
Owner Admits to 'Skimming' Estates
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - An owner of a financial services company being investigated by Riverside prosecutors has admitted in court record...
Take Back the Courts
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal judges in the state's Northern District have adopted a new lawyer discipline procedure at a time when...
Intellectual Property Specialist Enjoys Tilting at Windmills
By James Evans
MONTEREY - G. Gervaise Davis is an intellectual property specialist and champion of the underdog who focused on computers, so...
Philanderer Gets Second Shot at Defending Self
By Anna Marie Stolley
A state appeal panel has reversed the assault and battery convictions of a supermarket security guard who claimed he shot one...
Bronson Will Dissolve After Key Losses
By Leslie Gordon
SAN FRANCISCO - Bronson, Bronson & McKinnon is following in the footsteps of Jackson Tufts Cole & Black, becoming the...
New Bill Would Restore Much Of Old State Bar
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - California lawyers would have to meet less rigorous continuing education requirements under a proposal likely to...
Trial Date Set in Suit Against Holden
By Lauren Blau
A year after an appellate court ruled her case was erroneously dismissed, a former field deputy for Los Angeles City Councilm...
Company Claims Malicious Prosecution by Lawyer
By Denise Levin
A malicious-prosecution lawsuit has been filed against entertainment lawyer Martin D. Singer, his firm and a client by a book...
Final Nod Given to Grave-Digging Settlement
By Denise Levin
A $3.8 million settlement by about 70 mortuaries that did business with Paradise Memorial Park, where graves were dug up and ...
UCLA Wins Dismissal of the Body of a Lawsuit
By Denise Levin
A court commissioner has struck the last remaining cause of action that could bring monetary damage in a lawsuit against UCLA...
Housing Woes
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - It is a homeowner's worst nightmare: Cracks appear in floors and walls; water seeps up through the cement flo...
Justices Uphold Child Sex Abuse Act
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - A defendant charged with continuous sexual abuse of a minor under a 1990 state law can be convicted based in ...
Court Upholds Prisoner's Right to Hormones
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - State prison officials can't abruptly stop female hormone treatments for transsexual inmates after first allo...
Waive Goodbye?
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - In its attempt to avoid the problem of federal pre-emption, a bill to curb mandatory arbitration could have far-...
Judge Worked to Ensure an Easy Transition to Unification
By Mark Blumberg
SANTA CLARA - As the Santa Clara County struggled to unite both halves of its court system last year, Sandra S. Faithfull sto...
L.A. County Pays $550K for Abuse Charge
By Cheryl Romo
After a six-year legal battle fought in both state and federal courts, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has approv...
High Court Weighs Whether States Can Be Sued Over Federal Rights
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - A slim majority of the Supreme Court appeared ready Wednesday to strike another blow for states' rights by rulin...
City Attorney Wont Charge Fund-Raising Prosecutors
By Michael Harris
For the second time in recent weeks, the Los Angeles city attorney's office has declined to file misdemeanor charges against ...
Golden Gate Law School Trustees Address Accreditation Issue
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - With the trustees of Golden Gate University heading into a potentially critical meeting in the midst of a fac...
Tools of the trade
By Jane Zastrow
By Cary S. Treff Property management has always been highly competitive. To remain at the forefront of the industry these fir...
Jury Trial Nears Closing in Deadly Force Case
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
Riverside police officers used the appropriate force needed to subdue a man who died in part because of restraining maneuvers...
Gangs Have No Right to Free Counsel
By Michael Harris
A state appeal court Wednesday rejected a bid by the Los Angeles County public defender to set legal precedent by providing c...
Court Upholds L.A. County's Liability for False Arrests
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court refused Wednesday to become ensnared in a long-running $7.4 million suit against...