AG Candidates May Trip Over Track Records
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - In the 1990s, gun control and tobacco regulation have emerged as key issues in California politics. The same hold...
Inspectors Hope to Quash TV Report
By Denise Levin
Attorneys for a home inspection company are scheduled to appear in court today in an effort to stop KCBS-TV from airing an inv...
Expedited Microsoft Trial Slowed by First Witness
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - The judge presiding over the antitrust case against Microsoft Corp. has set rules to expedite court proceedings,...
Prison Guards Back George With $25K
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - With their opponents' campaign against their retention taking shape, Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald M. Georg...
Teacher Faces Retrial for 'Cybercrime'
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Creating an Internet Web site focusing on neo-Nazis and skinheads is not a crime. But prosecutors say what is a cr...
Liver Transplant Hopeful Sues Medical Center
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A seriously ill Mountain View man whose request for a liver transplant was rejected because of his history of drug...
Girardi Takes On Tobacco
By Marty Graham
SAN DIEGO - Los Angeles plaintiffs' attorney Tom Girardi, on behalf of a group called Smokers for Fairness, will try to convi...
Caltrans' Condemnation Causes Lawsuit Pileup
By Tori Richards
SANTA ANA - Chris Burchinal had lived the classic American dream: starting his own business with just a little bit of cash an...
State Bar Gets Some Good News, on the Real Estate Front
By Don De Benedictis
The State Bar of California may finally see the tiniest glint of a silver lining in Gov. Pete Wilson's veto of its funding bi...
Court Unification Ups the Ante in Governors Race
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - As Dan Lungren and Gray Davis enter the home stretch in their race to become California's next governor, the tri...
Judge Accused of Helping Pal Conceal Assets
By Anne La Jeunesse
Citrus Municipal Court Judge Patrick B. Murphy is accused of helping a friend conceal more than $1.8 million in funds allegedl...
Judge Dismisses Suit Seeking Internet Blocking in Library
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - In a ruling limiting liability of public institutions under the federal Communications Decency Act, an Alamed...
Bum's Rush
By Mathew Heller
MURRIETA - If school district officials had their way, Michael Ertel would not be attending Murrieta Valley High School right...
Behemothic Bill Weighs In at 40 Pounds, $520B
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - Call it Jurassic Pork, or maybe a budgetbillosaurus. The $520-billion spending package passed by the Senate and ...
Senate, in Final Push, Approves 17 New Judges
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - In one of its final acts before adjourning for the year, the U.S. Senate Wednesday confirmed Los Angeles U.S. Att...
Woman Claims Lawyer Abandoned Her in Court
By Denise Levin
Her attorney's failure to appear twice for a family law trial and comply with discovery motions caused a woman to lose $4,050 ...
Lawyer Cites 'Principle' of Suing Insurance Carrier
By Denise Levin
Attorney Larry R. Feldman has sued his former legal malpractice insurance carrier - not because the carrier backed out of cove...
Hate Crimes Unit Wins Backing of L.A. Supervisors
By Lauren Blau
Los Angeles District Attorney Gil Garcetti earned two victories Tuesday when the Board of Supervisors approved the formal cre...
Lawyer: Gates Not 'Great Satan,' Just a Competitor
By Daniel Shaw
By Daniel A. Shaw Los Angeles Daily Journal WASHINGTON - In his opening shot at the government Tuesday, Microsoft's lead atto...
New Law Impedes Plans to Help Wards of Court
By Cheryl Romo
A plan to implement radical changes in the way youngsters are treated at MacLaren Children's Center, the county's only shelte...
Group Seeks to Bolster Counterfeit Laws
By Anne La Jeunesse
Los Angeles attorney Tony Keats, head of the intellectual property rights team of the law firm of Baker & Hostetler, lamb...
Sobek Lawsuit Is Said to Settle, Though Rathbun Wins Judgment
By Denise Levin
Nearly three years after Linda Sobek was murdered in the Angeles National Forest, a settlement may have been reached between ...
The World Is Small When Children Are the Topic
By Cheryl Romo
Five women from the Ukraine and Belarus recently flew halfway around the world in their fight, against the odds, for the lega...
Wall Street Web Sites Battle Over The Bare Market
By James Evans
SAN JOSE - Money and sex have never been strangers, so it shouldn't have shocked anyone that they would embrace in cyberspace...
Co-Workers Get Protection for Insulting Others
By Anna Marie Stolley
Former Southwest Airlines pilot Christopher G. Sheppard thought his co-workers were out to get him. They had conspired to get...
Court Steers a New Course in Rescue Lawsuit
By Anna Marie Stolley
The tow truck operator was supposed to rescue stranded motorist James Tidmore, not the other way around. But roles quickly re...
Legal Community Roasts Judge Chavez
By Wirein
One after another, the lawyers and judges took the podium with the task of roasting and, at the same time, paying tribute to L...
Bail Bondsman Of the Future Is Unplugged
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A large gray box standing in the lobby of the Santa Clara County jail could revolutionize the business of bailing ...
Next Governor Eyes Legacy of Judicial Choices
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - As a gubernatorial campaign issue, judicial appointments barely registers. The subject isn't blessed with the vi...
Judge: No Misconduct by DA's Office
By Michael Harris
Finding no evidence of prosecutorial misconduct in the conviction of a lawyer who conspired to murder a business associate, a...