Ruling Opens Doors for Claims on Lost Policies
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Experts Tuesday called a California Supreme Court ruling making it easier to collect on lost or destroyed insura...
Powers of Attorney Give Clients Say-So When They Can't Speak
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Joel Sachs and Mark R. Sieke - The words "power of attorney" can sound ominous. Many clients in the prime of...
Lawyers for Deputy Fired After Beating Win Fight Over Fees
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court Tuesday upheld an award of $154,000 in fees to lawyers for a former Riverside sheriff's ...
Only Strong, Focused Policy Can Resurrect Bull Market
By Contributing Writer
Forum Column - By Raymond J. Keating - From the early 1980s to about 2000, the bulls generally reigned supreme on Wall Street....
Butte County Judgeship Filled
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Chico family law specialist Robert A. Glusman was appointed Monday to the Butte County bench by Gov. Gray Davi...
Bookstore Owner Wins New Trial
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A Sacramento law bookstore owner who tried to use the anti-government Montana Freeman method of raising money ...
Ninth Day of Deliberations Passes in Westerfield Trial
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Jurors will enter their 10th day of deliberations today in the trial of David A. Westerfield, accused of kidnappin...
Powers of Attorney Give Clients Say-So When They Can't Speak
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Joel Sachs and Mark R. Sieke - The words "power of attorney" can sound ominous. Many clients in the prime of...
DAILY DEALS -- Northern California
By Jack Briggs
CHICO - ARCS Commercial Mortgage Co. LP closed a $2.91 million mortgage loan for the 80-unit Glenbrook Apartments. The loan w...
Courtney Love's Lawsuit Faces Delay, Again
By Christina Landers
LOS ANGELES - Rocker Courtney Love is trying to reach an eleventh-hour settlement of her artists-rights lawsuit against her re...
The Common Touch
By John Roemer
FREMONT - Alameda County Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch frowned at an accused man's lawyer as he worked through his misdeme...
'Westerfield' Jury Deliberates for Ninth Day
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Jurors deciding the fate of David A. Westerfield, charged with kidnapping and murdering 7-year-old neighbor Daniel...
Something 'Bout The Way She Moves
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A prosecutor who repeatedly uses peremptory strikes to excuse blacks from a jury pool in a criminal case needs...
Cotchett Hired to Defend Judicial Council
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - The state Judicial Council has hired high-powered attorney Joseph Cotchett of Burlingame to defend it against ...
Consumer Bill Makes Progress
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - A proposal to create the nation's strongest financial privacy protections for consumers has been on life support ...
Prop. 21 Challenge Is Rejected
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Proposition 21, the juvenile justice initiative, has survived an attack by the League of Women Voters, a state...
Online Database Uncovers Secrets, Fast
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By Carole Levitt and Mark E. Rosch - Need an inexpensive, fast database that culls through billions of records ...
Raising Revenue at Owners' Expense
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - As local county assessors prepare to mail out millions of property tax bills to Californi...
Smoker Won't Let Ruling Stand in Way
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Betty Bullock became hooked on cigarettes as a teen-ager in 1956, when smoking was "cool," her attorney, Michael...
Lyon & Lyon Lawyers Move to Perkins Coie
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES -Seven Los Angeles-based Lyon & Lyon attorneys, including patent prosecution partners Kenneth H. Ohriner and M...
Tabloids Face Rapidly Developing Cottage Industry of Libel Litigation
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - In what appears to be a rapidly developing cottage industry of libel litigation, Carolyn Condit, wife...
Panel Allows Trial Judges to EstimateDrugs For Sentences
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Monday approved federal prosecutors' ability to increase a drug dealer's prison senten...
Unlike Cops, PD Listened to Client
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - Longtime Deputy Public Defender Rafael Trujillo recently won a rare murder acquittal. Prosecutors accused his ...
Discussion of 'Occupation' Of Israel Has Serious Flaws
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Gary R. White - Ira L. Shafiroff's article entitled "Israel Lawfully Belongs in Land Called the West Bank," ...
Raising Revenue at Owners' Expense
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - As local county assessors prepare to mail out millions of property tax bills to Californi...
Chief Investigator Wins Wrongful Termination Suit
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Paula Jones, former chief investigator of the Riverside County public defender's office who was fired amid allegat...
Man Faces Charges In Additional Killings
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES -A man facing trial in a 2000 killing was charged Monday with two more murders after investigators reported findin...
A Good Story Lies Right Under Scandal Sheets' Noses
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - In what appears to be a rapidly developing cottage industry of libel litigation, Carolyn Condit, wife...
Deliberative Process Privilege Shields Agencies' Deliberations
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Jeremy J. Osher and Evy Wild - In the wake of the Enron collapse and the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, many...
Court Endorses Estimates for Drug Amounts
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court has approved of federal prosecutors' authority to greatly increase a drug dealer's pri...