Davis Puts Commissioners on Superior Court
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis has promoted three Los Angeles-area court commissioners to the Los Angeles Superior Court bench:...
Firms Adjust to Oversight Rules
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - One month before President Bush signed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on corporate responsibility, lawyers at Gray Car...
ADA Doesn't Guarantee Pit Bull Ownership, Judge Says
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Siding with landlords, a federal judge has held that a disabled tenant cannot insist on keeping his pit bull a...
Judge Sues County Over Retirement Pay
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has sued the county in a dispute over his retirement pay. Judge Abraha...
Judge Finds His Magistrate Experience Perfect Training
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers who have appeared before George H. King say that he is the ideal U.S. District Court judge and a prime e...
Fraud on One Part of Insurance Claim Will Void Whole Claim
By Contributing Writer
Focus Column - By Michael M. Pollak - An insured gives his insurance company a phony receipt. The rest of his claim is valid. ...
Don't Let Putting It on Paper Send You Right Up the Wall
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - A cover letter is an important part of your job search presentation package. Whil...
Officials Ask Court To Free Two Inmates
By Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - Religious and prison authorities, including the former director of the California state prison system, asked the...
Attorney Who Called Client 'Lousy Addict' Was Ineffective, Panel Says
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - An Orange County defense lawyer, who highlighted bad evidence against his client and overlooked the good during ...
ABA's Leader Wants to Shed 'Liberal' Label
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - Saying the American Bar Association has been stung by decades of unanswered accusations of liberalism, the new pr...
'White' Could Strengthen Independence of Judiciary
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Beong-Soo Kim - Many greeted the Supreme Court's decision last term striking down a Minnesota rule prohibiti...
Jury Begins Deliberations in Girl's Murder
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Danielle van Dam named David A Westerfield as her killer with her fingerprints, hair and blood, a prosecutor told ...
Marriage Mistake
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - The Personal Responsibility and Workforce Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, more ...
Court Revives Suit by Door-to-Door Canvassers
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court Thursday revived part of a lawsuit challenging a Los Angeles city ordinance that governs...
Woman Prevails in Date-Rape-Drug Lawsuit
By Jim Adamekn
SANTA BARBARA - She was devastated when a judge threw out criminal charges against two of the men she claimed had drugged and ...
Bankruptcy Deal Leaves Shareholders Talking Lawsuit
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Telecommunications giant Verizon has agreed to pay a defunct San Francisco Internet company $175 million to se...
Designated Hitter
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By John Selbak - Four years ago, a quiet revolution began spreading through the legal community, ushering in a ...
Attorney Who Called Client 'Lousy Addict' Was Ineffective, Panel Says
By Susan Mcraen
LOS ANGELES - An Orange County defense lawyer, who highlighted bad evidence against his client and overlooked the good during ...
Don't Let Putting It on Paper Send You Right Up the Wall
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - A cover letter is an important part of your job search presentation package. Whil...
Court Revives Suit by Door-to-Door Canvassers
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court Thursday revived part of a lawsuit challenging a Los Angeles city ordinance that governs...
Marriage Mistake
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - The Personal Responsibility and Workforce Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, more ...
ABA's Leader Wants to Shed 'Liberal' Label
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - Saying the American Bar Association has been stung by decades of unanswered accusations of liberalism, the new pr...
Judge Nudges U.S. on Clean Cars
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A U.S. District Court judge has ordered federal agencies to reveal how they will comply with a little-known la...
Herrera Aide Joins S.F. Firm
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Kimon Manolius, the top administrator in the San Francisco city attorney's office, has left to join Hanson Bri...
More Opening Salvos
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - When Symbionese Liberation Army murder defendant Michael Bortin phoned his wife from jail in Portland, Ore., f...
Last-Ditch Challenge to Prop. 21
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - What's left of a once-broad attack on Proposition 21, the voter-approved juvenile crime law, got an airing at ...
Litigator Volunteered With Women's Shelter
By Sandra Corrales
LOS ANGELES - Litigator and longtime Pasadena resident John Davison Cairns has died. He was 59. Cairns died unexpectedly on Ju...
When Determining Corporate Form, Owners Should Not Forget Tax Issues
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Stephen M. Loeb - In "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People," Stephen Covey tells us to begin with the end...
When Determining Corporate Form, Owners Should Not Forget Tax Issues
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Stephen M. Loeb - In "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People," Stephen Covey tells us to begin with the end...
Myths of Domestic Violence Put Men at a Disadvantage
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Forum Column - By Glenn Sacks Baltimore - Orioles pitcher Scott Erickson recently was arrested after an altercation with his g...