U.S. Attorney Chooses Top Aides
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - New U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan has drawn from office insiders and longtime prosecutors to begin retooling his ma...
Ashcroft's Plan for Spy Recruiting
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Leslie T. Thornton - Discussing the anniversary of Watergate back in June, Wall Street Journal commentator a...
Proposed Partnership Tax Will Not Be On the Ballot
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - The tax collector won't touch San Francisco law partners' profits, as a 5 p.m. deadline passed Wednesday befor...
Transgender Woman Sues Beauty College
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - A transgender woman filed suit Wednesday against a beauty college she says denied her admission out of concern f...
Opposing Summary Judgment Requires Careful Planning
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - Having to oppose summary judgment can ruin a weekend faster than an unannounced visit f...
DA's Office Loses Giannini
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - Al Giannini, who in 24 years with the San Francisco district attorney's office handled homicides and other ser...
Sirhan Sirhan's Lawyer Tells Court of Vast Conspiracy
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Thirty-four summers after the fatal shooting of presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy, the attorney represent...
Tiptoe Around Immigration Document Traps
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By Beth A. Schroeder and Maria C. Rodriguez - We all know that firms can be penalized for hiring undocumented w...
Conflict on Interpreters' Status Stalls Bill
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - A proposal to turn court interpreters into government employees was put into limbo Wednesday as supporters and op...
Defender Says Westerfield Couldn't Have Taken Girl
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A defense attorney argued Wednesday that David A. Westerfield couldn't have sneaked into the bedroom of Danielle v...
Circuit OKs Airport Searches
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court held Wednesday that airport screeners may conduct random searches of carry-on bags at ...
Tiptoe Around Immigration Document Traps
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By Beth A. Schroeder and Maria C. Rodriguez - We all know that firms can be penalized for hiring undocumented w...
Bar None
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By JoAnne Earls Robbins - Health professionals say 20 percent of California attorneys have a substance abuse pr...
Opposing Summary Judgment Requires Careful Planning
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - Having to oppose summary judgment can ruin a weekend faster than an unannounced visit f...
Myths of Domestic Violence Put Men at a Disadvantage
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Glenn Sacks - Baltimore Orioles pitcher Scott Erickson recently was arrested after an altercation with his g...
Two Appointed to Sacramento Bench
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Gray Davis appointed Chief Assistant Attorney General Pamela Smith-Steward and Deputy Attorney General Tr...
Hiring of Milberg Weiss Draws Heavy Criticism
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - A state pension fund's decision to retain Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach for a securities fraud claim ...
DA Weaves Description of Westerfield's Movements
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - David A. Westerfield crept into the bedroom of the 7-year-old girl he is accused of kidnapping and murdering and t...
Bilingual Liberties
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Gerald M. Sato - This article analyzes Government Code Section 12951, which was added to the Fair Employment...
Parties May Appeal Discovery Orders Immediately in Some Situations
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Robert Holland and Michelle Fowler - Discovery rulings are not "final" judgments or orders and, therefore, g...
Tenants Get $355,000 in Bias Case
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - In what is being called one of the "more egregious" violations of the Fair Housing Act, the Department of Justice ...
San Quentin Prison Should Be Closed, Not Renovated
By Contributing Writer
Forum Column - By Dick Spotswood - Just when it looked like there was a decent chance that San Quentin State Prison would clos...
L.A. Ranks First by Far in Foster-Care Abuse
By Cheryl Romo
LOS ANGELES - A child is four times more likely to be abused or neglected in foster care in Los Angeles County than in any oth...
Day in the Life of a Country Judge
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Are you ready for some football? If the answer is yes, and you live in Del Norte County, then you might have v...
10 Members Join Courts' Policy Body
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Ten new members will soon join the state Judicial Council, the policy-making body of California's trial and ap...
Judge Bars City of Cypress From Seizing Church's Land
By Jenna Bordelon
SANTA ANA - In a potentially groundbreaking decision, a federal judge ruled Tuesday that the city of Cypress likely violated t...
Learning to Play by New Corporate Rules
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - One month before President Bush signed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on corporate responsibility, lawyers at Gray Car...
Committee OKs State Version of 'Atkins' Ruling
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - A new state measure that would implement the U.S. Supreme Court's decision banning execution of the mentally reta...
Patent Lather
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - When former congressman James Rogan took the reins as head of the United States Patent and Trademark Office si...
Bilingual Liberties
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Gerald M. Sato - This article analyzes Government Code Section 12951, which was added to the Fair Employment...