Payroll Tax Would Hurt Firms
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - The Bar Association of San Francisco joined a chorus of business interests Wednesday in protesting a superviso...
Death Row Attorney Is Guardian Ad Litem
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A death row inmate convicted of three 1980s murders is now so mentally ill that he's been declared unfit to he...
Armed But Disabled: Family Questions Hesperia Police Shooting
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - On the night of July 2, Ignacio Mendez was suicidal, according to members of the Hesperia man's famil...
Man Pleads Not Guilty in Decade-Old Murder
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - Robin Woods, a 25-year-old Rialto man whose confession to a 1992 murder threw his case into a legal quandary ...
High Court Creates Bright-Line Rule on Continuing Violations
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Larry A. Walraven - The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held in National Railroad Passenger Corp. v. Morga...
Ronald George to Lead National Group
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Chief Justice Ronald M. George - will take office today as president-elect of the Conference of Chief Justices...
Toxic Fungus Is Spreading Among Us
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Christine Spagnoli - Mold fear is gripping homeowners, spreading as quickly as the toxic spores themselves. ...
Mediator Handled Abused Children's Cases
By Sandra Corrales
LOS ANGELES - Dependency court mediator and law professor Elizabeth Marmorston Horowitz died of cancer. She was 72. "She was a...
Martial Arts Are At Your Own Risk
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - A woman who was injured in a tae kwon do class cannot sue her instructor for damages under the primary assumption...
What to Do When You Don't Know It All
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By The Rodent - A very big part of lawyering is responding to questions to which you don't know the answer. In ...
Legislature Should Reconcile Sections on Spousal Support
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Forum Column - By Ruth D. Shapin - Divorce often leaves a former spouse, usually the woman, with a reduced standard of living....
Communication 101
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Dicta Column - By Betty Morris - "Communication," as defined by the Encarta Dictionary, is the exchange of information between...
What to Do When You Don't Know It All
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By The Rodent - A very big part of lawyering is responding to questions to which you don't know the answer. In ...
Toxic Fungus Is Spreading Among Us
By Columnist
Forum Coulmn - By Christine Spagnoli - Mold fear is gripping homeowners, spreading as quickly as the toxic spores themselves. ...
High Court Creates Bright-Line Rule on Continuing Violations
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Larry A. Walraven - The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held in National Railroad Passenger Corp. v. Morga...
Trend Against Liability for Third-Party Attacks Continues
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Michael Paul Thomas - Increasingly over the past decade, lawsuits seeking to hold property owners liable for...
IRS Seizure of Group's Membership List is Ruled Legal
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A Los Angeles area tax protest group cannot get its membership lists and other literature returned while it is...
DCA Rules Boy's Drawing Of Shooting Is Not a Threat
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A high school student cannot be prosecuted for making a criminal threat simply because he painted a picture of...
Judges' Pension Checks Are In the Mail
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - California's retired judges and their beneficiaries will get their August pension checks after, all despite th...
Grandiloquent Opinions
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Judge Ferdinand F. Fernandez jealously guards his own privacy, which may explain, in part, why the otherwise c...
Officers Tell Grand Jury They Didn't See Beating
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Two law enforcement officers swore to a grand jury that they did not see an Inglewood policeman beat a developme...
'Wobbler' Must Fit Felony Guidelines
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES -Felony crimes that also can be charged as misdemeanors, known as "wobblers," are held to a felony's statute of li...
Conflicts of Interest
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Forum Column - By Phillip Feldman - Lawyers' conflicts of interest generally involve either "serving two masters" ( Flatt v...
Counsel Can Use Statistical Methods to Assess Patent Risk
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Focus Column - By James E. Hopenfeld - It has become conventional wisdom - and rightly so - that a strong patent portfolio is ...
Trial Looms in Paralyzed Boy's Suit Against Ford
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES -Almost six years have passed since a minivan traveling up the Grapevine slammed into a 29,000-pound steel coil th...
Veteran Judge Puts His Work Into Perspective
By Tamara Scott
LOS ANGELES - At 82, Judge James E. Satt has a lot of stories to tell, and he tempers them with historical perspective. Satt r...
Bug Doc Supports Prosecution Timeline
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A forensic entomologist testifying in the kidnapping and murder trial of David A. Westerfield said Tuesday that th...
Former Lawyer Gets Time for Tax Evasion
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge has sentenced a former personal injury lawyer, who practiced in Los Angeles and San Francisco, t...
State Has Worst Prison Crowding
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - Despite a 2 percent drop in the number of inmates held in its state and federal prisons, California has the worst...
Nortorious Cases Suit Attorney
By Jenna Bordelon
SANTA ANA - Denise Gragg hasn't gotten any hate mail yet. But she wonders how long it will be before her highly publicized rol...