Nolo Press Wins Victory in Texas
By Patricia Jocobus
SAN FRANCISCO - Nolo Press chief Steven Elias is still mulling his next move in the Berkeley publishing company's struggle wi...
Home Work
By Mary Micheletti
Last year, nearly 16 million Americans skipped the daily trip to an office and stayed home to work. By the year 2000, that nu...
Misplaced Kick Lands Man in County Jail
By B. Scott Bortnick
SANTA MARIA - Jerry Loper's misplaced kick killed a Santa Maria woman last December. Now the 22-year-old man is off to county...
Gonzaga Has a Dubious Honor: Its Students Law School Debts
By Cindy Simmons
SEATTLE - Gonzaga University's basketball team put the school on the map by coming close to the top in March Madness tourname...
Insurers Not Obligated to Defend Apple
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court has thrown out a $17 million bad-faith judgment against two insurers, holding they were ...
Counsel Asks Letts to Reconsider
By Martin Bergn
A day after U.S. District Judge J. Spencer Letts removed himself from presiding over a police shooting case, attorneys for th...
Legal System Is Failing Children, Study Finds
By Cheryl Romo
The American Bar Association has released a report that examines the quality of legal representation provided to indigent chi...
At Eastlake, Obstacles Are Enormous
By Cheryl Romo
It's 8 p.m. and she's already spent 10 hours in juvenile court. Cynthia Cohan is frantic. The father of one of her clients, a...
Intrigue Surrounds Drafting of MICRA Reforms
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - Assembly Speaker Antonio Villaraigosa's measure to raise the $250,000 cap on noneconomic damages in medical malp...
States Immunity From Patent Suits Goes Before High Court
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Weighing issues of major concern to intellectual property attorneys, the Supreme Court this week will consider w...
A Sanctuary for Lost Souls
By Cheryl Romo
The phone rings constantly in this place where the work never ends. And when a kid's in trouble, everything else gets put on ...
Citing Disrespect for Defense Counsel, Letts Leaves SIS Case
By Martin Bergn
In an extraordinary 10-page ruling, U.S. District Judge J. Spencer Letts Wednesday recused himself from a bitterly fought pol...
Ex-Prosecutor Longo Sues for Libel
By Michael Harris
Defense attorney Larry Longo, fired by the Los Angeles County district attorney's office in 1997 for inappropriate ties to De...
Prosecutor Can Stay On Trade-Secrets Case
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County Superior Court judge cleared prosecutor Julius Finkelstein to continue pursuing Avant Corp. f...
Littler Firm Remains on Case Despite Accusations
By Denise Levin
A Littler Mendelson lawyer accused of posing as opposing counsel to obtain confidential information from witnesses in a wrong...
Possible Candidates to Unseat S.F. District Attorney Discussed
By Laura Impellizzeri
SAN FRANCISCO - With three months left before the deadline to declare for district attorney, the names of at least eight San ...
Davis Names The Youngest CJP Member
By Jean Guccione
The Commission on Judicial Performance's newest and youngest member also has a Hollywood connection - and becomes the fourth ...
Judge Denies Genentech Motion For Mistrial Over News Stories
By Pamela Mac Lean
On the fourth day of Genentech's Protropin patent infringement trial, a federal judge rejected the biotech firm's request for...
Growing Pains
By Cheryl Romo
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Attendees at the American Bar Association's Ninth National Conference on Children and the Law shared their...
Farmers Challenge EPA Right To Regulate Runoff Into Rivers
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Farm and timber interests have launched a major court challenge of the federal government's authority to regu...
Jury Clears San Bernardino in Administrators Harassment Suit
By Matthew Heller
INDIO - In a stunning conclusion to an eight-year legal battle, a jury has cleared the county of San Bernardino of failing to...
Term-Limit Act To Be Weighed By High Court
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court announced Wednesday that it will decide the constitutionality of a term-limits i...
Prosecutor Wants Lawyer's Conviction Aired
By Michael Harris
In an unusual request, Los Angeles County prosecutors have asked the judge in the upcoming murder retrial of a personal injur...
City Must Answer on Overtime Pay
By Lauren Blau
A special master has ruled that Los Angeles city officials and the attorneys who gave them advice about a federal overtime la...
Foundation Helps Students Overcome Hurdles
By Anne La Jeunesse
Los Angeles native Tamiko S. Brown is not only the first member of her family to attend college, she also is the first to hav...
Tort Reformers Will Go by a New Moniker
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - The Association for California Tort Reform will change its name to Civil Justice Association of California, effe...
'Formidable Opponent'
By Leslie Gordon, Jennifer Byrd & T. Scott
SAN FRANCISCO - David Coleman has been named the new public defender in Contra Costa County, making him the first black publi...
The Age of Innocence
By Matthew Heller
RIVERSIDE - When she attended a Riverside County day-care center for senior citizens in the mid-1990s, Aurelia Solano apparen...
Villaraigosa Adds Crystal Lui to Judicial Agency
By Jean Guccione
Crystal Lui, the wife of retired Los Angeles Court of Appeal Justice Elwood Lui, has been named to the Commission on Judicial...
Starr: Act Is Constitutionally Dubious
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - Portraying himself as a proud foot soldier following the well-intentioned but misguided marching orders of the s...