LOS ANGELES - A former Silicon Valley executive charged with plotting the murder of a San Francisco federal judge qualified f...
Environmental
Jury Deliberations to Begin in Humboldt Pepper Spray Case
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - If environmental protesters finally win their 8-year-old police brutality case against Northern California of...
SAN FRANCISCO - Seven former California State Automobile Association insurance sales agents who worked primarily with non-Eng...
SANTA ANA - DNA belonging to 5-year-old Samantha Runnion found inside Alejandro Avila's car is all the jury needs to convict t...
SAN FRANCISCO - A former Sonoma County commissioner has sued the court, saying judges there discriminated against him on the ...
Judges and Judiciary
Career Prosecutor Surprised Himself by Becoming Judge
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Superior Court Judge Frederick Maguire had collected some odd cases during his 16 years as a county prosecutor, bu...
Government
Judicial System Was Built To Withstand Today's Wave of Criticism
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Charles Parselle - In a speech in Michigan on Jan. 7, President Bush linked lawsuits with job losses: "In or...
INDUSTRIAL VISTA - Marabella Properties LLC purchased a 12,016-square-foot industrial building at 1280 Liberty Way from the D...
ROSAMOND - Dee Rogers, a longtime member of the First Baptist Church in this High Desert community 55 miles northeast of Los A...
LOS ANGELES - The widow of a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy filed late Monday the first of what's expected to be many law...
LOS ANGELES - Brian Oxman, a latecomer to Michael Jackson's sexual abuse defense team, mysteriously has left the case. Oxman, ...
Focus Column - International Law - By Allison Chang - Plaintiffs suing in the United States against a foreign defendant have t...
Letter to the Editor - Dan Rhoads and Vince Imhoff suggest that the presumption of innocence lacks force against charges of do...
Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - There is no doubt that one of the most stressful jobs for a judicial officer is the family...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court expanded its review of death penalty issues Monday, agreeing to hear a case that asks whet...
LOS ANGELES - The 2nd District Court of Appeal said Monday that an insurer carrying policies for the Roman Catholic Archdioce...
LOS ANGELES - Going into an administrative fraud hearing on Saturday, some handicappers would have given horse owner Martin W...
SAN DIEGO - A Superior Court jury has awarded four women $1.5 million each in punitive damages in a sexual-harassment case aga...
Judges and Judiciary
Finding Right Federal Judges May Mean Adding Batteries, Switch
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - We like Stepford judges, yes we do. The twin U.S. Senate battles over the confirmations of John Bol...
SACRAMENTO - Tommy Conner, like many other subcontractors who increasingly struggle to find insurance, is developing new stra...
LOS ANGELES - Dow Chemical and its subsidiary, Union Carbide, a former seller of asbestos fibers, are among the supporters of ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A gay immigrant who was once beaten unconscious by police outside a gay bar in his native Mexico deserves a s...
Litigation partner Nancy L. Stagg found herself in a very big pond in January when the north San Diego County office of Gray C...
Not satisfied with the challenges of an established practice, business litigator Eric Riezman has always wanted to help build ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Mediation Offers Retired Judge Wide Variety of Work
By Tina Spee
As the sun set on Michael Marcus' six-year term as a State Bar Court Judge, he thought his next career horizon might be a judi...
LOS ANGELES - Perhaps the secret was out the moment that Browne Greene rose when members of the Cochran Firm were asked to st...
In a decision that could affect hundreds of lawsuits across California, the state Supreme Court recently ruled that hospitals ...
EXTRA Column - Technology - By Bill Makinney - Managing liability is a major issue for every law firm, whether it's a huge mul...
For construction and real estate defense litigator Thomas Tarkoff's clients, his small, three-partner firm wasn't enough. Rath...
Alternative dispute resolution provider JAMS Inc. is immune from suit even though one of its arbitrators incorrectly issued an...