Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk A. Pasich - In the last few weeks, wildfires have devastated vast areas of Southern Cal...
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - Recently, 8,000 people lost their homes. A lot of other folks were ecstatic about this: ...
Employment Column - By Deanna Wilkinson - It is nearing year-end, and depending on the firm, the billable year finishes in Nov...
Judges and Judiciary
In Two Counties, One Judge Faces Opponent
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - Dennis Kottmeier, who served as district attorney of San Bernardino County from 1981 to 1994, filed papers We...
Judges and Judiciary
Big Bear Courthouse Reopens After Fire Closure
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - The San Bernardino County courthouse in Big Bear has reopened after being closed since Oct. 28 because of wil...
SAN FRANCISCO - If it sometimes seems as if San Francisco Superior Court Commissioner Loretta M. Norris has already reached h...
LOS ANGELES - Claiming Ford Motor Co. has deceived customers into buying potentially deadly vehicles, a class action filed Thu...
SAN FRANCISCO - "Don't Be Cruel" to the King, a divided federal appellate court ordered Thursday as a 2-1 majority concluded ...
SAN DIEGO - Victims of the October firestorms in Southern California can pick up a telephone or go to a disaster center to rec...
SAN FRANCISCO - A plan to lift Pacific Gas and Electric Co. from bankruptcy, despite being the product of a much-ballyhooed a...
LOS ANGELES - The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California Thursday jumped into the controversy over the State Ba...
SAN FRANCISCO - Silicon Valley has lost an influential, or at least symbolic, voice on the New York Stock Exchange as Larry S...
SAN FRANCISCO - Pennie & Edmonds, a 230-lawyer New York intellectual property boutique with offices in San Diego and Palo ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Customers of bankrupt Pacific Gas and Electric Co. will be charged at least $10 billion over the next nine yea...
Judges and Judiciary
His 'Fever' for Civil Rights Led Jurist to Law School
By Sarah Garveyn
LOS ANGELES - Commissioner Gerald T. Richardson remembers his courtroom reaction to the 1987 felony prosecution of Leonard Jam...
SAN FRANCISCO - Golden Gate University School of Law announced Thursday that it has hired Frederic White, a professor at Cleve...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Association of Deputy District Attorneys Thursday disavowed a controversial full-page advertisem...
SAN FRANCISCO - One day after President Bush signed a bill banning so-called partial-birth abortions, three federal judges, in...
LOS ANGELES - The lawyers and laypeople who visit the Los Angeles County Law Library typically comb its volumes for informatio...
Focus Column - Environmental Law - By Monica L. Sloboda - A contaminant discharged at one location allegedly has migrated to a...
Forum Column - By Nona Liegeois - In 1999, when a developer proposed a project that would have displaced 70 homeowners and ten...
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Presiding Judge Thomas Hansen, in outlining his assignments for 2004 this week, h...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Mervyn's department store chain tentatively has prevailed in Alameda County Superior Court against claims ...
WASHINGTON - As they reviewed another variation on police roadblocks Wednesday, most of the Supreme Court justices expressed s...
SAN FRANCISCO - All the Superior Court judges up for reelection in March intend to run for another term, and they appear to ha...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury Wednesday slapped a landlord with $3.3 million in punitive damages for failing to provide hea...
LOS ANGELES - Opponents are lining up to challenge the re-election of Los Angeles Superior Court Judges David Wesley and Dan O...
SACRAMENTO - Terry Bean was like family to Arthur Ford. The Ford family, who took in dozens of San Francisco foster children i...
SAN DIEGO - A lawsuit that pits privacy rights against free-speech guarantees will get its first court test Friday when a fede...
Judges and Judiciary
Budget Cuts Make Justice Slower and Less Convenient
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Messengers for two legal courier services, having filed their client's documents before the clerk's office clo...