SAN FRANCISCO - With about 40,000 absentee ballots counted early on election night, Bill Fazio thought he saw a breakthrough i...
SAN FRANCISCO - District attorney candidates Bill Fazio and Kamala Harris just can't seem to agree on anything. On Tuesday nig...
Entertainment & Sports
Former Beach Boys Guitarist Rides New Wave Into Sea of Litigation
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - In January, Alan Jardine, former lead guitarist for the 1960s super-surf group the Beach Boys, wiped ...
CARSON - For $1.65 million, Louise Ghalili purchased Carson Place, a 7,320-square-foot shopping center at 239-251 W. Carson St...
LOS ANGELES - A prosecutors group wants to oust five Los Angeles Superior Court judges from office, including two supervising...
Forum Column By Steve Kubby On his way out the door, and after two previous vetoes, Gov. Gray Davis has signed a controversia...
Appellate Practice
Court Must Put Specification of Reasons and Order in Writing
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Focus Column Appellate Law By Mary Perry and Paul D. Fogel Imagine that the trial court has just stated its intention to gran...
LOS ANGELES - Mediation of 50 priest sexual-abuse claims against the Diocese of Orange begins this week before retired privat...
LOS ANGELES - When court officials disclosed that the Archdiocese of Los Angeles was paying retired Judge Thomas F. Nuss to d...
SANTA CLARA - International Business Machines Inc. launched an aggressive defense Tuesday during opening statements of a tria...
SACRAMENTO - Gov.-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday tapped Peter Siggins, a top aide to Attorney General Bill Lockyer, a...
Securities
Justices May Retain Wide SEC Power Court May Widen SEC Police Power
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court justices Tuesday clearly indicated that they will uphold the authority of the Securities and E...
Intellectual Property
Sour Note for Jazz Musician Who Sued the Beastie Boys
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - Sounding off in a controversial case pitting a popular rap group against an avant-garde jazz musician, a fede...
SACRAMENTO - If San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan won't prosecute drug deals in his bailiwick, Marin County au...
SAN FRANCISCO - The accused share one depressing trait as they stand before State Bar Court Judge Patrice E. McElroy's San Fr...
Forum Column By Clay S. Conrad Senator Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill., is a graduate of Georgetown Law School and has held elected...
Forum Column By Kimberly West-Faulcon The chairman of the University of California board of regents, John J. Moores, recently...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Decision Provides Defense for Attorneys Sued by Bankrupts
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Focus Column Legal Malpractice By Alec H. Boyd Legal-malpractice defense counsel should take note of a recent 2nd District Co...
SAN FRANCISCO - Two former employees of the San Francisco Examiner who worked on the paper's finances are litigating claims o...
SAN FRANCISCO - Asserting that court administrators provide "vital input" to the state Judicial Council, Chief Justice Ronald...
Government
Senate May Act Today to Block California Financial-Privacy Law
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The Senate today is likely to begin consideration of a popular financial credit-reporting bill that would overri...
LOS ANGELES - As the great Southern California wildfires of 2003 die out, law enforcement officials are focusing on arson as ...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether a federal law bars a health maintenance organization pati...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday declined once again to take on the highly contentious issue of displaying the Ten Co...
LOS ANGELES - Once a year, criminal defense lawyer Peter Knecht throws a bash in Malibu to celebrate the failure of a client ...
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers and judges who participated in a 10-day effort to settle hundreds of lawsuits crowding the judicial cal...
Law Practice
Dodging Bullets Outside Courthouse: Newest Episode in L.A. Law
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams As if we needed it, last week was a pointed reminder from the fickle finger of fate that there's somet...
SAN FRANCISCO - Four new prosecutors will be added to the U.S. attorney's office in Northern California to bolster the prosec...
SAN FRANCISCO - For a lawyer who has scrutinized the largest case of fraud in U.S. history, Dick Thornburgh remains surprisin...
LARKSPUR - Michael Gottleib and Terry Andrews purchased 4,000 square feet of retail space at 549 Magnolia Ave. from Marin Cou...