SAN FRANCISCO - Retired Justice Marcus Kaufman, an irascible intellectual who served on the California Supreme Court during th...
OXNARD - The Ventura County District Attorney's Office on Thursday charged a former priest at the Our Lady of Guadalupe Church...
Environmental
Ward Valley Litigation Ends As Judge Cites Lawyer's Role
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANICSCO - A San Diego judge has rejected a claim by the would-be builder of a low-level radioactive waste dump in the Mo...
LOS ANGELES - Public interest law firm Bet Tzedek has named veteran public interest lawyer Mitchell A. Kamin its new executive...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
9th Circuit Weighs Mandatory Arbitration
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - An 11-judge federal appeals panel appeared splintered into three camps Thursday over whether employers can for...
LOS ANGELES -Prominent Beverly Hills criminal defense attorney Gerald V. Scotti fatally shot his longtime paralegal, then turn...
Criminal
Handing Out 'Life Sentences to Recovery,' A San Mateo County Judge Finds Inspiration in Courts That Most Jurists Shun
By Dennis Pfaff
REDWOOD CITY - San Mateo Superior Court Judge Richard Livermore a few months ago found himself in a familiar situation: counse...
LOS ANGELES - The first thing David Sanders did Monday morning was drive over to the Children's Courthouse in Monterey Park to...
Government
Cops and Hugs: Two Too-Close Encounters of the Anti-War Kind
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - The war in Iraq is doing strange things to this country. For instance, I didn't get up Wednesday mo...
CHINO - The Wisconsin-based Olson Co. leased a 300,000-square-foot industrial building on Pipeline Avenue at The Majestic Spe...
Entertainment & Sports
'Wolf' Shuts Door on Breach of Fiduciary Duty Contract Claims
By Columnist
Focus Column - Entertainment Law - By John M. Genga - Wolf has laid to rest a troublesome issue for entertainment companies su...
Forum Column - By Harold Johnson - Will some soldiers and Marines die in the Persian Gulf so that some gnatcatcher and other ...
Forum Column - By Robert G. Warshaw - I read, with great frustration, Ted Van Dyk's views on why the Space Shuttle Program sho...
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Robin W. Wofford and Lois M. Kosch - Employers must be aware of the laws that provide job a...
SAN FRANCISCO - A defense attorney for one of the San Francisco officers charged in the police cover-up case alleges that othe...
Reporter's Notebook - Like a bad dream or a bad debt, the U.S. Congress' bankruptcy reform bill won't go away. Last week the H...
SAN JOSE - The Santa Clara County public defender's office hopes to pare back the severe cuts proposed to its budget for the c...
Government
Jurist Looks Forward to Working With New Child Welfare Director
By Cheryl Romo
LOS ANGELES - Judge Michael Nash hopes that David Sanders, who arrived this week as the new director of the Department of Chil...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared ready to rule that state sodomy laws violate equal protection when they m...
SAN FRANCISCO - Securities and Exchange Commission rules that take effect Friday subject public companies to a previously unhe...
Judges and Judiciary
Davis Appoints Four Judges in Three Counties
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Gov. Gray Davis appointed four Southern California judges Wednesday, including Costa Mesa Mayor Karen L. Robinson,...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court voted Wednesday to decide whether cities are free to deny taxpayer subsidies to g...
SAN FRANCISCO - Dickson, Carlson & Campillo's lawyer has upped the ante in his fight with the former Brobeck, Phleger &...
LOS ANGELES - A civil claim over allegations dating back 25 years has sparked a criminal investigation that threatens to destr...
SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan is facing criticism over staff shuffling that some say has reduced the number of wome...
SIMI VALLEY - After serving only a couple of months as a court commissioner, William Q. Liebmann was appointed Tuesday to a Su...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to delay approval of the Newhall Ranch project, instru...
LOS ANGELES - A powerful talent agent clashed with Judge Elden S. Fox one day last month and discovered who holds the power at...
Trusts & Estates
Self-Canceling Installment Note Can Be Powerful Planning Tool
By Columnist
Focus Column - Probate Law - By Bruce Givner - Parents commonly use self-canceling installment notes to transfer property to t...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Trevor Law Group Accuses Bar of Politics
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Three Beverly Hills attorneys accused of unethical use of the state's unfair-competition law have gone on the at...