Harper-Collins Publishing Co. Inc. is reissuing C.S. Lewis' classic children's series, "The Chronicles of Narnia." And who say...
SAN FRANCISCO - While many judges spring from colorful backgrounds, Lassen County Superior Court Judge Stephen D. Bradbury can...
Administrative/Regulatory
Delgadillo Vows To Beat Office's Tech Problem
By Gina Keating
LOS ANGELES - His predecessor tried to do it but said he was foiled by politics. On Wednesday, City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo ...
VICTORVILLE - Normally, the collision between Cynthia Sikes and another driver near Adelanto in September 1999 would have been...
Benjamin Franklin once observed, "They that would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve nei...
There are two big unanswered questions about the monstrous attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The first is tha...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar Makes No Effort to Publicize New Election Rules
By Columnist
The California State Bar races this year can't be considered a true test of the new election rules that stem from a recent set...
William A. Masterson , 40-year veteran of the legal scene welcomes the change from law practice to full-time ADR. ...
Negotiation impasses are a fact of life, leading mediators and negotiators to keep an ever-vigilant eye out for impasse breake...
For Randy Sunshine, there's more to the law than winning. Not that the 45-year-old attorney doesn't relish going to trial and ...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Appreciates Decorum, Strives for Patient Demeanor
By Contributing Writer
Critics often argue that private judging undermines the public courts and fosters divided, rich man versus poor man justice. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Brendan Hallinan, the 26-year-old son of San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan, was arrested last w...
As science continues to advance, more difficult decisions will be necessary in order to establish a policy in this area. ...
For $1 a month, it seemed like a good deal. But when thousands of policyholders of an outpatient medical rider issued by Physi...
SAN JOSE - A San Francisco business software company has quietly settled a federal lawsuit it filed last month accusing the ch...
SAN BERNARDINO - County Supervisor Jerry Eaves has pleaded not guilty to more than a dozen bribery charges that allege he acce...
SAN FRANCISCO - Scott Dondero had trouble enough when he was pulled over by Marin County sheriff's deputies on the night of Ju...
SAN FRANCISCO - A case that may prove to be the most significant legal test for MTBE is threatening to become snarled in maneu...
SAN FRANCISCO - The country's war on drugs has come to this: A suit filed by "Mr. Bunny" against U.S. Attorney General John As...
Judges and Judiciary
Judicial Conference Members Vote Via First-Ever Mail Ballot
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Casting their first-ever "mail ballots," the judges on the policy-making body for the federal courts today are se...
SAN FRANCISCO - Attacks on the family law bench and bar in Marin County have been revived with an anonymous letter mailed to l...
SAN FRANCISCO - City attorney candidate Jim Lazarus said Monday that he is on the verge of having raised $175,000 - the amount...
For many of us, the evil of Tuesday's attacks remains strangely distant. Despite all the images and talk, we are still in shoc...
SAN FRANCISCO - Rejecting the plaintiffs' plea for a default judgment in their favor, U.S. District Judge William H. Orrick ha...
LOS ANGELES - California legislators approved an emergency measure Saturday to restore funding to domestic-violence assistance...
"The deliberate and deadly attacks ... were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war." President George W. Bush , on...
A party should analyze whether the defendant may avail itself of the arm-of-the-state defense, even if the defendant is not ac...
LOS ANGELES - In the reams of news footage from the terrorist assault on the World Trade Center, FBI agents can be seen walkin...