During the first year of the 2001-2002 Legislative Session, the Legislature and Governor enacted over 100 bills that affect th...
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal prosecutors have embarked on three risky and difficult trials to break up two notorious prison gangs a...
SAN FRANCISCO - Antitrust claims against Microsoft Corp. that have bounced from judge to judge on the San Francisco trial benc...
SAN FRANCISCO - An eagerly awaited ruling on a controversial San Francisco housing law appears to have done little to clarify ...
Tax
New Tax Law Provides Opportunity for Greater Savings in Retirement Plans
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Lawrence I. Davidson and Elliott Raff - On June 7, 2001, President Bush signed the Economic Growth and Tax R...
Forum Column - By Daniel D. Bland - Gloria Allred's recent article, "Bible Inspired Bias: Religious Bigotry Doesn't Belong in ...
Forum Column - By Susanne Browne - The 31-year-old war on drugs has consumed billions of dollars toward the eradication of ill...
LOS ANGELES - Two federal civil-rights suits pitting a Westlake Village businessman and a San Bernardino County attorney again...
LOS ANGELES -Some First Amendment experts said Friday that the Police Commission must open to the public its hearing on Chief ...
Administrative/Regulatory
New Laws Expand Cesar Chavez Day, Domestic Partners' Rights
By Contributing Writer
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis signed nearly 1,000 bills in 2001. On the civil side, Davis signed laws that revamp a process for...
SAN JOSE - Santa Cruz County District Attorney Kate Canlis has conceded defeat, saying she will not seek a recount of the Marc...
SACRAMENTO - A convicted sex offender who took pictures of young girls at a theme park cannot be prosecuted under a state stat...
LOS ANGELES - For the first time since Gov. Gray Davis declared Cesar Chavez Day a state holiday two years ago, the state cour...
LOS ANGELES - The director of the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board had the unilateral right to fire a workers' compensation...
Personal Injury & Torts
Courts Will Dig Deep to Find Errors in Expert Opinions
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Focus Column - By Michael K. Brown and Jennifer L. Dodge - A medical-malpractice case presents a number of challenges for a pl...
Viewpoint Column - By William A. Daniels - Insureds trying to decide whether their carrier has an honest difference of opinion...
Ethics Column - Brenda K. Radmacher - Attorneys are increasingly involved in dual representation of clients and their insurers...
At trial, plaintiff Kenneth R. Oberfelder recalled sitting in his car one day when suddenly, he said, he saw a "crazed" man ru...
Many lawyers would squirm at the thought of representing a convicted cocaine dealer in a civil rights case. But Jo Saxe Levy o...
Viewpoint Column - By John Cleaves - How is it that the television shows "60 Minutes," "20/20" and "Dateline" can introduce a ...
SAN DIEGO - A Sabre Springs man on Thursday denied charges that he kidnapped, then killed, 7-year-old Danielle van Dam last mo...
SAN JOSE - Nearly six years after he sentenced Richard Allen Davis to death for the murder of Polly Klaas, Santa Clara County ...
SAN LUIS OBISPO - All it took for Steven Bain to die in November 2000 was a punch from a man who had just confronted him insid...
SACRAMENTO - Judge Lloyd George Connelly Jr. is a Sacramento hometown-boy-made-good. Born on New Year's eve in 1945, Connelly ...
Forum Column - By Robert L. Maginnis - The Bush administration has adopted a policy that requires a government review when an...
OAKLAND - Alameda County Superior Court Judge Jon Rolefson on Thursday ordered three former Oakland police officers facing cri...
SAN DIEGO - The San Diego County Bar Association will honor the district attorney's ethics adviser and four other lawyers at a...
SAN FRANCISCO - Joseph Russoniello is one of those rare darlings of the press. Almost daily, the former U.S. attorney is quote...
Dicta Column - By Paul J. Virgo - Lawyers forcibly removed from a case or who withdraw for some other reason often are confuse...