July is the month to celebrate the precious freedoms made real in our nascent days as a country. The Independence Day firework...

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It is always a better solution to make certain that all clients' assets are formally and properly transferred to their revocab...

OAKLAND - Three former Oakland police officers who called themselves as "The Riders" will stand trial on dozens of felony and ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Hundred of admirers of the late Stanley Mosk gathered Thursday at a memorial service to say thanks and good-by...

SAN FRANCISCO - Dozens of law firms doing non-bankruptcy business with Pacific Gas and Electric Co. will not have to publicly ...

LOS ANGELES - A talent agent in manager's clothing is still a talent agent, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday, in a ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The ad campaign for Sunday's AIDS Walk San Francisco features people who say they are walking because they or ...

SAN BERNARDINO - The charity-embezzlement case against Glendora attorney John Watkins and his co-defendants could be treading ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Jurors, not judges, must decide whether Caltrans is immune from lawsuits over allegedly dangerous roadway desi...

LOS ANGELES - Prominent criminal-defense attorney Barry Levin, a decorated Vietnam War hero wounded in action, was buried in t...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge blasted the district attorney's office Thursday for keeping its key witness i...

WASHINGTON - The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Court of Appeals - a traditional punching bag for the Supreme Court - suffered r...

LOS ANGELES - Barry Levin was the first lawyer I met in the Criminal Courts Building, during a hearing on the Hawkins case, a ...

LOS ANGELES - Barry Levin served most recently in my court as the "point man" in the Rampart trial in which he represented Sgt...

LOS ANGELES - I met Barry in 1990, which was about one year after I had been charged as a criminal defendant in the 39th-and-D...

LOS ANGELES - My friend is dead. For the many of you who knew Barry Levin, the shock of his death leaves an enormous hole wher...

LOS ANGELES - For 20 years, Barry Levin was my weight-lifting partner, friend, colleague and mentor on the important issues of...

In Gilbert v. State of Georgia, 16 S.E. 652 (1892), Chief Justice Logan E. Bleckley held the following for the court, i...

LOS ANGELES - John Trapani, an Alhambra lawyer and native Italian known for his readiness to come to the aid of those in need,...

The duty of a lawyer to guard the confidential information of a client is perhaps the duty least understood by lawyers. On bei...

LOS ANGELES - I knew Barry for 30 years, since I was a detective and he was an officer in Newton Division. They called it root...

SANTA ANA - A Laguna Niguel woman acquitted last year of murdering her infant son has filed a federal civil-rights suit agains...

LOS ANGELES - Barry and I first started working together back in 1990 on the Hare Krishna Hit Man case, as it was dubbed by th...

LOS ANGELES - I first met Barry Levin in late 1972 when he was a patrol officer at the Los Angeles Police Department's Newton ...

Employers generally would be permitted to define the limits of the use of their e-mail and voicemail systems - and even to pro...

As a matter of 'fundamental fairness,' confidential but relevant information related to the employee's civil suit may be divul...

LOS ANGELES - Barry Levin was, in many ways, a protector. As a soldier in Vietnam, he defended the freedom of a foreign people...

LOS ANGELES - Zhenfu Ge, 73, is facing deportation because her daughter, who was sponsoring her for a visa to live in the Uni...

LOS ANGELES - Convicted killer Robert Rosenkrantz will remain in prison while a state appellate court reviews a trial judge's ...