When Will We Realize That Drug Wars Can,t Be Won?
By Columnist
In rushing to approve a $1.7 billion Colombian military-aid package, Congress is ignoring drug-enforcement history - which sho...
Ticketmaster Competitor Didn't Infringe
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
With a stroke of a pen Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Harry L. Hupp may have made it easier for millions of Web surfers to click...
Committee OKs Jury Exemption For Breast-Feeding Mothers
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - Under a proposal approved by the Assembly Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, mothers would be excused from jury duty...
Lesbian, Gay Lawyers Group To Celebrate 20
By Contributing Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - When a crowd gathers Thursday evening in San Francisco to mark the 20th anniversary of one of the nation's old...
Bank Privacy Bill Clears Assembly Panel
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - A bill prohibiting banks from sharing or selling personal information about customers without their consent was p...
Seven S.F. Attorneys Change Firms Together
By Leslie Gordon
SAN FRANCISCO - Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison has added seven corporate attorneys from the San Francisco office of Oakland-b...
George Calls for Judicial Pay Hike
By Jean Guccione
SACRAMENTO - In his annual state of the judiciary address, Chief Justice Ronald M. George Tuesday urged lawmakers to increase ...
City Council Violates Law With Sectarian Prayers at Meetings
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Prayers offered at meetings of the Oceanside City Council have caught the attention of the American Civil Libertie...
Bradley Memorial
By Martin Kruming
A memorial service for Madge Bradley , San Diego's first woman judge who served as a role model for so many in the legal commu...
Passive Problems
By Columnist
Taxpayers who lease real or personal property to their closely held businesses should consult their tax advisers to ensure t...
Musical Courts
By Columnist
FORUM Proposition 21 limited but certainly did not eliminate judges' power to determine whether to treat young criminal offend...
Deputies Use Corrosive Wall of Silence
By Chris Ford
Thanks to a resilient sense of loyalty and a belief that they are superior to other law-enforcement personnel, deputies in the...
Parks Staffing Proposal Takes Officers Off Streets, Say Critics
By Chris Ford
Members of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners continue to disagree over whether they should approve police departme...
Builder Sues Spelling for Malicious Prosecution
By Denise Levin
Television producer Aaron Spelling's hilltop Beverly Hills mansion, which has been the source of contentious, high-profile lit...
Finlay Took Roundabout Way to Bench
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Nonviolent drug addicts, caught in a cycle of dependency that conventional arrest-and-punish strategy does nothing...
DA Persists With Charges in Stabbing Incident
By Michael Harris
Even though the district attorney has dismissed one set of charges against a reputed gang member on grounds that crooked Rampa...
Suit Claims LAPD Targets Immigrants
By Martin Bergn
Lawyers for alleged victims of the Rampart corruption scandal are going back to court in an effort to prevent LAPD officers fr...
Daewoos U.S. Affiliate Leaves Piano Man Singing the Blues
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
SANTA ANA - Vernon Schafer arrived in California in 1950, a 20-year-old with a wife and a new baby. He spent the next 40 years...
In the Line of Fire
By Tessa Jarrett
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - Like any other morning, security guard Al Levine fielded hundreds of questions from behind his desk at the ...
Judge: Firms Do Not Have Special Relationship
By Denise Levin
Two law firms who were co-defendants in a lawsuit do not have a special relationship that would cause them to split the costs ...
Noted Firm Faces $4M Conflict of Interest Suit
By Denise Levin
A prominent Century City law firm has been sued for $4 million by a client who claims one of the firm's name partners failed t...
Global Solution
Global Solution Arbitrating International Patent Disputes The option to arbitrate a dispute that concerns patent validity has ...
Ruling: Growers Must Pay for Commute Time
By David Kravets
SAN FRANCISCO - Farmworkers scored a major victory Monday as the California Supreme Court ruled that growers must compensate l...
Wrongs or
By Columnist
FORUM The Miranda rule is one tool we have and need to guard us against our guardians. Page 6. By Michael J. Kennedy I attende...
Gov. Davis to Ask High Court to Sustain Blanket Primary Law
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - Bucking his own party and the GOP, Democratic Gov. Gray Davis will urge the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold Californ...
High Court Refuses to Hear Hotel Permit Case
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - By the narrowest of margins, the U.S. Supreme Court Monday decided against taking the case of a pair of disgru...
Justice Brown Tailors Punishment to Paycheck Size
By Columnist
By Jeffrey K. Winikow Janice Brown is the California Supreme Court's version of John Rocker. Although more eloquent and better...
Chicago, Too, Finds Coughing Up Legal Travesty Creates Powerful Stench
By Garry Abrams
Former Illinois prosecutor William Kunkle Jr. is no stranger to murderous depravity. He became familiar with crystal clear evi...
Winning Writes
By Columnist
How important is writing? Ninety-eight percent of all civil lawsuits never go to trial, never go in front of witnesses or a ju...
Crime Spree Cult Leader Declared Not Insane
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - The leader of a tiny religious cult in northern San Diego County has been found not insane at the time he went on ...