Helping the Tired, the Hungry
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - Congress in 1996 passed a far-reaching set of welfare and immigration laws that made life tougher for legal immi...
Judiciary Committee Draws Blanks
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - It's late April. Do you know where your judges are? That is what Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are...
Discipline Panel Moves to Make Quick Decision on Kline Matter
By Jean Guccione
In its first public action since a dramatic realignment, the state judicial discipline panel hastened to resolve the divisive...
Injunction Issued in Threats Made Against Mahony
By Denise Levin
A judge granted a permanent injunction Monday against a man who told police last month that he fantasizes about killing Cardi...
E*xasperating
By Patricia Jocobus
SAN FRANCISCO - Few knew online trading would become an instant success when it hit the cyber-bazaar about three years ago. T...
Storm-Related Bridge Collapse Spawns Suit
By B. Scott Bortnick
SANTA MARIA - Five men driving on Highway 166 plunged into the raging Cuyama River in February 1998 after flood-swollen water...
Municipal Judges Call for Another Unification Vote
By Denise Levin
The Los Angeles County Municipal Court judges have given Presiding Judge Veronica S. McBeth the nod to call for another vote ...
Claims Board Suggests Settlement for Abused Girl
By Cheryl Romo
In another example of a cure that's sometimes worse than the disease, a girl named Carla, who was placed in foster care in Lo...
Jury: Woman Was Illegally Strip-Searched
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal jury awarded $755,000 in damages for civil rights violations and punitive damages to a transsexual ...
County Counsel May Reap Budget Benefits
By Lauren Blau
Recommendations to increase the number of staff attorneys in the county counsel's office would nearly double the number of po...
Appeal Court Denies Lesbians Bid for Visitation Rights to Nonbiological Kids
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - Ruling in a bitter dispute between two lesbians, a state appeal court refused Monday to grant visitation righ...
Making Every Penny Count
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - California is one of only 15 states that provides no state funding for legal aid programs. Public interest advoc...
Death With Dignity Act Would Provide Drugs to Terminally Ill
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - Reigniting a debate that intertwines the law, medicine, ethics and the profoundly personal, a Bay Area lawmaker ...
Cooley Firm to Open Northern Virginia Branch
By Leslie Gordon
SAN FRANCISCO - Silicon Valley-based Cooley Godward, which specializes in representing emerging growth and technology compani...
Nolo Press Wins Victory in Texas
By Patricia Jocobus
SAN FRANCISCO - Nolo Press chief Steven Elias is still mulling his next move in the Berkeley publishing company's struggle wi...
Home Work
By Mary Micheletti
Last year, nearly 16 million Americans skipped the daily trip to an office and stayed home to work. By the year 2000, that nu...
Misplaced Kick Lands Man in County Jail
By B. Scott Bortnick
SANTA MARIA - Jerry Loper's misplaced kick killed a Santa Maria woman last December. Now the 22-year-old man is off to county...
Gonzaga Has a Dubious Honor: Its Students Law School Debts
By Cindy Simmons
SEATTLE - Gonzaga University's basketball team put the school on the map by coming close to the top in March Madness tourname...
Insurers Not Obligated to Defend Apple
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court has thrown out a $17 million bad-faith judgment against two insurers, holding they were ...
Counsel Asks Letts to Reconsider
By Martin Bergn
A day after U.S. District Judge J. Spencer Letts removed himself from presiding over a police shooting case, attorneys for th...
Legal System Is Failing Children, Study Finds
By Cheryl Romo
The American Bar Association has released a report that examines the quality of legal representation provided to indigent chi...
At Eastlake, Obstacles Are Enormous
By Cheryl Romo
It's 8 p.m. and she's already spent 10 hours in juvenile court. Cynthia Cohan is frantic. The father of one of her clients, a...
Intrigue Surrounds Drafting of MICRA Reforms
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - Assembly Speaker Antonio Villaraigosa's measure to raise the $250,000 cap on noneconomic damages in medical malp...
States Immunity From Patent Suits Goes Before High Court
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Weighing issues of major concern to intellectual property attorneys, the Supreme Court this week will consider w...
A Sanctuary for Lost Souls
By Cheryl Romo
The phone rings constantly in this place where the work never ends. And when a kid's in trouble, everything else gets put on ...
Citing Disrespect for Defense Counsel, Letts Leaves SIS Case
By Martin Bergn
In an extraordinary 10-page ruling, U.S. District Judge J. Spencer Letts Wednesday recused himself from a bitterly fought pol...
Ex-Prosecutor Longo Sues for Libel
By Michael Harris
Defense attorney Larry Longo, fired by the Los Angeles County district attorney's office in 1997 for inappropriate ties to De...
Prosecutor Can Stay On Trade-Secrets Case
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County Superior Court judge cleared prosecutor Julius Finkelstein to continue pursuing Avant Corp. f...
Littler Firm Remains on Case Despite Accusations
By Denise Levin
A Littler Mendelson lawyer accused of posing as opposing counsel to obtain confidential information from witnesses in a wrong...
Possible Candidates to Unseat S.F. District Attorney Discussed
By Laura Impellizzeri
SAN FRANCISCO - With three months left before the deadline to declare for district attorney, the names of at least eight San ...