SAN FRANCISCO - While Michael Bernick was chairman of the Bay Area Rapid Transit board of directors in the mid-1990s, the San ...
LOS ANGELES - When a 26-year-old Brinks security guard walked away from the truck he was working on with a bag containing $1.5...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco jury on Wednesday gave $6 million to four plaintiffs who were molested by a Catholic priest wh...
LAND WEST HOLLYWOOD - An undisclosed buyer purchased an 8,478-square-foot parcel of land at 8703 W. Knoll from a private inves...
LOS ANGELES - For criminal defense attorney Ronald S. Miller, arguing in court is as invigorating as being the sole male in an...
Letters, Judges and Judiciary
Professor Misidentifies Real Threat To Freedom
By Contributing Writer
Letter to the Editor - Professor [Erwin] Chemerinsky's article ("Attack on Courts Threatens Crucial Checks and Balances," Apri...
Focus Column - Probate Law - By Marshal A. Oldman - In Gardenhire v. Superior Court of Santa Clara County (Francesconi), 2005 ...
Forum Column - By Patrick Mattimore - When General Motors wants to test the safety of a new car, the company can arrange crash...
Letter to the Editor - The hosannas to the recently deceased attorney [Johnnie] Cochran makes one think that he walked upon wa...
LOS ANGELES - Retired Sacramento appellate Justice George E. Paras, known for his diligence and ability to settle cases, died...
SAN DIEGO - Police officers can enter a commercial building closed to the general public without a warrant, a state appellate ...
LOS ANGELES - A three-judge panel of special masters concluded Tuesday that Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Kevin A. Ross com...
SAN FRANCISCO - Family law? What a drag! Or so thought Evelio Grillo. Appointed to the Alameda County Superior Court in 2003, ...
LOS ANGELES - Public relations giant Fleishman-Hillard agreed Tuesday to pay $5.7 million to settle a civil fraud lawsuit file...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a cautionary tale for lawyers who steal from their clients, a Russian immigrant who toiled as a farm labore...
LOS ANGELES - A Glendale man accused of practicing law without a license for three decades must stand trial for stealing $100,...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Earns Respect Through His Sense of Dignity
By Blair Clarkson
LOS ANGELES - Between the drawn-out hearings, emotional family disputes, bickering lawyers and unpleasant public displays of p...
INDUSTRIAL NEWPORT BEACH - James Parr purchased a 21,729-square-foot research-and-development building at 20341 Birch St. fro...
LOS ANGELES - Nobody likes losing at the racetrack. Especially on a pre-race favorite that may not have been healthy enough to...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Terri R. Brown - Most of us are repelled by mold. And for good reason. Active indoor mold growt...
Judges and Judiciary
Judicial Council Honors Court Innovations From Across State
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Superior Court's multilingual information center and the Los Angeles court's new judge orie...
LOS ANGELES - The lead attorney for embattled French billionaire Francois Pinault on Monday compared Insurance Commissioner J...
Appellate Practice
Justices Will Review Church Use of Hallucinogenic Herbal Tea
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - In a case that pits religious freedom against the nation's drug laws, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to ...
WASHINGTON - California's attempt to sue major electricity wholesalers for violations of the state's unfair-business-practices...
Judges and Judiciary
U.S. District Judge Baird Retires From Bench to Join JAMs
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - A year after assuming senior status, Lourdes Gillespie Baird has left the U.S. District Court bench in Los Angel...
SAN FRANCISCO - Cooley Godward has snagged credit finance attorney John Hale from DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary. Hale, who star...
SACRAMENTO - A state senator said Monday she has introduced a bill to lift the 10-year statute of limitations on rape so that ...
Criminal
Tabloid-Tainted Michael Jackson Trial Pushes Outer Limits of Bizarre
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - It's a trial. No, it's a circus. No, it's a train wreck. OK, it's a circus train wreck in a courtho...
LOS ANGELES - Convicted Caltech whiz kid William "Billy" Cottrell joked in a taped jailhouse telephone call to his mother tha...
SAN FRANCISCO - Twenty-four World War II concentration camp survivors will get another chance to prove that the Vatican Bank ...