SAN FRANCISCO - When Phyllis J. Hamilton was a girl in tiny Jacksonville, Ill., her high school principal sought her out to m...
LOS ANGELES - Some may think that Herman Melville's classic "Moby Dick" chronicles a sea captain's self-destructive and obsess...
SACRAMENTO - Defense attorneys scrambled Wednesday to use a newly passed ballot measure to dismiss an untold number of unfair...
WASHINGTON - Though Republicans expanded their control of the U.S. Senate after significant victories in Tuesday's elections, ...
INDUSTRIAL GOLETA - Cortona Partnership has purchased a 29,548-square-foot research-and-development building at 6860 Cortona D...
Family, Alternative Dispute Resolution
Forum Column - By Franklin R. Garfield - It is widely believed that justice or even fairness is not available in the Los Angel...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for criminal and civil attorney Myron S. "Mike" Lapidus of Mission Viejo. Lapidus, who...
WALNUT CREEK - Contra Costa Superior Court Judge Nancy Davis Stark was known as a by-the-book prosecutor who fought hard in co...
Forum Column - By William L. Buus - Have you ever served on a jury? If so, you've felt the boredom that comes with passively l...
SAN DIEGO - After 15 years of litigation, the city of San Diego is back where it started: facing a federal-court injunction to...
SAN DIEGO - A low-key judicial race that hinged on the candidates' experience turned into a sweeping victory Tuesday for feder...
LOS ANGELES - A half-cent sales tax to fund more Los Angeles County police was defeated in Tuesday's election, sending leaders...
LOS ANGELES - Almost overlooked in the hoopla over the hotly contested presidential race and 16 state propositions, five new S...
Litigation
Absentee Ballots Could Decide City Attorney's Race Outcome
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - The outcome of an intense campaign for city attorney remained unknown Wednesday, with vote totals for candidates M...
Judges and Judiciary
Riverside DA Wins Spot on Blythe Bench
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
BLYTHE - In a hard-fought race for Riverside County's open judicial seat, Deputy District Attorney Sarah Adams Christian handi...
Judges and Judiciary
Rigali Holds Narrow Lead in Judicial Race
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA BARBARA - Santa Maria attorney James F. Rigali on Wednesday held a narrow lead over Deputy District Attorney Edward H. B...
SAN FRANCISCO - The tax man will stay away from San Francisco law firm partners, as the city's voters have defeated a ballot ...
LOS ANGELES - A Pomona peace activist once suspected of the arson attacks that destroyed 125 sport utility vehicles in the San...
SAN FRANCISCO - Public interest attorney Faye D'Opal scored a decisive victory for a seat on the Marin County Superior Court,...
SAN FRANCISCO - Proposition 71, the embryonic stem cell research measure embraced by California voters Tuesday, will produce ...
Law Practice
Lawyers Are Lucky That Voters Didn't Legalize Burning Barristers at Stake
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Here are three important legal lessons of the 2004 elections: First, trial lawyers, and perhaps all...
SAN FRANCISCO - In opening statements in the retrial of the biggest police corruption case in Oakland's history, a defense at...
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County's prosecutors and public defenders were assessing what to do next Wednesday after voters soundl...
LOS ANGELES - A judge Wednesday ordered George Russell Weller to stand trial on vehicular manslaughter charges for running dow...
SACRAMENTO - A defense attorney alleging a pattern of racially biased jury selection by a now-retired Alameda County death pe...
SANTA ANA - A 6-foot, 2-inch cardboard cutout of a lawyer beat out Republican Otto Bade for the 69th District Assembly seat Tu...
SACRAMENTO - Tuesday's election was just the beginning of what promises to be a protracted period of fallout over two importan...
REDWOOD CITY - Should Scott Peterson be convicted of the murder of his wife and unborn child, his appellate attorneys will ce...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a room in the stately old Federal Reserve Bank packed with computers, telephones and harried volunteers, f...
Forum Column - By David Cameron Carr - Some of them want to use you. Some of them want to abuse you. -Eurythmics "Sweet Dreams...