Column By Philip Carrizosa - SAN FRANCISCO - In 1977, Gov. Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown Jr. made one of his most unusual judicial a...
SAN FRANCISCO - There is little dispute about who was involved in the grisly murder of transgender teenager Gwen Araujo. But w...
Constitutional Law
Suspect Waits Eight Years in Jail for Trial
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Prosecutors say Anthony Williams stabbed Talvin Bright 50 times in a Moreno Valley apartment in April 1992. Willia...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Malpractice Insurance Won't Cover All That Mediators Do
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Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Jeff Kichaven - Mediators need help from our brethren who practice insuranc...
Snow astonishing their hammered faces, the prisoners of Saint Lawrence, island men, remember in Spanish the island places ...
I sat in the car, window down in summer, waiting. ...
Employment Column - By Richard Sheldon - California has a long history of aversion to covenants prohibiting employees from com...
Criminal
Racer Whose Rival Died Must Spend Year in Jail
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - A San Bernardino County Superior Court judge Thursday sentenced a street racer to a year in jail and three ...
RIVERSIDE - Services have been held for Kathleen M. Gonzales, an assistant city attorney in Riverside who died at her home Apr...
SAN FRANCISCO - Note to Silicon Valley lawyers: Avoid plotting to cover up a trade secret theft while on speaker phone. After ...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris reshuffled her office staff Thursday and reached into Solano Cou...
SAN FRANCISCO - A crime committed in another state and expunged from the defendant's record can still be counted as a felony f...
WASHINGTON - Former Los Angeles Superior Court Judge George P. Schiavelli appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Th...
Forum Column - By Vincent Schiraldi, Doug McVay and Jason Ziedenberg - In March, the Maryland House of Delegates passed a bipa...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Court Sets New Rules for Out-of-State Counsel
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - The state Supreme Court adopted new rules Thursday for out-of-state attorneys who want to practice in California...
SAN FRANCISCO - Manuel Reyes-Alcaraz is a Vietnam-era U.S. Army veteran, but that won't save him from deportation to his nativ...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Bernard J. Kamins keeps a photograph of a gravesite under his desk blotter. It'...
SAN FRANCISCO - A nonprofit group formed to fight same-sex marriage cannot intervene in lawsuits that claim gay people have a ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal grand jury in San Francisco indicted Houston-based Reliant Energy Services Inc. and four former exec...
LOS ANGELES - Services will take place April 17 for David Reily, an aviation litigator and name partner in the Los Angeles fir...
Litigation
GOP Vows to Keep Pushing for Change in Litigation Legislation
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Despite recent defeats, Senate Republicans will continue to push for litigation-reform legislation in the coming ...
SANTA ANA - The defendants involved in the Mexican Mafia trials were about as tough as they come. But they also were human, a ...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Gregg A. Farley - Suppose you represent a large corporate client that discovers an accounting f...
Real Estate/Development
'Bezaire' May Permit Property Tax Increases Above 2 Percent
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Focus Column - Real Estate Law - By Robert C. Barnes - If you were listening carefully on the last Friday in March 2004, you m...
Book Review - 'Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Barlett' (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux 2004) - By Brent Staples...
Forum Column - By Philip Smucker - As the preliminary evidence suggests, the American public should be prepared for the likeli...
Notebook - By Dennis Pfaff - SAN FRANCISCO - Dugongs, by all accounts, are gentle creatures, largely content to munch sea gras...
LOS ANGELES - Services have been held for Alan Carter, the Los Angeles deputy district attorney who prosecuted Heidi Fleiss, t...
HAYWARD - Since taking the Alameda County bench 12 years ago, Judge Brenda Harbin-Forte has not shied away from taking unpopul...
Appellate Practice
April Showers High Court With Amazing Array of Potential Hot Potatoes
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - With apologies to T.S. Eliot, April is not the cruelest month. This year, at least for Supreme Court aficionados,...