SAN FRANCISCO - Appellate Justice Vance W. Raye has been elected chairman of the state Commission on Judicial Performance. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The day before Thanksgiving in 1999, 17-year-old Chanti Prattipati died of carbon monoxide poisoning from the ...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Puts All of His Hats To Good Use in Courtroom
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Roy L. Paul recently praised the arguments made by lawyers who were representin...
SAN FRANCISCO - Sitting on the federal appellate bench, Judge William C. Canby appears unflappable. He put that quality to use...
WASHINGTON - In its latest legal challenge to the government's "no-fly" list for air travelers, the American Civil Liberties U...
MALIBU - Seven years after he accepted, then quickly rejected, a similar offer, former independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr ha...
Focus Column - Constitutional Law - By Charles S. Doskow - It will be some time before the legality of same-sex marriages, rec...
Technology & Science
Study of Genetics Ushers in New Era of Legal Disputes
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Peter Shorett - As goes science, so goes the legal system. And science has begun to transform all our tradit...
Forum Column - By Michael K. Bohn - Intelligence reporting to the president is front-page news today. The commission investiga...
Notebook - By Craig Anderson - SAN JOSE - The latest Santa Clara County Bar Association survey, released last month, has promp...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County officials today will recommend paying $250,000 to a father who claimed social workers contrib...
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed Edward Heidig as director of the Office of Administrative Law, a post th...
LOS ANGELES - The 2nd District Court of Appeals has declined without comment to hear Public Defender Michael Judge's challenge...
Appellate Practice
Court Will Review If Police Can Use Dogs at Traffic Stop
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Taking on another twist in search-and-seizure law, the Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether police ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Oakland City Council is poised to dramatically increase the city's power to force landlords to oust proble...
LOS ANGELES - Health care lawyer Russell Hayman, a former federal prosecutor and past chief of staff at the U.S. Drug Enforcem...
FULLERTON - During his four-year career, he represented nearly a score of clients without a license, or even a law degree. Now...
Criminal
Telltale Smell Helps Bring High-Flying Drug Dealers Down to Earth
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Need to fly a honking big shipment of illegal drugs to Atlanta, Detroit or Cleveland without the both...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge tentatively approved a $1.1 billion settlement Monday between Microsoft and some 14 mill...
SAN FRANCISCO - Long before Rod Davis became a Sacramento appellate justice reviewing the work of trial courts in 23 counties,...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge in Los Angeles on Monday sentenced a convicted co-conspirator of the notorious Aryan Brotherhood...
SAN FRANCISCO - Embattled attorney Maureen R. Kallins, who spent 20 days last fall in Santa Rita jail for contempt of court, n...
SAN FRANCISCO - Harold Wayne Taylor didn't know his ex-girlfriend Patty Fansler was pregnant when he fatally shot her. But ign...
Thomas Fitzgibbon has been reunited with two of his former colleagues at the Santa Monica firm of Pfeiffer & Thigpen. Pfei...
A health care provider faces a lawsuit after one of its former Sacramento-area nursing homes allowed a 72-year-old man to drop...
Column - Law Firm Management - By Arnold Peter - Most law-firm marketing today is formulaic, unimaginative and just plain crum...
Connecticut Gov. John G. Rowland has found himself in hot water for lying to cover up receiving sizable gifts from a state con...
The Scene found the Jewish Federation's legal services fund-raising dinner especially pleasurable because the group served a j...
Judges and Judiciary
Tea Time Can Be Any Time for Retired Superior Court Judge
By Sarah Garveyn
After 14 years on the bench, Judge Margaret M. Hay has retired from the Los Angeles Superior Court. Hay, whose retirement beca...
Justice Judith L. Haller struggled to have a career and a family, and now she encourages young women to seek their own path to...