WASHINGTON - Police question a woman about a structure fire for a half-hour without telling her she has the right to remain si...
Judges and Judiciary
Fresno Judge Achieves Goal of Lessening Civil Backlog
By Xenia Kobylarz
FRESNO - When Stephen Kane decided to apply for a vacant seat on the Fresno County Superior Court in 1992, he had a pretty goo...
SAN FRANCISCO - Marin County Superior Court Judge William McGivern has decided not to seek re-election and has filed for disab...
Criminal
Prosecuting Cops for Civil Rights Violations Is Often a Lost Cause
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Civil rights prosecutions of police officers are rare and tough to win. That makes the current federal grand j...
Forum Column - By Zoran K. Basich - Many estate planners don't know that revocable living trusts are a disaster for long-term ...
LOS ANGELES COUNTY CANOGA PARK - J.H. Snyder Co. sold Warner Marketplace, a 157,000-square-foot retail complex, to an undiscl...
Focus Column Insurance Law By Kirk Pasich Insureds can look to a number of policy provisions, as well as the doctrine of miti...
Employment Column By Deanna M. Wilkinson Autumn is always a busy time for law firms. Firms conduct on-campus interviews, stud...
Zoning, Planning and Use
State Refuses to See Big Picture in Yuba City-Marysville Flood Litigation
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Forum Column By Michael M. Berger One has to wonder what it is about large bureaucracies that makes them incapable of seeing ...
Real Estate/Development
High Court Should Uphold Edict on Section 8 Housing
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Forum Column By David Pallack Section 8 tenants in California face a difficult dilemma when their landlord decides that it no...
SAN FRANCISCO - David Lee likely will be the second of three San Francisco rookie police officers allegedly involved in an of...
SACRAMENTO - Acknowledging that the case was moot, a state appeal court nonetheless reached out Thursday and decided one of t...
UKIAH - Mendocino County Superior Court Judge Richard Henderson has joined some sizable groups in his life. He likes to say t...
SAN FRANCISCO - A woman allegedly tortured by her boyfriend with a hot iron blasted district attorney candidate Kamala Harris...
WASHINGTON - Critics of the Bush administration's handling of suspected "enemy combatants" at Guantnamo Bay said the governme...
SAN FRANCISCO - A proposed rule aimed at providing public access and input into trial court budgets and administration has ou...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court says a woman suspected of abusing her blind 83-year-old mother should be able to sue ...
SAN FRANCISCO - As a gay Latino, Anthony Romero is an important voice for a wide cross-section of minorities. To civil libert...
LOS ANGELES - When his friends and colleagues talk about veteran prosecutor Kenneth Lamb, their minds turn to baseball. If La...
LOS ANGELES - When Santa Barbara County District Attorney Thomas W. Sneddon Jr., portable toilet in tow, led a posse of inves...
SAN FRANCISCO - Appellate Justice Arthur Scotland may be old enough - 57 - to join the American Association for Retired Peopl...
LOS ANGELES - Kids appearing before Superior Court Referee Stephanie M. Davis in the Inglewood delinquency court may be in fo...
LOS ANGELES COUNTY BEVERLY HILLS - David Kaufman of Marcus & Millichap is marketing a four-story apartment building built ...
LOS ANGELES - More than 1,500 members of the legal community will converge in Hollywood today to commemorate the 100th anniver...
Family
Divorcing Couple's Lawyers Should Collaborate to Facilitate Peaceful Split
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Focus Column - Family Law - By Mari J. Frank - How is it possible for a divorcing couple's attorneys to facilitate a peaceful ...
Personal Injury & Torts
Assuming Security Duty May Lead to Owner Liability
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Focus Column - Real Property - By Michael Paul Thomas - In Avila v. Jado Properties Inc., 112 Cal.App.4th 405 (2003), t...
Forum Column - By Michael S. Fields - Some of us aging attorneys recall the days when it took nearly five years to start a tri...
LOS ANGELES - Federal authorities are investigating a string of letters that threatened potential candidates with torture or d...
LOS ANGELES - An attorney violated the California Bar's Rules of Professional Conduct when he sought to buy property with a cl...
WASHINGTON - Santa Clarita attorney Allan J. Favish ran into a stone wall Wednesday at the Supreme Court in his crusade to obt...