Forum Column - By Harold Johnson - Will some soldiers and Marines die in the Persian Gulf so that some gnatcatcher and other ...
Forum Column - By Robert G. Warshaw - I read, with great frustration, Ted Van Dyk's views on why the Space Shuttle Program sho...
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Robin W. Wofford and Lois M. Kosch - Employers must be aware of the laws that provide job a...
SAN FRANCISCO - A defense attorney for one of the San Francisco officers charged in the police cover-up case alleges that othe...
Reporter's Notebook - Like a bad dream or a bad debt, the U.S. Congress' bankruptcy reform bill won't go away. Last week the H...
SAN JOSE - The Santa Clara County public defender's office hopes to pare back the severe cuts proposed to its budget for the c...
Government
Jurist Looks Forward to Working With New Child Welfare Director
By Cheryl Romo
LOS ANGELES - Judge Michael Nash hopes that David Sanders, who arrived this week as the new director of the Department of Chil...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared ready to rule that state sodomy laws violate equal protection when they m...
SAN FRANCISCO - Securities and Exchange Commission rules that take effect Friday subject public companies to a previously unhe...
Judges and Judiciary
Davis Appoints Four Judges in Three Counties
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Gov. Gray Davis appointed four Southern California judges Wednesday, including Costa Mesa Mayor Karen L. Robinson,...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court voted Wednesday to decide whether cities are free to deny taxpayer subsidies to g...
SAN FRANCISCO - Dickson, Carlson & Campillo's lawyer has upped the ante in his fight with the former Brobeck, Phleger &...
LOS ANGELES - A civil claim over allegations dating back 25 years has sparked a criminal investigation that threatens to destr...
SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan is facing criticism over staff shuffling that some say has reduced the number of wome...
SIMI VALLEY - After serving only a couple of months as a court commissioner, William Q. Liebmann was appointed Tuesday to a Su...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to delay approval of the Newhall Ranch project, instru...
LOS ANGELES - A powerful talent agent clashed with Judge Elden S. Fox one day last month and discovered who holds the power at...
Trusts & Estates
Self-Canceling Installment Note Can Be Powerful Planning Tool
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Focus Column - Probate Law - By Bruce Givner - Parents commonly use self-canceling installment notes to transfer property to t...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Trevor Law Group Accuses Bar of Politics
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Three Beverly Hills attorneys accused of unethical use of the state's unfair-competition law have gone on the at...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Bar Association officials were a little embarrassed last year, after they decided to encourag...
WASHINGTON - Ruling in the case of a California death-row inmate, the Supreme Court on Tuesday continued its strict interpreta...
Forum Column - By Rodney Richard Jones - Sentences that are longer in years than a human can actually live are emblematic of t...
LOS ANGELES - With the forfeiture of the Cannabis Resource Center's $1.2 million building and other assets hanging in the bala...
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara University School of Law is launching the first law journal available exclusively online. While a half-...
SAN FRANCISCO - During a small luncheon gathering last week at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, historian David McCullou...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court ruled Tuesday that an East Bay cancer patient who won a $1.5 million fraud judgment ag...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco supervisors Tuesday backed an ambitious lawsuit by City Attorney Dennis Herrera against contract...
SACRAMENTO - California's courts are being hurt by the state's budget crisis, and lawmakers must act quickly to prevent furthe...
PRIESTS CHARGED - Two former Catholic priests and an ex-seminarian were charged late Tuesday with multiple counts of child mol...
LOS ANGELES - After the Gulf War, the first President Bush pledged to prosecute Saddam Hussein for war crimes. But he never fo...