SACRAMENTO - As a top adviser to Senate President Pro Tem John Burton, D-San Francisco, Anthony Williams holds the keys to muc...
Dicta Column - By Paul O'Brien, Ever since about 1965, when I first heard Deputy Barney Fife utter it, I have wondered about t...
Focus Column - By Michael M. Pollak, It is not unusual for a dishonest insured to submit a series of fraudulent claims over th...
Insurance Law Practitioner Column - By Kirk A. Pasich, In 2001, California appellate courts rendered more than 40 decisions ad...
Forum Column - By Ted Hayes, The slogan "Justice For The Homeless" is not the agenda of 98 percent of the advocates and activi...
LOS ANGELES - The glut of young high-tech attorneys in the Bay Area job market continues to grow. San Jose's Skjerven Morrill ...
LOS ANGELES - A memorial service will take place early next month for John R. Cohan, a prominent financial planning and tax at...
SACRAMENTO - A bill that would authorize the judiciary to convert 10 vacant court commissioner positions annually into judgesh...
LOS ANGELES - Four Los Angeles deputy district attorneys have sued their professional organization, the Association of Deputy ...
LOS ANGELES - Once-prominent foster care providers from South Central Los Angeles won a half-million-dollar verdict Tuesday af...
SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. District Charles Breyer has rejected the government's practice of demanding that defendants unilaterally ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge ruled Tuesday that the couple charged in the dog mauling death of their neighbor will no...
LOS ANGELES - As Aaron Smith wheeled his car onto Ocean Boulevard in Long Beach, he recalled how a man named Cherokee introduc...
Judges and Judiciary
Embattled Mental Health Expert Makes His Exit
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - In 21 years on the bench - 11 of them as supervising judge of Department 95, the county mental health court - an...
OAKLAND - Alameda County Superior Court Judge Richard Iglehart has been on the bench just two years - almost all of it in drug...
LOS ANGELES - Once again reinforcing Proposition 36, an appellate court Tuesday ruled that trial courts have the authority to ...
SACRAMENTO - Only violent and serious felons would be eligible for life sentences under California's three-strikes law if eit...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Sherman S. Welpton Jr., a retired senior partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, w...
Law Practice
Audit Finds Deficiencies at Public Defender's Office
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - The San Bernardino County public defender's office is overworked, understaffed, underfunded and lacks directi...
SAN FRANCISCO - Joan Haratani, a litigator who had spent her entire 17-year legal career at Oakland's Crosby, Heafey, Roach &a...
LOS ANGELES - One by one, psychiatric patients of Metropolitan State Hospital filed into the community center to receive a hol...
WASHINGTON - Delivering a rare decision disfavoring arbitration, the Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled, 6-3, that the federal Equ...
SAN DIEGO - Superior Court Judge John M. Thompson issued a sweeping gag order Tuesday in the case of a former medical examiner...
Civil Rights
Access to Courts Often Comes Too Easily for the Mentally Ill
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Forum Column - By Richard Van Horn, Access to the legal system in America for poor people is rarely more than a theory or a ni...
Forum Column - By Joaquin G. Avila, Voting rights - a kaleidoscopic phrase, subject to different interpretations and often eli...
Probate Law Practitioner Column - By Marshal A. Oldman and Susan J. Cooley, In Estate of Kaila, 2001 DJDAR 13361 (Cal. App. D...
LOS ANGELES - San Francisco-based Pillsbury Winthrop will roll back first-year associate salaries from $135,000 to $125,000, t...
LOS ANGELES - In what critics call Hollywood's war on cyberspace, a teen-age Norwegian programmer has been charged in Norway f...
Court Jesters - In Pavlicic v. Vogtsberger, 390 Pa. 502 (1957), Justice Michael A. Musmanno held the following for the court, ...
SAN FRANCISCO -Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Northern California's leader in per-partner profits, will pay bonuses of ...