The despicable attacks on Sept. 11 in New York and Washington have underscored the importance of international cooperation in ...
Litigator Profile It was a senior partner's lack of knowledge and expertise in construction litigation that nudged Thomas Mill...
The vertically integrated media conglomerate is fertile ground for litigation because of the appearance of impropriety and act...
Land dedicated to Palestine can thrive and develop, just as Israel became verdant as funds were generated to irrigate. Through...
Even in Los Angeles, where the earth below the city is moving constantly, homeowners don't expect the floors of their homes to...
The defense attorney didn't want to risk offending the jury by calling the plaintiff, a respected physician, a liar. ...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge With a Temper Also Has Reputation for Fairness
By Tamara Scott
SAN JOSE - Judge Hugh "Rocky" Mullin III does not suffer fools gladly. Mullin, 59, is the presiding criminal judge in Santa Cl...
LOS ANGELES - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo on Tuesday recommended the repeal of two city ordinances that restrict billboard ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A bid filed earlier this month with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court by one of the state's best-known utility activis...
Judges and Judiciary
Retired Probate Judge Invokes Fifth Amendment
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Retired Riverside Judge William H. Sullivan - whose handling of conservatorship cases while a probate judge is und...
Criminal
Call Prompts Revealing Probe Into Lawyer's Private Life, Assets
By Matthew Heller
BAKERSFIELD - Around the town where he practiced law for more than 30 years, Michael L. Sprague kept his life outside the prof...
LOS ANGELES - A former Beverly Hills personal injury attorney, caught trying to bring a loaded gun into the Woodland Hills ban...
In Conservatorship of Levitt and Conservatorship of Page, 2001 Cal.App.LEXIS 1170 (Cal. App. Oct. 31, 2001), the...
Will press independence become the next casualty in the war against terrorism? If the Bush Administration's penchant for using...
WASHINGTON - President Bush on Tuesday dedicated the headquarters building of the Department of Justice in memory of Attorney ...
RIVERSIDE - A complex murder case involving methamphetamine manufacturing could be headed to a retrial now that a judge has ru...
SAN FRANCISCO - As Marin County prosecutors continued to deliberate Monday whether to file charges against a San Francisco pro...
State Bar & Bar Associations
July '01 Test Produces 4,338 Potential California Attorneys
By Don De Benedictis
LOS ANGELES - Nearly 57 percent of the 7,618 people who took the California Bar Exam in July passed, meaning the state soon co...
Law Practice
Falling Axes Also Can Fell Firm Partners, Consultants Say
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Partners won't be immune from the nation's recession, law firm consultants predict. Just as associates have be...
LOS ANGELES - Mark P. Robinson Sr., whose 51-year legal career left a legacy of service to his profession and to California, h...
SAN FRANCISCO - In the 1930s, a trembling, fledgling journalist from Yale University had the temerity to visit Supreme Court J...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Debra Yang has emerged as the front-runner for the U.S. attorney post in Los An...
SAN FRANCISCO - Neil Eisenberg, the public power advocate who finished last in a field of four candidates for San Francisco ci...
Misclassifying employees as exempt from overtime, meal period and rest period rules for executive, administrative and professi...
According to news reports, authorities have detained more than 1,000 people as witnesses in the Sept. 11th attacks. Among thos...
In Paschal v. Georgia , 84 G.E. 326, 10 S.E. 821 (1889), defendant Paschal was found guilty of selling whiskey and appe...
In "Illegal Defense: Bombings Violate U.N. Charter, Destroy World Peace Rather Than Build Safe Future" (Forum, Nov. 13), Marjo...
Whether a "day planner" or loose-leaf appointment notebook is a "bound diary" may seem as arcane and inconsequential as any le...
Criminal
Flimflam Artist Could Do Time on Two Continents for Duping Hollywood
By Garry Abrams
Here's a Thanksgiving thought: If international flimflam artist Florio Fiorini is blessed with a really long life, he'll be ab...
Don't believe everything you hear about the new world order. Though amusements parks since Sept. 11 have been in the toilet an...