SACRAMENTO - To his Central Coast constituents, Bruce McPherson, the new Republican chairman of the California Senate Public S...
Criminal
SLA Shotgun Slaying Blasts Holes in Prosecutors' Professional Facade
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County district attorney's office is as mad as a wet cat over a Valentine's Day press release is...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge, who actively seeks competitive bids for lead counsel in securities class cases, has thrown a ...
LOS ANGELES - The state of California is renegotiating its contracts with telephone companies to try to reduce phone call rate...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Things Looking Up for a Slimmed-Down Tarkington
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - The name Tarkington, O'Connor & O'Neill isn't on the growing list of failed Bay Area law firms. Nor is i...
The big debate raging in Major League Baseball is whether money is an enemy of the sport that will do away with an even playin...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Arbitration in Health Care Helps Patients, Taxpayers
By Columnist
The recent report titled "Arbitration in California Managed Health Care Systems" (2001), produced by the California Research B...
Commercial Law
California, U.S. Banks Scramble to Handle Changes to Rules for Loans
By Toni Vranjes
California and more than two dozen states have embraced changes to the rules that govern certain loan transactions in an effor...
Litigation to achieve social and political objectives is common. Many so-called public-interest groups across the entire polit...
Time and technology wait for no lawyer. When in the market for computer hardware and software, you should always buy the best ...
LOS ANGELES - Local leaders Thursday launched a telephone "helpline" aimed at reducing violence in Los Angeles streets and hom...
LOS ANGELES - California associates are a little jumpy these days. And while those jitters may resemble last year's sleep-depr...
Technology & Science
Web Panhandler Wants World to Give Him the Money
By Penny Arevalo
Who says Web sites can't make money? Rich Schmidt had two goals when he started his self-described "amazing" sendmeadollar.com...
In the coastal city of Santa Cruz, David Leahy has made a career out of promoting and cultivating organic produce. A one-time ...
Two years ago, aspiring novelist Ken Andina moved from his noisy San Francisco apartment to the quiet, seaside town of Carmel....
While sitting in front of the television at home, real estate broker James Liptak frequently juggles many tasks. With his lapt...
LOS ANGELES - A former Los Angeles Superior Court clerk pleaded no contest Thursday to accepting a bribe to search computerize...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Teach Court System to the People, Judges Urge
By Don De Benedictis
SAN DIEGO - The judges of the ABA announced a big push Thursday to encourage their colleagues nationwide to explain the court ...
SAN DIEGO - District Attorney Paul Pfingst will go to the state Supreme Court to fight an appellate decision striking down the...
LOS ANGELES - Former personal-injury attorney James H. Davis posted $10,000 bail late Wednesday to win his release from custod...
SAN FRANCISCO - Canoga Park attorney Randolph M. Hammock believes that if the judges of the 4th District Court of Appeal never...
WASHINGTON - Danny Lee Kyllo was arrested in his Florence, Ore., home on Jan. 27, 1992, by officers executing a search warrant...
SANTA CLARA - The nationwide effort to find and free wrongfully convicted inmates came to Santa Clara University Law School on...
Judges and Judiciary
Counties Can't Bust Prop. 13 To Pay Court Judgments
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Twenty-three years after voters approved Proposition 13, judges still wrestle with its property tax constraint...
LOS ANGELES - "Big Mama" is the story of an elderly African-American grandmother's struggle to be allowed to raise her develop...
Criminal
Former Lawyer Gets 16 Years in $3 Million Conservatorship Scam
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Former Riverside attorney Michael Molloy was sentenced Thursday to 16 years and four months in prison for his role...
The Internal Revenue Service recently issued final regulations and new proposed regulations regarding the tax treatment of loa...
Several states'-rights issues have made headlines over the past few years as a result of judicial, legislative and executive a...
The 'Powerine' decision leaves intact substantial insurance benefits and obligations, even when insured faces only administrat...
"Want me to show you how it's done?" she teased. My girlfriend, a nonlawyer, enjoys turning the tables on me. She recently def...