Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Justices Set Rules For Suits Among Attorneys
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A lawyer sued by a client for malpractice may go after the co-counsel who provided the bad advice to recover h...
SAN FRANCISCO - An attorney for former Sonoma County Judge Patricia Gray, who is facing ethics charges over mailers sent durin...
Entertainment & Sports
Many Unprotectable Similarities May Add Up to Infringement
By Columnist
Focus Column - By David Halberstadter - On June 12, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued its most recent decision on t...
SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Company's unsecured creditors won approval Thursday to file their own plan to reorgan...
WASHINGTON - Striking a resounding blow for judicial freedom of speech, the Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that, once states ...
Law Practice
Entertainment Chair, Devoted Judge Mastered Art of Persuasion
By Sandra Corrales
LOS ANGELES - Services will take place today in Cathedral City for retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Roy M. Carstairs, ...
Dicta Column - By James Grafton Randall - Discovery is not as difficult a task or as complex a matter as some try to make it,...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Court Rightly Stayed True to Facts in 'Tahoe-Sierra' Case
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Daniel L. Siegel - According to Michael M. Berger, plaintiffs' attorney in Tahoe-Sierra Preservation Coun...
Constitutional Law
Inmate Cuffed to Hitching Post Can Sue, Justices Decide
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Condemning treatment "antithetical to human dignity," the Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that an Alabama prisone...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court approved random drug tests for many public high school students Thursday, ruling that schools' ...
SAN DIEGO - Digital photos of girls being sexually assaulted and of people having sex with animals were recovered from the hom...
SAN FRANCISCO - Keenan G. Casady, a judicial administrator in the state and federal courts for more than 25 years, will be the...
SAN FRANCISCO - Furiously denouncing "political blackmail" by state Sen. John Burton, directors of Hastings College of the Law...
Judges and Judiciary
Diligence Marks Jurist Who Loved Litigating
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Judge Paul E. Zellerbach admits that one of the reasons he wanted to become a judge is because he's a "control fre...
SAN FRANCISCO - "Pearls Before Swine" - a crisply-drawn line-art cartoon strip featuring a rat, a pig, a zebra and a goat - pr...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Joaquin County Superior Court Judge Michael E. Platt's days on the bench appeared to be numbered Wednesday...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a pair of powerful religious rights decisions, a federal appeals court held Wednesday that the words "under...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors violated the state's open-meetings law on three occasions, a Los Ang...
LOS ANGELES - Two attorneys have resigned the practice of law and another has been suspended, following investigations by the ...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for retired sole practitioner and jewelry maker James E. Sloan of Los Angeles. Sloan,...
LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury Wednesday indicted an immigration officer on charges he promised political asylum to two Ch...
Media
Time Transforms Trashy Tabloid From Kleenex for Extraterrestrials Into Newspaper
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - Has the National Enquirer transformed itself over the years from a gossip rag into a publication that...
LOS ANGELES - Visitors to online auction site eBay who purchased autographed baseballs from dealers named "Stan the Man Memora...
SANTA ANA - Orange County's district attorney has intervened in criminal cases on behalf of campaign contributors, hired polit...
LOS ANGELES - A federal jury Wednesday found six Ukranian nationals guilty of operating an international smuggling ring that b...
REDWOOD CITY - Steve Wagstaffe, San Mateo County's chief deputy district attorney, finds himself in a frustrating bind. His pr...
Focus Column - By Jordan Stanzler - One twist in the Enron fiasco is the insurance story. Recent newspaper reports indicate th...
SACRAMENTO - A scaled-back measure that still would expand the state's wiretap law has cleared its biggest obstacle, passing t...
Dicta Column - By Beth A. Schroeder - Law firms are employers, too, and as employers, they get pitches about employee handbook...
Dicta Column - By Betty Morris - For more than 25 years, I have watched changes taking place in the legal profession. As the l...