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VENTURA - Suspended Ventura County Superior Court Judge Robert Bradley was accused Wednesday of again violating his drunken-d...


WASHINGTON - The House of Representatives voted Tuesday not to cut the Legal Service Corporation's budget in half, as initial...



Expense Account

Aug. 7, 1998
By Michael Ueda

In what is believed to be the first challenge of a Los Angeles landlord's attempt to pass certain building-improvement costs ...


Private Parts

Aug. 7, 1998
By Peter Blumberg

SACRAMENTO - Growing concern over a loss of personal privacy has fueled a lawmaking frenzy aimed at protecting consumers from...



RED BLUFF - Peter Twede, a Tehama County Family Law Commissioner, is perplexed by parents who refuse to support their minor ch...


ABA Authority To Accredit Is Under Scrutiny

Aug. 7, 1998
By Don De Benedictis

TORONTO - The American Bar Association could soon find itself whipsawed between the U.S. Departments of Justice and Education ...



A Riverside County judge abandoned his judicial duties and undermined public confidence when he routinely left the bench duri...


This Hit Squad Has Judges Crying Foul

Aug. 6, 1998
By Tori Richards

SANTA ANA - A special fast-track trial team recently created by the Orange County Superior Court presiding judge is a disaste...



Insider Trading Informant Given Probation

Aug. 6, 1998
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - A government informant who provided the key to 360,000 internal documents in the securities fraud and insider...


Three settlements stemming from lawsuits filed against Los Angeles County-run hospitals for botched medical procedures were u...



Jury to Decide if Pepper Spray was Reasonable

Aug. 6, 1998
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge Monday ruled a jury should decide whether it was reasonable for Humboldt County sheriff's dep...


Bar Association to Prohibit 'Pay to Play' Donations

Aug. 6, 1998
By Don De Benedictis

TORONTO - Taking its strongest stand yet against lawyers who make political contributions in hopes of winning work from politi...



In a 1980s movie called "The Windwalker," a Native American family spends a lifetime looking for a child who was stolen as an...


Kaiser Slashes Favored Law Firms to Four

Aug. 5, 1998
By Vivien Lou Chen

SAN FRANCISCO- Reeling from what is anticipated to be a second consecutive year of losses, the Kaiser Permanente Group - the ...



Acting SG to Join O'Melveny & Myers

Aug. 5, 1998
By From Staff Reports

DELLINGER LANDS IN L.A. - Building its appellate practice, Los Angeles' O'Melveny & Myers has recruited Walter Dellinger, ...


IOLTA Community Ponders the Future

Aug. 5, 1998
By Daniel Shaw

TORONTO - Among IOLTA advocates and state bar officials who have gathered here at the American Bar Association's annual meeti...



Judges Back Kline Against Discipline Board

Aug. 5, 1998
By Philip Carizosa

SAN FRANCISCO - In a highly unusual move, the California Judges Association has joined in support of Court of Appeal Justice ...


Starr Salutes Rehnquist Court

Aug. 5, 1998
By Kenneth Rutman

TORONTO - The nearest thing in Toronto to a media feeding frenzy greeted Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr at a breakfast mee...



Race for Orange County Judicial Post Heats Up

Aug. 5, 1998
By Tori Richards

SANTA ANA - Usually, the election of an Orange County assistant presiding judge is a drab affair, with the Superior Court iss...


Defense lawyers representing companies in Proposition 65 lawsuits are fond of pointing the finger at plaintiffs and accusing ...



TORONTO - Even as Congress is debating campaign-finance reform, the American Bar Association, meeting in Canada Monday, came o...


Vega Nominated as U.S. Attorney

Aug. 5, 1998
By Marty Graham

SAN DIEGO - Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., has nominated Assistant U.S. Attorney Gregory Vega for appointment as the U.S. atto...



SACRAMENTO - Ending years of debate on how to provide voters more information about appellate justices, Secretary of State Bi...


Supreme Court Hands Insurers Major Victory

Aug. 5, 1998
By Anna Marie Stolley

In a resounding victory for insurance companies and their lawyers, a divided California Supreme Court ruled Monday that an in...



Healthy War Chest

Aug. 1, 1998
By Tom Dresslar



Monica's Deal Furrows a Few Legal Eyebrows

Aug. 1, 1998
By Martin Bergn


High Court Sets New Deadline for Malpractice

Aug. 1, 1998
By Philip Carrizosa



Los Angeles Judge Rejects Unification

Aug. 1, 1998
By Denise Levin


Orange County Approves Unification

Jul. 31, 1998
By Tori Richards