Bill Targeting Neary Decision Now Advances
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - A bill to curb litigants' ability to erase trial court judgments as part of settlements Tuesday passed the Assem...
SECs Top S.F. Lawyer To Join Morrison Firm
By Leslie Gordon
SAN FRANCISCO - The highest-ranking lawyer at the Securities and Exchange Commission in San Francisco, David B. Bayless, will...
Katzenberg-Disney Trial Takes Brief Intermission
By Garry Abrams
And on the 10th day the lawyers in Katzenberg v. Disney rested. But only for a while. The complex legal war between DreamWork...
Young Guns
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate on Tuesday began debating sweeping juvenile crime legislation that would encourage states to cra...
Former FBI Counsel Now Advises Employees
By Susan Mc Rae
SAN DIEGO - It took Gary M. Laturno longer than most - 17 years to be exact - to start a private practice, but he is making u...
Ford Accused Of Stalling -- to Tune of $3.1B
By Patricia Jocobus
SAN FRANCISCO - The first time Gary and Martha Morris' Ford Thunderbird conked out was Memorial Day 1991. The couple were cru...
Law to Restrict Client Privilege Is Put on Hold
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - A 14-year-old girl disappears from a small Southern California town. A young man suspected of kidnapping the gir...
Law to Lift Cap On Malpractice Claims Unveiled
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - In 1975, medical malpractice insurance rates jetted into the rarefied air of triple-digit inflation, causing reb...
Judge Refuses to Expand Online Broker Suit
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - In a potentially important legal victory for online brokerages, a Santa Clara County judge has denied a request by...
Man Gets 90 Days for Assisting Suicide
By Matthew Heller
VICTORVILLE - A man who claimed to have unwittingly assisted a suicide by handing a neighbor a loaded rifle was sentenced Mon...
Family Prosecutors Honor Embattled Leader
By Michael Harris
Wayne Doss, the head of Los Angeles County's child support agency, was selected that department's 1998 prosecutor of the year...
Deadheads Can Download Without Hassle
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - For decades, the seminal Bay Area rock band, the Grateful Dead, had perhaps the music industry's most lenient...
Judge: Lawyers Comments Are Protected Speech
By Denise Levin
An attorney's statement on a news program that a financial services company cheated the elderly out of money was protected sp...
Unlicensed Associate to Face Charges
By Leslie Gordon
SAN FRANCISCO - The Santa Clara district attorney has filed felony charges against Steven Y. Lee, a former associate at Wilso...
An Apologetic DA Appears Before Judge
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco organization that helps women find their way out of prostitution received a $1,000 "Mother's ...
Dreams of Desert Development Died With Dumpster Diving
By Matthew Heller
REDLANDS - The subpoena itself was unusual enough, a request by defendants in a major real estate fraud case for correspondenc...
Fantasia Had Nothing on Eisner, According to Katzenbergs Lawyer
By Garry Abrams
Delivering a slashing attack on Walt Disney Co. chairman Michael Eisner, attorney Bert Fields on Monday accused the head of t...
Orange County Counselors Said To Have Conflict
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
LAGUNA NIGUEL - When Costa Mesa resident Bethany Peca entered a drug counseling class at the Center for Creative Alternatives...
Insurer Cant Be Forced to Pay Punitive Award
By Anna Marie Stolley
A closely divided state Supreme Court held Monday that an insurance company, sued for bad-faith failure to settle a policyhol...
Kantor to Represent Tribes In Gambling Negotiations
By Pearl Piatt
Negotiations between Gov. Gray Davis and California Indian tribes over the regulation of Indian casinos are heating up, if th...
Stock Check
By Leslie Gordon
With the advent of companies like E*trade and Charles Schwab online, even an unsophisticated investor can buy and sell shares...
Judge Sends Dispute to Jewish Court
By Denise Levin
In a ruling that may quell a controversy that pitted state court against religious law, a Beverly Hills Municipal Court judge...
CEOs Bid to Crush Securities Lawyers Fails
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Two class action attorneys who specialize in shareholder lawsuits scored a major victory last week in their bitter...
San Diego Child Care Death Draws British Interest
By Leonard Navarro
SAN DIEGO - Jury selection is scheduled to begin here today in a trial that has aroused widespread interest in Great Britain ...
Widow Claims Deputies Wrongly Killed Husband
By Lauren Blau
The estate of a man who was fatally shot by sheriff's deputies has filed a $2 million claim against Los Angeles County. The c...
Fullness of Time
By Anne La Jeunesse
Joe Ball listened with growing impatience as an appellate attorney struggled to convince the state's highest court that a con...
PD Is Outspoken On Death Penalty And Rehabilitation
By Erik Cummins
SANTA ROSA - Like many of his colleagues representing indigent clients, Louis Haffner staunchly defends the rights of the acc...
Actors Quietly Wrap Up Decades-Long Legal Feud
By Garry Abrams
A notorious, long-running Hollywood legal feud between two tough guy actors who probably would have felt more at ease on moto...
Riverside Wont Prosecute Cops
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Riverside County District Attorney Grover Trask announced Thursday that no criminal charges will be filed against...
Riverside Grabs Grant San Bernardino Passes On
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - San Bernardino's Board of Supervisors have decided not to approve a $5 million state Board of Corrections gra...