His Cup Runneth Over
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Like champagne too long uncorked, Napa County's sparkling image as a leafy sanctuary from urban woes is turni...
For Beverly Hills Litigator, All the Courtrooms a Stage
By Susan Mc Rae
Beverly Hills attorney Allan Browne, with his bright blue eyes and dimpled smile, seems to be cut out for television. In fact...
State DAs Seek Uniform Penalty in Child Murder
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - In a policy shift, the California District Attorneys Association will add its voice to the push for a new law ma...
Skin Test Produced Tragic Results, Suit States
By Anne La Jeunesse
A product liability complaint was filed recently to prevent dismissal of any unknown defendants that might be linked to a med...
Seattle Firm Implodes After Merger Talks Fail
By Cindy Simmons
SEATTLE - A litigation boutique and perhaps some midsized firms may rise from the ashes of Bogle & Gates, which is schedu...
PTO Announces It Will Shorten the Time It Takes for Patents to Be Issued
By James Evans
SAN JOSE - Patent counsel are applauding an announcement by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that by next summer it will ...
Hatch Says That New Law Ties Hands of Federal Prosecutors
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - A controversial new law requiring federal prosecutors to abide by state bar ethics rules is facing a legislative...
Stanford's Only Minority Woman On Tenure Track Explains Walkout
By Michael Moline
SAN FRANCISCO - Her father tried to warn Linda Mabry not to accept a job offer from Stanford Law School and to steer her inst...
Feinstein Airs Acquittal Vote, Blasts Clinton
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., announced Thursday that she would vote against conviction and removal of P...
State Bar Gears Up to Take Complaints
By Don De Benedictis
After 10 months of giving unhappy clients nothing but a recorded message sending them elsewhere, the State Bar of California ...
Prosecutor Accused of Intimidation
By Michael Harris
The attorney for a suspected cocaine trafficker Thursday all but accused Los Angeles County prosecutors of trying to intimida...
Teen Says Legal Referral Service Led to Bad Advice
By Denise Levin
A teen-ager sued the advertising company doing business as 1-800-the-LAW2, claiming the attorney he was referred to caused hi...
'To Mend the Tears'
By Cheryl Romo
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor came to the Ambassador Auditorium in Pasadena Monday evening to offi...
Lawyer Charged Over Doctored Transcript
By Michael Harris
A week after a UCLA law school student pleaded no contest to doctoring his transcripts to land a job at Sheppard, Mullin, Ric...
Three-Strikes Law No Longer Sacred in GOP
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - "Three Strikes Law Threatened." That was the headline on a news release last week issued by Assemblyman Roy Ashbu...
Dewey Ballantine Nabs Four Paul Hastings Partners
By Pearl Piatt
Prominent real estate lawyer and rainmaker Paul R. Walker and three other lawyers have left Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Wa...
High Court Looks at Making Insurance Companies Pay Punitives
By Philip Carrizosa
SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court grappled Wednesday with the issue of whether an insurance company can ever be requi...
Beard Cost LAPD Officer Promotion, Suit States
By Lauren Blau
A Los Angeles police lieutenant who claims he has been passed over for promotion to captain because a skin condition prevente...
Hammer Heir Sues Former Attorney
By Denise Levin
The granddaughter of oil tycoon and arts patron Armand Hammer has sued her former attorney, Marshall B. Grossman, claiming th...
SEC Sues Broker Over 'Soft Dollars'
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Firing a legal warning "shot across the bow" of large brokerage houses, the Securities and Exchange Commissio...
Duck and Cover
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - At their Jan. 25 conference - the last in which they normally would grant review of cases to be argued this term...
$50M Award in Smoking Case Stuns Parties
By Patricia Jocobus
SAN FRANCISCO - An angry jury Wednesday socked tobacco giant Philip Morris with $50 million in punitive damages - the largest...
Judge Allows Poster Display Of Ho Chi Minh
By Martin Bergn
A shopkeeper in the Little Saigon neighborhood of Westminster who stirred bitter protests by displaying a poster of Ho Chi Mi...
Judges to Take to Airwaves, Pulpits To Shore Support
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - Trying to boost public trust and confidence in the judiciary, the state Judicial Council gave approval Tuesda...
In the Hands of the Jury
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - The case against President Clinton officially went to the "jury" Tuesday afternoon, as senators began deliberati...
Court Interpreters Bemoan Cutback in Hours
By Michael Harris
Interpreters assigned to the downtown Los Angeles Criminal Courts Building are criticizing new work guidelines they contend a...
Riverside OKs Added Spending to Bolster Staffing at Juvenile Halls
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Staffing problems in Riverside County's juvenile halls were addressed Tuesday as the county's Board of Supervisor...
Garcetti Gets Green Light to Fund Positions
By Lauren Blau
Following up on recommendations from an outside auditor on how to improve the district attorney's office, the Los Angeles Cou...
9th Circuit Rebuffs Challenge To Campaign Financing Law
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that minor political parties have no private right under existing campa...
Drummer Wrongly Blamed Him, Lawyer Claims
By Denise Levin
A music industry attorney has filed a malicious prosecution lawsuit against former Guns 'N Roses drummer Steven Adler, claimi...