A Crisis, Uncovered
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - Expanding the exposure of health maintenance organizations to lawsuits might improve health-care quality, as cla...
ABA Relinquishes Oversight Of Law School Accreditation
By Don De Benedictis
The American Bar Association's policymaking body Monday adopted minor changes to its lawyer-discipline punishment standards a...
Terminally Ill Smoker Wins $1.5M Verdict
By Patricia Jocobus
SAN FRANCISCO - In a surprise verdict, a San Francisco jury Tuesday awarded $1.5 million in damages to a terminally ill smoke...
Abramson Is Exonerated By The State Bar
By Martin Bergn
The State Bar has closed its investigation of prominent criminal defense attorney Leslie Abramson, deciding there was insuffi...
Case Closed
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - The impeachment trial of President Clinton drew one big step closer to a conclusion Monday, when House prosecuto...
Grand Jury Hears Testimony on Shooting Death
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Riverside County law enforcement officials have subpoenaed several witnesses in the December shooting death of a ...
Controversy Over Witness Ends With Settlement
By Denise Levin
A settlement in a personal injury case has ended the need for a hearing to decide if defense counsel, whose expert witness al...
Jury Sides With Ex-LAPD Recruits
By Lauren Blau
A jury has awarded more than $2 million to two men in their 60s who were kicked out of the Los Angeles police academy for all...
Campaign Contributions to Judges Examined
By Jean Guccione
After condemning the exchange of campaign contributions for government-provided legal work, the American Bar Association now ...
Leading By Example
By Don De Benedictis
The woman who is likely to become president of the American Bar Association in 18 months on Monday lined up with many of her c...
Lets Kill All the Independent Counsel, the ABA Now Says
By Don De Benedictis
The policymaking body of the American Bar Association overwhelmingly went on record Monday in favor of killing off the federa...
Attorney Saved the Day for Jenny
By Jean Guccione
When Helen E. Zukin, a Los Angeles plaintiffs' lawyer, agreed to chair the State Bar's panel evaluating judicial candidates, ...
Police Officers Can Sue County For Time Off
By Lauren Blau
In a victory for plaintiffs, a federal judge has ruled that more than 6,000 Los Angeles police officers can pursue their claim...
Supreme Court Limits Right to Oral Argument
By Philip Carrizosa
Dashing the hopes of many appellate lawyers, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday that appeal courts can summarily rever...
Governor Seeks To Re-Enter Water Litigation
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Gray Davis, whose administration startled the state's agribusiness community last month by withdrawing s...
Couple Sue Over Televised Segment of Son's Death
By Lauren Blau
A grieving couple who watched in horror as images of their dead son appeared on a segment of "LAPD - Life on the Beat" have su...
Former Judge Loses at 9th Circuit
By Jodi Weisberg
PHOENIX - William Scholl lost his job, his retirement savings and hundreds of thousands of dollars defending his case. Late l...
Countys Late Report Leads to a Change
By Lauren Blau
A two-day delay in publicly reporting a $5 million lawsuit settlement approved by county supervisors in closed session has le...
Hollywood Hustle
By Garry Abrams
Neither a car wreck nor a misplaced letter is a good enough excuse for missing a deadline to contest a decision by a Californ...
Anderson Will Talk With Reno About Controversy
By Don De Benedictis
The president of the American Bar Association will meet next month with Attorney General Janet Reno in hopes of resolving the...
Panel Debates Future of Independent Counsel Act
By Jean Guccione
Beneath the swirl of controversy over Kenneth Starr's investigation of President Clinton is a quieter but ongoing debate over...
Judge Shuts Down Fraud Claim Against Intuit Over Year 2000
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County judge has thrown out most of the claims in a class-action lawsuit filed against Intuit Inc. f...
In Like Flynt
By Garry Abrams
The way attorney Alan L. Isaacman sees it, his longtime client Larry Flynt has been one small mistake, one tiny foul-up, one ...
Political Reform Board Lacks Money, Purpose
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - It was the first meeting of a commission created by the Legislature to review California's Political Reform Act ...
Regulation of ADR by Judicial Entity Unlikely
By Tom Orewyler
The sizable number of nonlawyers serving as mediators and arbitrators makes it nearly impossible for a judicial entity to regu...
UCLA Law Student Pleads to Doctoring Grades
By Michael Harris
Granted, competition for entry-level jobs at top law firms is fierce. But by his own admission, UCLA law school student Ramon...
Security, Technology Are Short on Cash Under New Funding System for Inland County Courts
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - It's been more than a year since the passage of the Trial Court Funding Act, or AB233, and judicial officials in ...
O.C. Judge to Hear Arguments on Flag Display
By Tamara Koehler
SANTA ANA - An Orange County judge Thursday postponed ruling on whether to grant a preliminary injunction against Vietnamese ...
Long-Awaited Avant Trial Set For September
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - The much-delayed Avant criminal trade-secrets theft case, which was filed in 1997, is scheduled to go to trial bef...
Producer Sues Singer Dan Fogelberg for Royalties
By Denise Levin
A music producer has sued singer-songwriter Dan Fogelberg and his accountants at the now-defunct Coopers & Lybrand, claim...