Lawyer Who Averted Felony Trial Sues Former Attorney
By Denise Levin
Attorney Steven L. Mazza, fresh from having felony charges dismissed , has sued his former attorney, Martin S. Bakst, for leg...
Pellman Hails Early Case Settlement
By Lauren Blau
In his first effort to bring about an early settlement in a high-profile case, County Counsel Lloyd W. Pellman won a recommen...
Justices: Ignorance of Shaken-Baby Syndrome Is Not a Defense Abusing Father Can Claim
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - Settling an issue that troubled an appeal court, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday that a defendant d...
Auditor Notes Improvements in DA's Office
By Michael Harris
The Los Angeles County district attorney's office is implementing the vast majority of 56 recommendations made by a private a...
Matt Fong Returns to Sheppard Mullin
By Pearl Piatt
Matt Fong, former California state treasurer and the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate last fall, has rejoined Los Ang...
Strife in the Strawberry Fields Puts Attorney in the Middle
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - To the United Farm Workers, the violence that erupted in the strawberry fields of Watsonville last summer is the...
Judge Enjoins Microsoft from Filtering Cards
By James Evans
SAN FRANCISCO - In a small defeat for Microsoft, a Santa Clara County Superior Court judge ordered the software giant Thursda...
Harvest Time
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - The United Farm Workers union is riding high these days with Gray Davis in the governor's office. The election o...
Schiff Tells Bar To Seek Support Of the Public
By Don De Benedictis
SAN FRANCISCO - The future of the State Bar of California currently lies in the hands of two men, and the bar's Board of Gove...
Spousal Support Ended for Failure To Change Jobs
By Anna Marie Stolley
During a 1980 court hearing on spousal support, a trial judge advised Ida Schaffer that to become self-sufficient she might w...
Reno Asks for Budget of $21B For Fiscal 2000
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice is seeking a budget of $21 billion for fiscal year 2000, a $371 million increase over ...
Instruction on Reasonable Doubt Upheld
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected another challenge to California's "reasonable doubt" instr...
Washington State Bar Again Proposes Ban on Lawyer-Client Sex
By Cindy Simmons
SEATTLE - The state Supreme Court has twice rejected a proposed rule to bar attorneys from having sexual relations with their...
Symposium Addresses Issues of Patient Confidentiality
By Patricia Jacobus
SAN FRANCISCO - Easy access to medical records has patients worried that information about their diagnosis and treatment will...
Judge Finds a New Calling: Courthouse Design
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - Robert Coyle is the first to admit architecture was never his forte. But now the senior federal judge is conside...
Controversial Judge Discusses Affirmative Action
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Deploring a growing "culture of exclusion and division," U.S. District Judge Thelton E. Henderson spoke out W...
Hard Times Ahead?
By Mary Micheletti
Some East Coast law firms, anticipating an economic downturn in 2000, are already expanding their bankruptcy practice groups....
Monrovia Likely to Retool Kids' Daytime Curfew
By Denise Levin
In response to a judge's ruling that Monrovia's daytime curfew for school-age children contradicts California's truancy law, ...
Molina Seeks Study of Counsel Contracts
By Lauren Blau
A Los Angeles County supervisor wants to rescind the county counsel's authority to approve contracts with outside counsel and...
Reno OKs First Federal Death Penalty Prosecution in San Francisco Since '88
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. attorney's office said it will seek the death penalty against Walter "Pierre" Rausini, who is accuse...
Law School Grad Sues Dad for Nonpayment of Bills
By Anne La Jeunesse
A Southwestern University School of Law graduate has filed suit against her long-lost father, claiming he reneged on his prom...
Faulting No-Fault
By Charles Ashby
DENVER - Denver divorce lawyer Tony Sturniolo is tired of the state's no-fault divorce laws. That's why Sturniolo and a handf...
Back From the Starr Wars
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - When Stanford University law professor Deborah Rhode was appointed last summer as a Democratic counsel to the Hous...
DA Office: Not Pressured Into Lesser Charge
By Michael Harris
The Los Angeles County district attorney's office Friday refuted suggestions made in open court by one of its own deputies th...
Morrison & Foerster's David Nelson Dies at 68
By Pamela Mc Clintock
SAN FRANCISCO - David E. Nelson, a guiding force in the growth of San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster, died Jan. 22 in Be...
Capital Raises a Temple of Justice, On a Low Budget
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - Appointed in 1939 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, this city's first residing federal judge held court on the...
Watching Plane Crash Is Not Compensable
By Anna Marie Stolley
A divided state appeal panel has ruled that bystanders who witnessed - but were not injured by - a fatal airplane crash canno...
Woman Sues Church for Slipping Slope
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
MURRIETA - As the cracks in her concrete patio and block retaining wall widen, Murrieta resident Ossi Wells is wondering how ...
Judge Sweetens Hoffman Award by $1.5M
By Garry Abrams
A federal judge handed actor Dustin Hoffman a "Tootsie" roll Thursday by awarding the Oscar-winning movie star $1.5 million i...
Lawyer Sues DAs for Malicious Prosecution
By Denise Levin
A San Luis Obispo attorney whose obstruction of justice and perjury convictions were overturned on appeal has sued the two Lo...