Sniping Continues Over DA's Fund-Raising Letter
By Michael Harris
Late last month, the administration of Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti referred to the state attorney gener...
Bar Concentrates on Legal Services, Judicial Qualifications in Legislative Sessions
By Cindy Simmons
SEATTLE - The Washington State Bar Association is asking the Legislature for massive increases in funding for civil legal ser...
Washington State Chief Justice Says Courts Are Underfunded
By Cindy Simmons
SEATTLE - Washington's civil justice system is dangerously underfunded, Washington State Supreme Court Chief Justice Richard ...
San Francisco Prosecutor Under Fire For Poor Record of Homicide Unit
By Laura Impellizzeri
The only reason Cory Stephens, then 33, poor and struggling to stay in college, testified against two men who raped her on a ...
9th Circuit Excuses Late Filing In Case of Egregious Harassment
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A Sacramento postal worker was left suicidal, unable to work and so psychologically scarred from "egregious s...
New World Order Considered For the Child Support System
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - After years of tinkering with California's troubled child support collection system, frustrated legislators now ...
Jurors Award Plaintiff $4.5M Against Aetna
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - After an eight-hour deliberation over two days, a San Bernardino jury awarded a Redlands woman more than $4....
Supreme Court to Settle Circuit Split on Sanctions
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider whether attorneys who withdraw or are disqualified from a case may t...
County Counsel Seeks Recusal in Foster Mom Case
By Cheryl Romo
In what some were calling an unprecedented act Friday, the Los Angeles Office of County Counsel asked a Juvenile Court bench ...
Republicans Present Case Against Clinton
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - On a historic and fittingly dreary afternoon in the nation's capital, Republican congressmen acting as prosecuto...
Alleged Actions by 'Pistol Packin' Momma' May Nullify Verdict
By Patricia Jacobus
SAN FRANCISCO - Oakland jurors hid their pro-gun biases and one woman - described by fellow panelists as "Pistol Packin' Momm...
State Signals Change in Water Policy
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - The Gray Davis administration this week withdrew support for the agribusiness position in a major Central Val...
No Cuts Expected in County's 1999-2000 Budget
By Lauren Blau
Los Angeles County's top appointed official Thursday predicted that there will be status quo budgets in fiscal 1999-2000 for ...
Ryan Nakagawa, MTA Ethics Officer, Dies at 40
By Elizabeth Freudenthal
Ryan Jyun Nakagawa, chief ethics officer of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Agency, died Monday of complications ...
Dishing Up Thanks
By Susan Mc Rae
For California jurors, there may be no free lunch, but a Ventura County judge has managed to make the service a little more p...
Munger Tolles Names Fisher, Johnson to Co-Manage Firm
By Pearl Piatt
Los Angeles' Munger, Tolles & Olson has tapped Ruth E. Fisher and Robert K. Johnson as co-managing partners of the 130-la...
Discipline Reform Focuses on Big Firm, Small Firm Disparity
By Don De Benedictis
Maimed and bloodied by attacks from the legislative right last year, the State Bar of California this year will have to keep ...
'Kline' Law Would Do Away With Stipulated Reversals
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - The discipline charges faced by Appellate Justice J. Anthony Kline of San Francisco inflamed a controversy that ...
Rare Suit Against HMO Goes to Jury
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - Jurors began deliberating Thursday in a case against the nation's largest health maintenance organization - ...
Lockyer Plans To Double Civil Rights Staffing
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - Signaling a new direction for the state Department of Justice, Attorney General Bill Lockyer plans to double the...
Landlords Can Discriminate in Leasing Units
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Carving out a sweeping religious exception to antidiscrimination laws, a bitterly divided federal appeals cou...
State's Welfare Law Likely to Be Overturned
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The California law limiting welfare benefits for newcomers during their first year of residency to the amount th...
Santa Barbara Bar Sets Up Ethics Hot Line
By B. Scott Bortnick
SANTA BARBARA - When Gov. Pete Wilson cut funding to the California Bar Association last year, he effectively shut off a free...
Plaintiff Denied Class Certification in Kaiser Suit
By Denise Levin
A Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner denied class certification to a lawsuit against Kaiser brought by a man who claims ...
County Counsel Seeks More Funds for Salaries
By Denise Levin
Los Angeles County Counsel Lloyd W. Pellman has asked the Board of Supervisors to approve a budget adjustment for his office ...
Boy Pleads Guilty in Brother's Death
By Michael Harris
A 9-year-old boy has pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the stabbing death of his 11-year-old brother, apparently be...
Disney Attorneys Reportedly Sanctioned
By Denise Levin
A discovery referee slapped attorneys at Lewis, D'Amato, Brisbois & Bisgaard, who are representing Disneyland in a person...
Gibson Dunn Accused of Betraying Trust
By Denise Levin
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher can be sued for breach of fiduciary duty by a man who claims the law firm passed personal informa...
Justice Department Rests in Microsoft Antitrust Lawsuit
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - There is another important trial under way in Washington, and it reached a pivotal point Wednesday when, after 1...
Constitutional Duty to Shield Minors From Porn Is Argued
By Patricia Jacobus
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys for a Bay Area woman who caught her son downloading smut Internet images from the Livermore library...