Supervisors Hold Private Meeting with DFCS Head
By Cheryl Romo
Following accusations that the head of the county Department of Children and Family Services may have used his office to atte...
Cities Set Tort Sights on Gun Industry
By Don De Benedictis
Los Angeles and San Francisco have moved a step closer to filing tort suits against the gun industry. L.A. City Attorney Jame...
Retailers Accused of Conspiracy In Saipan Sweatshop Operations
By Martin Bergn
Some of the country's best known retailers, including the Gap, J. Crew, Nordstrom and Wal-Mart, were accused in lawsuits file...
Independent Counsel Law Gets Final Rites
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - The 20-year-old independent counsel statute may be on its deathbed, but, in a discussion Tuesday that could only...
Molina Seeks Rules to Limit L.A. Malpractice Risk
By Lauren Blau
In the hope of reducing the county's liability in medical malpractice cases by having doctors and other medical personnel lea...
Personal Injury Lawyers Accused of Malpractice
By Denise Levin
Lawyers at the Palmdale law firm of Epson, Milburn & Kahl and Los Angeles personal injury attorney Steve Lerman have been...
Juvenile, Family Law Addressed At Bar Seminar
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - When does an attorney-client confidentiality agreement go too far? Malibu attorney Ellen Peck, a speaker at ...
Bankruptcy Worker Faces Prison for Embezzlement
By Martin Bergn
The 27-year-old receptionist for an Orange County bankruptcy trustee has been sentenced to one year in prison for embezzling ...
Assault Weapon Ban in the Courts
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - Three challenges to the 1989 Roberti-Roos Assault Weapons Control Act are pending before the state Supreme Court:...
Gun Makers Find Themselves Caught in Law's Cross Hairs
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - Owners of military-style semiautomatic weapons and small, inexpensive handguns had better duck for cover in 1999...
Lockyer Faces Barrage of Decisions
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - In his campaign to succeed Daniel Lungren as attorney general, Bill Lockyer charged that Lungren's lax enforceme...
Disabilities Act, Zoning Laws Clash in 9th Circuit Case
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Tackling a case that could expand the Americans With Disabilities Act to cover local zoning laws, a federal a...
Settlement Conferences Return After 20 Years
By Martin Kruming
^^San Diego Watch ^^ For the first time since the late 1970s, the Superior Court has assigned a judge full-time to handle civi...
Charter Reform Compromise Has a Hitch
By Lauren Blau
The elected charter reform commission has reversed its position and endorsed a unified Los Angeles City Charter proposal, but...
Ruling Clarifies Insurers' Duties To Children of Divorced Parents
By Anna Marie Stolley
A state appeal panel, ruling on an increasingly important issue in insurance cases, has held that the insurance coverage exce...
Law Prof Teaches Global Thinking
By Michael Ueda
SAN DIEGO - A deal is in the works. Entrepreneurs from the United States and Malaysia are looking to create a new venture in ...
Again L.A. Court Struggles to Place a Murder Trial
By Michael Harris
For the past two-plus years, a capital murder case has pitted the Los Angeles Superior Court's security concerns against the d...
Shared Beliefs, Little Common Ground
By Denise Levin
A self-described advocate of equal rights and one of Los Angeles' top litigators, Patricia L. Glaser recently found herself i...
Investor Says He Was Defamed by Net Chat
By Wirein
In what his lawyer says is the first defamation lawsuit based on Internet chat room chatter by fraudulent characters, an inve...
Justices Ponder Suits Against Settlements
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Hearing their second class-action case of the term, the Supreme Court on Monday debated whether to allow shareho...
Plaintiff Finds Self-Respect As Only Reward
By Denise Levin
It was fate that sent Shari Cohen Rosenman to law school, she mused recently. She coupled her law degree with a strong femini...
Fresh Allegations Surface Against DCFS Director
By Cheryl Romo
For the second time in a year, Peter Digre, the director of the Department of Children and Family Services, has been accused ...
Party for Foster Kids Failed to Include 'Hosts'
By Cheryl Romo
Someone spent close to $16,000 on Dec. 12 to throw a lavish holiday party for foster children and their caretakers at the Ind...
Budget Gives the AG a Little More, But Courts Less
By Peter Blumberg And Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis has proposed a modest funding increase to help Attorney General Bill Lockyer move forward with h...
Prosecutors Dispute Casablanca Defense Claims
By Martin Bergn
Did government agents lure their targets into a huge drug money-laundering sting with lies, then threaten them with violence ...
AG Lockyer Names Bipartisan Management Team
By Peter Blumberg And John Roemer
SACRAMENTO - Making good on his campaign pledge to install a bipartisan management team, Democratic Attorney General Lockyer ...
Restoration and Resurrection
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - Just a little more than nine years after the Loma Prieta earthquake shook the California Supreme Court out of...
Fur Could Fly Over Controversial Tags
By Anne La Jeunesse
When Century City attorney Terri Macellaro bought herself a luxurious raccoon coat, she was assured by a sales clerk, she said...
Rodney Who?
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Once again, it seems, Southern California is at the crossroads of law enforcement and civil rights. That was the ...
Attorney Avarice Finds New Home In Cyberspace
By Pearl Piatt And Pamela Mc Clintock
Associates looking for the latest dish on who's getting paid how much have a new ally. A new World Wide Web bulletin board ca...