L.A. Bar Unanimously Renews Support for Court Unification
By Denise Levin
Assured by court leaders that complex cases will not get stuck with judges who can't handle them, trustees of the Los Angeles...
The Fix Is In for Y2K Claims
By Xenia P. Kobylarz
Three months before Jan. 1, 2000, predictions are cheap commodities. Still, it's hard to find anyone willing to hazard a gues...
Public Defender Has Zest, Passion of True Believer
By Mark Blumberg
MARTINEZ - Few lawyers in Contra Costa County have represented clients with the same zest for battle as David C. Coleman III....
Former DA of Orange County DA Seeks Bench
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - Former Orange County District Attorney Michael R. Capizzi has announced that he will run for a Superior Court jud...
After 10 Months, Davis Finally Appoints Judges
By Jean Guccione
Making his first judicial appointments since becoming governor 10 months ago, Gray Davis announced Thursday the elevation of ...
Prosecution Is Never Simple
By Columnist
^^Law & Order^^ By J. Conboy The consistently talented writers of "Law and Order" may have set a new series record by acc...
Justices Pursue Law on Access to Public Data
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court gave no clear signals Wednesday on the fate of a California law that forbids releasing the add...
Wrecking References
By Columnist
Wrecking Reference Defamed Employee Can Sue Both County and Sheriff The release - a total release of the county and its emplo...
Jarring the Jury
By Columnist
Jarring the Jury It's not trial, it's theater By Jilien J. Rubin Lawyers seem to excel at irritating jurors, who are known to...
Moving West
By Columnist
Moving West Out-of-State Noncompete Clauses Probably Unenforceable By Ricki J. Shoss Imagine an owner of a company headquarte...
Delays in Filing Vacancies Take Toll on Citizens Rights
By Columnist
By Charles Levendosky According to Alliance for Justice, a nonprofit public interest advocacy group in Washington, D.C., five...
City Agrees to Pay $2.85 Million in Settlements
By Lauren Bartlett.
The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to spend more than $2. 85 million to settle five lawsuits, including nearly $2.2...
Compromise in Congress Could Stop State's HMO Law
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - Congress could undermine California's new managed care liability law if conservative Senators push to federalize...
Prosecutor's Resignation Blamed on Ties to Victim
By Anne La Jeunesse
The sudden resignation last month of Norman Wegener, chief of the Santa Monica city attorney's criminal division, appears to ...
Client in 800-Defendant Suit Sues Lawyer
By Denise Levin
The largest civil case in Los Angeles Superior Court history has spawned its first professional negligence lawsuit. A defense...
Wanted Attorney Surrenders to L.A. Court
By Daniel Jennings
Wanted Attorney Surrenders SAN BERNARDINO - Fugitive attorney James Brian Watkins, 33, walked into a San Bernardino courtroom...
Rampage Blamed for L.A. Verdict
By Michael Harris
A man convicted of four murders in Compton claims that one of his jurors committed misconduct during penalty phase deliberati...
Pillsbury Attorney Picked to Lead Santa Clara Bar
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - The Santa Clara County Bar Association is looking north, for the first time in recent memory, in picking its futur...
State Justices Seem Reluctant to Require Security in Parking Garages
By Anna Marie Stolley
LOS ANGELES - A lively California Supreme Court Wednesday appeared unlikely to extend liability to a parking lot owner for a ...
Three Jurists See a Different Judgment Day
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal administrative law judge in charge of hearing Social Security appeals was convicted Wednesday of pe...
Judge Agrees To Diversion In Case Of Abuse
By David Kravetz
A San Francisco Superior Court judge has been ordered to attend a year of domestic violence counseling in an agreement with s...
Inland Judge Censured for Misconduct
By Jean Guccione
A San Bernardino County judge was censured Wednesday by the state's judicial discipline authority for failing "to respect the ...
Bar President Has Come Long Way From Soap Days
By Daniel Jennings
SAN BERNARDINO - Although it's been 22 years since he worked at Procter & Gamble, the home of Tide and other soaps, Richa...
Amazon.com Gets Down and Dirty.org
By Cydney Gillis
SEATTLE - Besides selling books, Seattle's e-commerce giant, Amazon.com, is known for its efficiency at collecting personal d...
Lines Forming in Legal Battle Over ATM Fees
By Martin Bergn
In the wake of Santa Monica's enactment of a ban on some ATM fees, the first such local action in the country, both sides Wed...
Sometimes, Billing for Travel Time Isnt the Way to Go
By Columnist
Sometimes, Billing for Travel Time Isn't the Way to Go By Gary Greenfield No hard-and-fast rules dictate how to bill travel t...
Too Much Information
By Columnist
^^Capitol Account^^ By Chris Micheli One of the measures on the legislative agenda of the plaintiffs' bar is a bill to severel...
Court Puts the Squeeze on Search Tactic
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to consider whether a new police weapon against drug smuggling - squeezing bus ...
Attorney Finds Paradise in San Diego
By Martin Kruming
Charlie Grebing didn't know a lot about San Diego back in the 1960s. Although he had been accepted by UCLA and USC, someone u...
Tougher DA, PD Hiring Checks to Be Studied
By Michael Harris
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors took the first step Tuesday toward possibly directing the district attorney's and...