Vega Succeeded Against The Odds
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A pastel drawing hangs at eye level between the high windows overlooking San Diego Bay. It depicts a man so lost ...
Joe Shapiro, Former Disney Executive, Dies at 52
By Katherine Gaidos
Joe Shapiro, former executive vice president and counsel for the Walt Disney Co., died Thursday following a recent recurrence...
Electronic Filing Legislation Wins Governor's Signature
By Chris Ford
Gov. Gray Davis brought California's judicial system into the digital age this week, signing a bill that enables courts to es...
Tough Fight
By Columnist
^^Alternative Dispute Resolution^^ Tough Fight Avoiding Mandatory Arbitration Clauses Once a client has signed a binding arbi...
Signed Bill Opens Door to HMO Suits
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - An estimated 14 million Californians now have a new litigation weapon to wield against health plans that deny, d...
Tanker Captain, Shipper Plead in 'Hit-and-Run' Spill
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Exactly a year after a mysterious oil spill was discovered off the Northern California coast, the captain and...
State's Judicial Residency Law Unconstitutional
By David Kravetz
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge Monday declared unconstitutional a state law requiring Superior Court judges to live in...
Ex-PD Files Claim for Wrongful Termination
By Daniel Jennings
RIVERSIDE - The former public defender here has filed a wrongful dismissal claim against the Riverside County Board of Superv...
Child Support Is a Hot Political Issue in Los Angeles
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - Few have more to lose politically than Gil Garcetti now that the governor has signed legislation that strips dis...
Overseer Focuses on Social Change
By Jeffrey Anderson
Few people can boast of once living beneath Dodger Stadium. Civil rights attorney Sharon Lybeck Hartmann is one of them. A na...
Kaiser's Jury Is Still Out
By Denise Levin
In 1992, Beverly Benton went to her doctor at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Group for treatment of a urinary tract infection. ...
Child Support Restructuring Considered Risky, Rewarding
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - Now comes the hard part. On Friday, Gov. Gray Davis signed into law a historic overhaul of California's troubled...
Lawmaker Seeks to Craft a Better World for Foster Kids
By Cheryl Romo
The boy wore a red sweatshirt with a picture of Minnie kissing Mickey Mouse and spent the day quietly drawing pictures of bra...
Lockyer Rejects Voting Rights Concerns in L.A.
By Jean Guccione
In an effort to ease the fears of trial court unification foes, Attorney General Bill Lockyer has strongly refuted critical a...
DA Disputes Wiretap Allegations
By Michael Harris
The head of the Los Angeles County district attorney's major narcotics division Monday dismissed the defense bar's latest att...
ADL Agrees to Stop Spying on Civil Rights Groups
By Martin Bergn
A federal judge Monday gave final approval to the settlement of a 1993 class-action lawsuit brought against the Anti-Defamati...
Inspector General Gets Green Light From LAPD
By Lauren Bartlett
A dispute over what Los Angeles Police Department materials the inspector general should have access to has been resolved, of...
Snow Line
By Columnist
By Kent R. Raygor and Oral Caglar The federal Trademark Amendments Act, Pub. L. No. 106-43, 113 Stat. 218, signed into law by...
Parks Wants City to Adopt Anti-Gang Ordinance
By Lauren Bartlett
Los Angeles Police Chief Bernard Parks is calling a county anti-gang loitering ordinance "a viable tool" and recommending the...
Court: Driver At Fault for Car Door Injury
By Anna Marie Stolley
SAN FRANCISCO - One could certainly argue that when Somma Sriee Sooria Arratchiga decided to become a parking lot attendant, ...
It's Alive!
By Don De Benedictis
By Don J. DeBenedictis Yes, Virginia, there really is a State Bar. Contrary to popular opinion, it did not expire when then-G...
Computer Calamity
By Columnist
By Gary S. Wong Major earthquakes, fires, floods and other natural occurrences can be potential disasters for law firms. Hard...
A judge must bear in mind that when he tries a case he is himself on trial. Philo Wilson Sonsini CORPORATE LAWYER JOINS VALLE...
Reflect, Not Reflex
By Columnist
^^Alternative Dispute Resolution Reflect, Not Reflex Consider Pros and Cons Before Arbitrating Rather than simply giving in t...
His Finest Hour
By Don De Benedictis
By Don J. DeBenedictis The next president of the State Bar of California, Andrew J. Guilford, may be a well-known litigator a...
Musick Peeler Adds Three Lawyers in S.F.
By Leslie Gordon, Jennifer Byrd & T. Scott
SAN FRANCISCO - The local, five-attorney firm of Hovis Smith Stewart Lipscomb & Cross has dissolved, and three of its lawy...
Death Toll
By Columnist
By Arturo J. Gonzlez Mario Paz, a 64-year-old father of six, was killed Aug. 9, 1999, during a raid of his Compton home. A ma...
Dot-Cons
By Chris Ford
By Chris Ford Los Angeles Municipal Court Presiding Judge Veronica McBeth received a phone call several years ago from a cons...
The Activists
By Leslie Gordon, Jennifer Byrd & T. Scott
By Jennifer Byrd San Francisco attorneys Dale Minami and Donald K. Tamaki have reshaped history for Japanese-Americans. In th...
SALARIES RAISED FOR TRUCKER HUSS ASSOCIATES San Francisco's Trucker Huss, a 13-attorney employee benefits firm, has raised it...