Judge Awards Attorney Fees to Firm
By Denise Levin
Calling a former partner's pregnancy discrimination lawsuit against Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser, Weil & Sha...
Sobering Facts
By Laura Impellizzeri
SAN FRANCISCO - Despite assertions from city and law enforcement officials last fall that the criminal justice system could f...
Federal Judge Linda H. McLaughlin Dies at 57
By Martin Bergn
SANTA ANA - U.S. District Judge Linda Hodge McLaughlin, known as a hardworking maverick, died Sunday at Western Medical Cente...
Bar Secretary Chosen as Acting Director
By Don De Benedictis
The State Bar Board of Governors has selected the bar's secretary, Jeffrey T. Gersick, to be the organization's acting executi...
Rapper's Body-Armor Charge May Be a First
By Michael Harris
Los Angeles County prosecutors have filed what they say may be the first case in California under a new state law prohibiting...
Government Sets Strategy in Liberian Ship Oil-Spill Case
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal prosecutor Monday painted a picture of an oil tanker crew trying to salvage hundreds of tons of fue...
Justice, Kern County Style
By Tamara Koehler
BAKERSFIELD - The Pulitzer-Prize-winning author who took apart the Los Angeles juvenile justice system in his critically accl...
Judge Orders State to Help Disabled Kids
By Cheryl Romo
In a ruling that child advocates say complements last week's U.S. Supreme Court decision requiring school districts to provid...
Supreme Court to Define Anew the Right to a Lawyer
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Taking on an issue with broad impact in California, the Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider whether a contro...
Antitrust Law Grapples With High-Tech Age
By Daniel Shaw
NEW YORK - Managing the intersection between antitrust and intellectual property in a high-tech age is among the most challen...
Nazi-Era Slave Laborers Seek Redress
By Denise Levin
Si Frumkin was 14 years old when he was forced to work as a slave laborer at a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. A...
Steinberg Exits Irell for High-Tech Job
By Pearl Piatt
Top rainmaker and intellectual property specialist Robert Steinberg has announced he is leaving Los Angeles' Irell & Mane...
San Bernardino Appeals Topless Bar Decision
By Mathew Heller
SAN BERNARDINO - Firing its last shot in a four-year legal battle, the city of San Bernardino has asked the state Supreme Cou...
Don't Write Them Off
By Mary Micheletti
President Clinton's 2000 budget contains a long list of proposed tax increases for the millennium, including a particularly c...
Civil Judge Fondly Recalls Time in Criminal Court
By Mark Blumberg
SAN JOSE - Though his background suggests he would make an ideal civil law judge, until the beginning of this year Donald L. ...
A Trial With Many Twists
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Scientific reputations and millions of dollars are on the line in the rarefied world of recombinant DNA resea...
Self-Reporting Rule Imposed On Judges
By Jean Guccione
Under a newly adopted change in the state's judicial ethics rules, California judges must now report themselves to disciplina...
Sherman Smith Will Join ADR
By Tom Orewyler
Veteran Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Sherman W. Smith Jr. is stepping down from the bench today to become a private judge...
Judge Imposes Attorney Fees for SLAPP Suit
By Denise Levin
Lawyers representing an asymptomatic HIV-positive man who sued his former employer for discrimination were awarded more than ...
Partner Leaves Perkins Coie Over Conflict
By Leslie Gordon
SAN FRANCISCO - Perkins Coie partner Spencer Hosie has resigned from the firm because of a client conflict of interest. Hosie...
Shopper Rings Up $3.25M in Jury's Verdicts
By Denise Levin
A sheriff's deputy has won a $3.25 million verdict from a Los Angeles Superior Court jury against the Price Club, which he cl...
Injured Judge Will Not Return to Bench
By Martin Bergn
SANTA ANA - U.S. District Judge Linda H. McLaughlin, known for her relentless hard work and independence, will not return to t...
Boalt Hall Conference Tackles E-Commerce
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - As Internet use skyrockets and electronic commerce expands, lawyers who grasp the economics and science of cy...
Tangled Spider-Man Saga Approaches Its Final Leg
By Garry Abrams
The widely publicized Hollywood legal war over the comic book character Spider-Man got a date for its final skirmish Thursday...
Money, Unification Drive Top Settlement Judge Off L.A. Bench
By Denise Levin
Scurrying between the jury room, the hallway and his chambers, where attorneys were waiting for his help in settling a produc...
Justice Blackmun, Author of Roe v. Wade, Dies at Age 90
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Retired Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun, whose 1973 opinion in Roe v. Wade extended to women the right t...
Trustee Has Sixth Sense for Sniffing Out Hidden Assets
By Susan Mc Rae
Call him a financial gumshoe for the '90s. In a decade that began with Southern California's economy taking a nose dive, Mich...
Supreme Court Extends Remedy For the Elderly
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - In an important ruling for the elderly, the California Supreme Court held Thursday that nursing homes that re...
Lawyers, Working Around the Clock, Closed a Deal to Save Redwood Grove
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - The so-called Headwaters Agreement that was reached late Monday night to save more than 7,000 acres of old-gr...
Senate Moves To End Support Control by DAs
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - Responding to pressure from child advocacy groups, Senate Democratic leaders are moving to eliminate the role of...