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Law Prof Teaches Global Thinking

Jan. 14, 1999
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 ...


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

Jan. 13, 1999
By Denise Levin

A self-described advocate of equal rights and one of Los Angeles' top litigators, Patricia L. Glaser recently found herself i...


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

Jan. 13, 1999
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

Jan. 13, 1999
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...



For the second time in a year, Peter Digre, the director of the Department of Children and Family Services, has been accused ...


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

Jan. 12, 1999
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

Jan. 12, 1999
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

Jan. 12, 1999
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

Jan. 12, 1999
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

Jan. 12, 1999
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?

Jan. 12, 1999
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

Jan. 12, 1999
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...


WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to review two major Americans with Disabilities Act issues that have perplexe...



Fund-Raising by Prosecutors Is Under Scrutiny

Jan. 9, 1999
By Michael Harris

The Los Angeles County district attorney's office has asked the state attorney general to determine if three deputy DAs, incl...


Chiropractor Sued Under Novel Insurance Law

Jan. 9, 1999
By Denise Levin

Twentieth Century Insurance has become the second major insurance company to utilize a relatively new law that allows carrier...



Doyle Rehired As State Bar's Chief Lobbyist

Jan. 9, 1999
By Don De Benedictis

After a series of false starts and miscues, the State Bar of California has re-hired Larry Doyle as its chief in-house lobbyi...


SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court did some hasty backpedaling this week and took back some significant legal ground it ...



SAN FRANCISCO - Amateur country-western singer Patricia Henley said she became hooked on cigarettes after smoking one for the...


SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis' first trial court budget proposal likely will provide no money for new judgeships or increased ...



Prosecutors said Thursday that Danny Khatchaturian and Dikran Iskendarian must have really wanted to get into law school. The...


WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court next week will consider whether the Federal Trade Commission has jurisdiction over nonprofit p...



WASHINGTON - The fate of Bill Clinton's presidency officially changed hands Thursday, from those of the House to the Senate, ...


Significantly adding to its health-care practice, Washington, D.C.-based Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld has lured a fi...



VENTURA - Defense attorneys say parents accused of abusing or neglecting their children in Ventura County may get inadequate ...


Concluding one of its first enforcement actions against municipal bond counsel, authorities said the Securities and Exchange ...



Retired Brobeck Partner Recalled For Talent, Wit

Jan. 8, 1999
By Pamela Mc Clintock

Robert S. Daggett, a prominent and much-loved San Francisco litigator who filled the city's courtrooms with masterful oratory...


The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to settle four defamation and civil rights lawsuits for $1.1 million filed by me...