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...
Supreme Court to Decide Limits of the Disabilities Act
By David Pike
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
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
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
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...
9th Circuit Backslides on Flood Insurance Decision
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court did some hasty backpedaling this week and took back some significant legal ground it ...
Private Suit Against Tobacco Giant Still Proceeding in S.F. Courtroom
By Patricia Jacobus
SAN FRANCISCO - Amateur country-western singer Patricia Henley said she became hooked on cigarettes after smoking one for the...
Davis Set to Slash State's Spending on Trial Courts
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis' first trial court budget proposal likely will provide no money for new judgeships or increased ...
Three Indicted for Scheming to Steal Law School Admission Test
By Michael Harris
Prosecutors said Thursday that Danny Khatchaturian and Dikran Iskendarian must have really wanted to get into law school. The...
Court to Examine Restraints on Ads of Professionals
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court next week will consider whether the Federal Trade Commission has jurisdiction over nonprofit p...
Senators Vow to Render Clinton Impartial Justice
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - The fate of Bill Clinton's presidency officially changed hands Thursday, from those of the House to the Senate, ...
Akin Gump Adds Five-Lawyer Health-Care Group
By Pearl Piatt
Significantly adding to its health-care practice, Washington, D.C.-based Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld has lured a fi...
Ventura Defense Attorneys Fear Dependency Court System Unfair
By Amy Bentley
VENTURA - Defense attorneys say parents accused of abusing or neglecting their children in Ventura County may get inadequate ...
SEC Settles Suit Stemming From the O.C. Bankruptcy
By Martin Bergn
Concluding one of its first enforcement actions against municipal bond counsel, authorities said the Securities and Exchange ...
Retired Brobeck Partner Recalled For Talent, Wit
By Pamela Mc Clintock
Robert S. Daggett, a prominent and much-loved San Francisco litigator who filled the city's courtrooms with masterful oratory...
L.A. Will Pay $1.1M to Settle Defamation Suits
By Lauren Blau
The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to settle four defamation and civil rights lawsuits for $1.1 million filed by me...
Will Voters Break the Charter Stalemate?
By Lauren Blau
In stark contrast to its elected counterpart, the appointed charter reform commission voted unanimously Wednesday to adopt a ...
Road to Nowhere
By Don De Benedictis
Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Burbank, has introduced a bill to restore the State Bar of California, but the bill offers virtually no c...