A Question of Credit
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Contention over credit for a seminal U.S. Supreme Court antitrust case argued 40 years ago has embroiled two ...
County to Settle Officer's Suit, Plus Another Claim
By Lauren Blau
A Los Angeles police officer who hurt his neck and back when he slipped at a court facility where he was serving as a court l...
Quentin Kopp Takes on New Role as Jurist
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Judge Quentin L. Kopp, following his swearing-in Jan. 2 as San Mateo County's newest Superior Court jurist, s...
Public Angrily Reacts to Lawyer's Actions
By Amy Bentley
VENTURA - In 25 years of practice as a prosecutor and criminal defense attorney, Louis "Chuck" Samonsky said he has never see...
Restroom Taping Exposes Firm To Claim of Ruined Relationship
By Mathew Heller
RIVERSIDE - Among the barrage of privacy lawsuits filed against Consolidated Freightways since video surveillance cameras wer...
Securities Fraud Actions Allowed Under State Law
By Pamela Mac Lean
Keeping alive more than 50 pending California state securities fraud cases, the state Supreme Court on Monday ruled that out-...
Silicon Sizzle Defines Year in Dealmaking
By Tom Orewyler
California law firms were among the beneficiaries of $307 billion in California deals last year - a significant number of whi...
The 1099 Nightmare
By Don De Benedictis
A year after a new tax law specifically targeting lawyers took effect, the Internal Revenue Service has yet to issue regulati...
Annuities Settlement Will Help Educate Seniors
By Don De Benedictis
The multimillion-dollar settlement last week between the state attorney general's office and an Ohio-based life insurance comp...
Justices Let West Hollywood Gun Ordinance Stand
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - In a sharp defeat for the gun lobby, the California Supreme Court refused Tuesday to consider a challenge to ...
Report on Prosecutor's Conduct Urges Reversals
By Marty Graham
SAN DIEGO - A Superior Court judge recommended that the 4th District Court of Appeal grant a habeas corpus motion filed by fo...
Law Will Help Boot Drug-Dealing Tenants
By Lauren Blau
A new law that will go on the books in January will help Los Angeles evict suspected drug dealers from their apartments, and ...
'Gentleman' Judge Philip Cox Dies at 69 at His Virginia Home
By Tori Richards
SANTA ANA - Services are pending in Virginia for former Orange County Superior Court Presiding Judge Philip E. Cox. Cox died ...
Ontario Officials Lobby for New Courthouse
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
ONTARIO - Building new courthouses in San Bernardino, the High Desert and Rancho Cucamonga were among options presented to Sa...
Kolkey, Other Nominees Confirmed for Appellate Bench
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - Daniel M. Kolkey, Gov. Pete Wilson's legal affairs secretary, has been confirmed as a justice on the 3rd Distric...
S.F. Prosecutor Lashes Out at Superior Court Judge
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Superior Court Judge William Cahill recused District Attorney Terence Hallinan and his entire office Monday fr...
'Strikes Man' Gets a Second Long-Shot Defense Victory
By Michael Harris
In an extremely rare, if not unprecedented, occurrence in California's criminal courts, a convicted two-strike defendant has ...
Lawyer Is Liable for Malpractice; Jury Splits on Harassment Claim
By Anna La Jeunesse
A Pasadena attorney who initially was accused of raping a client and mishandling a civil lawsuit against her company has been...
Judges Dedication Is Admired
By V. H. Jolly
SAN DIEGO - It's 7 a.m. and Superior Court Judge Terry J. Knoepp has been in chambers for almost an hour, poring over court do...
Molester Can Be Denied Sexually Oriented Matter
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court has ruled a convicted child molester may be barred from possessing "sexually stimulat...
Pillsburys Firing Of a Passionate Partner Is Upheld
By Anna Marie Stolley
As affairs between lawyers in the same office go, it wasn't the most chivalrous breakup. Besides calling his ex-lover a "gutt...
Charter Commission Chairs Reach Compromise
By Lauren Blau
The city attorney's office should remain unified under an elected city attorney, but control over litigation should be shared...
Jehovahs Witness Verdict: A Compromise?
By Anne La Jeunesse
Both the prosecutor and defense attorneys who tried the case of Keith Eric Cook, a 32-year-old mechanic convicted Friday of g...
Task Force Urges Regional Divisions for 9th Circuit
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - In its final report delivered to Congress Friday, a commission charged with studying the structure of the federa...
State Bar Won't Use Outside Lobbyist In Next Year's Bid to Pass a Dues Bill
By Don De Benedictis
Still stinging from widespread criticism of its $900,000 lobbying contract two years ago, the State Bar Board of Governors has...
Sandbagged?
By Anne La Jeunesse
Dona Bracke, who recently was fired from her post as a Glendale Municipal Court traffic commissioner, says she was "sandbagge...
Chapman Law Dean Aims High
By Michael Ueda
ANAHEIM - Now that Parham Williams Jr. has led Chapman University School of Law through the harrowing experience of gaining th...
Garcetti Kicks Off Campaign For Third Term
By Michael Harris
With California's March 2000 primary election just 15 months off, Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti has begun...
Intrusions of New Technology Pose Risks for Unwary
By Denise Levin
Embroiled in a lawsuit with the developer of the home she was selling, attorney Lisa Hervatin did not suspect that the prospe...
A Question of Trust
By Vivien Lou Chen
Originally, Bank of America and real estate lawyer Ernest L. Messner Jr. were on the same side, as co-administrators of a tru...