Tax
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...
Judges and Judiciary
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. ...
Technology & Science
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...
Judges and Judiciary
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...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
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...
Litigation
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 ...
Large Firms
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...
Litigation
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...
Judges and Judiciary
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...
Education
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...
Media
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...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
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...
Judges and Judiciary
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...
Bankruptcy
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...
Elder Law
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...
Environmental
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...
Government
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...
Labor/Employment
Municipal Court Workers May Head for Picket Line
By Denise Levin
Los Angeles Municipal Court employees, who recently voted for union representation, may be on the picket lines by the end of ...
Litigation
Hard Rock Lost Memorabilia, Singer's Son Says
By Anne La Jeunesse
Dodd Darin, son of the late crooner Bobby Darin, is putting teeth into his effort to regain personal items of his famous fath...
Judges and Judiciary
Two Superior Court Judges Named to CJP
By Jean Guccione
Marking a minor shift in the panel's composition, Chief Justice Ronald M. George appointed two Superior Court judges to the s...
Judges and Judiciary
Justices Ponder Taking the Sting Out of CJP's 'Advisory' Letters
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - In a case that could spell out the dividing line between mere legal error and misconduct in judicial discipli...
Criminal
Deathwatch
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Justice Department protocols for seeking the federal death penalty leave such broad discretion to local U.S. ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Dialogue on Bar Bill Focused on Lobbying, Need
By Don De Benedictis
Roughly two months ago, Sen. Adam Schiff introduced a piece of legislation that will in all probability set California lawyer...
Insurance
Supreme Court Hands Insurers A Major Victory
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Handing a major victory to the insurance industry, the Supreme Court ruled, 8-1, Wednesday that workers may not ...
Criminal
Manager of Law Office Acquitted in Fraud Ring
By Michael Harris
A personal injury attorney's former office manager, tried for her alleged involvement in a fatal auto insurance fraud ring mas...
Family
Panel Debates Child-Support Reform Plans
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - Legislative overhaul of California's child support system formally began Tuesday with bipartisan committee appro...
Judges and Judiciary
Retirement Papers Poised for Kalin's Signature
By Denise Levin
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Joseph Kalin is calling it quits. After 20 years on the bench, he has decided to pursue his ...
Government
L.A. Will Pay $950K for Officer-Involved Shooting
By Lauren Blau
The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to pay $950,000 to settle a lawsuit stemming from an officer-involved ...
Judges and Judiciary
Avoid Politics
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - Chief Justice Ronald M. George on Tuesday issued a call for judges to buck popular political tides when the law ...
Large Firms
Brobeck Phleger to Open Two East Coast Offices
By Leslie Gordon
SAN FRANCISCO - Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison has announced a two-office expansion on the East Coast. The firm opened a Was...