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Litigation

A Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner denied class certification to a lawsuit against Kaiser brought by a man who claims ...


Government

County Counsel Seeks More Funds for Salaries

Jan. 15, 1999
By Denise Levin

Los Angeles County Counsel Lloyd W. Pellman has asked the Board of Supervisors to approve a budget adjustment for his office ...



Criminal

Boy Pleads Guilty in Brother's Death

Jan. 15, 1999
By Michael Harris

A 9-year-old boy has pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the stabbing death of his 11-year-old brother, apparently be...


Personal Injury & Torts

Disney Attorneys Reportedly Sanctioned

Jan. 15, 1999
By Denise Levin

A discovery referee slapped attorneys at Lewis, D'Amato, Brisbois & Bisgaard, who are representing Disneyland in a person...



Discipline

Gibson Dunn Accused of Betraying Trust

Jan. 15, 1999
By Denise Levin

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher can be sued for breach of fiduciary duty by a man who claims the law firm passed personal informa...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.

WASHINGTON - There is another important trial under way in Washington, and it reached a pivotal point Wednesday when, after 1...



Constitutional Law

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys for a Bay Area woman who caught her son downloading smut Internet images from the Livermore library...


Family

Following accusations that the head of the county Department of Children and Family Services may have used his office to atte...



Litigation

Cities Set Tort Sights on Gun Industry

Jan. 15, 1999
By Don De Benedictis

Los Angeles and San Francisco have moved a step closer to filing tort suits against the gun industry. L.A. City Attorney Jame...


Labor/Employment

Some of the country's best known retailers, including the Gap, J. Crew, Nordstrom and Wal-Mart, were accused in lawsuits file...



Government

Independent Counsel Law Gets Final Rites

Jan. 14, 1999
By Daniel Shaw

WASHINGTON - The 20-year-old independent counsel statute may be on its deathbed, but, in a discussion Tuesday that could only...


Litigation

In the hope of reducing the county's liability in medical malpractice cases by having doctors and other medical personnel lea...



Litigation

Lawyers at the Palmdale law firm of Epson, Milburn & Kahl and Los Angeles personal injury attorney Steve Lerman have been...


Juvenile

Juvenile, Family Law Addressed At Bar Seminar

Jan. 14, 1999
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SAN BERNARDINO - When does an attorney-client confidentiality agreement go too far? Malibu attorney Ellen Peck, a speaker at ...



Bankruptcy

The 27-year-old receptionist for an Orange County bankruptcy trustee has been sentenced to one year in prison for embezzling ...


Appellate Practice

Assault Weapon Ban in the Courts

Jan. 14, 1999
By Peter Blumberg

SACRAMENTO - Three challenges to the 1989 Roberti-Roos Assault Weapons Control Act are pending before the state Supreme Court:...



Personal Injury & Torts

SACRAMENTO - Owners of military-style semiautomatic weapons and small, inexpensive handguns had better duck for cover in 1999...


Constitutional Law

Lockyer Faces Barrage of Decisions

Jan. 14, 1999
By Peter Blumberg

SACRAMENTO - In his campaign to succeed Daniel Lungren as attorney general, Bill Lockyer charged that Lungren's lax enforceme...



Zoning, Planning and Use

SAN FRANCISCO - Tackling a case that could expand the Americans With Disabilities Act to cover local zoning laws, a federal a...


Judges and Judiciary

Settlement Conferences Return After 20 Years

Jan. 14, 1999
By Martin Kruming

^^San Diego Watch ^^ For the first time since the late 1970s, the Superior Court has assigned a judge full-time to handle civi...



Government

Charter Reform Compromise Has a Hitch

Jan. 14, 1999
By Lauren Blau

The elected charter reform commission has reversed its position and endorsed a unified Los Angeles City Charter proposal, but...


Appellate Practice

A state appeal panel, ruling on an increasingly important issue in insurance cases, has held that the insurance coverage exce...



Law Office Automation

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 ...


Judges and Judiciary

For the past two-plus years, a capital murder case has pitted the Los Angeles Superior Court's security concerns against the d...



Labor/Employment

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...


Personal Injury & Torts

In what his lawyer says is the first defamation lawsuit based on Internet chat room chatter by fraudulent characters, an inve...



Securities

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...


Large Firms

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...



Juvenile

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


Juvenile

Someone spent close to $16,000 on Dec. 12 to throw a lavish holiday party for foster children and their caretakers at the Ind...