Family
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...
Criminal
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 ...
Criminal
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 ...
Judges and Judiciary
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...
Environmental
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...
Criminal
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 ...
Law Practice
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...
Labor/Employment
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...
Criminal
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...
Insurance
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...
State Bar & Bar Associations
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...
Appellate Practice
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 ...
Product Liability
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...
Government
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 ...
Criminal
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...
Appellate Practice
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...
Judges and Judiciary
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, ...
Health Care & Hospital Law
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...
Family
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 ...
Bankruptcy
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 ...
Large Firms
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...
Civil Rights
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...
Government
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 ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
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...
Government
Kissing Off DA Doesn't Stand in Way of Promotion
By Michael Harris
Since first being elected in 1992, Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti has been accused on occasion of taking r...
Law Practice
It's a Dangerous, Litigious World, Disney Suit Says
By Denise Levin
It's a dangerous world after all, claims a Los Angeles woman who says she suffered a brain hemorrhage while riding the Indian...
Law Office Automation
A Simple Plan
By Chris Ford
It seems like a simple matter, really. The Los Angeles Superior Court's rule on footers, which became effective Friday, says ...
Large Firms
Heller Firm Hires Two in San Diego
By Pearl Piatt
Heller Firm Hires Two in San Diego Significantly bolstering its San Diego presence, San Francisco's Heller Ehrman White &...
Corporate
Bank of Americas In-House Group Hit by Big Withdrawal
By Vivien Chen
SAN FRANCISCO - Two of Bank of America's top in-house attorneys are leaving in the wake of the bank's recent merger with Nati...
Zoning, Planning and Use
The King May Be Dead, But His Hideaway Can Rock
By Mathew Heller
PALM SPRINGS - The city of Palm Springs has abandoned its legal effort to bar the owner of Elvis Presley's Honeymoon Hideaway ...