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Family

Budget Gives the AG a Little More, But Courts Less

Jan. 12, 1999
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

Jan. 12, 1999
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

Jan. 12, 1999
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

Jan. 12, 1999
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

Jan. 12, 1999
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?

Jan. 12, 1999
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

Jan. 12, 1999
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

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

Jan. 9, 1999
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

Jan. 9, 1999
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

Jan. 9, 1999
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

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court did some hasty backpedaling this week and took back some significant legal ground it ...



Product Liability

SAN FRANCISCO - Amateur country-western singer Patricia Henley said she became hooked on cigarettes after smoking one for the...


Government

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis' first trial court budget proposal likely will provide no money for new judgeships or increased ...



Prosecutors said Thursday that Danny Khatchaturian and Dikran Iskendarian must have really wanted to get into law school. The...


Appellate Practice

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court next week will consider whether the Federal Trade Commission has jurisdiction over nonprofit p...



Judges and Judiciary

WASHINGTON - The fate of Bill Clinton's presidency officially changed hands Thursday, from those of the House to the Senate, ...


Health Care & Hospital Law

Significantly adding to its health-care practice, Washington, D.C.-based Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld has lured a fi...



VENTURA - Defense attorneys say parents accused of abusing or neglecting their children in Ventura County may get inadequate ...


Bankruptcy

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

Jan. 8, 1999
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

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?

Jan. 8, 1999
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

Jan. 8, 1999
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

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 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

Jan. 7, 1999
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

Jan. 7, 1999
By Pearl Piatt

Heller Firm Hires Two in San Diego Significantly bolstering its San Diego presence, San Francisco's Heller Ehrman White &...



Corporate

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

PALM SPRINGS - The city of Palm Springs has abandoned its legal effort to bar the owner of Elvis Presley's Honeymoon Hideaway ...