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Criminal

WESTMINSTER - Marvin Chavez, according to his lawyer, is a loving man who sought to end the misery of people with chronic pai...


Criminal

DENVER - Lawyers here argued on Tuesday before an expanded panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals about whether pros...



Government

In the wake of an audit criticizing the Children's Services Division of the Los Angeles County Counsel's office as the "dumpi...


Government

Garcetti Spars With Supervisors Over Bureau

Nov. 19, 1998
By Michael Harris

Appearing Tuesday before the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, District Attorney Gil Garcetti delivered his most force...



Labor/Employment

Losing Plaintiff Ordered to Pay $1.1M in Fees

Nov. 19, 1998
By Michael Ueda

SANTA ANA - An Orange County Superior Court judge ordered a former University of California, Irvine doctor who unsuccessfully...


Government

Inspector General Demands Retraction

Nov. 19, 1998
By Lauren Blau

The feud between outgoing Inspector General Katherine Mader and the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners has escalated w...



Criminal

Prosecutor: Mom Guilty in Drowning Death

Nov. 19, 1998
By Mathew Heller

RIVERSIDE - Did Lora Sue Shipley cap a history of neglect by leaving her four children unattended in a truck that eventually ...


Law Practice

Patricia L. Glaser, a partner at Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser & Weil, denied on the witness stand Tuesday tha...



Judges and Judiciary

All the Comforts of Home

Nov. 19, 1998
By Anne La Jeunesse

The pay stinks - $5 a day. And mileage reimbursement? Less than two bits a mile - one way. Jurors have long been the Rodney D...


Government

At Sentencing Commission, No One's Home

Nov. 19, 1998
By Daniel Shaw

WASHINGTON - And then there were none. The seven-seat U.S. Sentencing Commission has long endured a vacancy or two, but when ...



Law Practice

Law Firm Lite

Nov. 17, 1998
By Pearl Piatt

Lately, the kind of practice that's most coveted by law firms involves specialty work for which premium fees can be charged. ...


Judicial Profile

W. Scott Snowden

Nov. 14, 1998
By Riley Guerin

Judge ...



Law Practice

Judge Won't Ban Controversial Wiretap Process

Nov. 14, 1998
By Michael Harris

LOS ANGELES - In a much-anticipated ruling, a judge Thursday denied a bid by the Los Angeles County public defender's office t...


Litigation

Jury Awards $7.5M to Injured Prep Football Star

Nov. 14, 1998
By Anne La Jeunesse

A Los Angeles Superior Court jury has awarded $7.5 million in medical malpractice damages to a former Manhattan Beach high sc...



Securities

Securities Dealers Immune From Regulatory Suits

Nov. 10, 1998
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals panel, expanding immunity already recognized in federal court, has ruled that the associati...


Personal Injury & Torts

Lawyer's Bad Advice Proves Costly, Family Claims

Nov. 10, 1998
By Anne La Jeunesse

A multimillion-dollar legal malpractice complaint filed on behalf of a teen-age boy and his family claims that a Van Nuys atto...



Large Firms

S.D.'s Miller Boyko Will Merge With D.C. Firm

Nov. 10, 1998
By Marty Graham

SAN DIEGO - Miller, Boyko & Bell, a San Diego transaction and litigation boutique that traces its start to a prominent ro...


Government

Hate-Crime Report Urges New Strategy

Nov. 10, 1998
By Lauren Blau

A task force's report to the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners recommends sweeping changes in the way the police depa...



Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Discipline Dilemma

Nov. 10, 1998
By Don De Benedictis

When the California Supreme Court holds its hearing this afternoon on the State Bar, it will be told repeatedly that it can d...


Product Liability

SAN FRANCISCO - Closing out testimony in a trial that may foreshadow - or forestall - a barrage of litigation against the fir...



Criminal

Court Decisions Imperil Law on Sex Predators

Nov. 10, 1998
By Peter Blumberg

SACRAMENTO - California's Department of Corrections already has released 118 inmates deemed mentally unstable and dangerous in...


Law Practice

Corporate finance lawyer Richard A. Shortz - who claimed he lost his job with Rogers & Wells when the New York firm pulle...



Judges and Judiciary

Ex-Judges Seek to Overturn Convictions

Nov. 6, 1998
By Anne La Jeunesse

Convictions of racketeering and mail fraud against two former San Diego Superior Court judges and a Del Mar plaintiffs' attor...


Judges and Judiciary

Keeping a Political Bargain

Nov. 6, 1998
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Holding to her end of a unique political swap, Judge Betty Binns Fletcher of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap...



Technology & Science

WASHINGTON - The antitrust trial of Microsoft Corp. turned testy and technical Wednesday, when a Microsoft lawyer challenged ...


Judges and Judiciary

SAN DIEGO - Two hard-fought races for judgeships remained unresolved Wednesday, as candidates in both races were less than 1 ...



Litigation

A judge left intact Wednesday the bulk of a libel and slander lawsuit brought against Wayne S. Braveman, a law partner at Hel...


Criminal

VENTURA - The county's Chief Assistant District Attorney Kevin McGee claimed victory Tuesday as the county's 27th Superior Co...



Government

A broad cross-section of Los Angeles residents who offered comments on proposed changes to the City Charter overwhelmingly su...


Judges and Judiciary

Santa Clara Prosecutor Wins Election

Nov. 6, 1998
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County prosecutor Joyce Allegro, who challenged two sitting jurists for an open judicial seat, won a de...