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Juvenile


The American Bar Association has released a report that examines the quality of legal representation provided to indigent chi...


Juvenile


At Eastlake, Obstacles Are Enormous

Apr. 20, 1999
By Cheryl Romo

It's 8 p.m. and she's already spent 10 hours in juvenile court. Cynthia Cohan is frantic. The father of one of her clients, a...



Government


Intrigue Surrounds Drafting of MICRA Reforms

Apr. 20, 1999
By Tom Dresslar

SACRAMENTO - Assembly Speaker Antonio Villaraigosa's measure to raise the $250,000 cap on noneconomic damages in medical malp...


Intellectual Property


WASHINGTON - Weighing issues of major concern to intellectual property attorneys, the Supreme Court this week will consider w...



Juvenile


A Sanctuary for Lost Souls

Apr. 20, 1999
By Cheryl Romo

The phone rings constantly in this place where the work never ends. And when a kid's in trouble, everything else gets put on ...


Judges and Judiciary


In an extraordinary 10-page ruling, U.S. District Judge J. Spencer Letts Wednesday recused himself from a bitterly fought pol...



Entertainment & Sports


Ex-Prosecutor Longo Sues for Libel

Apr. 17, 1999
By Michael Harris

Defense attorney Larry Longo, fired by the Los Angeles County district attorney's office in 1997 for inappropriate ties to De...


Technology & Science


Prosecutor Can Stay On Trade-Secrets Case

Apr. 17, 1999
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County Superior Court judge cleared prosecutor Julius Finkelstein to continue pursuing Avant Corp. f...



Labor/Employment


A Littler Mendelson lawyer accused of posing as opposing counsel to obtain confidential information from witnesses in a wrong...


Government


SAN FRANCISCO - With three months left before the deadline to declare for district attorney, the names of at least eight San ...



Judges and Judiciary


Davis Names The Youngest CJP Member

Apr. 17, 1999
By Jean Guccione

The Commission on Judicial Performance's newest and youngest member also has a Hollywood connection - and becomes the fourth ...


Intellectual Property


On the fourth day of Genentech's Protropin patent infringement trial, a federal judge rejected the biotech firm's request for...



Family


Growing Pains

Apr. 17, 1999
By Cheryl Romo

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Attendees at the American Bar Association's Ninth National Conference on Children and the Law shared their...


Environmental


SAN FRANCISCO - Farm and timber interests have launched a major court challenge of the federal government's authority to regu...



Government


INDIO - In a stunning conclusion to an eight-year legal battle, a jury has cleared the county of San Bernardino of failing to...


Government


Term-Limit Act To Be Weighed By High Court

Apr. 16, 1999
By Philip Carrizosa

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court announced Wednesday that it will decide the constitutionality of a term-limits i...



Insurance


Prosecutor Wants Lawyer's Conviction Aired

Apr. 16, 1999
By Michael Harris

In an unusual request, Los Angeles County prosecutors have asked the judge in the upcoming murder retrial of a personal injur...


Government


City Must Answer on Overtime Pay

Apr. 16, 1999
By Lauren Blau

A special master has ruled that Los Angeles city officials and the attorneys who gave them advice about a federal overtime la...



Law Practice


Foundation Helps Students Overcome Hurdles

Apr. 16, 1999
By Anne La Jeunesse

Los Angeles native Tamiko S. Brown is not only the first member of her family to attend college, she also is the first to hav...


Personal Injury & Torts


Tort Reformers Will Go by a New Moniker

Apr. 16, 1999
By Tom Dresslar

SACRAMENTO - The Association for California Tort Reform will change its name to Civil Justice Association of California, effe...



Law Practice


'Formidable Opponent'

Apr. 16, 1999
By Leslie Gordon, Jennifer Byrd & T. Scott

SAN FRANCISCO - David Coleman has been named the new public defender in Contra Costa County, making him the first black publi...


Criminal


The Age of Innocence

Apr. 16, 1999
By Matthew Heller

RIVERSIDE - When she attended a Riverside County day-care center for senior citizens in the mid-1990s, Aurelia Solano apparen...



Judges and Judiciary


Crystal Lui, the wife of retired Los Angeles Court of Appeal Justice Elwood Lui, has been named to the Commission on Judicial...


Government


Starr: Act Is Constitutionally Dubious

Apr. 16, 1999
By Daniel Shaw

WASHINGTON - Portraying himself as a proud foot soldier following the well-intentioned but misguided marching orders of the s...



Judges and Judiciary


Claims Against Kline 'Unsound,' Judges Contend

Apr. 15, 1999
By Jean Guccione

Calling allegations of misconduct against Appellate Justice J. Anthony Kline "legally unsound," the California Judges Associa...


Insurance


Lawyers Balk At Move to Sacramento

Apr. 15, 1999
By Tom Dresslar

SAN FRANCISCO - Trading the bright lights of San Francisco for the somewhat more subdued glow of the state capital is against...



Criminal


Operation Casablanca Trial Opens in L.A.

Apr. 15, 1999
By Martin Bergn

After prosecutors told jurors Tuesday that defendants in Operation Casablanca willingly participated in a massive money-laund...


Judges and Judiciary


SACRAMENTO - E-mail and Web pages could become standard tools for lawyers and consumers who use the civil justice system, und...



Government


Ex-Menendez Prosecutor Sues DA for Overtime

Apr. 15, 1999
By Michael Harris

Former Menendez brothers prosecutor David Conn has filed suit against his ex-boss, Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil G...


Criminal


SACRAMENTO - A half-dozen young men get into a brawl over a drug deal gone bad. One of the four buyers stabs the two dealers....