Government
Independent Counsel Law Gets Final Rites
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
Molina Seeks Rules to Limit L.A. Malpractice Risk
By Lauren Blau
In the hope of reducing the county's liability in medical malpractice cases by having doctors and other medical personnel lea...
Litigation
Personal Injury Lawyers Accused of Malpractice
By Denise Levin
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
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
Bankruptcy Worker Faces Prison for Embezzlement
By Martin Bergn
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
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
Gun Makers Find Themselves Caught in Law's Cross Hairs
By Peter Blumberg
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
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
Disabilities Act, Zoning Laws Clash in 9th Circuit Case
By Pamela Mac Lean
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
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
By Lauren Blau
The elected charter reform commission has reversed its position and endorsed a unified Los Angeles City Charter proposal, but...
Appellate Practice
Ruling Clarifies Insurers' Duties To Children of Divorced Parents
By Anna Marie Stolley
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
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
Again L.A. Court Struggles to Place a Murder Trial
By Michael Harris
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
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
Investor Says He Was Defamed by Net Chat
By Wirein
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
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
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
Fresh Allegations Surface Against DCFS Director
By Cheryl Romo
For the second time in a year, Peter Digre, the director of the Department of Children and Family Services, has been accused ...
Juvenile
Party for Foster Kids Failed to Include 'Hosts'
By Cheryl Romo
Someone spent close to $16,000 on Dec. 12 to throw a lavish holiday party for foster children and their caretakers at the Ind...
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...