A state appeal panel has ruled that foster children who have reached 18 are not entitled to county aid to help them complete ...
Education
Publisher CEB Gets a Reprieve From University
By Anthony Aarons And Tom Orewyler
Berkeley-based Continuing Education of the Bar, the cash-strapped provider of legal education materials, will not be sold or ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The law firm of Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin has elected a record number of eight asso...
RIVERSIDE - Fontana resident Pedro Villegas has filed a lawsuit against the cities of Fontana and Long Beach, claiming that p...
Judges and Judiciary
Chief Justice Wants to Open Up the Process of Appointing Judges
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - Chief Justice Ronald M. George said Thursday that he wants to re-examine the procedures of the state Commissio...
The family of a 75-year-old Inglewood woman who died in her native Guyana during a December 1997 visit has filed a wrongful d...
For the past decade, juvenile court judges and attorneys have met with child welfare officials once a year at the state Judic...
Personal Injury & Torts
Redress for Attempted Robber Is Limited by State High Court
By Anna Marie Stolley
The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a would-be robber shot by a store employee and rendered paraplegic cannot sue...
In an effort to maintain public confidence in its work, the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners voted unanimously Thurs...
Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser, Weil & Shapiro attorneys walked victoriously from the courtroom Thursday where...
SAN JOSE - In the parlance of the Internet, "listserv" is the generic name for an online discussion group, in which members se...
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Tuesday approved much of District Attorney Gil Garcetti's plan to improve his fam...
Claiming Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush is conducting business in secret, The Proposition 103 Enforcement Project h...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has overturned a death sentence and double murder conviction because a letter stating a key i...
SANTA ANA - Defendant Jesus Garcia, whose prosecutor has called him "the poster boy for three strikes," was sentenced to 25 y...
After a lengthy debate, the Los Angeles City Council unanimously voted Tuesday to ask the city attorney, police chief and leg...
After hearing the last, breathless half-hour of closing arguments, the jurors presiding over the Christensen, Miller, Fink, J...
Judges and Judiciary
Claims of Crude Sex Talk Land Judge Before Discipline Board
By Jean Guccione
A San Bernardino judge is being investigated for allegedly making crude remarks to a female court manager and others about he...
SAN DIEGO - Judge William C. Pate of the San Diego County Superior Court, a former Marine Corps combat veteran, believes lawye...
The Los Angeles Superior Court announced Tuesday it will begin phasing in the one-day, one-trial juror program in May 1999, de...
WASHINGTON - New presidents always inherit thorns left in their political side by the outgoing commander in chief, and for Ge...
The lawyer-defendants at Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser, Weil & Shapiro should know better than the average emp...
International
Some U.S. Firms Thrive, While Others Fade, in European Community Capital
By Wendy B. Schatzman
BRUSSELS, Belgium - Globalization of business means the rules for law firms have changed. Firms that are serious about establ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A litigious pro-gun lobby with a successful courtroom track record is threatening to counterattack if San Fra...
Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti's wide-ranging plan to improve his beleaguered family support division garn...
SAN FRANCISCO - Allen L. Morgan, a partner at Latham & Watkins in Menlo Park, announced Monday that he is leaving the fir...
SAN JOSE - In a Santa Clara County Superior Court complaint that echoes the federal antitrust case against Microsoft, a small...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Brown has anointed a young deputy renown for his trial skills as his secon...
SACRAMENTO - As Gov. Pete Wilson ends his eight-year tenure and considers another run for the White House in 2000, he leaves b...
In a rare display of mutual support for a new law that has changed the legal culture of Juvenile Court, Los Angeles County Di...