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WASHINGTON - Former independent counsel Lawrence Walsh and Samuel Dash, a key Watergate figure and onetime ethics adviser to ...


Large Firms


Manatt Chooses Irving as New Leader

Mar. 26, 1999
By Pearl Piatt

Los Angeles' Manatt, Phelps & Phillips has tapped Paul H. Irving to be the firm's new managing partner and chief executiv...


Judges and Judiciary


Justices Seem Prepared to Open CJP Vote

Mar. 26, 1999
By Philip Carrizosa

SAN FRANCISCO - The Commission on Judicial Performance went to a state appeal court Wednesday in an effort to prevent the ind...


Criminal


The past decade has seen an ongoing debate as to whether children make credible courtroom witnesses. A growing number of expe...


Criminal


Judge: Sex Offender Does Not Need to Give Blood

Mar. 26, 1999
By Laura Impellizzeri

SAN FRANCISCO - A convicted sex offender has won a restraining order preventing police from obtaining a blood sample from him...


Family


Notwithstanding the nationwide crackdown on deadbeat moms and dads, a state appeal panel ruled Wednesday that incarcerated pa...


Large Firms


Judge Wont Seal Documents in Lewis DAmato Suit

Mar. 25, 1999
By Denise Levin

Saying he could find no threat to a law firm's trade secrets, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge Wednesday refused to order a ...


Government


Help Wanted: Federal Prosecutors

Mar. 25, 1999
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - The title of assistant U.S. attorney carries prestige in the legal world but relatively little pay. In fact, ...


Probate


MoFo Litigator Suspended From DHL Probate Case

Mar. 25, 1999
By Patricia Jocobus

SAN FRANCISCO - A star litigator at Morrison & Foerster has been suspended from a messy Pacific Rim probate case involvin...


SAN FRANCISCO - Venturing out to the fringes of family law, a state appeal court struggled mightily Tuesday to deal with a na...


Criminal


Agencies Work Together in Probe of Jurists Killing

Mar. 25, 1999
By Anne La Jeunesse

Authorities from three law enforcement agencies are working closely to determine whether a connection exists between the rece...


Contracts


SANTA ANA - A judge has reversed a $7 million jury verdict in an Orange County Superior Court case against an investment bank...


Government


The union representing rank-and-file deputy sheriffs has gone to court to try to force the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Depar...


Insurance


Judge Sanctions Italian Insurance Firm

Mar. 25, 1999
By Denise Levin

Reversing her tentative ruling and issuing an order that is more in line with what she said in court she wanted to do, a judg...


Government


Where the Action Is

Mar. 25, 1999
By Tom Dresslar

SACRAMENTO - On April 21, 1967, Greek shopkeeper Aristides Boutris put his son on his shoulders and carried him to watch the ...


Litigation


Lawyer Sues West Over Failed CD-ROM Deal

Mar. 24, 1999
By Denise Levin

An attorney has filed suit against West Publishing Co. and its parent Bancroft-Whitney Co., claiming he put in thousands of h...


Product Liability


Crash Survivors Sue Rescue Helicopters Maker

Mar. 24, 1999
By Denise Levin

Two survivors of the rescue helicopter crash near Griffith Park a year ago have filed separate liability lawsuits against the...


Judges and Judiciary


Jurists Killing Puzzles Investigators

Mar. 24, 1999
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - San Bernardino County sheriff's officials said Monday that their investigation into the killing last week ...


Civil Rights


Attorney Vows to Continue Judicial Immunity Fight

Mar. 24, 1999
By Anne La Jeunesse

The U.S. Supreme Court decided Monday not to review a lower court's dismissal of a lawsuit charging two Glendale Municipal Co...


Criminal


Prosecutor Isn't Afraid of Bucking Tradition

Mar. 24, 1999
By Laura Impellizzeri

SAN FRANCISCO - Nancy O'Malley favors cozy, well-worn sweaters and long skirts and has made her reputation prosecuting crimes ...


Labor/Employment


Making the Industry Sweat

Mar. 24, 1999
By Peter Blumberg

SACRAMENTO - Hoping to turn up the heat on the garment industry's use of sweatshop labor, Democratic lawmakers are seeking to ...


Law Practice


Venturing South

Mar. 23, 1999
By Chris Ford

Between 1995 and 1998, an Irvine-based start-up found itself in a life-or-death contract dispute with a $1 billion-a-year med...


Law Practice


SAN FRANCISCO - A Pacific Rim food fight over attorney fees in the probate of DHL Express founder Larry Lee Hillblom's multim...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge, Attorney Exchange Angry Words

Mar. 23, 1999
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - A major cocaine trafficking trial dissolved into acrimony Thursday when defense lawyer Maureen Kallins claime...


Criminal


Fire at Lawyers Home Spurs Probe

Mar. 23, 1999
By Pat Alston

Arson investigators continue to probe the circumstances surrounding a fire that destroyed the luxury La Habra Heights hillsid...


Criminal


SAN FRANCISCO - A little over four months ago, the California Supreme Court all but conclusively declared that Sirhan Sirhan w...


State Bar & Bar Associations


The State Bar of California wants to know just what sort of business O.J. Simpson has hooked himself up with. Numerous news s...


Public Interest


Memorial Service Planned for Floyd J. Silliman

Mar. 21, 1999
By E Freudenthal

A memorial service will be held Sunday in Carmel Valley for Floyd J. Silliman, a California trial attorney who was a member o...


The State Bar now has authority to discipline lawyers for judicial ethics violations that occur while they are serving as tem...


Insurance


Expressing regret that her hands may be tied by state law, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge indicated Thursday she probably...