Securities
Insider Trading Informant Given Probation
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A government informant who provided the key to 360,000 internal documents in the securities fraud and insider...
Government
L.A. Supervisors Approve 4 Lawsuit Settlements
By Denise Levin
Three settlements stemming from lawsuits filed against Los Angeles County-run hospitals for botched medical procedures were u...
Civil Rights
Jury to Decide if Pepper Spray was Reasonable
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge Monday ruled a jury should decide whether it was reasonable for Humboldt County sheriff's dep...
Government
Bar Association to Prohibit 'Pay to Play' Donations
By Don De Benedictis
TORONTO - Taking its strongest stand yet against lawyers who make political contributions in hopes of winning work from politi...
Juvenile
For Grandparents Custody Can be an Elusive Quest
By Cheryl Romo
In a 1980s movie called "The Windwalker," a Native American family spends a lifetime looking for a child who was stolen as an...
Large Firms
Kaiser Slashes Favored Law Firms to Four
By Vivien Lou Chen
SAN FRANCISCO- Reeling from what is anticipated to be a second consecutive year of losses, the Kaiser Permanente Group - the ...
Law Practice
Acting SG to Join O'Melveny & Myers
By From Staff Reports
DELLINGER LANDS IN L.A. - Building its appellate practice, Los Angeles' O'Melveny & Myers has recruited Walter Dellinger, ...
Public Interest
IOLTA Community Ponders the Future
By Daniel Shaw
TORONTO - Among IOLTA advocates and state bar officials who have gathered here at the American Bar Association's annual meeti...
Judges and Judiciary
Judges Back Kline Against Discipline Board
By Philip Carizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - In a highly unusual move, the California Judges Association has joined in support of Court of Appeal Justice ...
Litigation
Starr Salutes Rehnquist Court
By Kenneth Rutman
TORONTO - The nearest thing in Toronto to a media feeding frenzy greeted Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr at a breakfast mee...
Judges and Judiciary
Race for Orange County Judicial Post Heats Up
By Tori Richards
SANTA ANA - Usually, the election of an Orange County assistant presiding judge is a drab affair, with the Superior Court iss...
Law Practice
Enforcing, Defending - or Both, Lawyers Thrive Under Prop. 65
By Dennis Pfaff
Defense lawyers representing companies in Proposition 65 lawsuits are fond of pointing the finger at plaintiffs and accusing ...
Government
Soft Money, Hard Lessons the Focus at Annual Bar Meeting
By Don De Benedictis
TORONTO - Even as Congress is debating campaign-finance reform, the American Bar Association, meeting in Canada Monday, came o...
Criminal
Vega Nominated as U.S. Attorney
By Marty Graham
SAN DIEGO - Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., has nominated Assistant U.S. Attorney Gregory Vega for appointment as the U.S. atto...
Judges and Judiciary
Bar Admission In, Governor Who Appointed is Out
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - Ending years of debate on how to provide voters more information about appellate justices, Secretary of State Bi...
Insurance
Supreme Court Hands Insurers Major Victory
By Anna Marie Stolley
In a resounding victory for insurance companies and their lawyers, a divided California Supreme Court ruled Monday that an in...
Judges and Judiciary
Spending Plan Could Fully Finance Trial Courts
By Tom Dresslar
Judges and Judiciary
Healthy War Chest
By Tom Dresslar
Criminal
Monica's Deal Furrows a Few Legal Eyebrows
By Martin Bergn
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
High Court Sets New Deadline for Malpractice
By Philip Carrizosa
Judges and Judiciary
Los Angeles Judge Rejects Unification
By Denise Levin
Judges and Judiciary
Orange County Approves Unification
By Tori Richards
Criminal
Jury Recommends Death for Riverside Mom
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
Criminal
DA Will Retry Overturned Capital Murder Case
By Michael Harris
International
Foreign Agents
By Alex Chun, Pearl Piatt & Mary Micheletti
Criminal
A Second Man Charged With Threats to Garcetti
By Michael Harris
Judges and Judiciary
Job Reveals There's More to the Bench Than She Realized
By Mark Blumberg
Law Practice
English Only
By Leslie Gordon
Criminal
Ventura Successfully Uses 'Great Bodily Injury' Enhancement in a Statutory Rape Conviction
By Tamara Koehler
Environmental
Environmental Firm Has Unconventional Air
By Heather Gordon