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Concluding one of its first enforcement actions against municipal bond counsel, authorities said the Securities and Exchange ...


Retired Brobeck Partner Recalled For Talent, Wit

Jan. 8, 1999
By Pamela Mc Clintock

Robert S. Daggett, a prominent and much-loved San Francisco litigator who filled the city's courtrooms with masterful oratory...



The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to settle four defamation and civil rights lawsuits for $1.1 million filed by me...


Will Voters Break the Charter Stalemate?

Jan. 8, 1999
By Lauren Blau

In stark contrast to its elected counterpart, the appointed charter reform commission voted unanimously Wednesday to adopt a ...



Road to Nowhere

Jan. 8, 1999
By Don De Benedictis

Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Burbank, has introduced a bill to restore the State Bar of California, but the bill offers virtually no c...


Since first being elected in 1992, Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti has been accused on occasion of taking r...



It's a dangerous world after all, claims a Los Angeles woman who says she suffered a brain hemorrhage while riding the Indian...


A Simple Plan

Jan. 7, 1999
By Chris Ford

It seems like a simple matter, really. The Los Angeles Superior Court's rule on footers, which became effective Friday, says ...



Heller Firm Hires Two in San Diego

Jan. 7, 1999
By Pearl Piatt

Heller Firm Hires Two in San Diego Significantly bolstering its San Diego presence, San Francisco's Heller Ehrman White &...


SAN FRANCISCO - Two of Bank of America's top in-house attorneys are leaving in the wake of the bank's recent merger with Nati...



PALM SPRINGS - The city of Palm Springs has abandoned its legal effort to bar the owner of Elvis Presley's Honeymoon Hideaway ...


MoFo Expands Its Sacramento Office

Jan. 7, 1999
By Leslie Gordon

Charles S. Farman, a corporate and securities lawyer, has joined Morrison & Foerster as a partner in the firm's Sacramento...



How to safeguard an abused child's privacy in the computer age - particularly when multidisciplinary teams from different gov...


Commission Finds Judge Unqualified

Jan. 7, 1999
By Tom Dresslar

SACRAMENTO - A State Bar panel announced Tuesday it had found one of former Gov. Pete Wilson's 11th-hour judicial appointment...



San Bernardino Court Plan Draws Criticism

Jan. 7, 1999
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SAN BERNARDINO - Officials in several high-desert communities are balking at a $240 million plan to combine San Bernardino Co...


Molina Seeks Fiscal Fix-It Plan for DA

Jan. 7, 1999
By Lauren Blau

Concerned about lax financial procedures in the district attorney's office, Los Angeles County Supervisor Gloria Molina intro...



Rent Control Is Not a Taking, Court Decides

Jan. 6, 1999
By Philip Carrizosa

Narrowly rejecting an innovative attack on rent control, a closely divided California Supreme Court ruled Monday that a landl...


West Salesman Claims Spurned Boss Fired Him

Jan. 6, 1999
By Anne La Jeunesse

Legal publishing giant West Group and its parent company, the Thomson Corp., are being sued by an Orange County man who claim...



Skadden Arps Awards Public Interest Fellowships

Jan. 6, 1999
By Stephanie Francis Cahill

Carrying on a tradition begun in 1989, the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom on Monday awarded 28 public i...


An Orange County Superior Court judge has ruled that the Los Angeles Superior Court violated state law by denying certain dep...



A Question of Credit

Jan. 6, 1999
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - Contention over credit for a seminal U.S. Supreme Court antitrust case argued 40 years ago has embroiled two ...


A Los Angeles police officer who hurt his neck and back when he slipped at a court facility where he was serving as a court l...



Quentin Kopp Takes on New Role as Jurist

Jan. 6, 1999
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - Judge Quentin L. Kopp, following his swearing-in Jan. 2 as San Mateo County's newest Superior Court jurist, s...


Public Angrily Reacts to Lawyer's Actions

Jan. 6, 1999
By Amy Bentley

VENTURA - In 25 years of practice as a prosecutor and criminal defense attorney, Louis "Chuck" Samonsky said he has never see...



RIVERSIDE - Among the barrage of privacy lawsuits filed against Consolidated Freightways since video surveillance cameras wer...


Securities Fraud Actions Allowed Under State Law

Jan. 6, 1999
By Pamela Mac Lean

Keeping alive more than 50 pending California state securities fraud cases, the state Supreme Court on Monday ruled that out-...



Silicon Sizzle Defines Year in Dealmaking

Jan. 6, 1999
By Tom Orewyler

California law firms were among the beneficiaries of $307 billion in California deals last year - a significant number of whi...


The 1099 Nightmare

Jan. 5, 1999
By Don De Benedictis

A year after a new tax law specifically targeting lawyers took effect, the Internal Revenue Service has yet to issue regulati...



Annuities Settlement Will Help Educate Seniors

Jan. 5, 1999
By Don De Benedictis

The multimillion-dollar settlement last week between the state attorney general's office and an Ohio-based life insurance comp...


Justices Let West Hollywood Gun Ordinance Stand

Dec. 24, 1998
By Philip Carrizosa

SAN FRANCISCO - In a sharp defeat for the gun lobby, the California Supreme Court refused Tuesday to consider a challenge to ...