Anthony Brooklier Sentenced in Tax Case
By Martin Bergn
One of the region's most prominent and popular criminal defense attorneys was sentenced Wednesday to eight months in a commun...
Ex-Domestic Help Sue Media Mogul Barry Diller
By Anne La Jeunesse
Barry Diller, the former potentate of Paramount Studios, the founder of Fox network and the man who transformed the Home Shop...
Arrest Report Led to Firing, Postal Worker Claims
By Lauren Blau
A former U.S. postal worker who claims the sheriff's department violated her privacy by telling her boss that she had been ar...
Attorney Calls Lawsuit Against Him Malicious
By Denise Levin
Civil rights attorney Hugh R. Manes filed a malicious prosecution lawsuit against a former client and the client's attorney, ...
Plaintiffs' Attorneys Decry Y2K Bill
By James Evans
SAN JOSE - Congress is stepping into the year-2000 computer litigation threat with a bill designed to limit liability from Y2...
CityWalk Killer Sues Bailiff for Sexual Harassment
By Anne La Jeunesse
A woman convicted nearly a year ago of the grisly 1995 Mother's Day slayings of two women in a Universal Studios CityWalk par...
Smoke Detector
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - "Ludicrous." "Blackmail." That's how representatives of Inland Empire gun manufacturers characterize the barrage ...
High Court Set To Hear Major ERISA Appeal
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Hearing a high-stakes case from California, the Supreme Court next week will consider a major issue affecting th...
Sex Offenders In Record Numbers In States Prisons
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - California's prison system is bulging with repeat sex offenders because the state makes little effort to rehabil...
Precipitous Drop In Scores Tipped Off LSAT Scam
By Michael Harris
What are the odds someone who scores in the 99th percentile the first time he takes the Law School Admissions Test will drop ...
Excessive-Force Suits Decline in '90s
By Lauren Blau
The number of excessive force lawsuits filed against the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department steadily declined in the 1990s unde...
McDermott Lures Leading White-Collar Lawyers
By Pearl Piatt
Two white-collar criminal defense lawyers have left Los Angeles' Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton for Chicago-based Mc...
Partner's Plea Could Spark Settlement
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Barry Munitz, former chancellor of the California State University system who headed Gov. Gray Davis' transit...
Policy Addresses Complaints Against Police Chief
By Lauren Blau
In response to a request from the Board of Police Commissioners, Inspector General Deirdre Hill issued a preliminary report T...
The Boalt Connection
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - When professor Pamela Samuelson of Boalt Hall School of Law lunched recently with high-tech venture capitalis...
How to Treat Mentally Ill Sparks Debate
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - Too many of the mentally ill are incarcerated in jails and prisons throughout California, according to their adv...
Appeals Court Upholds New Trial for Pratt
By Martin Bergn
Former Black Panther Geronimo Pratt, freed after serving 27 years in prison for a murder he says he did not commit, won anoth...
Mother to Face Down DCFS Counsel
By Cheryl Romo
The painful legal odyssey of a Gardena mother of four, whose two youngest boys were taken from her and placed in foster care ...
Grant Would Boost Video-Conferences
By Lauren Blau
Attorneys in the public defender's office will be able to video-conference with their clients at jails throughout the county ...
Judge Rules BofA Suits Stay in S.F.
By Patricia Jocobus
SAN FRANCISCO - San Franciscans - rather than, for example, residents of Charlotte, N.C. - will have a chance at deciding whe...
Bob Dole Leaves L.A. Defense Bar Laughing
By Denise Levin
Accountability is what makes leaders and heroes, former U.S. Sen. Robert Dole told a gathering of civil defense attorneys in ...
His Cup Runneth Over
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Like champagne too long uncorked, Napa County's sparkling image as a leafy sanctuary from urban woes is turni...
For Beverly Hills Litigator, All the Courtrooms a Stage
By Susan Mc Rae
Beverly Hills attorney Allan Browne, with his bright blue eyes and dimpled smile, seems to be cut out for television. In fact...
State DAs Seek Uniform Penalty in Child Murder
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - In a policy shift, the California District Attorneys Association will add its voice to the push for a new law ma...
Skin Test Produced Tragic Results, Suit States
By Anne La Jeunesse
A product liability complaint was filed recently to prevent dismissal of any unknown defendants that might be linked to a med...
Seattle Firm Implodes After Merger Talks Fail
By Cindy Simmons
SEATTLE - A litigation boutique and perhaps some midsized firms may rise from the ashes of Bogle & Gates, which is schedu...
PTO Announces It Will Shorten the Time It Takes for Patents to Be Issued
By James Evans
SAN JOSE - Patent counsel are applauding an announcement by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that by next summer it will ...
Hatch Says That New Law Ties Hands of Federal Prosecutors
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - A controversial new law requiring federal prosecutors to abide by state bar ethics rules is facing a legislative...
Stanford's Only Minority Woman On Tenure Track Explains Walkout
By Michael Moline
SAN FRANCISCO - Her father tried to warn Linda Mabry not to accept a job offer from Stanford Law School and to steer her inst...
Feinstein Airs Acquittal Vote, Blasts Clinton
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., announced Thursday that she would vote against conviction and removal of P...