Value is Key, Says Future ABA Leader
By Don De Benedictis
DALLAS - The man likely to be president of the American Bar Association in 2001-02 intends to focus his term in part on making...
Convicted Cop Killers Uncles Testify in Retrial
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - Two uncles of convicted cop killer John George Brown testified Monday that the defendant, soon to be sentenced for...
Case-Killing: Pleading for Death With Motions
By Columnist
I am an unabashed fan of pleading motions - the demurrer or its cousin, the motion to dismiss under Federal Rule of Civil Proc...
No Merit
These cases are significant losses for indigent defendants who do not have the resources to hire lawyers and instead must rely...
Suit's Weekend Negotiations Scuttled
By Lauren Bartlett
A $40 million settlement proposal to resolve two lawsuits alleging that the city of Los Angeles is violating a federal overti...
Death Penalty In Furrow Case To Be Decided
By Martin Bergn
U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno's decision on whether to seek the death penalty against Buford Furrow is expected to be made...
Big Brother Gets a New Day Job: Visiting Home Computers of Flight Attendants
By Garry Abrams
Ever since Big Brother lost his day job behind the Iron Curtain, he's been looking for a full-time capitalist gig. Lately, som...
Pelican Bay Guard Found Guilty
By Pam Mac Lean
Former Pelican Bay prison guard David G. Lewis was convicted Monday of criminal violations of federal civil rights law in the ...
Attorneys Advocate Arbitration Provisions in Bad-Faith Proposal
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - As voters mull a plan to expand bad-faith insurance lawsuits, the debate over the proposal's arbitration provisi...
Noosh Lets Loose Its Stock to the Public
By Katherine Gaidos And Emma Varesio
Noosh Inc. filed for an initial public offering of stock, to be worth a total of $58 million. Palo Alto-based Noosh supplies p...
iAsiaWorks to Include Web Professionals
By Katherine Gaidos And Emma Varesio
iAsiaWorks has acquired Cupertino-based Web Professionals for an undisclosed combination of stock and cash. iAsiaWorks, with h...
Firm Pays $700,000 Pollutant Penalty for Sawdust
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Louisiana-Pacific Corp. has agreed to pay $700,000, including fines and physical improvements at an aging part...
Fountain Valley Wins Mock Trial
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
Fountain Valley Wins Mock Trial COSTA MESA - Fountain Valley High School was honored Wednesday for taking first place in the m...
Stolen Slogan
By Columnist
Advertising-injury coverage may handle damages from trademark infringement. ...
News: Los Angeles Law Firm Nabs Real Estate Partner
By Staff Writer
NEWS Weston Benshoof lands real-estate attorney Pamela Privett as a new partner to build the firm's transactional practice. Th...
Abuse Aid
By Columnist
Public Interest Law Abuse Aid New Laws Protect Domestic Violence Survivors Section 3044 creates a rebuttable presumption that ...
ABA Backs Hiring More Minorities for Clerkships
By Don De Benedictis
DALLAS - Expanding his initiative to improve the diversity of the legal profession, the president of the American Bar Associa...
Wells Fargo Expands Into North County
By Katherine Gaidos And Emma Varesio
San Francisco's Wells Fargo will acquire the Escondido-based North County Bancorp for an undisclosed amount. The transaction h...
Not Fit for an
By Columnist
For the People By Jeffrey A. Lowe In a city of Dickensian extremes, nowhere is the difference between rich and poor more prono...
Reality Divorced
By Columnist
By Stacy D. Phillips Remember the old television series Perry Mason? Like many others of my generation who grew up during the...
Under Investigation
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - The scene was captured by news helicopters hovering overhead: Agents from the state's attorney general's office, ...
Former White House Deputy Returns to O.C.
By Leslie Gordon
Thomas Umberg , former deputy director of the White House office of national drug control policy, has rejoined San Francisco-...
Six IP Partners Leave Lyon & Lyon
By Tamara Scott
Six intellectual property attorneys from the San Diego office of Lyon & Lyon have joined Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison ...
Defense Lawyers Must Avoid Being Eaten Alive
By Denise Levin
Former President Gerald R. Ford came to speak to the civil defense bar about the economy Friday, but when the floor was open f...
Officers Settle No Contact Suit For No $
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The final chapter closed quietly Thursday in the famed $1 billion-a-year sports bookmaking scandal that erupt...
Business Engine Motors Into Europe
By Katherine Gaidos And Emma Varesio
San Francisco-based Business Engine Software Corp. has acquired Business Engine Software International, its European operation...
Abstract-Art Mural Inspires Mosaic of Colorful Lawsuits
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Most people claim to know art when they see it, but a recently filed lawsuit asks an intriguing legal questio...
Insider Trader Gets Probation, Fine
By Pamela Mac Lean
Insider Trader Gets Probation, Fined A 25-year-old former securities analyst got a tongue-lashing from a federal judge Friday ...
Pat Murphys Attorney Wants Out, Says Judge May Have Asked Him to Do Something Illegal
By Anne La Jeunesse
The attorney representing elusive Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patrick B. Murphy is asking to be relieved as the judge's ...
JDS Enters a New Phase With Acquisition of E-Tek
By Katherine Gaidos And Emma Varesio
San Jose's JDS Uniphase Corp. and E-tek Dynamics Inc. have reached a merger agreement. Under the terms of the deal, JDS will t...