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AG Sues Hollywood Fund-Raiser for Fraud

Mar. 15, 2003
By Joan Osterwalder

LOS ANGELES - State Attorney General Bill Lockyer on Thursday sued Hollywood fund-raiser Aaron Tonken, lawyer Kevin M. Clarke...


Judge Allows Blake to Make Bail

Mar. 15, 2003
By David Houston

By David Houston Nevada Journal Staff Writer LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge reversed himself Wednesday and allowed acto...



State Bar Moves Against Trevor Attorneys

Mar. 15, 2003
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - The State Bar on Thursday moved to stop Trevor Law Group attorneys from practicing law, citing "serious miscond...


LOS ANGELES - A woman facing $1 million in medical bills for her prematurely born triplet daughters may get a shot at challen...



Forum Column - By Dan Grunfeld and Hernn Vera - For decades, an essential part of the American dream has been the attainment o...


SFUSD Ups Damages in Fraud Suit

Mar. 15, 2003
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Unified School District upped the ante Thursday in its lawsuit against Progress Energy Corp...



Judge Allows Blake to Make Bail

Mar. 14, 2003
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge reversed himself Wednesday and allowed actor Robert Blake to bail out of jail while he aw...


Late Reports

Mar. 14, 2003
By Susan Mc Rae

SANTA ANA - A federal grand jury in Santa Ana has indicted 13 people, including a former Long Beach attorney, for allegedly en...



Privacy Initiative Parallels Bill

Mar. 14, 2003
By Hudson Sangree

SACRAMENTO - Privacy advocates, frustrated by years of defeat in the Legislature, moved Wednesday to put a measure on the bal...


S.F. Trial Attorney George Ball, 76

Mar. 14, 2003
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - George Ball, a "classic" San Francisco trial lawyer who argued more than 100 jury trials, died Saturday after ...



Israeli Father Loses Custody Fight on Appeal

Mar. 14, 2003
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court invoked Solomon on Wednesday when it decided a custody battle between a mother forced to m...


Mail Fraud Plea by S.F. School Employee

Mar. 14, 2003
By Pam Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - A former San Francisco Unified School District custodial supervisor and a Hayward software company have pleade...



WASHINGTON - Forty years after the Supreme Court in Gideon v. Wainright ordered the states to provide counsel to indigent def...


Advocates Sue to Halt Rehab Clinic's Closure

Mar. 14, 2003
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - Health care advocates Wednesday filed what they describe as a groundbreaking lawsuit, the second in less than a...



San Jose Judge's Decisions Are Scrutinized

Mar. 14, 2003
By Craig Anderson

Reporter's Notebook - By Craig Anderson - February was a rough month for Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danse...


SLA Inmate Appeals Her Term Hike

Mar. 14, 2003
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - Former Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson, who pleaded guilty in 2001 to the attempted bombing...



Signs of Settlement On Offshore Drilling

Mar. 14, 2003
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - The federal government, in a new court filing, has revealed that it may buy out three-dozen offshore oil deve...


Defense Attorneys Want Cops' Files Reviewed

Mar. 14, 2003
By Robert Selna

SAN FRANCISCO - Public Defender Jeff Adachi said Wednesday he wants the Police Department or Board of Supervisors to pay for a...



Misconduct-Tainted Case Ends in Conviction

Mar. 14, 2003
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - A man was convicted of murdering two people today in a case in which the former prosecutor is under investigati...


Lawyers' Punitives Before High Court

Mar. 14, 2003
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - A couple who blame their lawyers for failing to pursue punitive damages in a massive toxic tort case may be o...



Focus Column Bankruptcy Law By Don Robinson Bankruptcy law should not be a trap for the unwary, as Bankruptcy Courts are fond...


WASHINGTON - After perfunctory questioning Wednesday by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, two Orange County Superior...



Column By Garry Abrams - A heavy-set, menacing man walks up to a Hollywood executive and waves a sheaf of papers in the execut...


Focus Column - Bankruptcy Law - By Don Robinson - Bankruptcy law should not be a trap for the unwary, as Bankruptcy Courts are...



Taking Charge

Mar. 13, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Steven L. Schwarcz - The government needs to balance the necessity for a rigorous standard for rating agains...


LOS ANGELES - Pittsburgh's Reed Smith Crosby Heafey has tapped Peter J. Kennedy to serve as the managing partner in its Los An...



In Check

Mar. 13, 2003

Forum Column - By Richard A. Nixon - I read with interest the article by Miriam A. Krinsky and Robin Meadow, which argued that...


Tobacco-Settlement Money Follows Political Priorities

Mar. 13, 2003
By Contributing Writer

Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Modisett - Kudos to Ann Woolner for her article describing the states' raiding of the 1998 Master...



League's Award Catches UCLA Lawyer by Surprise

Mar. 13, 2003
By Christina Landers

LOS ANGELES - It's not easy to catch attorney Joseph D. Mandel off guard, his friends say. "He is so cool and so poised; his f...


LOS ANGELES - The Anti-Defamation League's Pacific Southwest region will honor several individuals and a dozen law firms at i...