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LOS ANGELES - Michael L. Benov has been the warden of Los Angeles' federal Metropolitan Detention Center for less than a month...


Achieving Critical Mass

May 6, 2003
By Michael Gottliebn

BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor It was easy for West Los Angeles office brokers and owners to dismiss the Howard H...



SAN FRANCISCO - Some court clerks in San Francisco want to stop paying union dues and are calling for an election to change u...


Focus Column - Tort Law - By Michael Paul Thomas - In the law as in life, how an issue is characterized often dictates how it ...



Employment Column - By Deanna Wilkinson - Think back to law school. During your first or second summer, you probably had a sum...


Verizon Sued Over Commissions

May 3, 2003
By Karen Coleman

SAN FRANCISCO - A Sacramento County cell phone service salesman has instigated a class action against Verizon Wireless Servic...



LOS ANGELES - Charles D. Stein, a former general counsel of Carpetland U.S.A., has died. Stein died of Parkinson's disease Apr...


Lesbian Couple Sues Adoption Agency

May 3, 2003
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - The American Civil Liberties Union sued a private Orange County agency Thursday, claiming that the organization ba...



Court Restores Suit Against Linens 'N Things

May 3, 2003
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - A popular home goods retailer may have to stop asking customers for their phone numbers when they pay with credi...


Lobby Firm Merges With Foley Office

May 3, 2003
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - George Steffes, a potent figure on the Sacramento political scene for more than 30 years, has merged his lobby...



Ex-Partner Defends Data Sharing

May 3, 2003
By John Ryan

LOS ANGELES - William Fitzgerald testified Thursday that it would have been inappropriate for Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison ...


LAPD Targets Homeless Camps

May 3, 2003
By Lawrence Kootnikoff

LOS ANGELES - A small, faded U.S. flag waves in the morning breeze on one of the wooden posts holding up Terry Johnson's ramsh...



Charter School Sues District For Resources

May 3, 2003
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles-area charter high school has sued the public district it left behind, claiming bureaucrats are ill...


Lawyer's Double Life Includes Torts, Tunes

May 3, 2003
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - By day, Jorge Hernandez races from courtroom to courtroom, representing defendants charged with everything from dr...



Six Federal Judges Nominated

May 3, 2003
By Claude Walbert

LOS ANGELES - President Bush on Thursday nominated five men and one woman to federal judgeships in Southern California. All fi...


Courtroom Doors Are Open

May 3, 2003
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - Sacramento Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Gunther used to clean poop out of cages. Now he helps jurors cut through...



Column By Garry Abrams - A federal judge Thursday torpedoed the Walt Disney Co.'s copyright termination bid in the Winnie the ...


Budget Ruling Imperils Lawyers' Paychecks

May 3, 2003
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court dropped a bombshell on the state's capital Thursday with a ruling that threatens...



Taming the Beast

May 2, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - You can't pretend that an 800-pound gorilla just isn't there. Whistling doesn't help, an...


Jurist Finds Dream Job on Bench

May 2, 2003
By Christina Landers

LOS ANGELES - In his more than 30 years in law, Richard H. Kirschner has prosecuted white-collar criminals, represented high-s...



Focus Column - Real Property - By Michael E. Di Geronimo - When a ground lessee does not need financing to construct its initi...


Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By June Lehrman - The California Supreme Court has held that monetary claims f...



Playing by the Rules?

May 2, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Gloria Allred - Should the law be changed to require that the plaintiff in a child sexual-abuse case be noti...


2nd District Reaffirms Candidate's Conviction

May 2, 2003
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - Richard Mayer wanted to run for South Gate City Council. His only problem was that he didn't live in South Gate....



Slave Labor Law to be Reviewed

May 2, 2003
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide the validity of a state law that allows World War II ...


'Midnight Judge' Never Gave Up Hope for Post

May 2, 2003
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - A memorial service will take place today at the Skirball Cultural Center for former Municipal Court Judge Robert...



Headwaters Trial Going to Eureka

May 2, 2003
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge presiding over the police brutality lawsuit brought by anti-logging protesters reaffirmed Wed...


Column By Garry Abrams - find yourself in the cross hairs of every hog-calling Congress member from Kissimmee to Klamath? ...



SAN FRANCISCO - Complaining that police routinely stonewall its investigations, San Francisco's police watchdog agency has ask...


Geragos Likely Will Represent Scott Peterson

May 2, 2003
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer Mark J. Geragos likely will take over the defense of Scott Peterson, the Mod...