Detective Says Toxicologist Looked 'Different'
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A university detective testified Friday that Kristin M. Rossum looked "dramatically different" from her photograph...
Campaign Violations Put Candidates on Road to Conflict
By Karen Coleman
MARTINEZ - The race for district attorney in Contra Costa County has revealed a hidden bug in the local campaign finance law. ...
Desert Storm Redux
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - The U.S. Congress has voted overwhelmingly to authorize President Bush to use military fo...
Pachulski Stang Handles Peregrine's Insolvency
By Toni Vranjes
In another high-profile bankruptcy handled by Pachulski, Stang, Ziehl, Young & Jones, financially beleaguered software com...
New Effort To Remove Van Voorhis
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Citing a continuing pattern of caustic remarks and arbitrary rulings, the Contra Costa County district attorne...
Take My Wife, Please, Says Man Who Thought He Was Wed
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - After three years of uncertainty, Jerry Litmon has finally learned that he is indeed a single man. His divorce...
Susceptibility To Persecution Merits Lesser Prison Term
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A Montana man who downloaded 1,300 pornographic images of young girls from the Internet is entitled to a 75 pe...
PG&E Legal Fees Questioned
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal watchdog agency wants to hold up millions of dollars in fees due to lawyers and consultants in the P...
S.F. Alleges Minority Business Scam
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Two Peninsula construction companies used a sham joint venture to circumvent city regulations giving minority-...
Commissioner Keeps Cool on Bench
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
INDIO - Commissioner Ronald G. Lorden doesn't like to embarrass attorneys. To avoid making an out-of-town lawyer look scatterb...
Panel Halts Judge's Sex-Misconduct Hearing
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
INDIO - The Commission on Judicial Performance called off a hearing in its sexual misconduct case against Riverside County Sup...
Busy Candidate Lacks Opponent
By Karen Coleman
OAKLAND - Even though her well-financed opponent bowed out of the race in April, Alameda County Superior Court judicial candid...
Who is entitled to attorney fees when statutes conflict with contracts? The answer may surprise some. Under a typical employme...
Buchalter Nemer Executive Leaves Post Early
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Buchalter, Nemer, Fields & Younger's board of directors has elected Rick Cohen to the post of president and ...
If Award Is Not Reduced, Philip Morris May File for Bankruptcy
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Focus Column - Litigation - By Howard N. Madris - On Oct. 4, a Los Angeles jury issued a $28 billion punitive damages verdict ...
Bad Joke, Bad Move
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - When Eugene Pelka, a veteran manager at Lockheed Martin, stepped to the microphone 21/2 years ago to roast a longti...
Grand Jury Indicts Aryan Gangbangers
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury has indicted 40 Aryan Brotherhood members and associates on federal racketeering charges, a...
Bond's Agency Can't Sue Former Agent
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Beverly Hills Sports Council cannot sue Barry Bonds' former agent and his lawyers for malicious prosecution, a ...
Enron Trader Pleads Guilty in State Crisis
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - "I was just trying to maximize the profit for Enron," said Enron's former chief energy trader in Portland, Ore...
City Council Hopeful Can't Use 'Peace Activist' Label on Ballot
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Santa Monica City Council candidate Jerry Rubin is fasting to protest war on Iraq. Rubin calls peace activism hi...
Seccession Would Jeopardize L.A.'s Business Environment
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Forum Column - By Richard Riordan - Los Angeles businesses are resilient. In the past decade, we have worked together to creat...
Family History Inspires Judge
By Anne La Jeunesse
FULLERTON - When the Aztec Skydivers parachute onto the campus of California State University, Fullerton, next month, they wil...
Enron Trader Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - As he pleaded guilty Thursday to manipulating California's wholesale electricity market at the height of last ...
Visas Are Denied in Elcomsoft Trial
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - The first criminal trial under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act could be in danger because two key Russian witn...
Giants vs. Angels Is Plenty Adversarial
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - With lawyers and their staffs trading wagers and boasts, scrambling for game tickets and wearing their basebal...
New State Laws Cause Employers More Problems
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Employment Column - By Mark A. Romeo - These are uncertain economic times. No business has been able to escape the pinch of th...
Doctor Describes Victim's Drug Levels
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - An expert on a powerful opiate found in the body of Kristin M. Rossum's husband said the drug's effect would have ...
Bail Hearing Parties Argue Press Access
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - Timothy Tronson, the former San Francisco school district manager charged in a conspiracy to steal $850,000 in...
Cancer Risk Minimized by Trial Judge in Prop. 65 Case
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A Sacramento judge has effectively overridden a state agency's determination that a commonly used chemical pos...
State Bar Investigators Shut Counsel's Offices
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - Police and California State Bar investigators closed the offices of attorney Hector Garcia after allegations tha...