DA Held Payments Too Long, Lawyer Contends
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles district attorney's office illegally made $1.7 million in interest on parents' child support pay...
Court Halts Cancellation of Edison Energy Contracts
By Chris Ford
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge Wednesday temporarily halted the threatened cancellation of contracts that empower Southern ...
Feinstein Plans To Vote Against Ashcroft for AG
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - Citing what she called John Ashcroft's "ultra-right wing" record and his treatment of federal court nominee Ronni...
Chicago Firm Expands Los Angeles Office
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - Chicago's Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal will be adding four attorneys to its Los Angeles office Feb. 1. Part...
School Board Revisits Belmont Center Vote
By Jill Boekenoogen
LOS ANGELES - In the end, the vote was the same. But the real effects of the conflict between county prosecutors and the Los A...
9th Upholds Injunction Against HUD Evictions
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - In a sharp rebuke of the federal government's zero tolerance drug policy for pubic housing residents, the 9th ...
High Court to Review Crucial Jailhouse Taping
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to review two murder convictions of an Alameda County woman whos...
Trial Starts for Continental, Maker Of Paralyzed Woman's Car Tires
By Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - Manufacturing and design defects caused a 1996 tire-tread separation accident that left a young woman paralyzed ...
Magical Mystery Tour May Flush Sick-Leave Saga
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - It's too bad Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patrick Murphy can't give guided tours of the inside of his head. ...
After 20 Years, Sexual Orientation Can Still Make a Difference on the Bench
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - When family law attorney Mary C. Morgan was appointed to the San Francisco bench in 1981, she became the natio...
Defense Took Chance With Its Strategy for Furrow Plea
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Last August, a year after white supremacist Buford O. Furrow Jr. went on a shooting rampage that left a Filipino...
Court Makes Him Sick, Judge Says
By Anne La Jeunesse
RIVERSIDE - People who are terrified of snakes suffer from ophidiophobia. Those fearful of leaving their homes are agoraphobic...
Sound of Silence
By Sherri Salzman
By William D. Wick There was nothing unusual about the sellers of contaminated property agreeing to clean it up and to indemn...
Active Process
By Columnist
Litigators encounter many mediators in the course of their practice - some good, some not so good. To increase the chances of ...
In Great Demand
By Melissa Onstad
BY MELISSA ONSTAD When it comes to ADR, retired U.S. District Judge Eugene F. Lynch has has seen a few seasons come and go. H...
Global vs. Local
By Columnist
BY RICHARD M. MOSK While the provisions specifically applicable to international arbitrations are codified in Code of Civil P...
Marketing Madness
By Columnist
By Sara Holtz It's the time of year when we make all sorts of promises to ourselves about how we will improve our lives. We'l...
Weingart Will Head Complaints Section
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Gregory Weingart has become chief of the complaints section of the U.S. attorney's office, U.S. Attorney Alejand...
Lockyer Installs New Board Officials
By Martin Kruming
SAN DIEGO - William Turley became president of Consumer Attorneys of San Diego during the Annual Awards & Installation Din...
Service Vendor Unexpectedly Closes S.F. Office
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - The local branch office of a Los Angeles-based attorney service vendor, Express Network Inc., unexpectedly clo...
In the Rough
By Leonard Novarro
By Leonard Novarro Luxury has its bounds. Between January 1990 and March 1994, the Sanwa Bank Ltd. loaned $94.5 million to Ja...
Distress Call
By Lisa Milller
Financial distress is a common plague hitting many new dot-com companies struggling for a piece of the high-stakes technology...
Brazilian Authorities Fail to Address Police Death Squads
By Columnist
In 1993, Elizabeth Cristina de Oliveira Maia witnessed and survived a military police massacre of street children in Rio de Ja...
Time Is of the Essence in a Court of Law
By Columnist
By Douglas G. Carnahan In all the continuing legal education materials I have seen, I don't think I've ever read anything abo...
4th District Will Hold Hearings at Chapman
By Jill Boekenoogen
LOS ANGELES - Chapman University School of Law will host the hearings of the 4th District Court of Appeal today. It is the fir...
In the Dark
By Columnist
Government and energy-industry officials scrambling for a solution to California's energy debacle have been struck by the same...
Council Rejects Bid to Fill Goldberg Vacancy
By Chris Ford
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday turned aside an attempt to fill promptly a vacancy of one of the 15 coun...
Ruling in Drug Case Troubles Therapists
By Dawn Piimanu
LOS ANGELES - An appellate court decision Tuesday that allows a trial court to review the patient files of a psychotherapist u...
Lockyer Argues for Directing Tobacco Funds to Health Care
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
SANTA ANA - Attorney General Bill Lockyer argued in Orange County Superior Court Tuesday that the county's tobacco settlement ...
Court Upholds Conviction of Woman Who Stole Painting
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a former UCLA employee was justly convicted of stealing a...