LOS ANGELES - Services will be conducted Friday for Robert C. Packard, a founder of Los Angeles aviation defense boutique Kirt...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles leaders locked horns Tuesday night over who is responsible for the Police Department's woes and what...
LOS ANGELES - Sheri A. Bluebond, a partner at Irell & Manella, will join the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central Distric...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for prominent entertainment and communications attorney Walter C. Schier. Schier died ...
Judges and Judiciary
Power Outage Hits Supreme, Appeal and Trial Courts
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - For the first time since the state's energy crisis began last summer, threats of rolling blackouts came true a...
VENTURA - The Ventura County Sheriff's Department agreed Wednesday to a court order barring jail officials from keeping detain...
Law Practice
Dog-Eat-Dog Economy Teaches Brobeck Phleger to Advertise or Die
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Advertise or die. Stripped to its Darwinian core, that's the motivation behind San Francisco firm Brobeck, Phleg...
WASHINGTON - Attorney General-nominee John Ashcroft, responding to intense grilling from Senate Democrats during his confirmat...
SAN FRANCISCO - You probably care very little, if at all, about the type of belt buckles international shoppers buy on the Int...
The justices on Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2001 announced the following actions:
SAN DIEGO - Next month, the American Bar Association will hold its annual midyear meeting in San Diego for the first time. Sch...
SAN BERNARDINO - The VIP Room at the Flesh Club in San Bernardino offered more than the usual adult-entertainment fare on seve...
The person must directly draft the documents, transcribe them or cause them to be transcribed; otherwise, the statute does not...
First, there were the jokes -- demeaning, incendiary. Then, the ridicule. "Idiot" was a mild term. Harassment -- that came wit...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court on Tuesday changed the dynamics of future drug trials by ruling that prosecutors canno...
Imagine being an abused or neglected child. The danger is so severe that county social workers remove you from your home and p...
LOS ANGELES - A judge Tuesday reduced bail for a former personal injury lawyer accused of bilking clients of more than $3.5 mi...
Patrick McNicholas remembers the first time he visited his father's law office. "All I saw was files and paper work. I said, '...
SAN JOSE - The lawyer for a Santa Clara County family court psychologist told a judge Tuesday that the $170,000 in attorneys f...
LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury has indicted a federal drug agent in Los Angeles on charges of taking bribes from private i...
The credibility counsel portrays in the courtroom is a tool that can affect success in front of a jury, as jurors focus on a n...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday denied review of a decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that plaintiffs...
Government
Assistant U.S. Attorney Puts His Own Stamp on Political Corruption Cases
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Back in the 1950s, when Earl K. Long governed Louisiana like a third-rate banana republic, Daniel J. O'Brien's f...
LOS ANGELES - Two teen-age boys whom the district attorney's office wants to call as witnesses in a special-circumstances murd...
SACRAMENTO - With Lyle's eyes focused unwaveringly on the rubber ball, Karen lobbed it 40 feet down the long hallway of her ho...
WASHINGTON - "Welcome to the pit," Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., told his friend and former colleague John Ashcroft Tuesday as A...
SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Attorney Robert Mueller tapped seven current staffers for promotion Tuesday in a reshuffling of the offic...
Government
A Different Brand of Brethren Prays for Ashcroft's Ascension
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - A simple note taped to Benjamin Lopez's office door greets him when he arrives for work each day: "The shortest ...
Among actions announced Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2001 by the justices were:
Any one who thinks that Hollywood actors, writers and directors are invariably flakes should spend some time with Jason Sloane...