A memorial service will be held Wednesday for John Bayne, a special-education rights advocate and legal malpractice defense l...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Judith C. Chirlin Receives National Award at CJA Meeting
By From Staff Reports
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Judith C. Chirlin has received the 1999 Distinguished Service Award of the National Center f...
Personal Injury & Torts
Parents of School Shooters Attempt to Oust Attorney
By Charles Ashby
DENVER - A Michigan attorney representing the family of a Columbine shooting victim should not be allowed to sue in Colorado ...
SAN JOSE - The contentious battle for the top prosecutor's job in Santa Cruz County is taking shape. Former acting district a...
Criminal
Second Lawyer Accused of Theft From Food Banks to Surrender
By Daniel Jennings
SAN BERNARDINO - An attorney charged with criminal conspiracy and a host of other crimes in what one official has termed one ...
The political chaos that set Stuart Hanlon's course as a young radical lawyer is back on his docket. In 1974 Hanlon was a thi...
By Chris Ford There was a time not long ago when the Internet was viewed as a latter-day Wild West. There were no rules and u...
By Leslie A. Gordon Bed sores, falls and broken bones are nightmares for anyone. But they're a particular burden for lawyers ...
Solo and Small Firms
MEDIATION KEEPS HOMEOWNER SWINGING In a matter that gives new meaning to three-strikes offenses, an attorney recently mediate...
Money Matters Reversing the Tide of Bankruptcy Filings Requires Community Outreach By Maureen A. Tighe The upsurge in nationw...
By Jennifer Byrd The year was 1984, but San Francisco lawyer Eva Jefferson Paterson felt like it was still the 1950s. Paterso...
Outside California, E-filing is Closer to Reality By Chris Ford While California courts talk about electronic filing, other j...
Investments
Pillsbury Madison XEROX MAKES COLORFUL COPY A NEW ACQUISITION Xerox's document division closed its biggest deal in nearly 20 ...
By Mark Radcliffe and Maureen Dorney In early November in Los Angeles, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number...
BAKERSFIELD - A Bakersfield man set free after 15 years in prison by a judge who ruled prosecutors failed to turn over key ev...
Labeling as "reckless and dangerous" the Los Angeles district attorney's policy of conducting background checks on its prosec...
REDLANDS - The Lockheed Martin Corp. 's agreement to pay the city here $3.7 million for the cost of cleaning up contaminated ...
By Don Thornburgh and Jill Westmoreland In the world of telecommunications, "convergence" is not just another technology catc...
Personal Injury & Torts
HMO Reform Not Likely to Result in Litigation Landslide
By Denise Levin
Legislation passed in a surprising vote by the U.S. House of Representatives late last week giving patients a wide range of ri...
SACRAMENTO - The new millennium may start with a reprise of familiar ballot battles between the plaintiffs' bar and insurance...
Brushing aside objections that more of the work should have been done in house, the Los Angeles City Council has increased to...
SAN BERNARDINO - Two lawyers, a father and son, are accused of one of the most serious assaults ever mounted on the San Berna...
Large Firms
Firm Watch: Trusts and Estates Group Joins in L.A. -- Beverly Hills Boutique Snags Media Lawyer -- IP Practice Bolstered With Three New Faces -- Arter & Hadden Lawyer Named General Counsel -- Bankruptcy Lawyer Seeks Shelter from Windy City -- Former....
By Leslie Gordon, Jennifer Byrd & T. Scott
We rate the judge who is only a lawyer higher than the judge who is only a philosopher. Cuthbert W. Pound Katten Muchin TRUST...
As part of its investigation into the Los Angeles Police Department's Rampart Division corruption scandal, the district attor...
A wake will be held tonight for former Beverly Hills Municipal Court judge and attorney Charles D. Boags. Boags died Tuesday ...
SAN BERNARDINO - A 32-year-old mother of two was jailed after employees at the district attorney's child support division her...
Criminal
Suit Claims Counseling Center Coerced Clients
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - Eight former clients of a Costa Mesa counseling center under investigation by the district attorney's office have...
Even though it hired a prosecutor without knowing he had been found civilly liable for a stabbing death, the Los Angeles Coun...
A defense attorney who used a break in a deposition as an opportunity to jog through his opposing counsel's law firm snapping...