Ethics/Professional Responsibility
$18M Verdict in Air Crash Leads to Malpractice Suit
By Denise Levin
A Texas-based law firm has been sued for legal malpractice over the loss of a jury trial that resulted in an $18 million verd...
WASHINGTON - Handing the federal government a limited victory, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that the federal...
Like many other lawyers, Gary A. Farwell knows how tiresome it can be to have relatives and friends constantly asking for leg...
Technology & Science
On Stand, Scientist Admits to Secretly Cloning Growth Hormone
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A world-renowned DNA scientist who is the pivotal witness for the University of California in its patent infr...
New York's Proskauer Rose has recruited labor and employment lawyer Arthur F. Silbergeld for its Los Angeles office along wit...
Litigation
Suit Alleges Riverside Police Used Excessive Force
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - When Otha Lee Tucker was pulled over by Riverside police last year on suspicion of carjacking, officers allege th...
SAN FRANCISCO - Assistant U.S. Attorney John Lyons, suspended from work since November, has returned to regular court duties ...
Criminal
Client Who Assaulted Lawyer Is Sentenced to 35 Years to Life
By Michael Harris
Prosecutors said burglary and domestic violence defendant Sagi Mukatin was dissatisfied with the legal representation he rece...
Come Jan. 1, four or five major providers of legal services to the poor in the San Francisco Bay area will lose their federal...
DENVER - Lawsuits could proliferate as a result of Tuesday's fatal shootings at Columbine High School, and the nation's lates...
Large Firms
Higgs Fletcher Expands to 60 Lawyers After Firm Acquisition
By Martin Kruming
Higgs, Fletcher & Mack has acquired McInnis Fitzgerald Rees & Sharkey, with 21 lawyers joining one of San Diego's old...
Prominent litigator and rainmaker Barbara A. Reeves is leaving Los Angeles' Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker to join the...
Technology & Science
Defense Challenges Claims of Internet Chat Intent
By Michael Harris
Due to the anonymous nature of Internet chat rooms, a Woodland Hills man could not have known for certain the age of the pers...
SAN FRANCISCO - The federal government can charge ship owners for the costs of watching over the company's shoulders as worke...
A proposed $4.2 billion budget for fiscal 1999-2000 for the city of Los Angeles released Tuesday includes funding for City At...
VICTORVILLE - A jury has found a High Desert couple guilty of killing their 5-year-old son, but delivered mixed verdicts on p...
Government
Support Expected for Amended State Bar Dues Bill, Sources Say
By Don De Benedictis
State Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Pasadena, will amend his bill on the State Bar this week to give the bar the dues amount it wants a...
A toy company whose plant caught fire in a fatal blast has sued a toy-cap manufacturer whose products are being blamed for th...
As the prosecution's key witness took the stand Tuesday in the Operation Casablanca money-laundering case, defense attorneys ...
WASHINGTON - Congress in 1996 passed a far-reaching set of welfare and immigration laws that made life tougher for legal immi...
WASHINGTON - It's late April. Do you know where your judges are? That is what Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are...
Judges and Judiciary
Discipline Panel Moves to Make Quick Decision on Kline Matter
By Jean Guccione
In its first public action since a dramatic realignment, the state judicial discipline panel hastened to resolve the divisive...
A judge granted a permanent injunction Monday against a man who told police last month that he fantasizes about killing Cardi...
SAN FRANCISCO - Few knew online trading would become an instant success when it hit the cyber-bazaar about three years ago. T...
SANTA MARIA - Five men driving on Highway 166 plunged into the raging Cuyama River in February 1998 after flood-swollen water...
Judges and Judiciary
Municipal Judges Call for Another Unification Vote
By Denise Levin
The Los Angeles County Municipal Court judges have given Presiding Judge Veronica S. McBeth the nod to call for another vote ...
In another example of a cure that's sometimes worse than the disease, a girl named Carla, who was placed in foster care in Lo...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal jury awarded $755,000 in damages for civil rights violations and punitive damages to a transsexual ...
Recommendations to increase the number of staff attorneys in the county counsel's office would nearly double the number of po...
Family
Appeal Court Denies Lesbians Bid for Visitation Rights to Nonbiological Kids
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - Ruling in a bitter dispute between two lesbians, a state appeal court refused Monday to grant visitation righ...