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Ethics/Professional Responsibility


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...


International


Justices Decide A Pressing Issue

Apr. 23, 1999
By David Pike

WASHINGTON - Handing the federal government a limited victory, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that the federal...


Public Interest


Churches Join to Reach a Community

Apr. 23, 1999
By Stephanie Cahill

Like many other lawyers, Gary A. Farwell knows how tiresome it can be to have relatives and friends constantly asking for leg...


Technology & Science


SAN FRANCISCO - A world-renowned DNA scientist who is the pivotal witness for the University of California in its patent infr...


Large Firms


Proskauer Adds L.A. Labor Lawyer, Group

Apr. 23, 1999
By Pearl Piatt

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

Apr. 23, 1999
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...


Criminal


Suspended Prosecutor Returned to Work

Apr. 23, 1999
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Assistant U.S. Attorney John Lyons, suspended from work since November, has returned to regular court duties ...


Criminal


Prosecutors said burglary and domestic violence defendant Sagi Mukatin was dissatisfied with the legal representation he rece...


Public Interest


Legal Aid Providers Struggle to Merge

Apr. 23, 1999
By Don De Benedictis

Come Jan. 1, four or five major providers of legal services to the poor in the San Francisco Bay area will lose their federal...


Government


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 & Mack has acquired McInnis Fitzgerald Rees & Sharkey, with 21 lawyers joining one of San Diego's old...


Large Firms


Edison Nabs Prominent Los Angeles Litigator

Apr. 22, 1999
By Pearl Piatt

Prominent litigator and rainmaker Barbara A. Reeves is leaving Los Angeles' Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker to join the...


Technology & Science


Due to the anonymous nature of Internet chat rooms, a Woodland Hills man could not have known for certain the age of the pers...


Government


Ship Owners Liable for Coast Guard Costs

Apr. 22, 1999
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - The federal government can charge ship owners for the costs of watching over the company's shoulders as worke...


Government


Hahns Office Happy About Proposed Budget

Apr. 22, 1999
By Lauren Blau

A proposed $4.2 billion budget for fiscal 1999-2000 for the city of Los Angeles released Tuesday includes funding for City At...


Criminal


Parents Guilty In Death of 5-Year-Old

Apr. 22, 1999
By Matthew Heller

VICTORVILLE - A jury has found a High Desert couple guilty of killing their 5-year-old son, but delivered mixed verdicts on p...


Government


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...


Personal Injury & Torts


Toy Company Sues Manufacturer Over Explosion

Apr. 22, 1999
By Denise Levin

A toy company whose plant caught fire in a fatal blast has sued a toy-cap manufacturer whose products are being blamed for th...


Criminal


Defense Loses Bid for Casablanca Mistrial

Apr. 22, 1999
By Martin Bergn

As the prosecution's key witness took the stand Tuesday in the Operation Casablanca money-laundering case, defense attorneys ...


Public Interest


Helping the Tired, the Hungry

Apr. 22, 1999
By Daniel Shaw

WASHINGTON - Congress in 1996 passed a far-reaching set of welfare and immigration laws that made life tougher for legal immi...


Judges and Judiciary


Judiciary Committee Draws Blanks

Apr. 22, 1999
By Daniel Shaw

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


In its first public action since a dramatic realignment, the state judicial discipline panel hastened to resolve the divisive...


Criminal


A judge granted a permanent injunction Monday against a man who told police last month that he fantasizes about killing Cardi...


Technology & Science


E*xasperating

Apr. 21, 1999
By Patricia Jocobus

SAN FRANCISCO - Few knew online trading would become an instant success when it hit the cyber-bazaar about three years ago. T...


Litigation


Storm-Related Bridge Collapse Spawns Suit

Apr. 21, 1999
By B. Scott Bortnick

SANTA MARIA - Five men driving on Highway 166 plunged into the raging Cuyama River in February 1998 after flood-swollen water...


Judges and Judiciary


The Los Angeles County Municipal Court judges have given Presiding Judge Veronica S. McBeth the nod to call for another vote ...


Family


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...


Civil Rights


Jury: Woman Was Illegally Strip-Searched

Apr. 21, 1999
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal jury awarded $755,000 in damages for civil rights violations and punitive damages to a transsexual ...


Government


County Counsel May Reap Budget Benefits

Apr. 21, 1999
By Lauren Blau

Recommendations to increase the number of staff attorneys in the county counsel's office would nearly double the number of po...


SAN FRANCISCO - Ruling in a bitter dispute between two lesbians, a state appeal court refused Monday to grant visitation righ...