VENTURA - In a recent listing of Ventura County's top "Movers and Shakers," a local newspaper pictured Hells Angels Chapter P...
A former intern at UCLA's Department of Family Medicine has failed to produce sufficient evidence that he was booted from the...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Court Opens Door to Use of Pot by Very Ill
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court opened the door Monday to legal distribution of medical marijuana for terminally ill ...
SACRAMENTO - Here are summaries of the key elements of legislative proposals to partly restore the right of third parties to ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Bars -- Plaintiffs And State -- See Capitol Victories
By Tom Dresslar And Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - The 1999 legislative session saw the plaintiffs' bar get some tort-reform payback, the State Bar get a facelift ...
DA's Office Gets A $260K Grant The state Office of Criminal Justice Planning has awarded the Los Angeles County district atto...
Solo and Small Firms
NEW FACULTY AND NEW BUILDING SPARKS CHAPMAN Five new professors have joined the Chapman University law school community. The ...
By Gerald F. Uelmen Dissent and disagreement rates are both useful tools in analyzing the movement of judges around the fault...
^^Construction Law^^ By Bernard S. Kamine Proving damages for breach of a construction contract is often difficult. The theor...
Man Admits Use of Dog in Hate Crime A Sun Valley man pleaded guilty Friday to two misdemeanor federal hate crimes for using h...
ABA Will Honor Retired S.D. Judge Retired San Diego Superior Court Judge J. William Beard will receive an award from the Amer...
^^Appellate Procedure^^ Consent Consensus Supreme Court Allows Appeal of Stipulated Judgments Norgart provides a welcome addi...
Corporate
Brobeck Phleger CISCO SYSTEMS TAKES BIG EQUITY STAKE IN KPMG San Jose-based Cisco Systems invested $1 billion in New York acc...
Cyberspace Law Blame It on 'Rio' Uncertainty surrounding the downloading of digital music could spawn a deluge of litigation....
Staying current Creating a universal repository of documents and critical resources and keeping them up to date is the goal o...
Large Firms
Firm Watch: Report of a Cover-Up Denied by Leaders -- Best Workplace for Women, Says Magazine -- Real Estate Lawyer Opts for Smaller Outfit -- General Counsel Receives a Promotion -- Two CA Lawyers Promoted to Partnership -- Seven Associates Hired in....
By Pearl Piatt, Leslie Gordon & J. Byrd
The achievement of justice is an endless process. John F. Kennedy Graham & James REPORT OF A COVER-UP DENIED BY LEADERS T...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti, former Los Angeles Police Chief Willie Williams and several m...
SANTA ANA - When U.S. District Court Judge Gary L. Taylor ruled last month that a former employee of Dain Rauscher Inc. did n...
Criminal
Last-Minute Dealing Resurrects Asset Seizure Legislation Given Up For Dead
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - When the 1999 legislative session drew to a close, rookie Democratic Assemblyman Herb Wesson of inner city Los A...
A judge has certified a class-action lawsuit filed by former transit agency officers who claim the Los Angeles County sheriff...
By James A. Leach Recent allegations that American and European banks have facilitated money laundering for Russian organized...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in San Jose has rejected a bid by a New York law firm to oust plaintiffs' class action attorn...
Norman T. Wegener, 42, chief deputy of the Santa Monica city attorney's criminal division, abruptly resigned his post Tuesday...
SAN FRANCISCO - It's no secret that the number of lawyers who hate their jobs is growing. Some attorneys leave the law to bec...
SACRAMENTO - If Gail Marie Harrington-Wisley were trying last Mother's Day to smuggle contraband into the prison where her hu...
Since its inception in 1978, the U.S. Trustee's Office has toiled in relative obscurity. That's just fine with Maureen A. Tig...
SAN FRANCISCO - The replacement of one judge on a divided three-judge federal appeals panel resurrected Thursday the warrantl...
It's been a long, steep road for Billy Carl Turner since he was convicted in 1982 of setting a sleeping man afire and killing...
Media
Hanging Ten Prompts Dr. Laura To Sue for Slander, $2 Million
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - Nationally syndicated radio talk show host Dr. Laura Schlessinger has filed a lawsuit against the owner of an Ora...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Justices Hear Challenge to Arbitration Pacts
By David Kravetz
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court heard lively oral arguments Thursday in a case that could undermine many mandato...