Judges and Judiciary
'Gentleman' Judge Philip Cox Dies at 69 at His Virginia Home
By Tori Richards
SANTA ANA - Services are pending in Virginia for former Orange County Superior Court Presiding Judge Philip E. Cox. Cox died ...
Judges and Judiciary
Ontario Officials Lobby for New Courthouse
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
ONTARIO - Building new courthouses in San Bernardino, the High Desert and Rancho Cucamonga were among options presented to Sa...
SACRAMENTO - Daniel M. Kolkey, Gov. Pete Wilson's legal affairs secretary, has been confirmed as a justice on the 3rd Distric...
SAN FRANCISCO - Superior Court Judge William Cahill recused District Attorney Terence Hallinan and his entire office Monday fr...
In an extremely rare, if not unprecedented, occurrence in California's criminal courts, a convicted two-strike defendant has ...
Litigation
Lawyer Is Liable for Malpractice; Jury Splits on Harassment Claim
By Anna La Jeunesse
A Pasadena attorney who initially was accused of raping a client and mishandling a civil lawsuit against her company has been...
SAN DIEGO - It's 7 a.m. and Superior Court Judge Terry J. Knoepp has been in chambers for almost an hour, poring over court do...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court has ruled a convicted child molester may be barred from possessing "sexually stimulat...
Law Practice
Pillsburys Firing Of a Passionate Partner Is Upheld
By Anna Marie Stolley
As affairs between lawyers in the same office go, it wasn't the most chivalrous breakup. Besides calling his ex-lover a "gutt...
The city attorney's office should remain unified under an elected city attorney, but control over litigation should be shared...
Both the prosecutor and defense attorneys who tried the case of Keith Eric Cook, a 32-year-old mechanic convicted Friday of g...
Judges and Judiciary
Task Force Urges Regional Divisions for 9th Circuit
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - In its final report delivered to Congress Friday, a commission charged with studying the structure of the federa...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar Won't Use Outside Lobbyist In Next Year's Bid to Pass a Dues Bill
By Don De Benedictis
Still stinging from widespread criticism of its $900,000 lobbying contract two years ago, the State Bar Board of Governors has...
Dona Bracke, who recently was fired from her post as a Glendale Municipal Court traffic commissioner, says she was "sandbagge...
ANAHEIM - Now that Parham Williams Jr. has led Chapman University School of Law through the harrowing experience of gaining th...
With California's March 2000 primary election just 15 months off, Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti has begun...
Embroiled in a lawsuit with the developer of the home she was selling, attorney Lisa Hervatin did not suspect that the prospe...
Originally, Bank of America and real estate lawyer Ernest L. Messner Jr. were on the same side, as co-administrators of a tru...
Complaining the police department is not properly paying overtime, Los Angeles police officers have sued the city of Los Ange...
A state appeal panel has ruled that foster children who have reached 18 are not entitled to county aid to help them complete ...
Education
Publisher CEB Gets a Reprieve From University
By Anthony Aarons And Tom Orewyler
Berkeley-based Continuing Education of the Bar, the cash-strapped provider of legal education materials, will not be sold or ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The law firm of Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin has elected a record number of eight asso...
RIVERSIDE - Fontana resident Pedro Villegas has filed a lawsuit against the cities of Fontana and Long Beach, claiming that p...
Judges and Judiciary
Chief Justice Wants to Open Up the Process of Appointing Judges
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - Chief Justice Ronald M. George said Thursday that he wants to re-examine the procedures of the state Commissio...
The family of a 75-year-old Inglewood woman who died in her native Guyana during a December 1997 visit has filed a wrongful d...
For the past decade, juvenile court judges and attorneys have met with child welfare officials once a year at the state Judic...
Personal Injury & Torts
Redress for Attempted Robber Is Limited by State High Court
By Anna Marie Stolley
The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a would-be robber shot by a store employee and rendered paraplegic cannot sue...
In an effort to maintain public confidence in its work, the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners voted unanimously Thurs...
Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser, Weil & Shapiro attorneys walked victoriously from the courtroom Thursday where...
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