Cheryl Miller

February 01, 2010 | The Recorder

Capital Accounts: The congresswoman's interest in Jerry Brown's current job may set off a scramble, but the Kamala Harris campaign says it will stay the course. Plus: Is tort reform DOA?

By Cheryl Miller

4 minute read

September 12, 2011 | The Recorder

The environmental lawyer didn't have a master plan, but seized opportunities and relishes standing out from her male colleagues.

By Cheryl Miller

4 minute read

January 24, 2007 | Law.com

The family of a Sacramento, Calif.-area woman who died after reportedly drinking almost two gallons of water in a radio station contest has hired personal injury powerhouse Roger Dreyer of Dreyer, Babich, Buccola & Callaham. Dreyer announced last week that he would file a wrongful death lawsuit against radio station KDND, which sponsored a contest in which contestants chugged bottles of water to see who could go the longest without urinating to win a Nintendo Wii game console.

By Cheryl Miller

2 minute read

January 25, 2011 | The Recorder

By Cheryl Miller

4 minute read

May 29, 2007 | The Recorder

A Shakespeare character advocated killing all the lawyers. Though a scholar of the Bard, this Sacramento County Superior Court judge isn't one to adopt extreme positions.

By Cheryl Miller

4 minute read

November 19, 2009 | Law.com

Wells Fargo & Co. will buy back an estimated $700 million in troubled auction-rate securities from California investors under terms of a settlement announced by Attorney General Jerry Brown on Wednesday. In a separate deal reached with the North American Securities Administrators Association, the San Francisco-based bank has agreed to repurchase nonliquid auction-rate securities totaling approximately $700 million from non-California residents.

By Cheryl Miller

3 minute read

July 08, 2009 | Law.com

California AG Jerry Brown on Monday sued a lawyer for allegedly bilking desperate homeowners with troubled mortgages out of thousands of dollars. Mitchell Roth charged at least 2,000 homeowners substantial fees in exchange for false promises that he would help them escape foreclosure and improve their credit, Brown wrote in a complaint. Also named in the suit: Paul Noe Jr., president of Nevada-based United First, a corporation that allegedly solicited homeowners facing foreclosure and referred them to Roth's firm.

By Cheryl Miller

4 minute read

March 08, 2007 | The Recorder

State judges are all supposed to draw the same salary, but some counties sweeten the pot with car allowances, cash payments and other perks. Chief Justice Ronald George wants that to change, though not in the way you might expect.

By Cheryl Miller

11 minute read

July 15, 2009 | Law.com

Two trial courts will close most of their courtrooms and furlough staff Wednesday, offering California a glimpse of the once-a-month closures expected to affect courtrooms statewide later this summer. Leaders of the Los Angeles and Mendocino, Calif., superior courts decided they could no longer wait for a coordinated, statewide closure plan to emerge from the mire of legislative budget negotiations. Instead, they'll shutter hundreds of courtrooms, keeping a relative few open to handle emergency business.

By Cheryl Miller

4 minute read

July 07, 2009 | The Recorder

Jerry Brown's office is going after a Southern California attorney who has already resigned from the Bar and has been accused of bilking homeowners desperate to keep their houses.

By Cheryl Miller

3 minute read