Do-It-Yourself Law Franchises Vex Attorneys
By Mary Micheletti
Wilshire Boulevard in downtown Los Angeles may be the domain of expensive law firms catering to powerful clients, but farther...
Gang Injunction Trial Halted by Appellate Court
By Michael Harris
An appeal court for the first time has stayed a civil gang abatement trial - ordering prosecutors to show why it should not s...
Cops Killing Of HIV-Positive Man Is Under the Gun
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - Lonnie Wenger called San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies to his Fontana home Oct. 15 to turn himself in ...
Litton-Honeywell Retrial Gets Off to Rocky Start
By Martin Bergn
The high-stakes retrial of the damages phase in Litton Systems Inc.'s antitrust suit against Honeywell Inc. got off to a rock...
Home-Schoolers Challenge Monrovia's Curfew
By Denise Levin
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge Thursday took under submission arguments on the constitutionality of a daytime curfew ordi...
Two L.A. Judges Are Sanctioned by Discipline Board
By Jean Guccione
In a busy day for the state Commission on Judicial Performance, two Los Angeles judges were publicly admonished Thursday: one...
Appeal for Funds from L.A. Justices Raises $235,000
By Jean Guccione
While other appeal court justices have largely skipped campaigning, appellate jurists in Los Angeles have raised $235,000 from...
In Switch, L.A. Employees Get Full Juror Pay
By Denise Levin
While complaining for years about the difficulty of getting citizens to serve as jurors, the Los Angeles Superior Court had d...
Lawyers Will Seek to Restore Hefty Fees
By Martin Bergn
A bitter dispute over whether attorneys in a class-action settlement deserve what a judge described as an "eye-popping" rate ...
Defense Lawyers Will Not Extend Contract With L.A.
By Michael Harris
The head of the Indigent Criminal Defense Association withdrew her intention Wednesday to agree to a 30-day extension of the ...
Panel Finds Judge Failed to Give Proper Hearing
By Anna Marie Stolley
A state appeal panel has found that a Los Angeles judge failed to give a proper hearing before imposing hefty sanctions again...
Out of Service
By Claudia Rosenbaum
SAN FRANCISCO - Low-income residents of Alameda County in need of civil legal assistance hear only a tape-recorded message wh...
County Seeks to Shush the Cries of Dead Children
By Cheryl Romo
Attorneys for the county are attempting to seal court files and gag participants in two civil lawsuits involving three childr...
State Thwarted in Bid to Block Habeas Order
By David F. Pike
WASHINGTON - A Supreme Court justice has rejected California's emergency bid to block a federal judge's order barring applica...
Jury Problems Stall Ng Trial
By Tori Richards
Jury Problems Stall Ng Trial SANTA ANA - The trial of accused serial killer Charles Ng barely began its second day of testimon...
Morrison Partner Leaves For U.S. Attorney's Office
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Michael L. Zigler, a former federal prosecutor and a partner at Morrison & Foerster, has returned to the ...
Defense Will Attack Staging of Youth's Slaying
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - When 14-year-old Tristan Tyson Jensen's bones were discovered clogged in an underground sewer line of a quie...
Indigent Defenders Hope Pact Makes Them a Bit Less Indigent
By Michael Harris
Earlier this week, the Indigent Criminal Defense Association's contract with Los Angeles County was in danger of expiring by ...
Beeper Ban Unconstitutional, Court Decides
By Anna Marie Stolley
Citing the importance of pagers and beepers in modern-day communications, a state appeal panel has ruled that an injunction p...
Court Won't Prohibit Device To Download Music From Net
By James Evans
SAN JOSE - The Recording Industry Association of America has failed in its attempt to stop a San Jose electronics company fro...
Mass-Murder Trial of Ng Finally Has Begun
By Tori Richards
SANTA ANA - The day that many thought would never happen finally arrived Monday: Opening statements were delivered in the tri...
Judge Blasts Newspaper
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Daniel Creed, one of the targets of an unflattering expose by the San Jose...
Pillsbury Adds Three From Palo Alto's Wise & Shepard
By Leslie Gordon
SAN FRANCISCO - Pillsbury Madison & Sutro may be reversing its recent trend of defections. It has announced the acquisitio...
Van Damme Sees Action in L.A. Superior
By Denise Levin
A champion martial artist claimed in court Monday that action movie star Jean Claude Van Damme relied on him to script and ch...
Merrill Lynch Sues Firm for Bad Deal With McNall
By Denise Levin
The Los Angeles law firm of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips is being sued by Merrill Lynch & Co. for allegedly misleading t...
Father of Key Witness in Gang Trial Slain
By Martin Bergn
The father of a key witness in an ongoing Los Angeles gang murder trial was shot dead as he answered his door in San Jose Fri...
Bar Section Leaders Riled Over Delay in OK'ing Their Lobbyist
By Don De Benedictis
SAN FRANCISCO - Leaders of the State Bar sections are furious over the Board of Governors' refusal to allow the sections to i...
Give Judges Breathing Room, Discipline Mavens Are Told
By Jean Guccione
CHICAGO - With the controversial disciplinary inquiry of California Court of Appeal Justice J. Anthony Kline looming in the b...
Courts in L.A. Just Say No to Drug Evidence
By Michael Harris
Under a new court policy that is being phased in throughout Los Angeles County, narcotics evidence is no longer permitted to ...
Judge Is Cited by Panel for Pursuing Clerk
By Marty Graham
SAN DIEGO - The Commission on Judicial Performance on Monday publicly admonished San Diego Municipal Court Judge Harvey H. Hi...