Judges Tout Jury Duty in Public Service Spots
By Anne La Jeunesse
They sat in the green room, mouthing the lines of their scripts, then surrendered to the makeup artist's brushes and sponges....
Justices Ruling Has Attorneys Reading Between the (K)lines
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - Has the state high court sent a message to the Commission on Judicial Performance about its judicial miscondu...
Barriers, Not Access, Could Result From Law
By Cheryl Romo
A bill that seeks to reform state confidentiality laws to allow limited public access to the juvenile court records of dead c...
Homeless Can Raise Necessity Defense
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a bid by Orange County prosecutors to wipe out a lower cou...
Disabled Win Upgrade of Emergency Call Boxes
By Denise Levin
Los Angeles County will spend about $11.5 million to upgrade the freeway emergency call box system under terms of a settlemen...
Retired Judge Goes on Offensive
By Michael Harris
The Los Angeles County grand jury that indicted a retired judge for allegedly covering up a prisoner's escape was not told by...
Ex-Judge Pleads With Panel for Second Chance
By Jean Guccione
SAN FRANCISCO - A now-retired Ventura County judge struggling with alcoholism told a disciplinary panel Wednesday he has been...
Garcetti Seeks Additional $7M to Increase Staff
By Lauren Blau
In his annual request to augment his budget, Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti asked county supervisors Wedne...
Suits Over Reuse of Needles Appear to Be Resolved
By Denise Levin
It was just weeks before final exams at Loyola Law School two years ago when a group of students became stressed out over ano...
Supreme Court Orders Bar to Pay Special Masters $107K Tab
By Don De Benedictis
The State Bar must pay $107,141 to its special master, Elwood Lui, for his first five months on the job, the Supreme Court or...
Leader of Legal Aid Foundation Welcomes Planned LSC Audit
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - The U.S. General Accounting Office, responding to a request from powerful congressional opponents of the Legal S...
Prosecutors Hire Isenberg to Hold On to Child Support Role
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - "Unusual times call for unusual measures," in the words of California District Attorneys Association executive d...
Encino Lawyer Stripped of His Profits From Body Language
By Anna Marie Stolley
In a battle to get his share of the profits from two exotic-dancer companies in which he invested, G. Bryan Brannan, an Encin...
Failing Bar Led Associate Down Trail of Deception
By Leslie Gordon
SAN FRANCISCO - The undoing of former Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati associate Steven Y. Lee can be traced primarily to...
Report Minimizes Charges Against Brown
By Jean Guccione
A Los Angeles judge did not act improperly when she displayed a fake marijuana plant in her courtroom, smoked cigarettes in c...
Cooper Tapped for Federal Bench
By Martin Bergn
Florence-Marie Cooper, a onetime legal secretary who became a widely respected Los Angeles Superior Court judge, has been nomi...
Garcetti Rejects Idea of Special Prosecutor in Police Misconduct
By Michael Harris
Publicly commenting on the proposal for the first time, Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti Tuesday flatly reje...
Stealth Belts Expected to Keep Defendants in Place
By Lauren Blau
The Los Angeles Sheriff's Department won authorization Tuesday to use, in courtrooms throughout the county, a new seat-restra...
Jeffer Mangels Switched Sides, Client Says
By Denise Levin
Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro allegedly breached its duties of confidentiality and loyalty to a corporate client when i...
L.A. Judge Refuses to Postpone Riverside Trial
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
A Los Angeles U.S. district judge denied a motion Tuesday to delay the case of Derek Hayward in light of a barrage of media a...
Bill Targeting Neary Decision Now Advances
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - A bill to curb litigants' ability to erase trial court judgments as part of settlements Tuesday passed the Assem...
SECs Top S.F. Lawyer To Join Morrison Firm
By Leslie Gordon
SAN FRANCISCO - The highest-ranking lawyer at the Securities and Exchange Commission in San Francisco, David B. Bayless, will...
Katzenberg-Disney Trial Takes Brief Intermission
By Garry Abrams
And on the 10th day the lawyers in Katzenberg v. Disney rested. But only for a while. The complex legal war between DreamWork...
Young Guns
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate on Tuesday began debating sweeping juvenile crime legislation that would encourage states to cra...
Former FBI Counsel Now Advises Employees
By Susan Mc Rae
SAN DIEGO - It took Gary M. Laturno longer than most - 17 years to be exact - to start a private practice, but he is making u...
Ford Accused Of Stalling -- to Tune of $3.1B
By Patricia Jocobus
SAN FRANCISCO - The first time Gary and Martha Morris' Ford Thunderbird conked out was Memorial Day 1991. The couple were cru...
Law to Restrict Client Privilege Is Put on Hold
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - A 14-year-old girl disappears from a small Southern California town. A young man suspected of kidnapping the gir...
Law to Lift Cap On Malpractice Claims Unveiled
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - In 1975, medical malpractice insurance rates jetted into the rarefied air of triple-digit inflation, causing reb...
Judge Refuses to Expand Online Broker Suit
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - In a potentially important legal victory for online brokerages, a Santa Clara County judge has denied a request by...
Man Gets 90 Days for Assisting Suicide
By Matthew Heller
VICTORVILLE - A man who claimed to have unwittingly assisted a suicide by handing a neighbor a loaded rifle was sentenced Mon...