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Government
OConnell Surprises, Now Will Face Ervin in General Election
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - After a campaign with minimal advertising and not even a candidate's statement in the voter information pamphlet, ...
Services will be held today for retired lawyer William Elliott Viney. The business and tax specialist, who maintained his prac...
SAN FRANCISCO - State judicial disciplinary authorities heard a request Wednesday to remove a Placer County judge from the ben...
Judges and Judiciary
Former DA Capizzi Defeated in Contest for Bench
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - In the most hotly contested judicial race in Orange County, former District Attorney Mike Capizzi lost his bid for...
A former Cedars Sinai nurse claims medical-center personnel forced her - kicking and screaming - to submit to a blood test, th...
Criminal
Cooley Forces Garcetti Into Runoff By Capturing 5,652 More Votes
By Michael Harris
Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti, criticized for his alleged failure to uncover the Rampart police corruption...
Judges and Judiciary
Seven Elected to Judicial Posts, Two Still Open
By Anne La Jeunesse
Clear winners in seven of nine Los Angeles County judicial elections emerged from Tuesday's primary, leaving an incumbent judg...
SAN BERNARDINO - Though several county officials have been convicted of crimes in the past few years, much more corruption goe...
As we anxiously await the results of the Rampart investigation, I can't emphasize enough my disgust for the atrocious crimes p...
SANTA ANA - John Franklyn Watkins, one of two Glendora lawyers accused of aiding a massive charity scam, encouraged the creati...
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Tuesday approved the payment of $475,000 to settle a sexual harassment case brough...
Six Los Angeles Superior Court judges have been selected to preside exclusively over the complex litigation courts that are sl...
Solo and Small Firms
Partner Jeffrey Sloan Leaves Landels for Sheppard Mullin
By Meredith Alexander
SAN FRANCISCO - The midsized San Francisco firm of Landels Ripley & Diamond is losing a partner and two associates to the ...
Managing the relationship with one's own client is at least as important as managing the relationship with the other side. ...
The two candidates trying to wrest the Los Angeles County district attorney's job from Gil Garcetti said they are eagerly anti...
SAN FRANCISCO - Before a packed gallery, the California Supreme Court struggled mightily during oral arguments Tuesday over th...
The Los Angeles Police Commission Tuesday informed city officials that its investigation of Police Department practices that l...
LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis appointed two veteran civil litigators to the Orange County Superior Court Tuesday. The new appo...
Saying such action could help prevent future Rampart-like police corruption scandals, Los Angeles County Public Defender Mike ...
Rafael A. Perez, the former cop who sparked the Rampart corruption scandal, Tuesday was called as a defense witness in a drug ...
A trial lawyer who cannot work 16- to 20-hour days because of health problems is entitled to full disability benefits, a feder...
WASHINGTON - Despite last-ditch efforts of conservative Republicans to derail confirmation, the long-delayed nominations of Lo...
A legal team from Los Angeles-based Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser, Weil & Shapiro has completed a $4.4 billion...
Cops-and-robbers shows on television usually have plots dealing with murder, rape, robbery, drugs, spousal or child abuse, and...
WASHINGTON - After many years and little success, judicial reformers who once firmly opposed the election of state judges are ...
WASHINGTON-In a decision with implications for states' rights and international treaties, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimo...
By Jerome P. Wallingford Californians should reject the Pete Wilson prison legacy embodied in Proposition 21 and chart a posit...
SAN DIEGO - A Civil Service Commission hearing for fired district attorney's investigator Eddie Cervantes ended Monday with th...
Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti, who has run an extremely low-key, barely visible campaign for a third term ...