Federal prosecutors Wednesday filed insurance fraud charges against a Santa Monica attorney who has represented former Beach ...
WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., on Wednesday recommended San Francisco attorney William Alsup for nomination ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco office of a Seattle law firm with close ties to Microsoft Corp. has lured a Bay Area intell...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Lawyer Never Showed Up, Plaintiff Says in Claim
By Anna La Jeunesse
A Lancaster woman has filed a fraud and negligence complaint against her former attorney, claiming that although he maintaine...
Judges and Judiciary
State High Court to Hear Case Involving Judges' Authority
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether a pair of Los Angeles judges exceeded their a...
SAN FRANCISCO - Intense speculation and jangled nerves pervaded Napa County's tightly knit legal community Wednesday, one day...
SAN FRANCISCO - A sweeping federal court agreement setting timetables for cleaning up one-third of the dirtiest rivers, creek...
In a prosecution that is seen as a harbinger of sophisticated new ways the Internet can be used to commit crimes, a North Hol...
The Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles has come a long way since the 1950s, when the entire membership - some 30 la...
A federal judge has slapped a businessman with a $700,000 fine for attempting to bribe an Orange County attorney who was acti...
VENTURA - Nearly three years after a massive landslide smashed into the seaside community of La Conchita, residents have suff...
WASHINGTON - Before resuming their roles as impeachment juror/judges Tuesday, Republican and Democratic senators outlined the...
Concerned about how much money Los Angeles County is paying out for judgments, settlements and claims, the Los Angeles County...
A widowed school teacher claims her former attorney defrauded her by taking her case against a real estate firm even though h...
Reacting to recent violence, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to ask the Superior Court to impose in...
SANTA ANA - The trial of accused serial murder Charles Ng took another surprising turn Tuesday when defense lawyers abandoned...
County supervisors approved four lawsuit settlements Tuesday totaling $910,000, including a $300,000 proposal to resolve a ca...
Discipline
Effort to Streamline the Bar's Discipline System Under Way
By Don De Benedictis
In what could be the first sign of impending change to the State Bar's discipline system, the special master in charge of rev...
Constitutional Law
President's Defenders Unveil a Case of a 'Rush to Judgment'
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - White House counsel Charles F.C. Ruff began the president's defense against articles of impeachment Tuesday with...
RIVERSIDE - Lee Perry Farmer's attorney, representing the former death row inmate in his third trial since he was charged wit...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined, 8-1, to consider a challenge to California's three-strikes law by a homel...
The case of People v. Gaxiola et al. , will long be remembered in Los Angeles County criminal law circles as the one that fir...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Los Angeles Funds Effort to Evict Drug Dealers
By Lauren Blau
Los Angeles City Attorney James K. Hahn will be able to fully enforce a new state law that allows his office to evict drug de...
Late last month, the administration of Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti referred to the state attorney gener...
Government
Bar Concentrates on Legal Services, Judicial Qualifications in Legislative Sessions
By Cindy Simmons
SEATTLE - The Washington State Bar Association is asking the Legislature for massive increases in funding for civil legal ser...
Judges and Judiciary
Washington State Chief Justice Says Courts Are Underfunded
By Cindy Simmons
SEATTLE - Washington's civil justice system is dangerously underfunded, Washington State Supreme Court Chief Justice Richard ...
Criminal
San Francisco Prosecutor Under Fire For Poor Record of Homicide Unit
By Laura Impellizzeri
The only reason Cory Stephens, then 33, poor and struggling to stay in college, testified against two men who raped her on a ...
Civil Rights
9th Circuit Excuses Late Filing In Case of Egregious Harassment
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A Sacramento postal worker was left suicidal, unable to work and so psychologically scarred from "egregious s...
SACRAMENTO - After years of tinkering with California's troubled child support collection system, frustrated legislators now ...
Personal Injury & Torts
Jurors Award Plaintiff $4.5M Against Aetna
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - After an eight-hour deliberation over two days, a San Bernardino jury awarded a Redlands woman more than $4....
