Three separate judicial committees will study and discuss the issues that kept the Los Angeles County judges from giving thum...
VENTURA - Suspended Ventura County Superior Court Judge Robert Bradley started serving a six-month jail sentence Thursday aft...
Attorneys for the three-strikes defendant jolted with a 50,000 volt stun belt for interrupting a judge filed a class action m...
VENTURA - Those who say law has gone to the dogs have never met Violet and Edith - the Perry Masons of puppies. Violet and Ed...
SACRAMENTO - One lesson to come out of the Legislature's hearings recently on explosive allegations of official misconduct, b...
Litigation
Pellman's First Official Act is a New Conflict of Interest Policy
By Lauren Blau
In his first official act, Los Angeles County Counsel Lloyd W. Pellman has established a policy for his office regarding actu...
SAN DIEGO - When he heard that the San Diego Democratic Committee wanted to endorse him in his re-election bid, Superior Cour...
Real Estate/Development
Cities Win Ruling Allowing Bypass of Voter Approval
By Philip Carizosa
In a major financial boost for California cities, the state Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the ability of municipalities to...
Lloyd "Bill" Pellman, a 26-year veteran of the Los Angeles county counsel's office, has been appointed by the board of superv...
SAN FRANCISCO - A female employee cannot force her employer to use a promotional test that benefited women but severely damag...
SAN JOSE - Legislation to provide increased protection in cyberspace to intellectual property, the Digital Millennium Copyrig...
VENTURA - Suspended Ventura County Superior Court Judge Robert Bradley was accused Wednesday of again violating his drunken-d...
Public Interest
House Approves $250 Million Budget in Annual Legal Services Corporation Battle
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - The House of Representatives voted Tuesday not to cut the Legal Service Corporation's budget in half, as initial...
In what is believed to be the first challenge of a Los Angeles landlord's attempt to pass certain building-improvement costs ...
SACRAMENTO - Growing concern over a loss of personal privacy has fueled a lawmaking frenzy aimed at protecting consumers from...
RED BLUFF - Peter Twede, a Tehama County Family Law Commissioner, is perplexed by parents who refuse to support their minor ch...
TORONTO - The American Bar Association could soon find itself whipsawed between the U.S. Departments of Justice and Education ...
A Riverside County judge abandoned his judicial duties and undermined public confidence when he routinely left the bench duri...
SANTA ANA - A special fast-track trial team recently created by the Orange County Superior Court presiding judge is a disaste...
SAN FRANCISCO - A government informant who provided the key to 360,000 internal documents in the securities fraud and insider...
Three settlements stemming from lawsuits filed against Los Angeles County-run hospitals for botched medical procedures were u...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge Monday ruled a jury should decide whether it was reasonable for Humboldt County sheriff's dep...
TORONTO - Taking its strongest stand yet against lawyers who make political contributions in hopes of winning work from politi...
In a 1980s movie called "The Windwalker," a Native American family spends a lifetime looking for a child who was stolen as an...
SAN FRANCISCO- Reeling from what is anticipated to be a second consecutive year of losses, the Kaiser Permanente Group - the ...
DELLINGER LANDS IN L.A. - Building its appellate practice, Los Angeles' O'Melveny & Myers has recruited Walter Dellinger, ...
TORONTO - Among IOLTA advocates and state bar officials who have gathered here at the American Bar Association's annual meeti...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a highly unusual move, the California Judges Association has joined in support of Court of Appeal Justice ...
TORONTO - The nearest thing in Toronto to a media feeding frenzy greeted Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr at a breakfast mee...
SANTA ANA - Usually, the election of an Orange County assistant presiding judge is a drab affair, with the Superior Court iss...