Teen Says Legal Referral Service Led to Bad Advice
By Denise Levin
A teen-ager sued the advertising company doing business as 1-800-the-LAW2, claiming the attorney he was referred to caused hi...
'To Mend the Tears'
By Cheryl Romo
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor came to the Ambassador Auditorium in Pasadena Monday evening to offi...
Lawyer Charged Over Doctored Transcript
By Michael Harris
A week after a UCLA law school student pleaded no contest to doctoring his transcripts to land a job at Sheppard, Mullin, Ric...
Three-Strikes Law No Longer Sacred in GOP
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - "Three Strikes Law Threatened." That was the headline on a news release last week issued by Assemblyman Roy Ashbu...
Dewey Ballantine Nabs Four Paul Hastings Partners
By Pearl Piatt
Prominent real estate lawyer and rainmaker Paul R. Walker and three other lawyers have left Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Wa...
High Court Looks at Making Insurance Companies Pay Punitives
By Philip Carrizosa
SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court grappled Wednesday with the issue of whether an insurance company can ever be requi...
Beard Cost LAPD Officer Promotion, Suit States
By Lauren Blau
A Los Angeles police lieutenant who claims he has been passed over for promotion to captain because a skin condition prevente...
Hammer Heir Sues Former Attorney
By Denise Levin
The granddaughter of oil tycoon and arts patron Armand Hammer has sued her former attorney, Marshall B. Grossman, claiming th...
SEC Sues Broker Over 'Soft Dollars'
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Firing a legal warning "shot across the bow" of large brokerage houses, the Securities and Exchange Commissio...
Duck and Cover
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - At their Jan. 25 conference - the last in which they normally would grant review of cases to be argued this term...
$50M Award in Smoking Case Stuns Parties
By Patricia Jocobus
SAN FRANCISCO - An angry jury Wednesday socked tobacco giant Philip Morris with $50 million in punitive damages - the largest...
Judge Allows Poster Display Of Ho Chi Minh
By Martin Bergn
A shopkeeper in the Little Saigon neighborhood of Westminster who stirred bitter protests by displaying a poster of Ho Chi Mi...
Judges to Take to Airwaves, Pulpits To Shore Support
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - Trying to boost public trust and confidence in the judiciary, the state Judicial Council gave approval Tuesda...
In the Hands of the Jury
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - The case against President Clinton officially went to the "jury" Tuesday afternoon, as senators began deliberati...
Court Interpreters Bemoan Cutback in Hours
By Michael Harris
Interpreters assigned to the downtown Los Angeles Criminal Courts Building are criticizing new work guidelines they contend a...
Riverside OKs Added Spending to Bolster Staffing at Juvenile Halls
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Staffing problems in Riverside County's juvenile halls were addressed Tuesday as the county's Board of Supervisor...
Garcetti Gets Green Light to Fund Positions
By Lauren Blau
Following up on recommendations from an outside auditor on how to improve the district attorney's office, the Los Angeles Cou...
9th Circuit Rebuffs Challenge To Campaign Financing Law
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that minor political parties have no private right under existing campa...
Drummer Wrongly Blamed Him, Lawyer Claims
By Denise Levin
A music industry attorney has filed a malicious prosecution lawsuit against former Guns 'N Roses drummer Steven Adler, claimi...
A Crisis, Uncovered
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - Expanding the exposure of health maintenance organizations to lawsuits might improve health-care quality, as cla...
ABA Relinquishes Oversight Of Law School Accreditation
By Don De Benedictis
The American Bar Association's policymaking body Monday adopted minor changes to its lawyer-discipline punishment standards a...
Terminally Ill Smoker Wins $1.5M Verdict
By Patricia Jocobus
SAN FRANCISCO - In a surprise verdict, a San Francisco jury Tuesday awarded $1.5 million in damages to a terminally ill smoke...
Abramson Is Exonerated By The State Bar
By Martin Bergn
The State Bar has closed its investigation of prominent criminal defense attorney Leslie Abramson, deciding there was insuffi...
Case Closed
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - The impeachment trial of President Clinton drew one big step closer to a conclusion Monday, when House prosecuto...
Grand Jury Hears Testimony on Shooting Death
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Riverside County law enforcement officials have subpoenaed several witnesses in the December shooting death of a ...
Controversy Over Witness Ends With Settlement
By Denise Levin
A settlement in a personal injury case has ended the need for a hearing to decide if defense counsel, whose expert witness al...
Jury Sides With Ex-LAPD Recruits
By Lauren Blau
A jury has awarded more than $2 million to two men in their 60s who were kicked out of the Los Angeles police academy for all...
Campaign Contributions to Judges Examined
By Jean Guccione
After condemning the exchange of campaign contributions for government-provided legal work, the American Bar Association now ...
Leading By Example
By Don De Benedictis
The woman who is likely to become president of the American Bar Association in 18 months on Monday lined up with many of her c...
Lets Kill All the Independent Counsel, the ABA Now Says
By Don De Benedictis
The policymaking body of the American Bar Association overwhelmingly went on record Monday in favor of killing off the federa...