Judge Faces Arraignment Following Latest Arrest
By Amy Bentley
VENTURA - Suspended Ventura County Superior Court Judge Robert Bradley was accused Wednesday of again violating his drunken-d...
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...
Expense Account
By Michael Ueda
In what is believed to be the first challenge of a Los Angeles landlord's attempt to pass certain building-improvement costs ...
Private Parts
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - Growing concern over a loss of personal privacy has fueled a lawmaking frenzy aimed at protecting consumers from...
Family Law Jurist Juggles His Time In Four Counties
By Marsha Dorgan
RED BLUFF - Peter Twede, a Tehama County Family Law Commissioner, is perplexed by parents who refuse to support their minor ch...
ABA Authority To Accredit Is Under Scrutiny
By Don De Benedictis
TORONTO - The American Bar Association could soon find itself whipsawed between the U.S. Departments of Justice and Education ...
Discipline Board: Jogging Judge Acted Improperly
By Jean Guccione
A Riverside County judge abandoned his judicial duties and undermined public confidence when he routinely left the bench duri...
This Hit Squad Has Judges Crying Foul
By Tori Richards
SANTA ANA - A special fast-track trial team recently created by the Orange County Superior Court presiding judge is a disaste...
Insider Trading Informant Given Probation
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A government informant who provided the key to 360,000 internal documents in the securities fraud and insider...
L.A. Supervisors Approve 4 Lawsuit Settlements
By Denise Levin
Three settlements stemming from lawsuits filed against Los Angeles County-run hospitals for botched medical procedures were u...
Jury to Decide if Pepper Spray was Reasonable
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge Monday ruled a jury should decide whether it was reasonable for Humboldt County sheriff's dep...
Bar Association to Prohibit 'Pay to Play' Donations
By Don De Benedictis
TORONTO - Taking its strongest stand yet against lawyers who make political contributions in hopes of winning work from politi...
For Grandparents Custody Can be an Elusive Quest
By Cheryl Romo
In a 1980s movie called "The Windwalker," a Native American family spends a lifetime looking for a child who was stolen as an...
Kaiser Slashes Favored Law Firms to Four
By Vivien Lou Chen
SAN FRANCISCO- Reeling from what is anticipated to be a second consecutive year of losses, the Kaiser Permanente Group - the ...
Acting SG to Join O'Melveny & Myers
By From Staff Reports
DELLINGER LANDS IN L.A. - Building its appellate practice, Los Angeles' O'Melveny & Myers has recruited Walter Dellinger, ...
IOLTA Community Ponders the Future
By Daniel Shaw
TORONTO - Among IOLTA advocates and state bar officials who have gathered here at the American Bar Association's annual meeti...
Judges Back Kline Against Discipline Board
By Philip Carizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - In a highly unusual move, the California Judges Association has joined in support of Court of Appeal Justice ...
Starr Salutes Rehnquist Court
By Kenneth Rutman
TORONTO - The nearest thing in Toronto to a media feeding frenzy greeted Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr at a breakfast mee...
Race for Orange County Judicial Post Heats Up
By Tori Richards
SANTA ANA - Usually, the election of an Orange County assistant presiding judge is a drab affair, with the Superior Court iss...
Enforcing, Defending - or Both, Lawyers Thrive Under Prop. 65
By Dennis Pfaff
Defense lawyers representing companies in Proposition 65 lawsuits are fond of pointing the finger at plaintiffs and accusing ...
Soft Money, Hard Lessons the Focus at Annual Bar Meeting
By Don De Benedictis
TORONTO - Even as Congress is debating campaign-finance reform, the American Bar Association, meeting in Canada Monday, came o...
Vega Nominated as U.S. Attorney
By Marty Graham
SAN DIEGO - Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., has nominated Assistant U.S. Attorney Gregory Vega for appointment as the U.S. atto...
Bar Admission In, Governor Who Appointed is Out
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - Ending years of debate on how to provide voters more information about appellate justices, Secretary of State Bi...
Supreme Court Hands Insurers Major Victory
By Anna Marie Stolley
In a resounding victory for insurance companies and their lawyers, a divided California Supreme Court ruled Monday that an in...
Spending Plan Could Fully Finance Trial Courts
By Tom Dresslar
Healthy War Chest
By Tom Dresslar
Monica's Deal Furrows a Few Legal Eyebrows
By Martin Bergn
High Court Sets New Deadline for Malpractice
By Philip Carrizosa
Los Angeles Judge Rejects Unification
By Denise Levin
Orange County Approves Unification
By Tori Richards