Clinton's Defense Ends With An Appeal for Proportionality
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - Bill Clinton's private attorney David Kendall and former Arkansas Sen. Dale Bumpers closed the president's impea...
At the Top of His Game
By Dick Goldberg
Everybody wants a piece of Frank Rothman. The National Football League is on Line 2; officials are asking for a progress repo...
Court Broadens Protection for Free Speech
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - Giving a broad reading to a state law designed to protect free speech rights, the California Supreme Court ru...
Dismissal of Assault Cases Brings Praise
By Michael Harris
Attorneys for a man cleared of a series of sexual assaults Thursday praised the Los Angeles County district attorney's office...
Nonviolent Mentally Ill People Get Chance to Avoid Jail Time
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - Kicking the habit through Drug Court helps many first-time offenders stay out of jail. In San Bernardino Cou...
Federal Approval Required for Plan to Elect Judges
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Handing a potentially final victory to Hispanic voters in Monterey County, the Supreme Court ruled, 8-1, Wednesd...
Wallin, 4th District Justice, to Join ADR Provider
By Tom Orewyler
Edward J. Wallin, an associate justice on the 4th District Court of Appeal in Santa Ana, will step down from the bench next m...
Lawyer Charged in Art-Theft Scheme
By Martin Bergn
Federal prosecutors Wednesday filed insurance fraud charges against a Santa Monica attorney who has represented former Beach ...
Morrison Partner Gets Nod for Federal Bench
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., on Wednesday recommended San Francisco attorney William Alsup for nomination ...
Seattle Firm Lures Litigator From Orrick
By Pamela Mc Clintock
SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco office of a Seattle law firm with close ties to Microsoft Corp. has lured a Bay Area intell...
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...
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...
Attack on Napa Prosecutors Investigated
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Intense speculation and jangled nerves pervaded Napa County's tightly knit legal community Wednesday, one day...
Timetables Set to Clean State's Dirtiest Waters
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A sweeping federal court agreement setting timetables for cleaning up one-third of the dirtiest rivers, creek...
First Trial for Cyberstalking In L.A. Ordered
By Michael Harris
In a prosecution that is seen as a harbinger of sophisticated new ways the Internet can be used to commit crimes, a North Hol...
Trying Times
By Denise Levin
The Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles has come a long way since the 1950s, when the entire membership - some 30 la...
Attempted Bribe of Attorney Costs Litigant $700,000
By Martin Bergn
A federal judge has slapped a businessman with a $700,000 fine for attempting to bribe an Orange County attorney who was acti...
Judge: Farm Not Responsible for Landslide
By Mathew Heller
VENTURA - Nearly three years after a massive landslide smashed into the seaside community of La Conchita, residents have suff...
It Is Business as Usual, Sort of, in Nation's Capital
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - Before resuming their roles as impeachment juror/judges Tuesday, Republican and Democratic senators outlined the...
Supervisors Approve New Risk Management Post
By Lauren Blau
Concerned about how much money Los Angeles County is paying out for judgments, settlements and claims, the Los Angeles County...
Legal Fees Got Her Nothing, Homeowner Claims
By Anne La Jeunesse
A widowed school teacher claims her former attorney defrauded her by taking her case against a real estate firm even though h...
Superior Court Asked to Beef Up Security
By Lauren Blau
Reacting to recent violence, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to ask the Superior Court to impose in...
Defense Keeps Ng Off the Stand
By Rebecca Kuzins
SANTA ANA - The trial of accused serial murder Charles Ng took another surprising turn Tuesday when defense lawyers abandoned...
County to Pay Nearly $1M to Resolve Suits
By Lauren Blau
County supervisors approved four lawsuit settlements Tuesday totaling $910,000, including a $300,000 proposal to resolve a ca...
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...
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...
Onetime Death Row Resident Wins Acquittal
By Mathew Heller
RIVERSIDE - Lee Perry Farmer's attorney, representing the former death row inmate in his third trial since he was charged wit...
Three-Strikes Law Left Intact By High Court
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined, 8-1, to consider a challenge to California's three-strikes law by a homel...
Defendants in Hand-Off Case Plead Guilty
By Michael Harris
The case of People v. Gaxiola et al. , will long be remembered in Los Angeles County criminal law circles as the one that fir...
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...