L.A. Courts Told Real, Significant Change Needed
By Don De Benedictis
The Los Angeles Superior Court must develop a new way to govern itself to give its leaders greater power to deal with problem...
Late Treasure Hunter's 'Golden Award' Overturned
By Anne La Jeunesse
The Hawaii Supreme Court this week overturned a $22 billion judgment against the estate of deposed Philippines president Ferd...
Final Arguments Given in Medical Marijuana Trial
By Tori Richards
WESTMINSTER - Marvin Chavez, according to his lawyer, is a loving man who sought to end the misery of people with chronic pai...
10th Circuit Hears Debate On Sentencing Leniency
By Charles Ashby
DENVER - Lawyers here argued on Tuesday before an expanded panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals about whether pros...
Progress Reports Ordered for Children's Services
By Lauren Blau
In the wake of an audit criticizing the Children's Services Division of the Los Angeles County Counsel's office as the "dumpi...
Garcetti Spars With Supervisors Over Bureau
By Michael Harris
Appearing Tuesday before the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, District Attorney Gil Garcetti delivered his most force...
Losing Plaintiff Ordered to Pay $1.1M in Fees
By Michael Ueda
SANTA ANA - An Orange County Superior Court judge ordered a former University of California, Irvine doctor who unsuccessfully...
Inspector General Demands Retraction
By Lauren Blau
The feud between outgoing Inspector General Katherine Mader and the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners has escalated w...
Prosecutor: Mom Guilty in Drowning Death
By Mathew Heller
RIVERSIDE - Did Lora Sue Shipley cap a history of neglect by leaving her four children unattended in a truck that eventually ...
Attorney Denies She Ridiculed Pregnant Partner
By Denise Levin
Patricia L. Glaser, a partner at Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser & Weil, denied on the witness stand Tuesday tha...
All the Comforts of Home
By Anne La Jeunesse
The pay stinks - $5 a day. And mileage reimbursement? Less than two bits a mile - one way. Jurors have long been the Rodney D...
At Sentencing Commission, No One's Home
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - And then there were none. The seven-seat U.S. Sentencing Commission has long endured a vacancy or two, but when ...
Law Firm Lite
By Pearl Piatt
Lately, the kind of practice that's most coveted by law firms involves specialty work for which premium fees can be charged. ...
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Judge Won't Ban Controversial Wiretap Process
By Michael Harris
LOS ANGELES - In a much-anticipated ruling, a judge Thursday denied a bid by the Los Angeles County public defender's office t...
Jury Awards $7.5M to Injured Prep Football Star
By Anne La Jeunesse
A Los Angeles Superior Court jury has awarded $7.5 million in medical malpractice damages to a former Manhattan Beach high sc...
Securities Dealers Immune From Regulatory Suits
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals panel, expanding immunity already recognized in federal court, has ruled that the associati...
Lawyer's Bad Advice Proves Costly, Family Claims
By Anne La Jeunesse
A multimillion-dollar legal malpractice complaint filed on behalf of a teen-age boy and his family claims that a Van Nuys atto...
S.D.'s Miller Boyko Will Merge With D.C. Firm
By Marty Graham
SAN DIEGO - Miller, Boyko & Bell, a San Diego transaction and litigation boutique that traces its start to a prominent ro...
Hate-Crime Report Urges New Strategy
By Lauren Blau
A task force's report to the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners recommends sweeping changes in the way the police depa...
Discipline Dilemma
By Don De Benedictis
When the California Supreme Court holds its hearing this afternoon on the State Bar, it will be told repeatedly that it can d...
Gun Suit Draws To a Close, While New Cases Loom
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Closing out testimony in a trial that may foreshadow - or forestall - a barrage of litigation against the fir...
Court Decisions Imperil Law on Sex Predators
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - California's Department of Corrections already has released 118 inmates deemed mentally unstable and dangerous in...
Judge Terminates Partners Suit for Closing Outpost
By Denise Levin
Corporate finance lawyer Richard A. Shortz - who claimed he lost his job with Rogers & Wells when the New York firm pulle...
Ex-Judges Seek to Overturn Convictions
By Anne La Jeunesse
Convictions of racketeering and mail fraud against two former San Diego Superior Court judges and a Del Mar plaintiffs' attor...
Keeping a Political Bargain
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Holding to her end of a unique political swap, Judge Betty Binns Fletcher of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap...
Executive Says Microsoft 'Sabotaged' Apple Program
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - The antitrust trial of Microsoft Corp. turned testy and technical Wednesday, when a Microsoft lawyer challenged ...
Two S.D. Judicial Races Still Too Close to Call
By Marty Graham
SAN DIEGO - Two hard-fought races for judgeships remained unresolved Wednesday, as candidates in both races were less than 1 ...
Libel Suit Against Firm Survives Early Motions
By Denise Levin
A judge left intact Wednesday the bulk of a libel and slander lawsuit brought against Wayne S. Braveman, a law partner at Hel...
Ventura Prosecutor Claims Victory in Judicial Race
By Amy Bentley
VENTURA - The county's Chief Assistant District Attorney Kevin McGee claimed victory Tuesday as the county's 27th Superior Co...