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...
Sniping Continues Over DA's Fund-Raising Letter
By Michael Harris
Late last month, the administration of Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti referred to the state attorney gener...
Bar Concentrates on Legal Services, Judicial Qualifications in Legislative Sessions
By Cindy Simmons
SEATTLE - The Washington State Bar Association is asking the Legislature for massive increases in funding for civil legal ser...
Washington State Chief Justice Says Courts Are Underfunded
By Cindy Simmons
SEATTLE - Washington's civil justice system is dangerously underfunded, Washington State Supreme Court Chief Justice Richard ...
San Francisco Prosecutor Under Fire For Poor Record of Homicide Unit
By Laura Impellizzeri
The only reason Cory Stephens, then 33, poor and struggling to stay in college, testified against two men who raped her on a ...
9th Circuit Excuses Late Filing In Case of Egregious Harassment
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A Sacramento postal worker was left suicidal, unable to work and so psychologically scarred from "egregious s...
New World Order Considered For the Child Support System
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - After years of tinkering with California's troubled child support collection system, frustrated legislators now ...
Jurors Award Plaintiff $4.5M Against Aetna
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - After an eight-hour deliberation over two days, a San Bernardino jury awarded a Redlands woman more than $4....
Supreme Court to Settle Circuit Split on Sanctions
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider whether attorneys who withdraw or are disqualified from a case may t...
County Counsel Seeks Recusal in Foster Mom Case
By Cheryl Romo
In what some were calling an unprecedented act Friday, the Los Angeles Office of County Counsel asked a Juvenile Court bench ...
Republicans Present Case Against Clinton
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - On a historic and fittingly dreary afternoon in the nation's capital, Republican congressmen acting as prosecuto...
Alleged Actions by 'Pistol Packin' Momma' May Nullify Verdict
By Patricia Jacobus
SAN FRANCISCO - Oakland jurors hid their pro-gun biases and one woman - described by fellow panelists as "Pistol Packin' Momm...
State Signals Change in Water Policy
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - The Gray Davis administration this week withdrew support for the agribusiness position in a major Central Val...
No Cuts Expected in County's 1999-2000 Budget
By Lauren Blau
Los Angeles County's top appointed official Thursday predicted that there will be status quo budgets in fiscal 1999-2000 for ...
Ryan Nakagawa, MTA Ethics Officer, Dies at 40
By Elizabeth Freudenthal
Ryan Jyun Nakagawa, chief ethics officer of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Agency, died Monday of complications ...
Dishing Up Thanks
By Susan Mc Rae
For California jurors, there may be no free lunch, but a Ventura County judge has managed to make the service a little more p...