Criminal
Riverside County OKs Plan For Conservatorship Cases
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Two years after a San Francisco lawyer's investigation sparked criticisms about the way Riverside public defender ...
LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge on Tuesday set aside involuntary-manslaughter convictions in a five-defendant murder case...
LOS ANGELES - Defense attorneys for accused bombing conspirator Sara Jane Olson will ask a judge next week for yet another del...
SAN BERNARDINO - A judge has blocked the attempt of a teen-age girl to hold a group-home operator vicariously liable for the a...
VENTURA - Stricken with mental illness, David A. Culp went from the life of a successful attorney to that of a virtual hermit ...
LOS ANGELES - Gilbert Murchinson was detained, searched and videotaped because security guards said he looked like a gang memb...
SAN JOSE - Ending speculation that they might seek a deal in the controversial case against a Russian programmer accused of ci...
SACRAMENTO - Millions of dollars for urine testing under Proposition 36, the treatment initiative for drug offenders, would be...
LOS ANGELES - For law-firm associates, 2001 has been the year of the nonraise. In its 2001 Associate Salary Survey, the Washin...
SAN FRANCISCO - A retired Air Force veteran's jackpot of $508,000 in annual California lotto payments turned into a tax nightm...
Many lawyers perceive California to be a hostile forum for an employer trying to protect its customer contacts and other trade...
Litigation
Court Reporter's Error Helps Overturn Conviction
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN FRANCISCO - A U.S. District judge was right to overturn the murder convictions of two San Bernardino men based on a findin...
The report of the California State Bar's task force on multidisciplinary practice has arrived with something less than a bang....
When trial approaches, one question that trial attorneys must consider relates to what evidence they would like to have admitt...
The right to work and support oneself and one's family: what could be more basic? Most of us take that right for granted, but ...
A court need not retain jurisdiction or provide for return jurisdiction when there is no indication that the defendants will e...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County prosecutors Monday asked the state Supreme Court to halt efforts by a Superior Court judge to...
SANTA ANA - A local campaign-finance reform activist asked the Orange County grand jury Monday to investigate two prosecutors ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Robert Carter Nawi was found guilty Monday of the first-degree murder of Virginia Lowery, the wife of one of h...
SACRAMENTO - A bill that would increase workers compensation benefits by nearly 15 percent over a five-year period cleared a k...
Discipline
ABA Panel Suggests High Court Should Run Discipline System
By Don De Benedictis
LOS ANGELES - A prestigious panel of the American Bar Association has recommended that California take its attorney discipline...
SAN FRANCISCO - A long-time San Francisco public defender has filed a claim against the city asserting that police officers vi...
SAN FRANCISCO - Malcolm Wittenberg, the lead patent attorney for Oakland's Crosby Heafey Roach & May, has agreed to plead ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Gang killings in Santa Ana and Fontana led to distinctly different decisions by the California Supreme Court o...
LOS ANGELES - Somewhere, Dionne Warwick and her friends must be smiling. A Santa Monica hearing examiner has plumbed the metap...
SACRAMENTO - A bill that would effectively overrule two recent family law decisions by the California Supreme Court and place ...
Law Practice
O'Melveny & Myers Captures 'C' Division Basketball Crown
By Brian Mc Carthy
LOS ANGELES - Thursday night's Landau Lawyers League "C" division final between O'Melveny & Myers and Quinn Emanuel figure...
LOS ANGELES - Although the Los Angeles public defender has complained to a state judicial watchdog agency about a Superior Cou...