A San Diego judge is accused in an ethics complaint of taping court proceedings as a courtroom TV tryout in which she made improper remarks and encouraged spectator participation.
A personal injury lawyer has sued the California law firm at which he formerly worked, contending that his pay was at first cut and then eliminated after he refused pressure…
It appears that attorney Granville Webster Burns simply didn’t see a fellow California lawyer when he drove into her as she was crossing a street on foot in Manhattan Beach.
Eight current and former officials of the Los Angeles suburb of Bell were arrested Tuesday on charges of misappropriating more than $5.5 million in public funds.
For the second time in less than two months, a dedicated career prosecutor in a central California district attorney’s office has died unexpectedly, leaving his remaining colleagues and the local…
As actress Lindsay Lohan herself reportedly admitted in a Twitter post over the weekend, she has failed a drug test while on probation in two drunken-driving cases.
An Idaho attorney is being held without bail in San Diego, Calif., where he also had an office, following a federal grand jury indictment last month on child-exploitation charges.
A Los Angeles judge has on his own motion released a former lawyer imprisoned 18 months for contempt for refusing to answer questions about his finances.
A little over six months ago, Samuel Shepherd was in the headlines as he left Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan to help establish a new San Francisco office for Greenberg…
A little over a year ago, two intellectual property partners left Foley & Lardner, where one had been managing partner of the Silicon Valley office, to form their own patent…
An arbitrator has ruled (PDF) that a former in-house lawyer for Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc. may use documents that otherwise would be protected by attorney-client privilege because…
In 2005, attorney Mark Hafen represented Verginia Turner in a case brought by a former boyfriend who was seeking–and got–a restraining order against her.
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