Charged last year with attempted extortion over his handling of a civil harassment case, a prominent Southern California lawyer has now been indicted, along with his client, for allegedly trying…
Michael Anthony Nelson, 38, is not a lawyer. But, taking advantage of a relatively common name, he allegedly assumed the identity of two other Michael Nelsons who are, in fact,…
A Los Angeles lawyer has been charged with 28 felony counts for allegedly participating in an insurance scam involving the staging of accidents in order to collect fraudulent payouts.
Federal authorities violated the law by wiretapping two United States lawyers for an Islamic charity without obtaining a warrant, a federal judge in San Francisco has just ruled.
Michael Jackson’s father plans to sue the doctor who was treating his son at the time of the famous pop singer’s death in Los Angeles last year, from what the…
The former Justice Department official who wrote legal memos authorizing harsh interrogations of terrorism suspects views his position as a conservative law professor at a liberal school through the prism…
The California Supreme Court has ruled against the Hare Krishnas in their free-speech challenge to a ban on soliciting donations inside the Los Angeles International Airport.
The first students at the new law school at the University of California at Irvine will all be employed this summer, half of them with nonprofit groups.
A California lawyer is in jail in lieu of $7.5 million bail, accused of participating in a fraudulent property transfer scheme that allegedly reaped $2.2 million in loans and involved…
A California judge has ordered the San Francisco police crime lab to turn over for a relevance review some 1,100 pages of documents related to an investigation of a veteran…
About two months ago, a California state-court judge not only freed a convicted child molester but accused the assistant Santa Clara County district attorney on the case of testifying falsely…
A hard-fought 15-year court battle by the late celebrity model Anna Nicole Smith and her heirs over the estate of the Texas oil billionaire she married when she was 26…
After Dion Persson graduated from Yale Law School, he worked for Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom and Johns Manville, eventually rising to the position of general counsel.
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