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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California's attorney general sued "tax lady" Roni Deutch for more than $34 million on Monday, alleging that her law firm regularly violates state law by making false promises that it will help people resolve disputes with the...

SAN BERNARDINO --  A criminal defense attorney is accused of taking guns and drugs as payment for his legal services, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff's department. 59-year-old Gary Stephen Redinger, who once ran for Superior Court judge,...

LOS ANGELES -- A Los Angeles attorney was sworn in today as president of the California Bar Association.       Holly Fujie, 52, an attorney at the Buchalter Nemer law firm in Los Angeles, is the third woman and the second Asian American to head the...

LOS ANGELES -- "I woke up and I couldn't breathe. The pain was unimaginable. I can't even describe it." Christine Navarro, 22, is recalling the worst night of her life. "It felt like someone was squishing my lung, and pushing on the entire left side of...

SANTA ANA -- The Orange County District Attorney is partnering with a private Newport Beach law firm to sue Torrance-based Toyota Motor Sales USA for allegedly selling defective vehicles and deceptive business practices. District Attorney Tony Rackauckas...

WINNETKA - Joey Buttafuoco is firing back at his ex-wife Mary Jo for calling him a 'sociopath' in her new book, "Getting It Through My Thick Skull." The infamous Long Island auto mechanic announced today, he has hired a local law firm to sue Mary Jo...

Board-certified real estate attorney Gary M. Singer writes about the housing market in this space each Friday. To ask him a question about short sales, mortgages, refinancing, homeowner's associations or any other residential real estate topic, click...

California's agency that licenses lawyers wants to admit an illegal immigrant to practice law, an unprecedented request that the state's highest court decided Wednesday to review. The State Bar of California certified Sergio C. Garcia after he passed a...

Los Angeles County voters will soon select a new district attorney, and it likely will be their most consequential vote in years. It is hard to overstate the role that the top prosecutor of the nation's most populous county will have as California...

The mortgage foreclosure process in Illinois may be in line for a tweaking. A week ago, in a windowless room a few blocks from where foreclosure cases are heard in downtown Chicago, 35 to 40 people gathered to offer their thoughts on potential changes to...

The Maryland attorney general's office argued in a lengthy legal brief, filed in the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, that a convicted child rapist serving four life terms should not be offered a second chance to take a plea deal years after the fact,...

A jury says the owner of an adult group home in Martinsville is guilty of abuse.   Richard Wagoner ran The Claye Corporation.  Investigators say in February 2011, one of the residents, Joseph Tuggle, was forced under a faucet with scalding hot water.  ...