Abraham Lincoln's rise from humble beginnings to become one of American's greatest presidents provides a lesson in the individ...

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Two attorneys for the city of West Covina were ousted earlier this week by a three-member quorum that reportedly cited the han...

Javier Ovando, the first man freed from prison in the wake of the Rampart corruption scandal, expanded the scope of his lawsui...

Patrick Murphy Shows Up for Oath It's official. Former Citrus Municipal Court Judge Patrick B. Murphy is now a Los Angeles Sup...

By Alan M. Dershowitz Despite the common myth that we can say anything we please in this country, the fact is that our Bill of...

Three black and two Hispanic motorists who claim Los Angeles police officers stopped them solely because of their race filed a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Clark Pearson concedes it may not have been the wisest legal strategy to threaten to sue a federal judge. But...

Sometimes, it's really tough to figure out who's behind door number three. Take the case of Lea Purwin D'Agostino. She's the L...

SAN FRANCISCO - Expanding the "fair use" doctrine in the field of reverse engineering, a federal appeals court lifted an injun...

SAN FRANCISCO - Last year, the Contra Costa County Superior Court case of Johnson v. Circuit City , 99-00054, was one of many ...

SAN DIEGO - A respected domestic and family lawyer who three years ago turned to corporate representation has died from compl...

Multiple Motivation Court Gives Fired Machinist Chance to Prove Pretextual Discharge The accommodations Deschene needed for hi...

SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court frowned Wednesday at a widely used farming industry practice of forcing workers to ...

Fair Fee 'Weeks' May Discourage Attorneys From Taking FEHA Cases By Sean McGee The "American Rule" holds that litigants are re...

RIVERSIDE - Judges and lawyers consider Riverside County Commissioner Martin H. Swanson better qualified to be a judge than Su...

Six months ago, the governing body of the American Bar Association decided it needed more time to figure out what to do about ...

With the incumbent again a no-show, Los Angeles County district attorney candidates Barry Groveman and Steve Cooley faced off ...

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For three years, David Kooyman must stay away from the Children's Courthouse - the same facility in which he trapped about 500...

Ethics Matters By E. Jean Gary Year 2000 is off to a rousing start. January came and went like a whirlwind. Annual reports rev...

By Barry A. Fisher In 1996, lawsuits filed in U.S. courts sought compensation for the role of Swiss banks in the German takeov...

Services will be held today for Michael J. Fasman, a Beverly Hills real estate lawyer who practiced for more than 50 years. F...

California's judicial hunting season for journalists, a favorite quarry of authoritarians everywhere, is in full swing. Last w...

SANTA ANA - Orange County Judge Robert R. Fitzgerald decided Monday that a suspect's flight into a garage during a police cha...

SAN FRANCISCO - More than a decade ago, Appellate Justice Joan Dempsey Klein of Los Angeles advanced the controversial theory ...

The Law School Admission Council has sued three men who were recently convicted for their parts in a scheme to steal a Law Sch...

SAN DIEGO - The district attorney's office will have little to say about the criminal investigation of Deputy District Attorne...