I spent the first day of the Democratic National Convention outside - as a legal observer. It was an experience I will never f...

After a night of gala celebration, with delegates inside the Staples Center cheering President Clinton like a rock star while ...

Two bounty hunters, convicted in March of impersonating FBI agents, were arrested again after one of them allegedly posed as a...

Services will be held today for entertainment lawyer Edmund C. Barton. Barton, who suffered from complications of Pick's Disea...

A former Los Angeles-based assistant U.S. attorney respected by peers and opposing attorneys alike will become the first assis...

SANTA ANA - Two daughters of a deceased Orange County woman have filed a lawsuit against University of California, Irvine's Wi...

The American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday filed an amended complaint saying it has found even more public schools througho...

Two California banks are hauling the city of Santa Monica back into federal court this week to face contempt of court proceedi...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County prosecutors, good as their word, are taking another crack at a high-profile trade-secrets theft ...

By David Pash. Much like souffles, witnesses need a lot of preparation, often fail to rise to the occasion and are a disaster ...

By Peter W. Olson. Should the police who serve and protect us be human or robot? Ever since the Rodney King incident, media ac...

SANTA ANA - Two-term city Councilman Ted Moreno wanted to "own" Santa Ana, taking control by betraying the public trust, an as...

By Mark B. Vezzani. A few years ago I worked in the criminal master calendar court in Torrance. One of the public defenders ha...

By Erwin Chemerinsky. Simply put, the court held that it violates due process and the Sixth Amendment to convict a person of o...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court has declined to take up the case of a man whose firing from a South Bay film-recy...

When Democratic delegates load themselves onto buses going to and from the Staples Center this week, they will owe an unlikely...

SANTA ANA - A jury Monday acquitted a Laguna Niguel woman of charges in the shooting death of her 8-month-old baby. Orange Cou...

Handing down its latest opinion on a law that has faced multiple legal challenges, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday p...

Just call this "Pig in the City" redux. The Los Angeles city attorney's office is considering what if any charge to file again...

By Stephen Yagman. "[W]e cannot tolerate nonviolent disobedience," the mayor of the premier world democracy's second largest c...

SAN DIEGO - An insurance company that paid Riverside County for repairs to sunken streets in a housing development wants its m...

A Los Angeles judge Monday denied a defense attorney's request to subpoena disgraced Los Angeles police Officer Rafael Perez a...

BLYTHE - A Blythe attorney was arrested Monday on suspicion of embezzling more than $200,000 from clients to support a gamblin...

SACRAMENTO - A voter pamphlet may mislead voters considering a new campaign reform measure on the November ballot, but there i...

Downtown Los Angeles got redecorated over the weekend for the Democratic National Convention. As if by magic, a carpet of cops...

More than 3,000 Jewish community leaders and friends - including President Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton - gathered ...

As the Democratic National Convention got under way Monday, beginning its carefully choreographed march toward Al Gore's nomin...

The Class of 1968 never had it so good. No hippie, yippie or draft dodger ever saw the likes of veteran civil rights lawyer Ja...

SAN FRANCISCO - Prosecutors have broader power to use criminal sanctions to collect long-overdue child support under a ruling ...

SAN FRANCISCO - In the end, it wasn't Eben Gossage's 1975 killing of his sister that killed his chances of becoming a lawyer. ...