VENTURA - A Santa Barbara judge's ruling that the makeup of Ventura County's 2000-01 grand jury was unconstitutional has derai...

SANTA ANA - Despite pending charges of child molestation and child-pornography possession, Orange County Superior Court Judge ...

WASHINGTON - Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., on Friday asked the General Accounting Office to invest...

LOS ANGELES - Services have been held for Alan Land, a veteran Lockheed Martin attorney who was one of the first "Skunk Works"...

LOS ANGELES - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo is calling for completion of the scandal-plagued Belmont Learning Center, a $154 ...

LOS ANGELES - For three solid weeks, attorneys held jurors rapt with a tangled tale of convoluted financial transactions, pira...

Focus Column - By James J. Moneer - With 18 newly published decisions and two grants of review by the California Supreme Court...

RIVERSIDE - Judge Helios "Joe" Hernandez says he developed more empathy toward criminal defendants in his first year on the Ri...

SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran Sacramento Superior Court Judge Joe S. Gray, who enjoys the unusual endorsement of every jurist on the...

Employment Column - By Craig A. Blumin - Cover letters and thank-you notes are a compulsory yet often confounding part of the...

LOS ANGELES - The state Supreme Court has given Eric Perrodin tighter hold on a title that has become very slippery: Mayor of ...

LOS ANGELES - Mayor Jim Hahn on Thursday asked the City Council to support his plan to overhaul the LAPD's discipline system s...

Dicta Column - By Donald E. Griffith - When lawyers get in a hurry, their legal sometimes assistants make typing mistakes. Thi...

LOS ANGELES - Encino lawyer Thomas H. Warden hopes that being a Superior Court judge is something that runs in the family. His...

LOS ANGELES - Spectators in the courtroom gasped in shock Thursday as a defense attorney in the fatal dog-mauling case against...

LOS ANGELES - Imagine 125 incarcerated, streetwise teen-age boys sitting still, mesmerized by a man speaking to them about wha...

LOS ANGELES - A Peruvian man who was denied asylum in the United States after fleeing persecution by Shining Path guerrillas i...

LOS ANGELES - A Newport Coast couple has been sentenced to prison for conspiring to file false tax returns and falsely claim $...

LOS ANGELES - An Arizona lawyer who also is admitted to practice in California is suing the State Bar of California for the ri...

POMONA - A baseball scholarship led Judge Daniel S. Lopez toward the law. A talented high-school athlete, he had skill that ea...

Focus Column - By Niloofar Nejat-Bina - As employers grapple with the consequences of technological advances in the workplace,...

Dicta Column - By Stephen Zager - "Hart's War" is an effective, well-written and equally well-acted "courtroom" drama which ho...

LOS ANGELES - After months of trying to negotiate, a former top executive of Global Crossing has filed a complaint in Los Ange...

Focus Column - By Robert McMurry - The classic movie "Chinatown" was based on the true story of how the availability of water ...

Dicta Column - By Linda B. Bulmash - Winning negotiators know that getting the best deal often hinges on their ability to pers...

Dicta Column - By Henry L. Hecht - Before heading off to a deposition, make sure you've packed up all the items you'll need. ...

RIVERSIDE - During 20 years in office, District Attorney Grover Trask has taken his share of chances. When a mobile-home fire ...

Focus Column - By Richard S. Rosenberg and John J. Manier - The U.S. Supreme Court handed down its first major practical limit...

LOS ANGELES - Judge C. Robert Simpson believes he has served the public well on the bench during the past 13 years. Why then, ...

Forum Column - By Steve Baughman - Given the frenzied calls to string John Walker Lindh up by his thumbs and the almost comple...