President George Bush's executive order merely recognizes that Osama bin Laden is a war criminal.
SACRAMENTO - When he was 4 years old, Robert E. Cartwright Jr. recalls, he swore he would never grow up to be an attorney like...
SAN DIEGO - Superior Court Judge Geary D. Cortes was sentenced in an Orange County court to three years' probation after plead...
LOS ANGELES - Celebrated palimony lawyer Marvin M. Mitchelson sued the Saudi Arabian royal family Thursday on behalf of his cl...
LOS ANGELES - Seven journalists who were assaulted by Los Angeles police while covering protests at the 2000 Democratic Nation...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge has entered a final judgment in a unique lawsuit filed by the city against Old Republic ...
LOS ANGELES - Patching one cracked sidewalk is a small task. But in a city the size of Los Angeles, where the spidery lines di...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles officials on Thursday announced a stepped-up effort to target child abuse complaints - requiring tha...
LOS ANGELES - A rookie attorney pleaded not guilty Thursday to felony fraud charges stemming from crimes he allegedly committe...
SAN FRANCISCO - The fate of Floyd Andrews, a San Francisco prosecutor arrested earlier this month by San Rafael police for sta...
SAN FRANCISCO - John B. Goodrich, one of the handful of attorneys who practiced with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati befo...
LOS ANGELES - While state immunity protected former Los Angeles police Officer Rafael Perez for testifying about his role in t...
LOS ANGELES - In an effort to get more bang for the millions of bucks it spends every year on outside counsel, the city attorn...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court on Thursday handed a major victory to employees suing over sexual harassment by their ...
When he went to law school, full of hope and desire, he set lofty goals and strove to climb higher. Jurisprudence and justice ...
Although the shock of Sept. 11 has diminished, and Americans are moving on with their lives, some anxiety lingers which contin...
While recent events have sent tremors of uncertainty throughout the legal profession, one bright spot is Web-based contract la...
On Oct. 25, the Drug Enforcement Administration raided and closed the Los Angeles Cannabis Resource Center on Santa Monica Bou...
In 1985, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration made a little-known drug, 3,4 methylenedioxy-methamphetamine, or MDMA, illeg...
On April 23, the U.S. Supreme Court adopted proposed amendments to the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure and ordered that ...
Criminal
Plea Bargain Stress Syndrome May Lead to Two-Hankie Hearing for Olson
By Garry Abrams
Sara Jane Olson, the 54-year-old Minnesota doctor's wife charged with attempting to bomb Los Angeles police cars a quarter-cen...
SAN FRANCISCO - Julian Caplan, whose name carried the weight of history for the dwindling ranks of his fellow pioneers of the ...
LOS ANGELES - The Santa Monica City Council tentatively has approved a landmark, but possibly unconstitutional, ordinance that...
SAN FRANCISCO - Life is a circle, or so it seems for San Francisco Superior Court Judge Charles F. "Chuck" Haines. Appointed t...
SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Supreme Court's endorsement of secret military trials for World War II saboteurs does not give Presid...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Wednesday struggled to uphold a 1998 law protecting minors from sexually explicit Internet m...
SAN FRANCISCO - Newly minted state Supreme Court Justice Carlos R. Moreno, the high court's first Hispanic in 12 years and onl...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a rare order permitting its proceedings to be televised, the California Supreme Court on Wednesday granted ...
LOS ANGELES - An appellate court delivered the second blow Wednesday to state laws that grant police officers the right to fil...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Ronald P. Givner, a securities specialist who died unexpectedly two weeks ago. Giv...