SANTA ANA - A state appellate court has overturned the conviction of former Orange County Assistant Treasurer Matthew R. Raabe...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Dzintra Janavs rejected the Los Angeles Police Department officers union's request to stop th...

WASHINGTON - The federal government over the last fiscal year collected $1.5 billion in civil fraud settlements and judgments,...

DENVER - A trend in taking issues directly to the voters through ballot initiatives has grown in the past decade and may well ...

A dental corporation based in El Segundo was not content to just grin and bear it when the badmouthing began on a Yahoo! messa...

A Los Angeles police officer on trial in the Rampart scandal testified Thursday that he never saw a gun in the hand of a gangs...

SEATTLE - A Washington state Supreme Court candidate who 12 years ago referred to Hispanic defendants as "wetbacks" is being a...

Members of Motley Crue are no strangers to legal wrangling. But the heavy metal band's frontman, Vince Neil, doesn't have the ...

SACRAMENTO - Speaking on the courthouse steps here, actor Martin Sheen, who plays the president on a television program, took ...

With a stern lecture on prosecutorial ethics, a federal appeals court overturned a loan-fraud conviction Thursday because the ...

Construction law specialist Bryan C. Jackson has moved across town to the Los Angeles office of Allen Matkins Leck Gamble &...

A San Francisco mortgage broker, arrested on the eve of a splashy fundraising dinner she organized for President Clinton in 19...

The recently decided case of Lawler v. Jacobs, 83 Cal.App.4th 723 (2000), affirms that the exception to Code of Civil Procedur...

Silicon Valley business is apparently so ripe for the picking that one of Florida's largest law firms has decided to open a h...

The Daily Journal asks lawyers what they do to celebrate winning a big case. ...

Gov. Gray Davis and Sen. Dianne Feinstein Wednesday announced their endorsements of incumbent District Attorney Gil Garcetti, ...

When Joseph Lieberman said while campaigning in Michigan that "the Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, not freedom fr...

The Van Nuys Self-Help Legal Access Center opened its doors to civil pro per litigants of all stripes Wednesday morning with p...

The issues are central to regulatory takings litigation. Answers to all of them will be most welcome - so long as they are cle...

If you're thinking about getting a domestic violence protective order, your abuser better be someone you've been seriously cou...

RIVERSIDE - A $3 million settlement has been reached in the lawsuit filed by the family of Tyisha Miller, whose controversial ...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County attorney who was disparaged on a Web site after a dispute with a former client has struck back wi...

The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund on Wednesday announced its opposition to Proposition 38, the school vouc...

SACRAMENTO - In a move that could renew fears that the State Bar Court will become politicized, a staff attorney to the state ...

The world is such a strange and wonderful place that sometimes even lawyers are struck by magic. For instance, on a visit to L...

SANTA CRUZ - District Attorney Ron Ruiz and challenger Kate Canlis will lock horns one more time Tuesday in a runoff battle th...

As a sergeant charged in the Los Angeles Police Department's Rampart scandal continued Wednesday to testify in excruciating de...

Alleged killer Mary Ross is expected to enter a plea Friday in Contra Costa County Superior Court in the shooting death of her...

Still smarting over its exclusion from the negotiating table, the Police Protective League filed court documents Wednesday try...

As certain public figures could probably attest, some fantasies are better kept a secret.