It's a simple enough rule: You act as your own attorney, you take your chances. But if you lose, you can't come back and claim...

University of Southern California constitutional law professor Erwin Chemerinsky urged San Fernando Valley business leaders We...

If Judge Michael Mink wanted the audience at Tuesday's Meet Your Judges program to know only one thing, it was that Judge Judy...

A state Judicial Council proposal that sets standards for sealing court records has generated a flood of response from the leg...

Felix Valdez was 40 when he decided to go to law school. His goal was simple: He wanted to help people. After graduation, he t...

Over the last couple of weeks, Santa Monica attorney Jerome L. Ringler has been receiving pilgrims like a holy man on a mounta...

A recent appellate ruling that threw out a record damage award against agribusiness giant Monsanto Co. over a crop-gene licens...

SACRAMENTO - A federal judge Tuesday upheld the constitutionality of portions of the state's Political Reform Act and dismisse...

Why should we have laws protecting financial and credit records when this information is made public in a divorce? ...

Darrel Forgey, president of the American Board of Trial Advocates, and Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Paul Gutman are among ...

Marc Rotenberg, head of the influential high-tech lobby group Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), is this year's rec...

It is important not to overlook the lasting impact the next president will have on the U.S. Supreme Court. ...

WASHINGTON - A study released this week by the Federal Judicial Center reveals that federal judges are more likely to exclude ...

"The market took a beating today." The odds are that, if this were the headline on the evening news, it would get your prompt ...

Attorney fees are not guaranteed to the prevailing party in arbitrations of contract disputes containing an attorney-fee provi...

WASHINGTON - Arguing before the Supreme Court these days brings to mind the old Jimmy Buffett song: "Fins to the right, fins t...

SANTA ANA - Critics say Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas "stepped over the line" in a letter sent to voters end...

An Illinois man who pleaded guilty last month to felony vandalism and a misdemeanor charge of wearing a mask while committing ...

California Lawyers for the Arts will host a 2000 Music Business Seminar at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles from 10 a.m. to 5:...

While most kids say they would like to forget they were ever in foster care, there are notable exceptions - and those exceptio...

Jamie Cooper and Lilia Velasquez of California Western School of Law flew to Chile this week to train judges and lawyers in wh...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County attorney who sought a protective order to stop the deposition of a key witness in the University ...

SAN FRANCISCO - On the eve of trial, an FBI agent has agreed to settle her long-running sexual harassment claim against the go...

The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners on Tuesday approved the partial return of a popular Police Department program th...

Frustrated with his attorney's jury selection strategy, Dennis Harold Lawley told the judge before the start of his 1989 death...

An alleged member of the Mexican Mafia went on trial on federal capital murder charges Tuesday, even as a jury in a separate c...

Police officers who exhibit symptoms of amnesia while testifying about the actions of their brothers and sisters in blue may t...

ORANGE - On this day, all the cottages were decorated for Halloween. And inside a fenced playground, an inquisitive and self-a...

The bedrock principle that persons accused of crime are innocent until proven guilty is violated by civil asset forfeitures. ...

The Hundred Acre Wood where Winnie the Pooh lives has become a legal battleground. The bodies of lawyers are starting to litte...