A deputy general counsel at the Pentagon with a long history of involvement in Los Angeles city and national Democratic Party ...

VALLEJO - Tempers boiled over this week as a defense lawyer and a judge exchanged hostilities in the habeas hearing into wheth...

Triumphant opponents of Marin County District Attorney Paula F. Kamena announced on Thursday's deadline that they have gathere...

LAS VEGAS - He's been called the king of appeals and, in the words of former Las Vegas Mayor Jan Jones, one of "the best appel...

A 35-year-old woman faces charges she tried to bring a loaded semi-automatic pistol into Los Angeles County Courthouse this we...

Following the election day passage of the drug treatment initiative, Proposition 36, District Attorney Terence Hallinan said h...

While Florida's ballot counting has stirred nationwide controversy, at least the politicians, ballot counters and reporters do...

SACRAMENTO - Both foes and champions of Proposition 36 agree the measure might need to be fixed by the governor and state Legi...

Release of a new juvenile court tort policy designed to protect kids who are injured while in the dependency and delinquency s...

Richard Ortega won a $47,200 jury verdict after claiming he injured his knee slipping in a puddle of milk in the aisle of a Km...

Linked databases allow for data mining, which can have a substantial impact on firm revenues and profits. ...

While California law firms continue to hold the line on their compensation packages, firms based in New York continue to roll ...

SAN JOSE - Stanford Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig, a national expert on technology law, has criticized courts and legis...

Opposing counsel in a sexual assault case are headed back to court. This time, it's personal. The 2nd District Court of Appeal...

RIVERSIDE - The Community Police Review Commission, the city's first civilian review board, will hold its first meeting today....

A 23-year-old Illinois man has pleaded no contest to a charge of felony vandalism stemming from an anti-fur march during the D...

Memorial services took place Wednesday for Leslie H. Greenfield, an administrative law judge for the office of administrative ...

When a carrier receives notice, it must conduct a thorough investigation of the loss, the claim and any potential bases for co...

SACRAMENTO - A federal judge breathed a sigh of relief Wednesday as attorneys challenging the constitutionality of a 1996 camp...

VALLEJO - The unusual evidentiary hearing over charges of prosecutorial misconduct in the death penalty conviction of Larry Ro...

America has no state religion, unless you consider the blind worship of "Founding Father." Our constitutional system of govern...

A two-year-old patent dispute between personal computer memory card rivals SanDisk Corp. and Lexar Media, Inc. has ended in a ...

It is a truism that complex business lawsuits invariably lead to complex insurance disputes. Although the insurance disputes e...

"Do you ever get butterflies when you talk in court?" my 10-year-old asked me. I smiled, wondering how much information he rea...

The California Women Lawyers Association will present "So You Want to Be a Judge," an all-day seminar at the Los Angeles Athle...

SAN DIEGO - An African-American man who alleged that police violated his civil rights at a Padres baseball game will receive $...

Robert Rosenkrantz's petition to overturn Gov. Gray Davis' denial of his parole was bounced out of court almost as soon as it ...

The producer of a fetish video depicting the torture and mutilation of mice by the heel of a shoe of a provocatively dressed w...

A report to be released today will suggest ways to reduce the Los Angeles police chief's ability to manipulate administrative ...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County woman has sued America Online Inc., claiming its new version 6.0 software took over her computer ...