Former world boxing champion Gernaro "Chicanito" Hernandez will speak at the Rio Hondo Courthouse's 15th Drug Court graduation...

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge Wednesday lifted a gag order in the case of a Hermosa Beach woman who is the first person t...

A former Riverside County prosecutor will take over as presiding judge of the county's courts in January. His peers elected Ri...

The court held that factors such as long duration of service, promotions and salary increases alone cannot create an implied c...

The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday altered the special investigator's position in the inspector general's and controlle...

SANTA ANA - A nurse with the Juvenile Detention Center in Orange has been charged with engaging in sexual acts with a 17-year-...

A Los Angeles police sergeant who worked in the Rampart Division gang-suppression unit when four officers now charged with cor...

A mother is not in a "position of public or private trust" when she tells her daughter not to testify against the child's fath...

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 ...