Greg Lyman likens speed-skating to litigating cases, "both require tremendous preparation, while you actually only compete for...

By Douglas G. Carnahan. Court reporters can make witnesses and lawyers look like fools or champions of articulateness. ...

A teacher at Palisades High School filed a sexual harassment suit Thursday claiming the school district failed to protect her ...

SAN DIEGO - A two-strike prison inmate, additionally convicted in July of threatening to kill a San Diego County Superior Cour...

SACRAMENTO - One-half of a measure signed into law Thursday by Gov. Gray Davis contains the largest single amount ever directe...

Hoping to influence attorneys, judges and clients to resolve disputes through more effective communications and to create valu...

The city has been hit with 71 lawsuits alleging wrongdoing by Los Angeles Police Department officers accused of corruption in ...

A former court-appointed conservator and trustee accused of stealing nearly $2 million from estates in a complex money-jugglin...

The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, Justice Louise Arbour, spok...

By Ross Johnson. Before The Eye gets too far into the news involving "Dr. Wen Ho Lee: The Movie," let's look at an Internet Mo...

Settlement of lawsuits against the state-appointed conservator and bankruptcy attorneys the conservator hired for a failing he...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge John D. Harris on Thursday sentenced a Reseda gardener who brutally raped an attorney on New ...

Record promoter and reputed mob soldier Joseph Isgro was sentenced Thursday to 50 months in federal prison and ordered to pay ...

Federal prosecutors have abused the grand jury in the case of Buford O. Furrow Jr. by asking witnesses inappropriate questions...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court grappled Wednesday with whether a home builder may be sued for construction defec...

SANTA ANA - They said they visited the Magic Kingdom simply to exchange several dozen of Disney's version of the popular Beani...

Katherine McDaniel, former director of intellectual property for Times Mirror Co. and a member of its newly dispersed legal de...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in San Francisco Thursday permanently barred the federal government from revoking prescription...

One of the most important lessons Jill J. Chasson has learned from competitive athletics is one she applies everyday in her l...

By Michael M. Berger. The city made an error by assuming that its professed good intentions would shield it from constitutiona...

IRVINE - Saying that a federal judge's ruling has unjustly blocked it from contributing to candidates for the Irvine City Coun...

Spin Report By John M. Curtis. Raining on Democratic vice presidential candidate Joseph I. Lieberman's faith-crusade, the Anti...

By Gregory C. O'Brien Jr. Name one person who has said, "I used to believe in clear-cutting, but my consciousness was raised b...

The following is an edited excerpt of a speech given by Richard M. Mosk before the California Supreme Court on Jan. 7. For the...

By Douglas Smith, W. Scott Shepard and Arthur F. Coon. Under general negligence principles, architects, general contractors an...

Months after it was supposed to end, Elwood Lui's post as the Supreme Court's special master overseeing the State Bar discipli...

Pacific Bell has settled a claim that the company illegally published the confidential address of a domestic violence shelter ...

A Superior Court judge has left in place a protective order on documents in the case against four Los Angeles Police Departmen...

DENVER - Based entirely on evidence collected by a jailhouse lawyer, a Colorado judge has ordered a special prosecutor to look...

Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti on Wednesday said the time has come to stiffen penalties for felony and misd...