Cracking down on swindlers offering phony legal services to immigrants has received a boost with a new law that goes into effe...

Renowned bankruptcy attorney Jack Stutman, founder of Stutman, Treister & Glatt, has died. Stutman, who retired several ye...

SANTA ANA - The ACLU will probably file suit against Orange County after a decision by the Board of Supervisors to allow the B...

RIVERSIDE - Seven years have passed since Anne-Marie Speaker heard the crack of the gunshot from a sheriff's sergeant that kil...

A state appellate court Tuesday threw out a malpractice suit against Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher as time-barred, after ruling ...

A day after his release from immigration jail, Oscar Ochoa, one of more than 100 people who had their criminal cases overturne...

DICTA When one partner is singled out as a problem personality, the firm should take a look at its own structure before takin...

SAN FRANCISCO - Federal housing officials in San Francisco trampled on the First Amendment rights of three Berkeley residents...

When Gov. Gray Davis announced earlier this week that he was authorizing the parole of a convicted murderer - the first time h...

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, we're here today because my client "was stupid" - and because the star of the movie my clie...

SANTA ANA - The son of Orange County's district attorney has pleaded guilty to a felony drug charge, but he avoided a jail sen...

SACRAMENTO - The state Board of Prison Terms will be required to consider evidence of battered women's syndrome in certain par...

The Bernard E. Witkin Award Dinner continues to grow in popularity. In 1999, it drew 190 people and netted around $17,000, up ...

Rebiya Kadeer is a well-known businesswoman and mother of 10 from the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region in China. In 1995, she...

SAN DIEGO - Coast Guard and Navy crews patrolling more than 200 miles west of Panama have made what authorities said was the f...

SANTA ANA - The parents of a Buena Park teen-ager who was shot and killed last year after a Halloween prank have filed a civil...

Longtime Riverside County administrator Arthur A. Sims will be the next chief executive officer of Alameda County Superior Cou...

The African AIDS crisis made headlines once again at this month's U.N. Millennium Summit. While the spread of HIV demands atte...

SAN FRANCISCO - Three lawyers who were arrested trying to enter the San Francisco Hall of Justice said they want a meeting wit...

An Illinois man arrested while marching in an anti-fur protest during the Democratic National Convention pleaded guilty Tuesda...

SANTA ANA - In the latest of an avalanche of lawsuits involving the prescription drug Rezulin, an Orange County man is suing t...

As part of his effort to address alleged civil rights violations and abuses of process by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalizat...

Attorneys representing four Los Angeles police officers accused by former Officer Rafael Perez of participating in corrupt act...

Stephen G. Larson, a veteran assistant U.S. attorney in Los Angeles and highly regarded expert on Russian organized crime, has...

Cabell "Cab" Calloway's widow has regained all rights that the famed bandleader signed away before his death in 1994, accordin...

VENTURA - A state appellate court has dismissed a suit brought by attorney Edward L. Masry against the developer of a Thousand...

The Los Angeles City Council agreed Tuesday to ask the state attorney general's office to examine how the criminal justice sys...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a ruling with campaign financing implications, a federal appeals court on Tuesday struck down as unconstitu...

A Woodland Hills apartment leasing consultant who allegedly was fired because she got her tongue pierced announced a lawsuit a...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court Tuesday agreed to consider whether the PGA Tour must allow a golfer with a disability to ride a...