A meeting of a Los Angeles City Council subcommittee handling issues related to the upcoming Democratic National Convention c...

Sacramento law Prof. J. Clark Kelso was named Wednesday as the acting head of the state Insurance Department by departing Com...

Poor Ramon. Someone stole his brand new Pinto - not the kind that eats hay and lives in a barn, but a Ford Pinto. He'd only ha...

SAN JOSE - Nothing is extraordinary about the Santa Clara County civil grand jury's annual report - except that it exists at ...

Saying the case before it opened a Pandora's box of deceit and "bureaucratic disobedience" on the part of the Santa Ana Polic...

In contrast to the Los Angeles Police Department's reputed circle-the-wagons approach to outside scrutiny, Los Angeles County...

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the 1996 robbery conviction of a Los Angeles man Wednesday, ruling a state-level pr...

Los Angeles County on Wednesday not only moved another step closer to expanding the five-member Board of Supervisors to nine m...

From the Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - A judge who helped write Arkansas' ethics laws stepped aside from hearing Presi...

Why, Benjamin Treuhaft wonders, should piano tuners have more strikes against them than baseball players? All that the New Yo...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patrick Couwenberg lied about his background, academic degrees and military service, accordin...

As the American Bar Association opens its weeklong annual meeting in New York today, it has plans for nearly 2,000 programs, ...

DA Debate Set By Valley Bar District Attorney Gil Garcetti and his challenger, veteran county prosecutor Steve Cooley, will s...

Richard Shaw and Bruce O'Brien have merged their tax firm with Higgs, Fletcher & Mack. Both joined the new firm as partne...

The unbelievable drivel spewed forth by Michael Kinsley is sophomoric, at best ("GOP Position Clear: Execute Women Who Have A...

By Scott Turow I was delighted by the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to uphold Miranda v. Arizona , 384 U.S. 436 (1966), the 3...

By John Smith Recently, a group of Marin County parents launched a recall drive against Superior Court Judges Michael Dufficy...

Reversing the trial court, the 2nd District Court of Appeal has granted a motion to allow evidence into trial from an investi...

Appellate Law--That's Final Are Class-Certification Rulings Appealable? Courts in California follow what has been referred to ...

On one fact, attorneys on both sides of a high-profile murder case agree: The 2nd District Court of Appeal's order that the st...

Cities Will Appeal Latest ATM Ruling SAN FRANCISCO - City attorneys for San Francisco and Santa Monica have vowed to appeal a...

More than a year has passed since a prominent foster mother, a strong ally of former county Department of Children and Family...

A city council member has the right to appeal the decision of a city commission and later vote on that appeal, the state appe...

The Los Angeles Police Department has two new helicopters that could come to the aid of the First Amendment, believe it or no...

San Diego-based Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps has acquired West Los Angeles-based Matthias & Berg, a five-attorney ...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court's blockbuster 1999-2000 term produced a greater solidarity among the conservative justices, a ...

Until as recently as 1990, federal law barred homosexuals from immigrating to the United States, along with felons, drug addi...

Like all other "Prosecutor of the Year" award winners since 1977, 52-year-old Rick Yenovkian was recognized this week by the ...

Unlike the dozens of tainted convictions it has had vacated in the course of its investigation of the Rampart scandal, the di...