Asians are underrepresented and blacks are over represented on the new Los Angeles County civil grand jury selected at random ...

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge who came under fire in 1998 for zapping an unruly defendant with a 50,000-volt stun belt wa...

A former attorney with Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges faces charges that he had sex last summer with a 15-year-old...

SAN FRANCISCO - Saying the CEO and founder of Aptix Corp. was "caught red-handed " fabricating entries in his inventor's noteb...

SAN FRANCISCO - The New York firm Shearman & Sterling has announced that it plans to increase the size of its Bay area off...

The Asian Pacific American Legal Center has opened its new center at 1145 Wilshire Blvd. in downtown Los Angeles. ...

San Diego Watch: Consumer Attorneys of San Diego has inducted two prominent San Diego litigators into its h all of fame during...

Forum: By Rod Eshelman On June 3, 1999, Judge Jack B. Weinstein of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New Yor...

SAN JOSE - Former Santa Cruz County District Attorney Peter Chang, who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor earlier this year after...

Practitioner: Alternative Dispute Resolution By Richard Chernick There is a temptation when a party is sued in a case where th...

Well-known litigator and rainmaker George T. Caplan - head of Century City's Troop Steuber Pasich Reddick & Tobey's litiga...

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department should increase resources and its supervision of deputies in order to avoid a Ramp...

Bringing to 93 the number of criminal cases thrown out of court because of the Rampart police corruption scandal, the convicti...

Continuing a tradition of philanthropy, O'Melveny & Myers held its seventh annual Warren Christopher Scholarship Program o...

The Los Angeles City Council could be released from liability in all Rampart-related lawsuits, a deputy city attorney said Tue...

A legal secretary has sued Latham & Watkins, claiming HIV disability discrimination and sexual orientation discrimination....

Sounding the only discordant notes in the concert of praise and congratulations at USC Law School's recent 100th Anniversary G...

The University of Southern California's "fabled network in the law" celebrated its centennial anniversary Saturday night with ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A woman is convicted of first-degree murder in the shooting death of her husband. Years later, her conviction ...

BERKELEY - Like many other students, Colorado native Rick Young had a hard time finding housing when he started law school at ...

Practitioner: Family Law By Mitchell A. Jacobs and Katherine A. Paspalis In re Marriage of Terry, 2000 Daily Journal D.A.R. 51...

SAN FRANCISCO - A company that offers the lowest bid for a public contract but is wrongly rejected by a government agency dese...

Dicta: The Bookshelf By Susan Alexander Lawyers can learn a lot from Dr. Ellen Wachtel. She was trained as a lawyer at Harvard...

Dicta: The Rodent It used to be that associates ran around The Firm fearful of being let go, laid off, sacked, fired, canned o...

RIVERSIDE - The saga of an inmate accused of plotting to kidnap Riverside prosecutors involved in his conviction for attempted...

SAN FRANCISCO - June Borina Schnacke, who in 1947 became California's first female district attorney, died unexpectedly June 5...

Prominent East Bay bankruptcy attorney Irving J. Kornfield died Saturday of complications from lung cancer. He was 64. ...

A case that rocked the San Diego judiciary after the indictments were handed down in 1996 came to an end Monday when a Los Ang...

On the sixth anniversary of the slayings, O.J. Simpson on Monday lost another bid to obtain telephone records the ex-football ...

WASHINGTON - Ending nearly a decade of widespread confusion in the lower courts, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday th...