SANTA ANA - The bargaining association for lawyers who work for Orange County has filed a lawsuit claiming county officials we...

WESTWOOD - James E. Holst, the University of California's general counsel and vice president of l egal a ffairs, said Wednesda...

The mother of a 14-year-old Orange County boy Wednesday filed a class action against Larry Flynt Publications, claiming that t...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court voted Wednesday to review a lower court decision that has caused "enormous uproar...

Berman Swarttz, the 84-year-old Los Angeles lawyer who skipped to Brazil with his prospective fifth wife last year after admit...

As four city leaders met Wednesday behind closed doors with representatives of the U.S. Department of Justice to discuss how t...

Forum: First Light By Terry Francke With every passing day, it seems we are met with headlines chronicling the inceasing depth...

San Diego Watch: Leo 'Rik' Henrikson didn't want a memorial service. He wanted "to have a party so all my friends can have one...

SANTA ANA - Was it Pixelon or was it Microsoft technology that broadcast live segments of presentations by the Republican Nati...

SACRAMENTO - Angry veterans of child-custody battles packed a Capitol news conference Monday and called for closer scrutiny of...

SAN JOSE - With a key legal question cleared up, the Santa Clara County district attorney's office is moving forward with a fi...

In Estate of Brenner, 76 Cal.App.4th 1298 (1999), the 2nd District Court of Appeal found that a photocopy of a holographic ins...

By Bob Deans Tapping the riches of the China trade has been a dream of Western merchants for centuries. The allure has grown s...

SANTA ANA - Steven and Denise Oleesky, accused along with a Glendora lawyer and several private investigators of obstruction o...

Attorney Ed Masry and legal researcher Erin Brockovich, made famous by the hit movie "Erin Brockovich," will speak at a meetin...

In an effort to provide a financial incentive to help improve Los Angeles' air quality, the City Council has given conceptual ...

In what will bring to 75 the number of felony cases that will have been thrown out of court due to the Rampart police corrupti...

Private legislation proposed Tuesday by U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., would grant citizenship to a severely disabled E...

RIVERSIDE - If Riverside County officials had wanted only to take some of Dr. Robin Oxman's land, they probably would no longe...

Dicta: By Erik Gunderson In the legal profession, cynicism pays. The practice of law is fraught with perils. These cynical ass...

Longtime homeless activist Ted Hayes laughed Monday when I asked him how many out-of-towners might ride the rails and the Grey...

FULLERTON - A murder defendant who is Orange County's first successful extradition from Mexico in a dozen years pleaded not gu...

Loyola Law School will inaugurate a program in August leading to a master of laws in taxation. ...

The Practitioner: Administrative Law By Stuart Miller Before a court can evaluate a hearing decision by an administrative agen...

Forum: By Michael McNulty Now that e-commerce has become a marketing juggernaut, various taxing authorities, and especially th...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that a plaintiff who claims to have contracted two different disease...

SANTA ANA - In a contrast with the battle over a perceived lack of diversity in Los Angeles County's grand jury pool, Orange C...

Eli Broad, chairman and chief executive officer of SunAmerica Inc., will deliver the commencement address at Southwestern Univ...

SAN DIEGO - Superior Court Judge Gerald L. Barry, 56, has retired from the bench after serving seven years, the past two of wh...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco has not seen so many pinstripes in one place since the New York Yankees were in town. An extraor...