Practitioner: Appellate Law By Mark Haddad and Mimi Keller Court upholds limiting appeal to extraordinary writ in physician-di...

SANTA ANA - These are heady times in Orange County. Technology, real estate, dot-coms, financial services, they're all taking ...

Members of the public will get a chance to speak to judges and learn about the court system in an informal setting during a fo...

Later this month, legal secretary Kay Thornburg of Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich will be installed as the first vice presid...

Attorney Darren Enenstein, a partner with Enenstein, Russell & Saltz, has become a board member of the Jeffrey Foundation,...

Forum: By Charles S. Doskow There is always tension involved in a judicial challenge to measures approved by the people. If su...

SANTA ANA - Scott Wylie, executive director and general counsel of the Public Law Center in Santa Ana, has been named director...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County prosecutor was allegedly assaulted in court Tuesday morning by a defendant who was found guilty j...

SAN FRANCISCO - David J. Murphy, a labor and employment attorney who was a partner with Littler Mendelson's San Jose office, h...

The Los Angeles City Council Tuesday agreed to waive conflicts of interest in certain cases for attorneys volunteering to inve...

The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners on Tuesday set aside a proposal to give the police department the funding and au...

Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles filed a lawsuit Tuesday against telecommunications giant Pacific Bell and the company's t...

After 21/2 years dealing with world crises as a legal adviser to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, international environm...

The Hawaii Supreme Court has written a song for former Beatle George Harrison called, "We screwed up." The first verse is pret...

RIVERSIDE - A woman who was attacked and raped by two men in the laundry room of the Riverside apartment complex where she liv...

SANTA ANA - A pre trial hearing is set for Friday for a former Orange County midwife facing a felony charge of causing the sti...

Fritz Coleman, NBC's weather forecaster and a comedian, will be the featured entertainer May 12 at the annual Law Day dinner s...

The court battle won by the recording industry Friday may signal the beginning of a successful effort to police music piracy o...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two hours of in-chambers settlement negotiations failed on Monday, the opening day of a trial in which former ...

SANTA ANA - William Breck Mac Laren, who went by his middle name, a fixture in Orange County family law circles for 25 years, ...

Intellectual property litigator Richard L. Stone has left the Los Angeles office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton to...

State Supreme Court Justice Kathryn Werdegar will serve as keynote speaker Monday at the installation dinner of Women Lawyers ...

Dicta: By Mark B. Vezzani Every day thousands of guilty pleas are taken in criminal courts. But before the defendant is permit...

Forum: Spin Report By John M. Curtis Fiddling away at the White House, President Clinton was uncharacteristically tongue-tied ...

SACRAMENTO - A doctor cannot be held liable for artificially impregnating a woman at her request and not telling her husband, ...

Four Los Angeles Police Department officers claim in a lawsuit that LAPD supervisors discriminated against them and retaliated...

In a final settlement agreement, a Simi Valley condominium homeowners' association has agreed to pay State Farm Insurance Comp...

Expanding its Internet and technology presence in Southern California, Seattle-based Perkins Coie has recruited four more part...

WASHINGTON - Handing a victory to public-sector employers, the Supreme Court ruled, 6-3, Monday that state and local governmen...

Jedediah S. Minoff , 32, has shown impressive leadership at the helm of the Public Counsel's Juvenile Court Intervention and A...