SAN FRANCISCO - The state Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to block implementation of California's new juvenile crime law, s...

Forum: By Charles A. Wieland Safe court facilities are required by law and human decency. What are judges supposed to do about...

A San Francisco judge has dismissed a malpractice suit against attorneys who brokered an $80 million settlement in a toxic tor...

Los Angeles is once again the city of the serial apocalypse. And not a moment too soon, I say. For a while there, it looked li...

Corporate and transactional attorney William Mark Levinson has joined the Los Angeles office of San Diego-based Luce Forward H...

Practitioner: Employment Law By Andrea M. Kimball Thanks to Monica Lewinsky's not-so-confidential discussions with Linda Tripp...

The Practitioner: Employment Law By Joseph Posner William Thiele worked as a financial consultant for Merrill Lynch Pierce Fe...

Dicta: Movie Review By Paul Frizler From "Adam's Rib" to "Snow Falling on Cedars," courtroom scenes have often been the high...

Jeff Ramseyer, one of the most popular and personable prosecutors in the Los Angeles County district attorney's office, suffer...

WASHINGTON - In these days of the mega-merger, Congress is getting closer to approving legislation that would lessen the consi...

A Los Angeles Superior Court jury Wednesday awarded a former construction contractor $40 million in punitive damages. The jury...

Forum: By Al Gore It was 65 years ago that Franklin Roosevelt signed the law that created Social Security - perhaps the single...

SAN BERNARDINO - County officials have added three more parties, including a Minneapolis lawyer, to a growing list of defendan...

WASHINGTON-Microsoft Corp. counterpunched Wednesday, urging U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson to dismiss what it cal...

WASHINGTON - Keith Harper always wanted to practice American Indian law. But he never anticipated his life would be consumed b...

SAN FRANCISCO - Respected former U.S. District Judge Charles Renfrew was named Wednesday by Hearst Newspapers to conduct an in...

Angry at Marin County's decision to retry a case that ended in a 9-3 vote for acquittal last month, a group of jurors is raisi...

Services were held Tuesday for Charles F. Howard, a retired sole practitioner. Howard died May 2. He was 82. Born in Kansas, H...

JOSHUA TREE - Jurors called to serve in the Joshua Tree Courthouse finally have a little bit of room to move - and a place to ...

The Practitioner: Employment Law By Richard Chernick California Supreme Court Has Reaffirmed the 'Moncharsh' principle in two...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County Vons employee won a $4 million punitive damages verdict against the supermarket Tuesday following...

SANTA ANA - Nervous giggles came from the jury box. Small hands nudged aside papers on the counsel table. And a shy, smiling ...

Robert G. van Schoonenberg, senior vice president, general counsel and secretary of Avery Dennison Corp. , has become a member...

If you are looking for a demonstration of raw political power, forget about the elder Daley's Chicago, Tammany Hall or any of ...

SANTA ANA - Billy Harlow took the bench for the first time Tuesday in Orange County Superior Court, but he may have to wait a...

Explaining why a computerized system for tracking misconduct by Los Angeles Police Department officers has yet to be implemen...

Los Angeles County Public Defender Mike Judge, who has complained from the start of the Rampart scandal that the district att...

SAN FRANCISCO - When a group of women gathered one morning last year for an outdoor aerobics session to protest a 24-Hour Fitn...

A Thai toddler, drugged and used as a decoy in a human smuggling ring, may stay in the United States during the evaluation of...

SACRAMENTO - Less than a year after signing landmark legislation to reform health maintenance organizations, Gov. Gray Davis ...