SAN FRANCISCO - Intellectual property litigator Matthew B. Lehr is leaving a Wilmington, Del., firm to join the Palo Alto offi...

BUENA PARK - An amended city ordinance that went into effect last December means visitors can legally overstay their welcome i...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Santa Rosa family law attorney and two-time city council candidate has been charged with grand theft for all...

Practitioner: Employment Law By Joan E. Smiles As long as the time spent is under the "control" of the employer, the time is c...

Forum: By Fred Silberberg Family law is fraught with emotion. There are disagreements over sharing children, houses and dividi...

Forum: By Harriet K. Bilford Faced with the Rampart police corruption scandal, more and more public officials are finally comi...

The secretary of the American Bar Association reportedly is facing discipline charges for allegedly lying to the New Hampshire...

The grand jury investigating the Rampart scandal heard testimony Wednesday from former officer Brian Hewitt, who was fired las...

WASHINGTON - The federal judiciary has begun considering ways to standardize rules of professional responsibility for lawyers ...

The Rampart corruption scandal took center stage Tuesday evening at the first face-to-face debate between Los Angeles District...

SAN FRANCISCO - A prosecutor who promised to dismiss a case pending results of a lie detector test cannot go back on his word ...

Tempers flared Tuesday evening at the seventh and last scheduled meeting between the public and the Los Angeles Board of Polic...

Stuart Hanlon, who has been working on the Geronimo Pratt case since he was a law student more than 20 years ago, described th...

Los Angeles District Attorney Gil Garcetti said Wednesday he expects his office to file only a "small handful" of motions to o...

WASHINGTON - Almost all of the Supreme Court justices expressed serious concern Wednesday about requiring the Boy Scouts to ac...

The Rampart-related, class-action civil rights lawsuit filed last week by a gutsy, self-promoting and controversial civil righ...

The Legal Services Program for Pasadena-Pomona-San Gabriel Valley has announced it will file a lawsuit against the Legal Servi...

Although his federal public defender insisted in 1997 that Jorge Sisco-Aguilar was being framed by two lying Rampart CRASH ant...

A fight that two criminal defense attorneys are waging over the racial and ethnic makeup of the Los Angeles County grand jury ...

An attempt to amend a request by the Los Angeles City Council that a panel investigating Rampart police corruption increase it...

The Los Angeles city attorney's office is claiming that a vast majority of the 28 lawsuits filed against the city alleging civ...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County judge Tuesday threw out a lawsuit alleging that the city of Irvine acted unlawfully by funding a ...

A former Daily Journal editor and attorney, Kenyon Roberts, has died. Roberts died last Thursday at the Chandler Convalescent ...

Practitioner: Alternate Dispute Resolution By Alexander S. Polsky All attorneys have been there - the painful moment when dis...

A recently released study titled "The Color of Justice" by a national coalition of legal groups called Building Blocks for You...

FULLERTON - Linda K. Ross, a Fullerton family law attorney, never expected to achieve national prominence in the way she did l...

San Diego Watch Superior Court Judge Ernest Borunda will retire from the bench in June to become dean of the National Judicia...

Forum: Attorney Action By Elaine Michetti No political parties. No elections. No independent judiciary or legislature. No bar...

Forum: By Steven L. Harmon On March 17, the Riverside Criminal Courts Bar Association Board of Directors voted unanimously to...

SAN DIEGO - After one emotional trial that ended with a hung jury, the first police canine handler in the nation known to have...