SANTA ANA - Two months ago, a supporter of former Orange County district attorney and judicial candidate Mike Capizzi filed a ...

The American Bar Association on Thursday named a new consultant to its arm that accredits law schools nationwide. John A. Sebe...

The producers of "Law & Order" have perfected the art of disguising devastating attacks on individual liberties. They snea...

SAN FRANCISCO - A judge presiding over an asbestos case has wiped out a $5.9 million verdict, saying the plaintiffs attorney ...

Los Angeles County has decided to drop its appeal of a $138,000 jury verdict awarded to a former sheriff's detective who claim...

Los Angeles' Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan has added three prominent new partners to its ranks . William Finkelstein jo...

Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps and partner James B. Hicks have been sued for slander and libel by Mattel Inc., which cl...

WASHINGTON - The American Bar Association has joined the chorus chastising Gov. Gray Davis for comments he made here earlier t...

SAN DIEGO - District Attorney Paul Pfingst took the witness stand Thursday to tell why he fired a district attorney's investig...

SANTA ANA - The 4th District Court of Appeal in Santa Ana has ordered prosecutors to show why a writ of habeas corpus seeking...

SAN FRANCISCO - A divided California Supreme Court ruled Thursday in favor of a Los Angeles panhandling ordinance in a decisio...

Atten-hut, troops! Lost in all the hubbub about the Rampart police scandal is the fact that now those tens of thousands of unp...

Event One - On Feb. 28, 1997, as a horrified nation watched on television, two bank robbers sprayed assault weapons fire on p...

Robert Berkes didn't just read "Bleak House," he lived it. Similar to Jarndyce and Jarndyce, the law firm in Dickens' novel wh...

A majority of Americans are now enrolled in some type of managed-care organization, including the most widely known managed ca...

By Orlando Patterson The exoneration of the four officers who shot Amadou Diallo have set off heated debates on police procedu...

Man Found Shot In O.C. Courthouse SANTA ANA - An Internal Revenue Service agent was fatally shot Wednesday in a copy room in t...

The road from Port Said to Cairo is a long one. It is longer if you are watching the on-board video, which in our case was a s...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed unanimously Wednesday to review the validity of a new law cutting back on...

Five attorneys are fighting for one empty judicial seat in San Bernardino County. The winner in the March 7 elections will rep...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County judicial candidates, faced with a crowded ballot and limited funds, are relying on paid slate ma...

A badge and a gun ... No matter how much we improve the recruiting and training of people who wear them, until humans become p...

The debate over Proposition 22 is now in full swing. It seems to be in the media daily. In fact, it appears that the subject o...

An Irish "smart card" developer recently sued 3Com Inc. in a New York federal court, alleging that technology used in the Pal...

SAN DIEGO - Even before opening arguments at a Civil Service Commission hearing for a district attorney investigator fired for...

SAN BERNARDINO - Gary Redinger knows that his only chance to take a judicial seat from an incumbent in the March 7 elections i...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court justices indicated Wednesday they will rule that federal law pre-empts state-court tort suits b...

SAN DIEGO - As what once seemed destined to be a typically subdued campaign for four superior court judicial seats moves towar...

He'll be back. That was the message Wednesday from a lawyer for alleged police misconduct victims who was rebuffed in his effo...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled unanimously that federal prisoners whose sentences are reduced by appeals co...