Prosecutors Pass Probation Period SAN BERNARDINO - Several attorneys and staff have successfully passed through their probati...

Who was primarily to blame for the awful circumstances regarding nursing home patient Mary Herlihy may never be known. ...

One must stretch to uncover even one legal issue of consequence in this week's show. Vincent Gray's book comes out to a favora...

By John H. Sullivan Harmful measures like SB1237 and AB1309 - now known as Propositions 30 and 31 - are the very reason Califo...

Wang is one of the first cases involving an Internet product alleged to infringe a pre-Internet patent. ...

Los Angeles plaintiff's attorney Gerald C. MacRae knew he had stepped into an arena for which he had little preparation when h...

Q. What do you do when you think the mediator is "leaning" too hard on your side? - Steven G. Mehta, catastrophic- tort litiga...

The shift from litigation to alternative dispute resolution is one of the most visible legal trends in the last decade. Increa...

SAN DIEGO - Questions about how much knowledge of the justice system a person needs to be able to "reasonably entertain a dou...

It had to happen. Cybersquatting, the act of using the Internet name of an established organization in a way that disadvantage...

Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan proposed Thursday using up to $300 million in tobacco settlement proceeds to raise cash to ...

WASHINGTON - Officials from the Legal Services Corp. received a surprisingly warm welcome from some traditionally hostile lawm...

Greetings from New York. This is a tight column, so The Eye has to discard a lot of the 8 million stories in the naked city. T...

Proposition 28 on the March ballot offers voters a clear choice: Protecting the healthy development of our children or increas...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether Proposition 213 bars uninsured motorists from...

Attorney Felix Valdez died Saturday of cancer in Arrowhead Medical Center in Colton. He was 47. Valdez began his professional...

Lawyers of California, a crisis is upon us. Largely ignored by major media types, it has somehow even escaped our collective a...

A 62-year-old retiree claims in a lawsuit he was "recruited" to sue a bank by lawyers and others with the assurance he would n...

Labeling it another example of Los Angeles police mishandling a mentally unstable person, the parents of Felix Valenzuela, Jr....

Of the many incidents being reviewed for possible criminal charges against rogue Rampart cops, one involves a purported beatin...

Businesses are trying to collect insurance money for Y2K remediation costs. ...

Four of 12 officers identified early in the investigation of the Rampart scandal should not have been hired by the Los Angeles...

What do you happen to be carrying in your pockets right now? A pager? A business-lunch receipt? Spare change perhaps? ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A former manager of an East Bay sewage treatment plant has pleaded guilty to federal pollution charges and fa...

Here is a selected summary of actions taken by the California Supreme Court during its weekly conference on Wednesday. ...

Nine more people are expected to have their cases thrown out today due to the Rampart police corruption scandal, bringing to 3...

Inducement to infringe a patent is not covered by advertising-injury policies. ...

A vegan computer technician claims he was denied a job at Kaiser Permanente for refusing to take a mumps vaccination because i...

Saying he believes Los Angeles district attorney challenger Steve Cooley can better oversee the Rampart investigation than inc...

A state appeal panel has ruled that, in false arrest and imprisonment suits based on state law claims, a plaintiff is entitled...