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SANTA ANA - In a possibly futile move, the Orange County Bar Association has voted to support a merger between the Legal Aid S...

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A state appeal court has reinstated a suit over the rights to the life story and musical compositions of famed band-leader Cab...

SAN FRANCISCO - For the second year in a row, Fenwick & West has been named one of the country's 100 best companies to wor...

Sentencing for Rafael A. Perez, the former Los Angeles Police Department officer who sparked the Rampart Division corruption s...

The special counsel to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors monitoring the sheriff's department told the board Tuesday ...

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Three Venezuelans were convicted Monday in the second and final trial of Operation Casablanca, the largest drug money launderi...

Calling the settlement of an Illinois federal class action against three money-transfer companies unfair - partly because the ...

The Burbank City Council meetings have no room for Jesus Christ, according to two residents of that city who claim in a lawsui...

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved four lawsuit settlements Tuesday totaling $1.5 million, including a $775,...

By Edwin Train Caldwell and Wylie A. Aitken In a bare hospital room on Nov. 10, John Gardenal died as he lived - with grace, ...

Ordered by a judge to demonstrate why a man's 1980 murder conviction should not be vacated, prosecutors contended that another...

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Stanley Mosk certainly counts. For decades, he has served as the philosophical center of the California Supreme Court and in r...

After Somogyi heard the Pearl Harbor announcement on his home's big console radio, he tossed aside his books and mulled his f...

Lucy the Lawyer didn't make a formidable appearance during World War II, unlike her blue-collar counterpart, Rosie the Rivete...

By Ronald M. George The year 2000 marks not only the start of a new century and a new millennium, but also the 150th annivers...

SAN DIEGO - A man found not guilty by reason of insanity in the 1986 murder of an Escondido physician has been restored to san...

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DICTA To keep branch offices feeling like part of the big picture, firms should make them know they are an important part of t...

Famed attorney Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. won a victory in the latest round of litigation in the palimony suit against him by his ...

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