Judging Amy: As the Christmas season brings another repeat of an earlier show, Judge Amy finds one of her rulings taken up on ...

Loyola Team Wins Mock Trial Event For the second year in a row, Loyola Law School's Byrne Trial Advocacy Team has won first p...

Family Law: The lawyers at Holt & Associates take some hard knocks this week. When Rex Weller decides it's time to make an...

SAN FRANCISCO - Five associates and two senior counsel have been named partners at Pillsbury Madison & Sutro, effective J...

Although experts may testify on the ultimate issue at trial, they may not trample the role of the judge and jury. ...

Three candidates have dropped out of the Los Angeles County judicial elections - including one who left an incumbent, Rio Hond...

For the first time since the Los Angeles Police Department's Rampart Division corruption scandal broke, one of the defendants...

Publishers of the San Francisco Independent newspaper lost their bid to revive a $1.15 million judgment against the San Franc...

Nearly 55 years ago, a young infantryman was stranded for hours in a shell hole surrounded by enemy soldiers. After six hours...

Publicly, State Bar prosecutors have stated they are seeking a two-year actual suspension from the practice of law as punishme...

1910 was a bad year for pimps, prostitutes and Democrats. It was the year the Progressives - a splinter group of Republicans ...

A former Disney Internet executive was convicted Wednesday on federal child pornography charges, but the jury deadlocked on tw...

SANTA ANA - Aging, overcrowded court facilities. Lack of services for self-represented litigants. Inadequate public education ...

Firing Likely for S.D. Investigator SAN DIEGO - District Attorney's Investigator Eddie Cervantes is under threat of being fir...

Certain Suit Policyholder Counsel Should Talk Tough When a Claim Is Denied By Scott Ferrell It is no secret that insurance com...

By Abby J. Leibman and Susan Berke Fogel The legal regulation of women's reproductive health care has undergone a dramatic rol...

A man who claims he was set up by the officer who sparked the Rampart Division scandal has sued the city of Los Angeles for vi...

A federal judge has granted preliminary approval of a $2 million settlement between the Los Angeles County and the Black Proba...

Insurance law's defining moments are seen in two important cases decided in the 1960s. Page 7 ^^Insurance Law^^ Defining Decad...

Music Piracy is the target of a lawsuit filed by the Recording Industry Association of America against an Internet service tha...

Veteran personal injury attorney Michael J. Piuze will face trial in February for advising a burn victim to turn down a $1.9 m...

It could be a good hypothetical for a law school class: Take a rare large parcel of land in an urban area populated largely wi...

DICTA Deadlines may come and deadlines may go, but their value cannot be underestimated. Page 8. By Paul O'Brien Nearly 20 yea...

SACRAMENTO - The prominent lobbying and litigation firm of Livingston & Mattesich has moved into the political law field w...

SAN FRANCISCO - The race for San Francisco district attorney ended in a virtual dead heat Wednesday, and authorities said the...

"No reptiles are found there," [in Ireland]", the 8th century historian, Venerable Bede, wrote of Ireland. Apparently, the sam...

Quinn Emanuel Adds Four Partners Los Angeles' Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges has hired a lateral partner and elev...

SACRAMENTO - History shows that the plaintiffs bar group, Consumer Attorneys of California, has an unfailing ability to raise...

The first Fords were swerving through dust to dodge horses and wagons. Ladies still wore corsets and toe-length dresses, and ...