Three months before Jan. 1, 2000, predictions are cheap commodities. Still, it's hard to find anyone willing to hazard a gues...

MARTINEZ - Few lawyers in Contra Costa County have represented clients with the same zest for battle as David C. Coleman III....

SANTA ANA - Former Orange County District Attorney Michael R. Capizzi has announced that he will run for a Superior Court jud...

Making his first judicial appointments since becoming governor 10 months ago, Gray Davis announced Thursday the elevation of ...

^^Law & Order^^ By J. Conboy The consistently talented writers of "Law and Order" may have set a new series record by acc...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court gave no clear signals Wednesday on the fate of a California law that forbids releasing the add...

Wrecking Reference Defamed Employee Can Sue Both County and Sheriff The release - a total release of the county and its emplo...

Jarring the Jury It's not trial, it's theater By Jilien J. Rubin Lawyers seem to excel at irritating jurors, who are known to...

Moving West Out-of-State Noncompete Clauses Probably Unenforceable By Ricki J. Shoss Imagine an owner of a company headquarte...

By Charles Levendosky According to Alliance for Justice, a nonprofit public interest advocacy group in Washington, D.C., five...

The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to spend more than $2. 85 million to settle five lawsuits, including nearly $2.2...

WASHINGTON - Congress could undermine California's new managed care liability law if conservative Senators push to federalize...

The sudden resignation last month of Norman Wegener, chief of the Santa Monica city attorney's criminal division, appears to ...

The largest civil case in Los Angeles Superior Court history has spawned its first professional negligence lawsuit. A defense...

Wanted Attorney Surrenders SAN BERNARDINO - Fugitive attorney James Brian Watkins, 33, walked into a San Bernardino courtroom...

A man convicted of four murders in Compton claims that one of his jurors committed misconduct during penalty phase deliberati...

SAN JOSE - The Santa Clara County Bar Association is looking north, for the first time in recent memory, in picking its futur...

LOS ANGELES - A lively California Supreme Court Wednesday appeared unlikely to extend liability to a parking lot owner for a ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal administrative law judge in charge of hearing Social Security appeals was convicted Wednesday of pe...

A San Francisco Superior Court judge has been ordered to attend a year of domestic violence counseling in an agreement with s...

A San Bernardino County judge was censured Wednesday by the state's judicial discipline authority for failing "to respect the ...

SAN BERNARDINO - Although it's been 22 years since he worked at Procter & Gamble, the home of Tide and other soaps, Richa...

SEATTLE - Besides selling books, Seattle's e-commerce giant, Amazon.com, is known for its efficiency at collecting personal d...

In the wake of Santa Monica's enactment of a ban on some ATM fees, the first such local action in the country, both sides Wed...

Sometimes, Billing for Travel Time Isn't the Way to Go By Gary Greenfield No hard-and-fast rules dictate how to bill travel t...

^^Capitol Account^^ By Chris Micheli One of the measures on the legislative agenda of the plaintiffs' bar is a bill to severel...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to consider whether a new police weapon against drug smuggling - squeezing bus ...

Charlie Grebing didn't know a lot about San Diego back in the 1960s. Although he had been accepted by UCLA and USC, someone u...

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors took the first step Tuesday toward possibly directing the district attorney's and...

SAN FRANCISCO - Current settlement talks between the University of California and Genentech Inc., over the biotech firm's all...