RIVERSIDE - The former public defender here has filed a wrongful dismissal claim against the Riverside County Board of Superv...

SACRAMENTO - Few have more to lose politically than Gil Garcetti now that the governor has signed legislation that strips dis...

Few people can boast of once living beneath Dodger Stadium. Civil rights attorney Sharon Lybeck Hartmann is one of them. A na...

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SACRAMENTO - Now comes the hard part. On Friday, Gov. Gray Davis signed into law a historic overhaul of California's troubled...

The boy wore a red sweatshirt with a picture of Minnie kissing Mickey Mouse and spent the day quietly drawing pictures of bra...

In an effort to ease the fears of trial court unification foes, Attorney General Bill Lockyer has strongly refuted critical a...

The head of the Los Angeles County district attorney's major narcotics division Monday dismissed the defense bar's latest att...

A federal judge Monday gave final approval to the settlement of a 1993 class-action lawsuit brought against the Anti-Defamati...

A dispute over what Los Angeles Police Department materials the inspector general should have access to has been resolved, of...

By Kent R. Raygor and Oral Caglar The federal Trademark Amendments Act, Pub. L. No. 106-43, 113 Stat. 218, signed into law by...

Los Angeles Police Chief Bernard Parks is calling a county anti-gang loitering ordinance "a viable tool" and recommending the...

SAN FRANCISCO - One could certainly argue that when Somma Sriee Sooria Arratchiga decided to become a parking lot attendant, ...

By Don J. DeBenedictis Yes, Virginia, there really is a State Bar. Contrary to popular opinion, it did not expire when then-G...

By Gary S. Wong Major earthquakes, fires, floods and other natural occurrences can be potential disasters for law firms. Hard...

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By Don J. DeBenedictis The next president of the State Bar of California, Andrew J. Guilford, may be a well-known litigator a...

SAN FRANCISCO - The local, five-attorney firm of Hovis Smith Stewart Lipscomb & Cross has dissolved, and three of its lawy...

By Arturo J. Gonzlez Mario Paz, a 64-year-old father of six, was killed Aug. 9, 1999, during a raid of his Compton home. A ma...

By Chris Ford Los Angeles Municipal Court Presiding Judge Veronica McBeth received a phone call several years ago from a cons...

By Jennifer Byrd San Francisco attorneys Dale Minami and Donald K. Tamaki have reshaped history for Japanese-Americans. In th...

SALARIES RAISED FOR TRUCKER HUSS ASSOCIATES San Francisco's Trucker Huss, a 13-attorney employee benefits firm, has raised it...

(Jim could you place this correction at the end - thanks!) CORRECTION The Sept. 20 issue of California Law Business reported ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Clearing the way for a civil rights trial over the handling of the 1990 car bombing of two Earth First activi...

Despite assertions from Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky that the district attorney's office has enough funds in...

SANTA ANA - When thousands of investors decided to sink their dollars into five limited partnerships controlled by Newport Be...

SAN DIEGO - Senior U.S. District Judge Leland C. Nielsen, described by those who knew him best as a fine jurist who dedicated...

Although the battle over mandatory arbitration has intensified in recent years, the war actually began more than 20 years ago...

A catfight over a zoning ordinance has turned into a constitutional law conundrum in which a judge has prohibited a woman from...