SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - Crystal, now a high school senior, tells of the day last year when she was beaten bloody while dozens of c...

A widely used police tactic to bait thieves into stealing autos appeared Wednesday to have won the California Supreme Court's ...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a ruling with broad implications for union boycotts by government employees, a federal appeals court ruled ...

Charging there has been "a tremendous loss of confidence" in Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti, environmental ...

DICTA Many of the so-called mundane aspects of practice, like fee agreements and other collection issues, are often the ones t...

By Anthony Lewis Janet Reno has been an admirably independent attorney general. Where her record is faulty, however, is on civ...

By Nancy E. Spero On December 10, 11, and 12, the drafters of the Uniform Mediation Act will be convening in Seaside, Calif. i...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday that when a delinquent taxpayer who inherits money disclaims any...

SAN DIEGO - It all started during a routine brainstorming session before a regular monthly dinner meeting of the Consumer Atto...

By Joel Riff and John Hollingsworth For lawyers who work on deals involving the licensing of computer technologies, any develo...

By Carlyle C. Ring Jr. Information technology accounts for more than one-third of the nation's economic growth and is the most...

SAN DIEGO - A Superior Court judge, attacked in the local news media for being on disability and away from her post for more t...

At the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena on Monday, lawyers spent one of the last days of the Second Millennium ar...

Rose Bird was the most exasperating person I've ever known. As anyone who ever worked with her can tell you, Bird was a person...

In a rare nonjury acquittal, U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker has declared that an informant who was paid $380,000 during a 1...

As the millennium draws to a close, so does the interesting three-year tenure of a once combative state prosecutor and later i...

SAN DIEGO - A Riverside County Superior Court judge has ordered that a motion to dismiss murder charges against David James Ge...

A federal grand jury in Los Angeles Thursday indicted an alleged white supremacist on federal hate crimes stemming from the A...

Seventeen years after he stabbed to death a maid in a Hollywood Hills home, Charles McDowell Jr. has again been condemned to d...

Murphy Extends Disability Leave Citrus Municipal Court Judge Patrick B. Murphy, who was expected back to work Thursday after h...

The reputed gang member who contends the Los Angeles Police Department's Rampart Division corruption scandal involves division...

Los Angeles City Councilman Nate Holden and his son, Pasadena City Councilman Chris Holden, announced Thursday that a veteran ...

Consumers unhappy with their goods and services may not skirt binding arbitration clauses by invoking the little-used Consumer...

Behind these prison walls echoes the soft cooing of infants, not the harsh clank of cell doors. The giddy laughter of children...

LOS ANGELES - Seventeen years after he stabbed to death a maid in a Hollywood Hills home, Charles McDowell Jr. has again been ...

In another bit of interesting timing, the same day that former Department of Children and Family Services head Peter Digre fil...

By James Cooper As 50,000 protesters fill the streets of Seattle this week to push varied agendas, they all share the belief t...

Separate and Unequal 'Serrano' Played an Important Role in Development of School-District Policy By Arthur F. Coon and Scott A...

Foreseeable Future Premises Liability Changed Radically in the 1960s With 'Rowland' This truly seminal California case influen...

^^Cyber Solutions^^ Hackers Pierce the Veil of Home and Office Computers By Kevin Lee Thomason Given the sad and strange state...