Gov. Gray Davis announced Thursday he has hammered out a deal with civil rights activists that strips the most controversial ...

SAN DIEGO - A lawyer accused of diverting funds from a client severely disabled in an automobile accident and then sending he...

SIMI VALLEY - The Simi Valley Le Parc condominium complex is supposed to be a place where average Californians enjoy the bene...

SAN FRANCISCO - The replacement of one judge on a divided three-judge federal appeals panel resulted Thursday in the withdraw...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge in Los Angeles granted a temporary restraining order against Oppenheimer Wolff & D...

Major Misconduct "Sanchez' Illuminates Evidentiary Issues Faced in Many Criminal Trials By Chuck Sevilla A recent 9th U.S. Ci...

Gov. Gray Davis signed legislation Thursday to increase lawyers' rights in State Bar disciplinary proceedings and to force th...

By John M. Curtis With unemployment at record lows, employers scrambling for a finite group of qualified employees and labor ...

^^ On the Courthouse Steps ^^ Unfortunately, there seems to be in recent years a decline in the civility and professionalism ...

The Legal Aid Foundation of Long Beach has decided to pursue a merger with the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles. "We welco...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis, angering affirmative action advocates, on Wednesday vetoed a measure that sought to permit stat...

SAN FRANCISCO - Local employment lawyers are taking note of - and hoping to make use of - the results from a new study using ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Flushed with anger under intense cross-examination, veteran attorney Patrick S. Hallinan testified Wednesday ...

^^Intellectual Property^^ College Try No State Liability for Patent Infringement and False Advertising The decisions have wid...

MONTEREY - Supreme Count Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Stephen G. Breyer on Wednesday told the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of A...

A Los Angeles judge Wednesday refused to dismiss on constitutional grounds the apparent first case filed under a new state la...

SAN FRANCISCO - Clifford Chanler, a pioneering Proposition 65 attorney, lost a bid Wednesday to have the San Francisco Superi...

SANTA ANA - An 83-year-old man who lived alone recently was approached by his son, who asked for money. When the man refused,...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has officially come out on the side of a spurned French cartoon character named Marsupi...

Nursing mothers are now welcome to breast-feed their babies at Borders bookstores in California under terms of a settlement a...

He's a bright kid with a refreshing sense of humor who has lived in foster care since he was 7 years old. Child advocates say...

Although there are a variety of transitional housing programs for foster youth in Los Angeles County, each has its own entran...

SAN FRANCISCO - Graham & James has filed a suit against Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly and three of its partners, allegi...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis is expected today to announce a resolution of the legal battle over Proposition 187 that substan...

The Los Angeles County prosecutor who angered his bosses by questioning in open court whether they had granted leniency to a ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Sticking to California's strict rule of automatic disqualification in conflict-of-interest situations, the Ca...

^^San Diego Watch / Martin Kruming^^ Court reporting firms in San Diego are feeling the pinch these days, and it's coming fro...

By Ralph O. Williams III and Michael P. King Litigators and mediators are sometimes confounded by the oxymoron of court-order...

By Mike Horner Defying all logic or pretense of acting for the greater common good, California's personal injury lawyers and ...

SAN DIEGO - A 68-year-old documentary filmmaker and ex-convict who is accused of dangling big dreams to lure $400,000 from tw...