WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate Tuesday deadlocked Tuesday over the confirmation of several judicial nominations. But this showd...

SAN DIEGO - When children at a neighborhood street fair suddenly huddle on their knees, few would suspect them of shooting cr...

SACRAMENTO - California has finally achieved $25 billion worth of closure in a massive settlement of litigation against cigar...

By Marianne Means For some time now, the Miss America pageant has had pretensions of being more cerebral than it really is. T...

San Diego DA Picks New Chief Deputy SAN DIEGO - The appointment of Deputy District Attorney Kristin Anton as chief deputy dis...

By Heather Whitestone McCallum I will never forget the quote I studied daily before I competed in the 1995 Miss America Pagea...

^^Administrative Law^ Total Exhaustion Administrative Doctrine Is Still Evolving in California Several recent cases have elab...

$2.2M Settlements OK'd by Board The Los Angeles County Claims Board on Monday voted to recommend that the Board of Supervisor...

Transactions With Clients and Others Can Be Risky Business By Lindsay K. Slatter Despite decades of case law and the grievous...

SAN FRANCISCO - To settle a case that has been in dispute for more than a year, Wells Fargo Bank has agreed not to charge mon...

Jurors in a case brought against former state Sen. Charles M. Calderon (D-Whittier) by his fund-raising consultant - who clai...

LOS ANGELES - Memorial services were conducted Friday for former in-house corporate counsel and educator Theodore Bruinsma. H...

SAN FRANCISCO - County public defender offices may not hand out cases to private counsel on the presumption it is more cost e...

SACRAMENTO - The assembly speaker's office has delayed releasing a report that examines whether the California Highway Patrol...

SAN FRANCISCO - State prosecutors have waded into a huge legal fight started by a San Francisco environmental group, hoping t...

RIVERSIDE - A defense attorney is asking for a court order to keep reporters from conducting jail-house interviews with his c...

A Los Angeles County deputy district attorney who 21/2 years ago sued her office for retaliation, Monday accused her boss, DA...

Armed with a Supreme Court decision upholding its program, the State Bar of California has begun the process of enforcing man...

SAN DIEGO - Saying that development of computer forensic standards is one of the Justice Department's highest priorities, U.S...

SAN FRANCISCO - Judge Alex E. Saldamando may hold the antidote to the kind of jury selection nightmares that force people to ...

Based on revelations that Los Angeles police may have fabricated testimony to obtain a sweeping injunction against the city's...

^^Courtroom Craft^^ Trial and Error Admitting and explaining mistakes will lessen their impact at trial By Christopher Tayback...

Two brothers convicted in the first high-tech consumer fraud case of its kind in the nation have drawn one-year jail terms, a...

A civil rights lawsuit is expected to be filed this week on behalf of a little girl named Destiny - the 2-year-old daughter o...

Recently, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued on its consumer education Web site a warning to the country's investo...

^^Land Use Law^^ Last Request No Need to Seek Reconsideration Before Resorting to Court The court said that it now had recons...

Of course there's a different law for the rich and the poor; otherwise, who would go into business? E. Ralph Stewart CORRECTI...

Securities regulators have filed suit against a disbarred Santa Monica lawyer, charging that he made more than $200,000 from ...

byline = Jason J. Song and Katherine Gaidos Varner Saleson STATER BROS. ACQUIRES TWO SUPERMARKET CHAINS Stater Bros. Holdings...

^^Commercial Law^^ By Richard L. Seabolt Technological developments have produced shortened product cycles, which reward quic...