Barring a plea bargain or dismissal of the case, former Symbionese Liberation Army soldier Sara Jane Olson is set to go on tr...

SACRAMENTO - In a last-ditch bid to ante up to a sweeping juvenile justice ballot initiative placed by former Republican Gov....

Davis Polk & Wardwell, the New York-based mergers-and-acquisitions and corporate finance powerhouse, launched its new Sil...

VENTURA - In a recent listing of Ventura County's top "Movers and Shakers," a local newspaper pictured Hells Angels Chapter P...

A former intern at UCLA's Department of Family Medicine has failed to produce sufficient evidence that he was booted from the...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court opened the door Monday to legal distribution of medical marijuana for terminally ill ...

SACRAMENTO - Here are summaries of the key elements of legislative proposals to partly restore the right of third parties to ...

SACRAMENTO - The 1999 legislative session saw the plaintiffs' bar get some tort-reform payback, the State Bar get a facelift ...

DA's Office Gets A $260K Grant The state Office of Criminal Justice Planning has awarded the Los Angeles County district atto...

NEW FACULTY AND NEW BUILDING SPARKS CHAPMAN Five new professors have joined the Chapman University law school community. The ...

By Gerald F. Uelmen Dissent and disagreement rates are both useful tools in analyzing the movement of judges around the fault...

^^Construction Law^^ By Bernard S. Kamine Proving damages for breach of a construction contract is often difficult. The theor...

Man Admits Use of Dog in Hate Crime A Sun Valley man pleaded guilty Friday to two misdemeanor federal hate crimes for using h...

ABA Will Honor Retired S.D. Judge Retired San Diego Superior Court Judge J. William Beard will receive an award from the Amer...

^^Appellate Procedure^^ Consent Consensus Supreme Court Allows Appeal of Stipulated Judgments Norgart provides a welcome addi...

Brobeck Phleger CISCO SYSTEMS TAKES BIG EQUITY STAKE IN KPMG San Jose-based Cisco Systems invested $1 billion in New York acc...

Cyberspace Law Blame It on 'Rio' Uncertainty surrounding the downloading of digital music could spawn a deluge of litigation....

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The achievement of justice is an endless process. John F. Kennedy Graham & James REPORT OF A COVER-UP DENIED BY LEADERS T...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti, former Los Angeles Police Chief Willie Williams and several m...

SANTA ANA - When U.S. District Court Judge Gary L. Taylor ruled last month that a former employee of Dain Rauscher Inc. did n...

SACRAMENTO - When the 1999 legislative session drew to a close, rookie Democratic Assemblyman Herb Wesson of inner city Los A...

A judge has certified a class-action lawsuit filed by former transit agency officers who claim the Los Angeles County sheriff...

By James A. Leach Recent allegations that American and European banks have facilitated money laundering for Russian organized...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in San Jose has rejected a bid by a New York law firm to oust plaintiffs' class action attorn...

Norman T. Wegener, 42, chief deputy of the Santa Monica city attorney's criminal division, abruptly resigned his post Tuesday...

SAN FRANCISCO - It's no secret that the number of lawyers who hate their jobs is growing. Some attorneys leave the law to bec...

SACRAMENTO - If Gail Marie Harrington-Wisley were trying last Mother's Day to smuggle contraband into the prison where her hu...

Since its inception in 1978, the U.S. Trustee's Office has toiled in relative obscurity. That's just fine with Maureen A. Tig...

SAN FRANCISCO - The replacement of one judge on a divided three-judge federal appeals panel resurrected Thursday the warrantl...