WASHINGTON - The justices are at it - or, more accurately, not at it - again. In recent terms, the Supreme Court has helped f...

A state appeal panel has ruled that homeowners whose 16-year-old son accidentally shot his friend to death cannot force their...

WASHINGTON - The nation's federal appellate courts do not need more judgeships, a key U.S. senator has concluded after wrappi...

WASHINGTON - President Clinton has nominated San Diego attorney M. James Lorenz to the U.S. District Court for the Southern D...

VENTURA - Finding that Isuzu Motors inadequately tested a model of sport-utility vehicle, a jury has ordered the automobile m...

In a strange twist of events, attorney Edward L. Masry said Tuesday that he is helping a woman who had sued him for legal mal...

SACRAMENTO - The requirement that suspects be warned of their right to remain silent or have an attorney present during polic...

Mike Capizzi, the former Orange County district attorney, recently joined Mayer Coble & Palmer, a Long Beach-based firm t...

The erroneous release of a murder suspect from sheriff's custody would not have happened if computer systems used by the Los ...

SACRAMENTO - It's no secret how Republican Assemblyman Scott Baugh became a champion of the rights of criminal suspects. All ...

WASHINGTON - Intel Corp. and the Federal Trade Commission announced Monday they had reached a last-minute proposed settlement...

Calling a former partner's pregnancy discrimination lawsuit against Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser, Weil & Sha...

SAN FRANCISCO - Despite assertions from city and law enforcement officials last fall that the criminal justice system could f...

SANTA ANA - U.S. District Judge Linda Hodge McLaughlin, known as a hardworking maverick, died Sunday at Western Medical Cente...

The State Bar Board of Governors has selected the bar's secretary, Jeffrey T. Gersick, to be the organization's acting executi...

Los Angeles County prosecutors have filed what they say may be the first case in California under a new state law prohibiting...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal prosecutor Monday painted a picture of an oil tanker crew trying to salvage hundreds of tons of fue...

BAKERSFIELD - The Pulitzer-Prize-winning author who took apart the Los Angeles juvenile justice system in his critically accl...

In a ruling that child advocates say complements last week's U.S. Supreme Court decision requiring school districts to provid...

WASHINGTON - Taking on an issue with broad impact in California, the Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider whether a contro...

NEW YORK - Managing the intersection between antitrust and intellectual property in a high-tech age is among the most challen...

Si Frumkin was 14 years old when he was forced to work as a slave laborer at a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. A...

Top rainmaker and intellectual property specialist Robert Steinberg has announced he is leaving Los Angeles' Irell & Mane...

SAN BERNARDINO - Firing its last shot in a four-year legal battle, the city of San Bernardino has asked the state Supreme Cou...

President Clinton's 2000 budget contains a long list of proposed tax increases for the millennium, including a particularly c...

SAN JOSE - Though his background suggests he would make an ideal civil law judge, until the beginning of this year Donald L. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Scientific reputations and millions of dollars are on the line in the rarefied world of recombinant DNA resea...

Under a newly adopted change in the state's judicial ethics rules, California judges must now report themselves to disciplina...

Veteran Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Sherman W. Smith Jr. is stepping down from the bench today to become a private judge...

Lawyers representing an asymptomatic HIV-positive man who sued his former employer for discrimination were awarded more than ...