SAN DIEGO - Lawyers for the city of San Diego will get their final chance this month to convince an Orange County judge to thr...

LOS ANGELES - The federal court in Los Angeles announced plans Wednesday to reappoint two full-time and two part-time magistra...

"If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed." Supreme Court Jus...

Consumers who sue under a breach of warranty theory to recover damages for the cost to repair or replace defective products ne...

Prenuptial agreements that allow a party to waive spousal support for any reason are inherently unfair and should, as a matter...

Take heart, legal shut-ins. Be glad you are at work. August is here, and today could be a scorcher. ...

CHICAGO - As lawyers gather this week for the American Bar Association's annual convention here, key votes are expected on eth...

LOS ANGELES - A Van Nuys judge on Wednesday denied a bail request for Robert Rosenkrantz, a convicted killer who sued Gov. Gra...

LOS ANGELES - Ending a heated six-year battle over construction costs on the Red Line subway, a Superior Court jury on Wednesd...

WASHINGTON - Is the polygraph test taken by California Rep. Gary A. Condit worth the graph paper it is printed on? Or is it ju...

LOS ANGELES - In a suit that tested just how far the media may delve into the most personal moments of unsuspecting people, a ...

It's OK for original Beach Boy Al Jardine to keep going on surfing safaris - but he better be careful how he shoots the curls....

The earlier parties get to the mediation table, the earlier that they can settle, the more time and money they can save and th...

Using civilian custody assistants would help the county of Los Angeles get its deputies out of staffing the jails and back on ...

When Etta Ann Urdiales was murdered in Colorado, two completely different juries convicted two different people of the crime. ...

The only thing Rodolfo Chavez admits having on his mind as he drove to Ramona on Jan. 7, 1998, was the selection of late-model...

At the mediation offices of Gig Kyriacou, Kyriacou and mediators Earl Willens, Charlie Peterson, Steve Cerveris, Keenan Oldham...

Paul Gabbert displays exotic travel photographs on the walls and shelves of his office, among them a shot of a 200-pound Komod...

Now that arbitration has matured, is it still the economical, efficient service its proponents claim it to be? The answer is d...

Two centuries ago, Alexis de Tocqueville traveled from France to the United States and described the political system that he ...

Like a child waiting for Santa (or, in my case, for the first night of Chanukah), I awaited the arrival of the UPS truck. The ...

Courts Must Review Constitutional Challenges to Punitives De Novo Cooper appears to be sending a message: Appellate courts mus...

Motion pictures and television provide ample examples of conflict. As attorneys, we can encourage the civil resolution of disp...

The goal of this series of three articles is to heighten awareness of the different cultural values held by the Chinese, Latin...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles woman who fled to England after she and her husband embezzled nearly $1 million from her employer,...

LOS ANGELES - A jury has acquitted a 26-year-old Israeli immigrant man of federal charges that he trafficked in ecstasy, the c...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles personal injury lawyer who spent client money on personal expenses and reported zero taxable incom...

LOS ANGELES - After a year of battling immigration and federal authorities, a reformed gang member has overcome another hurdle...

LOS ANGELES - A veteran prosecutor accused of misconduct faces new allegations that he intended to lie to the court in order t...