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The adoptions of more than 600 abused and severely neglected children will be finalized Saturday on the first National Adoptio...

John Griffiths' passion for golf seemingly knows no bounds. His office in Palo Alto has a room equipped with golf balls and a ...

The controversy over county ordinances in Los Angeles and Alameda County banning gun shows on county property will be decided ...

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Yet again, a virtual term limit has stopped the bid of a Los Angeles county district attorney to serve a third term. Steve Coo...

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The letter of the law is not lost on Ron Turovsky, a partner in Manatt, Phelps & Phillips in Los Angeles. ...

Stephen J. Tully of Garret & Tully in Westlake Village won a defense verdict in a case alleging accounting fraud, Nissan M...

A disgruntled former Internet company employee who hacked into the company's computer system can be prosecuted under federal s...

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Western State University College of Law in Fullerton, which has educated 25 percent of the attorneys practicing in Orange Coun...

The service that the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority contracts with to provide paratransit service is...

A 23-year-old Illinois man has been sentenced to 16 months in state prison following his no-contest plea to a charge of felony...

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State and local education officials have settled a lawsuit that claimed a California achievement test discriminates against sc...

A deputy general counsel at the Pentagon with a long history of involvement in Los Angeles city and national Democratic Party ...

VALLEJO - Tempers boiled over this week as a defense lawyer and a judge exchanged hostilities in the habeas hearing into wheth...

Triumphant opponents of Marin County District Attorney Paula F. Kamena announced on Thursday's deadline that they have gathere...

LAS VEGAS - He's been called the king of appeals and, in the words of former Las Vegas Mayor Jan Jones, one of "the best appel...

A 35-year-old woman faces charges she tried to bring a loaded semi-automatic pistol into Los Angeles County Courthouse this we...

Following the election day passage of the drug treatment initiative, Proposition 36, District Attorney Terence Hallinan said h...

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Release of a new juvenile court tort policy designed to protect kids who are injured while in the dependency and delinquency s...

Richard Ortega won a $47,200 jury verdict after claiming he injured his knee slipping in a puddle of milk in the aisle of a Km...

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While California law firms continue to hold the line on their compensation packages, firms based in New York continue to roll ...