The painfully thin African-American woman standing in the courtroom couldn't stop trembling. Soon, the young mother, a victim ...

In a fast-food-restaurant parking lot on Vermont Avenue in 1996, former Los Angeles Police Department Officer Rafael A. Perez ...

ORANGE - More than eight centuries ago, young lawyers in England began joining Inns of Court to brush up on the law and get me...

Finding that the Orange County Social Services Agency made a halfhearted attempt to inform a mother of a hearing that put her ...

The Los Angeles police officer's union has sued the department over a 2-year-old practice of sending so-called "Brady letters"...

With county workers back at work thanks to the divine intervention of Cardinal Roger M. Mahoney, county and union attorneys ag...

SAN DIEGO - A jury's $13 million punitive damages award to the Fresno Unified School District in a bad-faith insurance lawsuit...

The court said that the electronic bulletin board was no different from a wood-and-cork bulletin board. ...

'Snake Charmers' tells the tale of the rise and demise of a money and power-grubbing San Francisco attorney. ...

A few weeks ago, the Senate's Commerce Committee hosted executives from the film industry who traveled to Washington to defend...

An 18-year-old man pleaded no contest Wednesday to felony vandalism committed during the Democratic National Convention in Aug...

A state appellate court heard arguments Wednesday that murderer Diana Haun was convicted on a bed of improper trial procedure,...

Following energetic debate over the extent to which the public should oversee police officer's conduct, the Los Angeles City C...

Los Angeles County workers manned the picket lines Wednesday in front of the Criminal Courts Building and the mall between the...

The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, together with representatives of religious, disabled rights and min...

Los Angeles County prosecutors in the corruption trial of four police officers have asked the 2nd District Court of Appeal to ...

In the article "School Voucher Gouger, School Reform Efforts Must Move Toward Accountability and Inclusion," (Sept. 26) where ...

The high court is faced with a fundamental public-policy issue: the continued viability and application of the continuous-viol...

When civil rights lawyer Constance L. Rice sought a consent decree with the Los Angeles Police Department several years ago to...

Bicycling enthusiasts who claimed they were unlawfully detained during the Democratic National Convention and kept from partic...

Most of the jurors who will decide the fate of four Los Angeles Police Department officers accused of corruption favor plea ba...

The California Supreme Court appeared reluctant Wednesday to grant public defenders the same malpractice immunity that already...

The Rampart police scandal has begun to resemble the murky world of Cold War espionage. For those who miss the days when the I...

Two Century City entertainment litigation powerhouses and former adversaries - Kinsella Boesch Fujikawa & Towle and Greenb...

Client fee agreements are designed to protect both attorney and client.

WASHINGTON - Jumping back into the thorny thicket of punitive damages, the Supreme Court Tuesday agreed to consider what stand...

A Los Angeles judge ruled Tuesday that 5,100 county hospital workers cannot leave their jobs to join the general strike of hal...

Two and a half years ago in Sacramento, federal Deputy Public Defender Robert Cohen came upon a situation he thought could hap...

The mediator has the responsibility to help the parties achieve an effective process that addresses their unique needs. ...

For most Americans, the sudden and dramatic conclusion of the Wen Ho Lee trial served as a profound lesson about the governmen...