By Carole Wagner Vallianos. In any democracy worth its salt, there are two important components: the presence of a strong civi...

By Bernard S. Kamine. The 'Amelco' case totally discredited a misreading of case law arising from an unfortunate choice of wor...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two of the media companies involved in the highly publicized, politically charged trial over ownership of San ...

Roy M. Pugh, a 28-year veteran of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Marshal's Department, has been promoted ...

Complex business and environmental litigator David Peterson has left Century City's Troop Steuber Pasich Reddick & Tobey f...

By Jonathan Tilove. The 2000 Democratic National Convention here is being held in the 33rd Congressional District. It is the p...

In December, Katz will succeed Stephanie Sontag as president of the 7,000-member San Diego County Bar Association. He was ele...

It appears that O.J. Simpson, former football legend and acquitted murder defendant, is back in court - this time as a plainti...

SAN FRANCISCO - The outcry against Judge W. Jackson Willoughby III increased Monday when 10 of his colleagues on the Placer Co...

A Los Angeles attorney admitted Tuesday he twice robbed two Pasadena banks. In an agreement with prosecutors, Steven Hyun Kim,...

Nonlethal police weapons really do work. In unexpected and unpredictable ways. Evidence of the strange political consequences ...

The first family - Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton - received an "Oscar" on Monday night at Gov. Gray Davis' California Welc...

State Sen. Hilda L. Solis, D-El Monte, an unopposed candidate for a congressional seat, got a prestige push for her environmen...

Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe is expanding the capability of its 5-year-old Singapore office with a new government-sanctio...

I spent the first day of the Democratic National Convention outside - as a legal observer. It was an experience I will never f...

After a night of gala celebration, with delegates inside the Staples Center cheering President Clinton like a rock star while ...

Two bounty hunters, convicted in March of impersonating FBI agents, were arrested again after one of them allegedly posed as a...

Services will be held today for entertainment lawyer Edmund C. Barton. Barton, who suffered from complications of Pick's Disea...

A former Los Angeles-based assistant U.S. attorney respected by peers and opposing attorneys alike will become the first assis...

SANTA ANA - Two daughters of a deceased Orange County woman have filed a lawsuit against University of California, Irvine's Wi...

The American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday filed an amended complaint saying it has found even more public schools througho...

Two California banks are hauling the city of Santa Monica back into federal court this week to face contempt of court proceedi...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County prosecutors, good as their word, are taking another crack at a high-profile trade-secrets theft ...

By David Pash. Much like souffles, witnesses need a lot of preparation, often fail to rise to the occasion and are a disaster ...

By Peter W. Olson. Should the police who serve and protect us be human or robot? Ever since the Rodney King incident, media ac...

SANTA ANA - Two-term city Councilman Ted Moreno wanted to "own" Santa Ana, taking control by betraying the public trust, an as...

By Mark B. Vezzani. A few years ago I worked in the criminal master calendar court in Torrance. One of the public defenders ha...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court has declined to take up the case of a man whose firing from a South Bay film-recy...

When Democratic delegates load themselves onto buses going to and from the Staples Center this week, they will owe an unlikely...

SANTA ANA - A jury Monday acquitted a Laguna Niguel woman of charges in the shooting death of her 8-month-old baby. Orange Cou...