SANTA ANA - A tussle over patient care for hundreds of Pacificare members all but ended Thursday after an agreement was reache...

Her first mistake was following her solicitor's advice. Her second mistake was being honest. As a result, Deborah Gabbay Aaron...

The final buzzer sounded this week in a San Diego County football coach's long legal battle with his employer when a state app...

California has twice as many people serving time in state prisons for drug offenses as the state's entire prison population 20...

Judge Ellen C. DeShazer and a volunteer team of drug rehabilitation specialists, prosecutors, public defenders, probation offi...

The alternate public defender's office said Thursday it has uncovered a new basis on which it may appeal a client's drug convi...

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Summer-associate parties should be re-titled "three or four uncomfortable hours of forced conversation with colleagues." ...

The 2nd District Court of Appeal issued a stern warning to public entities through a ruling last week, holding the city of Tho...

Like most lawyers, I feel passionately about justice and the protection of individual rights and freedoms. The concepts of fai...

If the employer testifies falsely about the reason for the discharge, then the jury may conclude that it is attempting to conc...

RIVERSIDE - The City Council has named nine community leaders to a new citizen Police Review Commission formed in response to ...

A proposed ballot measure that would weaken the statute of limitations on internal Los Angeles Police Department discipline ca...

Despite having its case dismissed at the trial level, the county's largest law enforcement union continues its fight to force ...

Customs has seized more than 2.1 million doses of the illegal drug Ecstasy with an estimated street value of at least $40 mill...

Francis Millspaugh Wheat, a towering figure in securities law, renowned environmentalist and author of the 1999 book "Californ...

A "shadow court" has been at work within the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, deciding some of the most significant issues t...

Perhaps it's only fitting that Alex Kozinski's son would make a federal case out of a jaywalking ticket. Yale Kozinski, whose ...

In a book published late last year, Dick Morris, President Clinton's former top political soothsayer, predicted that the Inter...

By Steve Dasbach. Ever wonder if politicians really believe in all those new government programs and laws they're constantly t...

Arnold & Porter has added most of the lawyers from Los Angeles technology and intellectual property boutique Kimball &...

By Ann Lehman. What does the United States, unlike any other industrialized country, have in common with North Korea, Afghanis...

SAN FRANCISCO - An Oakland ordinance that allows police to impound and sell vehicles used by suspected drug buyers and prostit...

By Elaine Michetti. I was 10 years old when the U.S. Supreme Court made way for the reinstitution of the death penalty in Greg...

SAN JOSE - Stanford University has become the latest institution to go to court in an attempt to force its insurance company t...

DeAnn Salcido, a partner at Haight, Brown & Bonesteel, has succeeded Deputy City Attorney Cindy Davis as president of the ...

SAN DIEGO - A judicial corruption scandal that shook San Diego's legal world moved into its final stages earlier this week whe...

A Los Angeles attorney has filed a $5 million complaint against the city of Inglewood and its police department, claiming offi...

The second-degree murder conviction of a man who killed a pedestrian after leading police on a wild chase through the streets ...

LAS VEGAS - Paul Ortiz thought he was beginning a promising career, working as an assistant with the Nevada State Bar's Lawyer...