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...

Handing down its latest opinion on a law that has faced multiple legal challenges, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday p...

Just call this "Pig in the City" redux. The Los Angeles city attorney's office is considering what if any charge to file again...

By Stephen Yagman. "[W]e cannot tolerate nonviolent disobedience," the mayor of the premier world democracy's second largest c...

SAN DIEGO - An insurance company that paid Riverside County for repairs to sunken streets in a housing development wants its m...

A Los Angeles judge Monday denied a defense attorney's request to subpoena disgraced Los Angeles police Officer Rafael Perez a...

BLYTHE - A Blythe attorney was arrested Monday on suspicion of embezzling more than $200,000 from clients to support a gamblin...

SACRAMENTO - A voter pamphlet may mislead voters considering a new campaign reform measure on the November ballot, but there i...

Downtown Los Angeles got redecorated over the weekend for the Democratic National Convention. As if by magic, a carpet of cops...

More than 3,000 Jewish community leaders and friends - including President Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton - gathered ...

As the Democratic National Convention got under way Monday, beginning its carefully choreographed march toward Al Gore's nomin...

The Class of 1968 never had it so good. No hippie, yippie or draft dodger ever saw the likes of veteran civil rights lawyer Ja...

SAN FRANCISCO - Prosecutors have broader power to use criminal sanctions to collect long-overdue child support under a ruling ...

SAN FRANCISCO - In the end, it wasn't Eben Gossage's 1975 killing of his sister that killed his chances of becoming a lawyer. ...

Mannis & Phillips, a Century City family law boutique known for representing high-profile clients from Hollywood stars to ...

Century City's Kelly Lytton Mintz & Vann has started an insolvency practice group with the help of two bankruptcy veterans...

A new banking law applies to businesses not traditionally considered financial-services companies. ...

Hand v. Farmers Insurance Exchange does not permit a judgment creditor to sue for the excess part of a judgment or to prevent ...

Talarian Corp. has gone public in an offering valued at $67.2 million. Originally a provider of command-and-control software t...

In a push for expansion, Los Angeles-based Nossaman, Guthner, Knox & Elliott has recruited four new partners in the last t...

In a deal illustrating the increased need for wireless network access, Irvine-based Broadcom Corp. has bought El Segundo's Inn...

CoSine Communications Inc. has gone public in an offering valued at $140 million. By Melissa Onstad and Victoria Newman. ...

High-profile trial attorney Charles E. Patterson has left Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro in Los Angeles. He joins Morrison &am...

Amanda Susskind, who took time off from practicing law to run for the State Assembly in the 42nd District last year and lost t...

Orange County sole practitioner Jerry O'Brien finds his other profession - cooking - "major stress relief." When not working a...