According to Citizens for Independent Courts, the average time between nomination and final action by the Senate climbed from ...

A state appellate court ruled Friday that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is liable for injuries sustained by an employee of an independe...

Before losing in court last week to the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, the Los Angeles Police Departme...

In a move that may end up costing the Port of Los Angeles hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees, a state appellate co...

Chicago-based Katten Muchin & Zavis, which recently nabbed two entertainment litigators from Troop Steuber Pasich Reddick ...

Los Angeles moved a step closer Thursday to getting a new federal courthouse with the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee's u...

In a bid to slow the recent surge in violent crime, the Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously Friday to allocate $2 milli...

The stage is set. March 16 last year. Enter right, the Libertarian lawyers from Washington, D.C., leading their clients into t...

VENTURA - The $260 billion national tobacco settlement was supposed to be a boon to local government, enabling public agencies...

WASHINGTON - As President Clinton's legacy takes shape, one unintended and unwelcome fragment is likely to be the heightened r...

SANTA ANA - Orange County officials filed suit Friday to block a physician-sponsored ballot initiative that would force the Bo...

In a ruling that legal observers predict will have wide-reaching effects on the common practice of special appearances, the 4t...

In a landmark study released June 12, Columbia University experts disclosed that 68 percent of the death-penalty judgments tha...

In two recent product liability cases, defense attorneys Warren E. George and Rene J. Kern Jr., obtained separate favorable ve...

Many trial attorneys assume that "strong" evidence stands on its own before a jury, but a reality of the courtroom is that a t...

Rene J. Kern Jr., practiced tort law in Los Angeles for ten years before he decided to start his own firm. After the death of ...

Complex business disputes typically involve thousands of documents and many witnesses, both fact and expert. While the economi...

When litigators propound interrogatories and requests for admission and make objections at depositions, they do so believing t...

Warren E. George has managed to pursue his interest in civil rights despite the defense-oriented nature of his legal practice....

After eight years of litigation, including several appeals, 43 disgruntled State Bar members have been awarded $10 each, plus ...

New patent-publication law gives rise to a number of questions. ...

These days, Stephen M. Lachs is one of hundreds of private judges who ordinarily don't attract much attention outside of the l...

Jurors decide cases according to their interpretation of the evidence without much regard to jury instructions. ...

SANTA ANA - The building blocks that held together the business relationship between Legoland and Ruby's Diner came apart Tues...

SAN DIEGO - Saying that utility deregulation has become a disaster for limited-income citizens and small businesses, former Sa...

SAN FRANCISCO - Thanks largely to an Eagle and a Maverick, environmentalists Wednesday were able at the last minute to meet a ...

A state appellate court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a former Los Angeles police officer who claimed the city improperly r...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Roy M. Carstairs will retire Monday after 26 years on the bench. Presiding Judge Victor Chave...

RIVERSIDE - The city attorney, lawyers representing the Riverside officers fired after Tyisha Miller's 1998 shooting death and...