HUNTINGTON BEACH - If a man's house is his castle, Emad Ali Hassan's is the Taj Mahal - at least that's how it seems followin...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has disqualified two defense attorneys from representing a Pelican Bay State Prison guard cha...

DICTA Firm Matters By Kimberly Quackenbush. Failing to orient new associates properly is the best way to get them off to a po...

^^From the Tower^^ [with mug] By Ira L. Shafiroff We find it in the newspapers every day: A person is convicted of molesting ...

San Francisco's public defender, district attorney, presiding Superior Court judge and other court officials inspected Treasur...

Attorneys for child health advocates sued Monday to force the state to fully implement a nearly decade-old program designed to...

DICTA While hardly glamorous, thorough preparation is the best way to stack the trial deck in your favor. By David Pash Most a...

An Orange County jury awarded $14 million in punitive damages Monday to a stereo cabinetmaker who accused Argonaut Insurance C...

A federal judge has ruled that termination damages imposed on a complex but widely used financial deal known as an interest ra...

Lawyer Settles Reptilian Lawsuit FULLERTON - The lawsuit brought by Fullerton family law attorney Linda K. Ross after a GTE y...

The small Robertson Boulevard courthouse in Los Angeles closed its doors Friday, its traffic and small claims matters moved t...

The lawyer for one of the first three officers charged in the Rampart corruption scandal has come up with additional grounds ...

SANTA ANA - When Hung Tranh Mai goes to state court on Friday, he'll most likely be sentenced to death for the 1996 murder of...

WASHINGTON - Filling in another part of the school-prayer puzzle, the Supreme Court Monday ruled, 6-3, that student-led praye...

Finding Rampart scandal whistle-blower Rafael Perez to be at least a partially credible witness, a police department board of ...

WASHINGTON - A unanimous Supreme Court on Monday threw out a Massachusetts law that precludes the state from patronizing comp...

A recently announced state NAACP attempt to pursue a voter initiative to reform discriminatory police practices may be legall...

--Land Use Law-- Diamond Bar court holds that under redevelopment law, a city's evidence of blight must be substantial. ...

For many attorneys, climbing to the top means ascending to the upper echelons of status and compensation. But Cheryl Kopitzke...

SANTA ANA - An 86-year-old resident at the John Douglas French Center for Alzheimer's Disease in Los Alamitos sued the facilit...

THE CLOSER One lawyer tells his story of his search for the holy grail of true happiness in a new teaching job in Hawaii and ...

^^Bottom Line^^ Fee Fairness The 'PLCM' case may generate more employment opportunities for in-house counsel - but also may r...

THE ADVISER Budget constraints are causing legal departments to re-examine how they contract for outside legal services. As a...

In the wake of mass departures and failed merger talks, San Francisco's Landels Ripley & Diamond filed for Chapter 11 ban...

SANTA ANA - Devallis Rutledge, former chief assistant district attorney of Orange County, has filed a claim against the county...

FORUM Gov. Davis is hoping the rest of the California Legislature will adopt SB66 so he can sign a bill that he claims address...

--Spin Report-- By John M. Curtis. Pulling the rug out from underneath Clinton's Patients' Bill of Rights, the Supreme Court r...

Milpitas-based semiconductor company LSI Logic Corp., known for its system-on-a-chip, has acquired San Jose's DataPath System...

BARSTOW - In what may be the first case of its kind in California, prosecutors have filed a murder charge against the caretak...

When Bill Choe went to Seoul, Korea, in 1991 fresh out of Notre Dame Law School to act as a legal consultant to foreigners in...