Los Angeles' Manatt Phelps & Phillips has announced it will provide outside legal counsel to the Democratic National Conv...

County Settles 911 Case for $450K The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has approved a $450,000 payout to settle a 1990 ...

Score one for newspaper heiress Patty Hearst Shaw in the skirmish over a judge's gag order in the bombing conspiracy trial of ...

The lawyer for a Rampart officer acquitted in a recent board of rights hearing has called on District Attorney Gil Garcetti to...

DENVER - The Supreme Court gave states more authority to curb anti-abortion demonstrations outside health clinics, ruling 6 to...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a federal program that places equipment purchased with taxpayer money in private s...

SAN DIEGO - Having nearly completed law school, Michael D. Shields was planning to take the bar exam later this year. Now he m...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court yesterday ruled, 5-4, that state anti-discrimination laws cannot prevent the Boy Scouts from ba...

WASHINGTON - A sharply divided Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a Nebraska law banning so-called partial-birth abortions...

FORUM: By Janet M. LaRue For decades, the U.S. Supreme Court has reaffirmed parents' rights to control the upbringing of their...

DICTA: By Gerald T. McLaughlin The following is an edited version of the speech that Dean Gerald T. McLaughlin gave at Loyola ...

The Practitioner: Alternative Dispute Resolution By Matthew P. Guasco Mediation has indeed come of age. What was once perceive...

Forum: By Jon W. Davidson For most high-school students, the relief of summer vacation begins this month. For the majority, it...

Forum: By Elaine Michetti The children of Sierra Leone have borne the brunt of the Revolutionary United Front insurgency. Eigh...

Lawyers to Offer Mediation Tips Attorney-mediators Gig Kyriacou and Steven R. Cerveris will offer "Tips for Litigators and Med...

San Diego Watch: By Martin Kruming A large crowd attended last Wednesday's memorial service in La Mesa for retired Deputy Cler...

SAN DIEGO - A parolee who helped convict "Freeway" Ricky Ross on cocaine charges in 1996 was never promised a deal that could ...

SAN DIEGO -- A Union-Tribune reporter, whose notes from a jailhouse interview with a triple-murder suspect were sought by the ...

The district attorney's Rampart prosecution team has agreed to modify a protective order imposed on the Rafael Perez transcrip...

A prominent civil litigator and an assistant U.S. attorney Tuesday became Gov. Gray Davis' most recent appointments to the Lo...

The concept of "courtroom theatrics" took on vivid new meaning Tuesday morning at Central Civil West when a litigant argued hi...

SAN FRANCISCO - A judge who grabbed his female bailiff's breasts should not be removed from the Placer County bench, the state...

Possibly as a result of an increasing population of juveniles and the shredding of the welfare safety net, homicides, rapes a...

The Rodent: At the Firm, you are often judged by the company you keep. Being seen in and around the Firm's movers and rainmake...

Forum: By Brian S. Kabateck The current California Insurance Commission scandal, while disturbing, has produced legislation th...

The Practitioner: International Law By Jan L.N. Snel On June 7, the European Commission launched a proposal to change the Euro...

Jayne W. Williams, the lame duck Oakland city attorney who was denied another term by voters in March, has announced she will ...

The state Supreme Court ruled Monday that trial courts may not use the class action certification process to weed out meritles...

Dicta: Recruiting Roundtable By Valerie A. Fontaine A major concern for attorneys is producing prodigious quantities of billab...

Retired trial attorney Richard Bernard Goethals Sr. died Monday in Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach following a lengthy illness...