Television producer Aaron Spelling's hilltop Beverly Hills mansion, which has been the source of contentious, high-profile lit...

SAN DIEGO - Nonviolent drug addicts, caught in a cycle of dependency that conventional arrest-and-punish strategy does nothing...

Even though the district attorney has dismissed one set of charges against a reputed gang member on grounds that crooked Rampa...

Lawyers for alleged victims of the Rampart corruption scandal are going back to court in an effort to prevent LAPD officers fr...

SANTA ANA - Vernon Schafer arrived in California in 1950, a 20-year-old with a wife and a new baby. He spent the next 40 years...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - Like any other morning, security guard Al Levine fielded hundreds of questions from behind his desk at the ...

Two law firms who were co-defendants in a lawsuit do not have a special relationship that would cause them to split the costs ...

A prominent Century City law firm has been sued for $4 million by a client who claims one of the firm's name partners failed t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Farmworkers scored a major victory Monday as the California Supreme Court ruled that growers must compensate l...

FORUM The Miranda rule is one tool we have and need to guard us against our guardians. Page 6. By Michael J. Kennedy I attende...

SACRAMENTO - Bucking his own party and the GOP, Democratic Gov. Gray Davis will urge the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold Californ...

SAN FRANCISCO - By the narrowest of margins, the U.S. Supreme Court Monday decided against taking the case of a pair of disgru...

By Jeffrey K. Winikow Janice Brown is the California Supreme Court's version of John Rocker. Although more eloquent and better...

Former Illinois prosecutor William Kunkle Jr. is no stranger to murderous depravity. He became familiar with crystal clear evi...

How important is writing? Ninety-eight percent of all civil lawsuits never go to trial, never go in front of witnesses or a ju...

SAN DIEGO - The leader of a tiny religious cult in northern San Diego County has been found not insane at the time he went on ...

U.S. District Judge Dickran Tevrizian Monday denied a bid by the Los Angeles city attorney's office to delay for six months di...

Tim R. Aguilar, executive officer of Los Angeles Superior Court's Compton branch, was removed from his job last week and place...

Sterling "Ernie" Norris, a highly regarded Los Angeles County prosecutor who obtained a death verdict in the 1980s against Fre...

SAN FRANCISCO - In an effort to blunt criticism of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, a year-long evaluation by a court co...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Corrections Department has disclosed that it will expand its internal investigation of the shoo...

By Marty Graham Special to e-merging Bold New World, one of Southern California's oldest technology incubator firms, took a b...

The proponents wore blue buttons, the opponents yellow, but the hot-button issue that divided them was AB1800, proposed legisl...

Kristian Miccio wants to make sure lawyers come out of Western State University College of Law in Fullerton a little smarter ...

It's a good thing Lisa Kenkel likes being immersed in her job. When a deal is rushing forward at roaring speeds, representing...

SAN BERNARDINO - Samuel Elias Rangel spent less than four hours at Patton State Hospital before he died, as orderlies attempte...

SMALL FIRMS Ex-tennis pro Laura J. Enos went to law school courtesy of her celebrity students and embarked on a successful car...

BOTTOM LINE Internet access for firms comes in a variety of methods, from dial-up, ISDN, DSL, cable, T-1 to wireless systems. ...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Edward Y. Kakita's last day on the bench will be May 8, his 60th birthday. Kakita is retiring...

^^First Principles^^ By John C. Eastman The U.S. Supreme Court is once again visiting the issue of prayer in public schools. O...