Los Angeles Superior Court Presiding Judge Victor E. Chavez has extended the nomination process for the 2000-2001 grand jury t...

Newport Beach attorney James J. McDonald Jr. has spent his entire 16-year career with one law firm: - Newport Beach's Fisher &...

SAN FRANCISCO - Judge William Cahill's surprise announcement this week that he will leave the San Francisco Superior Court to ...

A 21-year-old Loyola Law School graduate, described in her complaint as "a child prodigy" and the youngest attorney in Califor...

Community leaders joined a city lawmaker Thursday to call on the Los Angeles Police Department to restore community-liaison du...

Forum: The Public Eye By Ross Johnson Bet on this: The prosecution of some of the men in Erin Brockovich's life may be just as...

Dicta: On 'The Practice' By Paul Harris All attorneys suffer from a disease. In some, it's asymptomatic; in others, it causes ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Overruling Gov. Gray Davis' no-parole policy, an appeals panel has ordered the state parole board to take a se...

In a case that drew comparisons to "Big Brother" from a dissenting judge, a sharply divided federal appeals court has shielded...

Practitioner: Criminal Law By Laurie L. Levenson Both prosecutors and defense attorneys must be wary of conflicts of interests...

This is election season. So the worst police corruption scandal in the history of Los Angeles inevitably becomes hot political...

SANTA ANA - If Orange County lawyers want a chance to make suggestions regarding the Superior Court's plan to implement an ele...

Practitioner: Employment Law By Anthony J. Oncidi For some time, it has been commonplace for plaintiffs in employment cases to...

By Bernard C. Parks The Los Angeles Police Department comprises nearly 13,000 dedicated employees and is committed to completi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Intellectual property litigator Matthew B. Lehr is leaving a Wilmington, Del., firm to join the Palo Alto offi...

BUENA PARK - An amended city ordinance that went into effect last December means visitors can legally overstay their welcome i...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Santa Rosa family law attorney and two-time city council candidate has been charged with grand theft for all...

Practitioner: Employment Law By Joan E. Smiles As long as the time spent is under the "control" of the employer, the time is c...

Forum: By Fred Silberberg Family law is fraught with emotion. There are disagreements over sharing children, houses and dividi...

Forum: By Harriet K. Bilford Faced with the Rampart police corruption scandal, more and more public officials are finally comi...

The secretary of the American Bar Association reportedly is facing discipline charges for allegedly lying to the New Hampshire...

The grand jury investigating the Rampart scandal heard testimony Wednesday from former officer Brian Hewitt, who was fired las...

WASHINGTON - The federal judiciary has begun considering ways to standardize rules of professional responsibility for lawyers ...

The Rampart corruption scandal took center stage Tuesday evening at the first face-to-face debate between Los Angeles District...

SAN FRANCISCO - A prosecutor who promised to dismiss a case pending results of a lie detector test cannot go back on his word ...

Tempers flared Tuesday evening at the seventh and last scheduled meeting between the public and the Los Angeles Board of Polic...

Stuart Hanlon, who has been working on the Geronimo Pratt case since he was a law student more than 20 years ago, described th...

Los Angeles District Attorney Gil Garcetti said Wednesday he expects his office to file only a "small handful" of motions to o...

WASHINGTON - Almost all of the Supreme Court justices expressed serious concern Wednesday about requiring the Boy Scouts to ac...

The Rampart-related, class-action civil rights lawsuit filed last week by a gutsy, self-promoting and controversial civil righ...