Services were held Tuesday for Charles F. Howard, a retired sole practitioner. Howard died May 2. He was 82. Born in Kansas, H...

JOSHUA TREE - Jurors called to serve in the Joshua Tree Courthouse finally have a little bit of room to move - and a place to ...

The Practitioner: Employment Law By Richard Chernick California Supreme Court Has Reaffirmed the 'Moncharsh' principle in two...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County Vons employee won a $4 million punitive damages verdict against the supermarket Tuesday following...

SANTA ANA - Nervous giggles came from the jury box. Small hands nudged aside papers on the counsel table. And a shy, smiling ...

Robert G. van Schoonenberg, senior vice president, general counsel and secretary of Avery Dennison Corp. , has become a member...

If you are looking for a demonstration of raw political power, forget about the elder Daley's Chicago, Tammany Hall or any of ...

SANTA ANA - Billy Harlow took the bench for the first time Tuesday in Orange County Superior Court, but he may have to wait a...

Explaining why a computerized system for tracking misconduct by Los Angeles Police Department officers has yet to be implemen...

Los Angeles County Public Defender Mike Judge, who has complained from the start of the Rampart scandal that the district att...

SAN FRANCISCO - When a group of women gathered one morning last year for an outdoor aerobics session to protest a 24-Hour Fitn...

A Thai toddler, drugged and used as a decoy in a human smuggling ring, may stay in the United States during the evaluation of...

SACRAMENTO - Less than a year after signing landmark legislation to reform health maintenance organizations, Gov. Gray Davis ...

Senior U.S. District Judge David W. Williams, the first black federal judge appointed west of the Mississippi, has died, cour...

The California attorney general's office has no sympathy for state residents who run up big gambling debts in Nevada. The offi...

WISE Senior Services will honor Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp for its pro bono legal work on behalf of the nonprofit agency...

Dicta: By The Rodent I once attended an "Introduction to Law" program at a local law school. The program was designed to attra...

The Practitioner: Family Law By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer Three recent cases indicate that the equi...

Forum: By Fred J. Hiestand The dismantling of the Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act is being pursued by the personal inju...

VENTURA - The Ventura County Superior Court recently donated 35 computers to several county schools. The donations are part of...

U.S. District Judge Margaret Morrow will be keynote speaker at the Santa Monica Bar Association's annual Law Day Dinner next T...

Dicta: Marketing Mailbag By Anne Bothwell There are many ways to promote your practice and your firm, and most don't have to b...

A state Judicial Council task force on Monday released a sample of proposed jury instructions that they hope will make jurors'...

SANTA ANA - A former manager of an Orange County Target store has filed a discrimination lawsuit against the chain, claiming t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Palo Alto's Cooley Godward is building its information technology practice by adding two partners, Gary H. Moo...

Immigration officials said Monday they are awaiting the outcome of a medical report this morning to determine whether a Thai ...

A cigarette distributor challenged the $206 billion settlement between the Big Five tobacco companies and attorneys general in...

Consistent with his belief that increasing management scrutiny will lessen the chance of officer misconduct, Los Angeles Polic...

Palm Springs lawyer L. Joane Garcia-Colson is the new executive director of Gerry Spence's Trial Lawyers College, the Dubois, ...

Concluding that a convicted cop killer received ineffective assistance of counsel, a federal appellate court Monday threw out ...