VENTURA - As Riverside County's new public defender reorganizes the troubled office and hires on a new top-level management te...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court appeared inclined Thursday to reject a lingering challenge to the state's mandatory conti...

The January nights were warm and itchy. The Eye was on the roam for action. First stop, Ivy at the Shore. There sat Larry Stei...

With the passage of unification, Los Angeles County is at the brink of becoming the largest trial court in the nation. First,...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a victory for gun makers, the state Supreme Court said Wednesday it will review the nation's first court d...

Fed up with the ogling of two court custodians, "as if she were a piece of meat," a Compton Municipal Court deputy clerk went...

'Family Law's' Holt & Associates gains a lawyer and loses an assistant this week when Viveca Foster, Lynn Holt's secretary...

VENTURA - As Riverside County's new public defender reorganizes the troubled office and hires a new top-level management team,...

WASHINGTON - A major liberal advocacy group lashed out at a group of Republican senators Thursday for threatening to shut down...

Newport Beach Firm Gets Partners Patent and intellectual-property litigators Edward F. O'Connor and Jan P. Weir have joined Ne...

Three judges of the special court that disciplines lawyers asked the California Supreme Court on Wednesday to strike down a n...

By George Koo In their zeal to force Wen Ho Lee to his knees, federal prosecutors have turned America's system of justice upsi...

By David T. DiBiase and Lisa LeNay Coplen There are instances where insurance companies misinterpret obligations or otherwise ...

Although the major media and bubbly-makers of the world believe that we have crossed that bridge to the new millennium - the q...

As the Los Angeles City Council negotiates to spend millions of dollars to settle lawsuits filed on behalf of about 6,600 poli...

Retired Whittier Municipal Court Judge Alfonso Hermo and his former bailiff were sentenced Wednesday to two years' informal p...

Los Angeles County district attorney candidate Barry C. Groveman said Wednesday that if elected, he will make a top priority t...

By Kirk A. Pasich In 1999, the California Supreme Court and Courts of Appeal rendered several decisions with important implica...

The optimum way to manage a firm is to establish measurement systems that will track success indicators and highlight areas fo...

The University of California does not have to pay for the legal defense of one of its fertility specialists who has been sued...

Ex-Officer Gets Life Sentence A federal judge Wednesday sentenced a former state narcotics officer convicted on drug-related c...

SANTA ANA - Orange County prosecutors Wednesday laid to rest their case in the retrial of John George Brown for the 20-year-ol...

LOS ANGELES - A settlement of a federal fraud lawsuit against Citrus Municipal Court Judge Patrick B. Murphy, his sister and s...

LOS ANGELES - Charles R. Imbrecht, a former California State Assemblyman for Ventura County and chairman of the California Ene...

A settlement of a federal fraud lawsuit against Citrus Municipal Court Judge Patrick B. Murphy, his sister and several other d...

Services have been held for Orange County legal services pioneer Marion "Chip" Mathis, who died Jan. 4 at Veteran's Hospital ...

Charles R. Imbrecht, a former California State Assembly representative for Ventura County and chair of the California Energy C...

When Raymond G. Fortner Jr. worked in the property division of the Los Angeles county counsel's office in 1973, he did not kno...

One year ago, a 21/2-year-old Los Angeles County foster child named Oei Mae, who was prenatally exposed to cocaine and other s...

The Staples Center sports palace in downtown Los Angeles could become the graveyard of the First Amendment. That was the hypot...