Football Hall of Famer Jim Brown would rather go to jail than pick up roadside trash. And, by the way, the woman judge who se...

MURRIETA - Derek Boult, a first-string offensive tackle for the Murietta Valley High School Nighthawks has filed a novel laws...

Fears that unification of the Los Angeles Superior and Municipal courts would spawn lawsuits for violations of the federal Vo...

Seeing Double 9th Circuit Upholds Use of Dual Juries in Capital Cases In giving its stamp of approval to the use of dual jurie...

Setting the stage for a disciplinary hearing, a State Bar Court trial judge has issued a ruling of culpability against promin...

Voir Mire Surviving the jury-picking process requires patience and a good book By Paul O'Brien As any trial lawyer knows, jur...

Costly Breach Insured Can Recover Costs Incurred in Forcing Additional Insurers to Pay An insured would not have been forced ...

Riverside Judge to Hear S.D. Matter SAN DIEGO - Riverside Superior Court Judge Ronald R. Heumann will decide if all San Diego...

^^In the Public Interest^^ By Robert Cohen, Neal Dudovitz, Daniel Grunfeld, Bruce Iwasaki and David Lash As leaders of the la...

Drug Court Opens In Pomona Court Los Angeles County Supervisor Gloria Molina Wednesday announced the opening of the Pomona Mu...

^^The Bookshelf^^ From Complaint to Closing, Treatise Covers It All. BUSINESS AND COMMERCIAL LITIGATION IN FEDERAL COURTS Edi...

MWD Workers Get OK to Pursue Case It took four rounds of demurrers, but workers suing the Metropolitan Water District and abo...

By Marianne Means Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr finally gave up the ghost this week, acknowledging the obvious - that he'...

ORANGE - While some people think the United States is saturated with too many lawyers, the real problem is that this country ...

The Los Angeles police inspector general has the authority to investigate anything involving the department, subject to an ov...

SANTA ANA - A Buena Park man accused of shooting and killing a high school student over the theft of a Halloween pumpkin deco...

LOS ANGELES - Loeb & Loeb has expanded its new-media practice group by nabbing Internet entertainment lawyer Steven J. Pe...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday narrowly approved the final version of a $38 billion appropriatio...

SAN FRANCISCO - Well-known trial lawyer Alexander "Lex" Brainerd has left the Palo Alto office of Los Angeles-based Quinn Ema...

Moving at top speed with Election Day nearing, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel Wednesday heard oral arguments, then...

SAN JOSE - A U.S. District Court judge has rejected a bid by five national retailers facing a Y2K lawsuit to transfer the cas...

When a lawyer and two of his former firms are sued, who picks up the tab for the lawyer? Coudert Brothers sued Stroock & ...

The International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has chosen Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue partner Louis L. Touto...

SAN FRANCISCO - It will cost a police sergeant $52,000 in legal fees for suing San Franciscan Betty Evans, a superior court j...

A California law allowing police to sue individuals for allegedly lodging false complaints against them has been found uncons...

With Los Angeles County prosecutors conceding they had not complied with one portion of his order regulating their use of wir...

To this day, film buffs ponder the significance of "Rosebud" - a simple word with powerful meaning, integral to Orson Welles'...

Damage Control Sue-and-Labor Clauses Will Generally Not Cover Y2K Remediation By Patrick E. Shipstead and Scott G. Johnson Ove...

SAN DIEGO - The San Diego district attorney's office is "hopelessly compromised" and should not be allowed to retry four men ...

By Jeffrey A. Singer Recent front-page news stories about racist gunmen attacking innocent minorities in Chicago, Los Angeles...