Just Reward Pending Legislation Would Protect Compilers of Databases Database providers have expressed their concern that the...

By Kevin M. "Casey" Christensen According to recent articles, there are not only too few judicial positions to handle Califor...

Memorial services will be held today for Long Beach trial lawyer Robert H. Lund. Lund died Saturday following a long battle w...

SAN DIEGO - The first witness testifying in a lawsuit alleging employment discrimination and retaliation against a former dep...

A joint committee of Los Angeles Municipal and Superior Court judges late Wednesday released its answers to many of the probl...

DENVER - To help decide if a special prosecutor should be appointed to investigate the murder of JonBennet Ramsey, Colorado G...

SAN DIEGO - Robert C. Baxley's first literary critic was his court reporter. "She laughed," the judge recalled of that fall d...

A San Diego County judge was publicly admonished Thursday by state judicial disciplinary authorities for abusing her contempt...

SAN DIEGO - A former Navy commander who allegedly killed his wife of 48 years with drugs and carbon monoxide in what was firs...

WASHINGTON - A bipartisan Senate Judiciary subcommittee - not the Republican special task force first envisioned several week...

Assured by court leaders that complex cases will not get stuck with judges who can't handle them, trustees of the Los Angeles...

Three months before Jan. 1, 2000, predictions are cheap commodities. Still, it's hard to find anyone willing to hazard a gues...

MARTINEZ - Few lawyers in Contra Costa County have represented clients with the same zest for battle as David C. Coleman III....

SANTA ANA - Former Orange County District Attorney Michael R. Capizzi has announced that he will run for a Superior Court jud...

Making his first judicial appointments since becoming governor 10 months ago, Gray Davis announced Thursday the elevation of ...

^^Law & Order^^ By J. Conboy The consistently talented writers of "Law and Order" may have set a new series record by acc...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court gave no clear signals Wednesday on the fate of a California law that forbids releasing the add...

Wrecking Reference Defamed Employee Can Sue Both County and Sheriff The release - a total release of the county and its emplo...

Jarring the Jury It's not trial, it's theater By Jilien J. Rubin Lawyers seem to excel at irritating jurors, who are known to...

Moving West Out-of-State Noncompete Clauses Probably Unenforceable By Ricki J. Shoss Imagine an owner of a company headquarte...

By Charles Levendosky According to Alliance for Justice, a nonprofit public interest advocacy group in Washington, D.C., five...

The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to spend more than $2. 85 million to settle five lawsuits, including nearly $2.2...

WASHINGTON - Congress could undermine California's new managed care liability law if conservative Senators push to federalize...

The sudden resignation last month of Norman Wegener, chief of the Santa Monica city attorney's criminal division, appears to ...

The largest civil case in Los Angeles Superior Court history has spawned its first professional negligence lawsuit. A defense...

Wanted Attorney Surrenders SAN BERNARDINO - Fugitive attorney James Brian Watkins, 33, walked into a San Bernardino courtroom...

A man convicted of four murders in Compton claims that one of his jurors committed misconduct during penalty phase deliberati...

SAN JOSE - The Santa Clara County Bar Association is looking north, for the first time in recent memory, in picking its futur...

LOS ANGELES - A lively California Supreme Court Wednesday appeared unlikely to extend liability to a parking lot owner for a ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal administrative law judge in charge of hearing Social Security appeals was convicted Wednesday of pe...