In 1993, Elizabeth Cristina de Oliveira Maia witnessed and survived a military police massacre of street children in Rio de Ja...

LOS ANGELES - Chapman University School of Law will host the hearings of the 4th District Court of Appeal today. It is the fir...

Government and energy-industry officials scrambling for a solution to California's energy debacle have been struck by the same...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday turned aside an attempt to fill promptly a vacancy of one of the 15 coun...

LOS ANGELES - An appellate court decision Tuesday that allows a trial court to review the patient files of a psychotherapist u...

SANTA ANA - Attorney General Bill Lockyer argued in Orange County Superior Court Tuesday that the county's tobacco settlement ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a former UCLA employee was justly convicted of stealing a...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Andrew F. Pollet, businessman and founding partner of Los Angeles' Pollet & Ri...

By Leonard Novarro As a child, Linda Dakin-Grimm read in a kids' magazine how to win prizes by selling seeds in her neighborh...

LOS ANGELES - David Edwards Agnew, a founding partner of Los Angeles' Agnew Miller & Carlson, has died. Agnew died Jan 13....

SAN FRANCISCO - Former Sonoma County Judge Patricia Gray has sued Lloyd's of London for refusing to provide her with the attor...

SAN FRANCISCO - Once upon a time, Chief Justice Ronald George almost always voted on the winning side in California Supreme Co...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan has enlarged its partnership ranks with commercial litigation ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Morrison & Foerster announced Tuesday that two new managing partners will be heading up the firm's local o...

SAN FRANCISCO - Concerned about restricting access to the Internet, a 1st District Court of Appeal panel appeared ready Tuesda...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge accused of repeatedly feigning illness while collecting his judicial salary claimed Tuesday ...

Especially in the case of tax systems primarily based on voluntary compliance, withholding is one of the mechanisms that enabl...

SAN FRANCISCO - Officials in San Francisco and Oakland have joined Santa Clara County's lawsuit against lead paint manufacture...

I don't like to rehash topics, but my Nov. 21 Dicta column on incivility among opposing lawyers, entitled "Uncivil Counsel: Fi...

The celebration and remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday this month coincided with the beginning of trial in G...

It is troubling that some are suggesting that John Ashcroft's nomination to be attorney general cannot be defeated unless some...

SANTA ANA - The Orange County Bar Association presented its most prestigious award to Judge John J. "Jack" Ryan in a ceremony ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A hung jury was declared Monday in the trial of a Bernal Heights man accused of murdering his girlfriend. Dist...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge sentenced a Riverside man to 36 months' probation Monday for throwing a piece...

SAN JOSE - U.S. District Court Judge Jeremy Fogel on Monday avoided, for the moment, making any major decisions in a dispute a...

LOS ANGELES - A Cambridge, Mass.-based biotech has vowed to appeal a decision that it says has sucked the lifeblood from its p...

LOS ANGELES - Three Interior lawyers from the Clinton administration have joined Latham & Watkins in Washington, D.C. ...

LOS ANGELES - Bet Tzedek drew its largest crowd ever - 1,500 people - to its annual fund-raiser Saturday night at the grand ba...

SAN DIEGO - A medical marijuana case is heading to the 4th District Court of Appeal after being dismissed, reinstated and then...

LOS ANGELES - Services have been conducted for William Hesser Pavitt Jr., name partner at Culver City's Beehler & Pavitt. ...