C. Douglas Kranwinkle, the managing partner of Los Angeles-based O'Melveny & Myers since 1996, will become the executive v...

After nearly four years of court battles, attorney Niels Frenzen obviously is pleased that his clients, an Iraqi physician and...

By Friday, the county district attorney's office had filed felony charges against five people involved in various melees surro...

The 4th District Court of Appeal sent a massive San Bernardino County landfill project back to the drawing board Friday, rulin...

After nearly four years in an immigration prison accused of being a risk to the security of the U.S. government, an Iraqi phys...

SAN FRANCISCO - John P. Dwyer's journey to the leadership of the University of California, Boalt Hall, took him from the world...

About the time Al Gore wrapped up the Democratic National Convention Thursday with his nomination speech, thousands of protest...

Chief Justice Ron George, highlighting the growing importance of family law in California courts, has appointed three family a...

American Civil Liberties Union attorney Michael Small has fielded so many calls from news people claiming they were intentiona...

By William E. Maguire. Surfboards, swim fins, wet suits, swimsuits, sunglasses, sunscreen, bottled water, sandals, umbrellas, ...

Must trademark owners police against use of virtually identical marks in remote fields because of Internet marketing?

State Attorney General Bill Lockyer is slated to keynote the second annual "Children in Crisis" conference Aug. 30 at the Irvi...

Deciding that the rules which apply to trial court judges also should apply to appellate court justices, the California Suprem...

By Theda C. Snyder. Although busy attorneys don't always have time to shop around for airfares, it's in your best interest to ...

By David Plotz. Delegates to the Democratic Convention were harangued with endless hay-strewn yarns about Al Gore's rustic Ten...

By Pablo Agrio. During his administration, former California Gov. Pete Wilson effectively banned media access to prisoners, cl...

SAN DIEGO - Before Casey Gwinn joined the city attorney's office in 1985, domestic violence was not strong on anyone's radar s...

A former head nurse at a youth correctional facility, injured by another female employee upset over not being promoted, cannot...

SANTA ANA--Jurors in the political corruption trial of a Santa Ana city councilman heard him describe in his own words how he ...

The California delegates to the Democratic National Convention made tons of scrambled eggs and French toast disappear each mor...

The entertainment industry Thursday won one of the first legal battles in the ongoing war between the motion picture industry ...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a $175,000 judgment against the city of Los Angeles Thursday, ruling two whit...

It looked like a disaster in the making Tuesday when gay rights marchers headed for Los Angeles police headquarters, where the...

Brian, along with legal observers, was swept up in a mass arrest that included more than a dozen juveniles, while photographin...

Some might call the process a formality or even a coronation, but don't tell that to Judge Robert Mallano, who on the eve of h...

Proclaiming himself "my own man," Democratic Party presidential nominee Al Gore called for "a better, fairer, more prosperous ...

Police, protesters and politicians revved it up one more time in Los Angeles Thursday, the last day of that urban thrill ride ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Despite a warning from prosecutors that three witnesses may be killed in retaliation for testifying in a L.A. ...

When Reuben Rivas told friends he was volunteering as a legal observer for the National Lawyers Guild during the Democratic Na...

Young Democrats in suits with T-shirts and dresses with tennis shoes, danced to disco music all night long at the New Democrat...