^^First Light^^ By Richard P. McKee When the Founding Fathers created our republican form of government, they gave us, the pe...

Re "The Facts on Death Sentences" by Bill Thompson (Forum, June 9). Watch out for anyone whose diatribe shrilly accuses his o...

SANTA ANA - Farmers Group, Inc., the nation's fourth largest auto insurance company, has been targeted in a class action that...

SAN DIEGO -- A key prosecution witness in a 1996 murder trial said Tuesday that in the days immediately following the stabbing...

The family of a woman who died in Guyana after her carry-on luggage containing life sustaining medical supplies was taken, th...

In what should bring to 94 the number of criminal cases thrown out of court because of the Rampart police corruption scandal, ...

George P. Schiavelli, presiding judge of the appellate division of Los Angeles Superior Court, is leaving the bench to become...

SAN FRANCISCO - A city can blow the whistle on fraud against the state, a judge has decided, allowing San Francisco to pursue...

WESTMINSTER - John Alfred Thomas, a former Huntington Beach city councilman , has been charged with polluting nearly 14 acres...

An 11-judge federal appellate panel tussled Tuesday over whether California's teacher skills test is an employment test subje...

SAN FRANCISCO - Matthew Cramer was a low-risk , 32-year-old petty thief in 1995 when he was put on a bus to Pelican Bay State...

HUNTINGTON BEACH - If a man's house is his castle, Emad Ali Hassan's is the Taj Mahal - at least that's how it seems followin...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has disqualified two defense attorneys from representing a Pelican Bay State Prison guard cha...

DICTA Firm Matters By Kimberly Quackenbush. Failing to orient new associates properly is the best way to get them off to a po...

^^From the Tower^^ [with mug] By Ira L. Shafiroff We find it in the newspapers every day: A person is convicted of molesting ...

San Francisco's public defender, district attorney, presiding Superior Court judge and other court officials inspected Treasur...

Attorneys for child health advocates sued Monday to force the state to fully implement a nearly decade-old program designed to...

DICTA While hardly glamorous, thorough preparation is the best way to stack the trial deck in your favor. By David Pash Most a...

An Orange County jury awarded $14 million in punitive damages Monday to a stereo cabinetmaker who accused Argonaut Insurance C...

A federal judge has ruled that termination damages imposed on a complex but widely used financial deal known as an interest ra...

Lawyer Settles Reptilian Lawsuit FULLERTON - The lawsuit brought by Fullerton family law attorney Linda K. Ross after a GTE y...

The small Robertson Boulevard courthouse in Los Angeles closed its doors Friday, its traffic and small claims matters moved t...

The lawyer for one of the first three officers charged in the Rampart corruption scandal has come up with additional grounds ...

SANTA ANA - When Hung Tranh Mai goes to state court on Friday, he'll most likely be sentenced to death for the 1996 murder of...

WASHINGTON - Filling in another part of the school-prayer puzzle, the Supreme Court Monday ruled, 6-3, that student-led praye...

Finding Rampart scandal whistle-blower Rafael Perez to be at least a partially credible witness, a police department board of ...

WASHINGTON - A unanimous Supreme Court on Monday threw out a Massachusetts law that precludes the state from patronizing comp...

A recently announced state NAACP attempt to pursue a voter initiative to reform discriminatory police practices may be legall...

--Land Use Law-- Diamond Bar court holds that under redevelopment law, a city's evidence of blight must be substantial. ...

For many attorneys, climbing to the top means ascending to the upper echelons of status and compensation. But Cheryl Kopitzke...