Garcetti Names Head Deputies Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti has announced four new head deputy promotions. ...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County judge has signed a settlement agreement between the Escrow Institute of California and the state ...

By Pete Knight Prop. 22 is a pre-emptive measure designed only to protect California's legal definition of marriage against th...

Employment Law: Some companies will provide computers to all their workers at home, blurring the line between work and home. P...

Sentence: Death, Eight Times Over A judge Wednesday imposed eight death sentences on a reputed gang member who murdered eight ...

FORUM Prop. 22, the Knight Initiative, is a socially divisive hate initiative. ...

DICTA I was sitting quietly in my high-rise office when all of a sudden - flashing strobes, screaming sirens and every single ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Expanding the charges of civil rights violations against guards at troubled Pelican Bay state prison, two guar...

LOS ANGELES - Justice William A. Masterson of the 2nd District Court of Appeal said Wednesday he will retire this summer, endi...

A memorial service will be held March 6 for Stuart P. Herman, a Los Angeles attorney and JAMS mediator. Herman died of cancer...

DICTA Adjusting to listeners' attention span increases your ability to achieve a favorable determination for your client. ...

LAPD Division May Be Divided The Los Angeles City Council unanimously approved a motion Wednesday asking the Board of Police C...

A veteran bankruptcy judge is resigning the post she has held for 15 years to become a mediator with the Judicial Arbitration...

The voice of the former Los Angeles Municipal Court was silenced Tuesday with the death of Public Information Officer Marcia ...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Alban I. Niles has been reassigned from family court to civil court in the wake of allegation...

An Orange County Superior Court judge has issued $2,250 in discovery sanctions against Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patri...

Deciding how much to disclose to the other party in a mediation can be tricky. Page 7. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - California physicians lost a long legal fight Tuesday as an appeal court said the California Medical Board may...

Voters should vote yes on Proposition 21. The measure sends a clear message to gang members and other potential serious offend...

Commissioner Elected Chair SANTA ANA - Orange County Superior Court Commissioner Sheila Fell has been elected chair of the Ora...

A memorial mass at Loyola University School of Law is planned for William G. Tucker, a veteran trial lawyer best known for hi...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County prosecutors must disclose full transcripts of grand jury proceedings, including their legal inst...

Audio and video forensics expert Norman I. Perle, who analyzed taped evidence and testified in a number of high-profile crimi...

The Los Angeles City Council stopped short Tuesday of endorsing a plan for a new independent commission to review the Rampart ...

WASHINGTON - Dealing a multimillion-dollar blow to California, the Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down as unconstitutional a ...

WASHINGTON - Thomas C. Goldstein is living the dream of many lawyers. He argued two cases before the Supreme Court last year a...

Proposition 21 is unnecessary and ineffective and will only make matters worse for California's youth and for California. This...

Brobeck Phleger SIX IP ATTORNEYS LEAVE LYON & LYON Six intellectual property attorneys from the San Diego office of Lyon ...

SACRAMENTO - Defenders of a 1996 campaign finance reform initiative will continue to face tough going, despite a recent U.S. S...

International Law - U.S. taxpayers must now realize that certain gifts must be reported and that the failure to report such gi...