SANTA ANA - Twice-convicted cop killer John George Brown was sentenced to death a second time Thursday for the murder of Gard...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis' "no-parole policy" for inmates sentenced to life in prison likely will trigger legal challenges ...

Nine more people had their cases thrown out of court Thursday due to the Rampart police corruption scandal, bringing to 39 the...

l Mexico, in many respects, is quickly becoming a true pluralistic democracy with a competitive economy. Mexico, in many respe...

Many mediation experts agree that nationwide uniformity of mediation rules is needed, but acknowledge that drafting a document...

Real estate attorney Richard W. Fleming died of a heart attack Feb. 1 at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla. He was 88. Fl...

Justice for none, titillation for some. That's the message of this week's show. Maybe having a lesbian love tryst with famous ...

The ferocious North Hollywood shootout continued Thursday - not on the streets, but in a federal court, with lawyers as combat...

It has been more than 15 years since private judging arrived. Early on, Chief Justice Rose Bird warned that serious study was ...

There are smart and there are dumb ways to resolve complex litigation. The dumb way is to litigate for many years at great exp...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County jury on Wednesday found that Deputy District Attorney Victoria Chen, who sued her office alleging...

Risk-based dispute resolution follows a familiar format, in which the mediator identifies the conflict and creates the atmosph...

During opening statements Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court in a grieving family's lawsuit over the mysterious death of ...

Dateless Valentine's Day viewers watched Ally McBeal plow her Audi into a car. While singing to her car radio at a red light, ...

Posting the URL of an infringing World Wide Web site may be contributory infringement. ...

By Jack Denove Until Gov. Gray Davis signed legislation in October 1999 allowing auto accident victims to sue at-fault parties...

Ellenor Frutt represents Daryl Hutchins, a 17-year-old with a borderline IQ and who is charged with murder, and Eugene Young a...

Do you want the same high standards as the state's public school system to replace the role of parents? Do you want Rob Reiner...

Prosecutors Pass Probation Period SAN BERNARDINO - Several attorneys and staff have successfully passed through their probati...

Who was primarily to blame for the awful circumstances regarding nursing home patient Mary Herlihy may never be known. ...

One must stretch to uncover even one legal issue of consequence in this week's show. Vincent Gray's book comes out to a favora...

By John H. Sullivan Harmful measures like SB1237 and AB1309 - now known as Propositions 30 and 31 - are the very reason Califo...

Wang is one of the first cases involving an Internet product alleged to infringe a pre-Internet patent. ...

Los Angeles plaintiff's attorney Gerald C. MacRae knew he had stepped into an arena for which he had little preparation when h...

Q. What do you do when you think the mediator is "leaning" too hard on your side? - Steven G. Mehta, catastrophic- tort litiga...

The shift from litigation to alternative dispute resolution is one of the most visible legal trends in the last decade. Increa...

SAN DIEGO - Questions about how much knowledge of the justice system a person needs to be able to "reasonably entertain a dou...

It had to happen. Cybersquatting, the act of using the Internet name of an established organization in a way that disadvantage...

Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan proposed Thursday using up to $300 million in tobacco settlement proceeds to raise cash to ...

WASHINGTON - Officials from the Legal Services Corp. received a surprisingly warm welcome from some traditionally hostile lawm...