ANAHEIM - Now that Parham Williams Jr. has led Chapman University School of Law through the harrowing experience of gaining th...

With California's March 2000 primary election just 15 months off, Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti has begun...

Embroiled in a lawsuit with the developer of the home she was selling, attorney Lisa Hervatin did not suspect that the prospe...

Originally, Bank of America and real estate lawyer Ernest L. Messner Jr. were on the same side, as co-administrators of a tru...

Complaining the police department is not properly paying overtime, Los Angeles police officers have sued the city of Los Ange...

A state appeal panel has ruled that foster children who have reached 18 are not entitled to county aid to help them complete ...

Berkeley-based Continuing Education of the Bar, the cash-strapped provider of legal education materials, will not be sold or ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The law firm of Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin has elected a record number of eight asso...

RIVERSIDE - Fontana resident Pedro Villegas has filed a lawsuit against the cities of Fontana and Long Beach, claiming that p...

SAN FRANCISCO - Chief Justice Ronald M. George said Thursday that he wants to re-examine the procedures of the state Commissio...

The family of a 75-year-old Inglewood woman who died in her native Guyana during a December 1997 visit has filed a wrongful d...

For the past decade, juvenile court judges and attorneys have met with child welfare officials once a year at the state Judic...

The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a would-be robber shot by a store employee and rendered paraplegic cannot sue...

In an effort to maintain public confidence in its work, the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners voted unanimously Thurs...

Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser, Weil & Shapiro attorneys walked victoriously from the courtroom Thursday where...

SAN JOSE - In the parlance of the Internet, "listserv" is the generic name for an online discussion group, in which members se...

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Tuesday approved much of District Attorney Gil Garcetti's plan to improve his fam...

Claiming Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush is conducting business in secret, The Proposition 103 Enforcement Project h...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has overturned a death sentence and double murder conviction because a letter stating a key i...

SANTA ANA - Defendant Jesus Garcia, whose prosecutor has called him "the poster boy for three strikes," was sentenced to 25 y...

After a lengthy debate, the Los Angeles City Council unanimously voted Tuesday to ask the city attorney, police chief and leg...

After hearing the last, breathless half-hour of closing arguments, the jurors presiding over the Christensen, Miller, Fink, J...

A San Bernardino judge is being investigated for allegedly making crude remarks to a female court manager and others about he...

SAN DIEGO - Judge William C. Pate of the San Diego County Superior Court, a former Marine Corps combat veteran, believes lawye...

The Los Angeles Superior Court announced Tuesday it will begin phasing in the one-day, one-trial juror program in May 1999, de...

WASHINGTON - New presidents always inherit thorns left in their political side by the outgoing commander in chief, and for Ge...

The lawyer-defendants at Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser, Weil & Shapiro should know better than the average emp...

BRUSSELS, Belgium - Globalization of business means the rules for law firms have changed. Firms that are serious about establ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A litigious pro-gun lobby with a successful courtroom track record is threatening to counterattack if San Fra...

Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti's wide-ranging plan to improve his beleaguered family support division garn...