Attorney Larry R. Feldman has sued his former legal malpractice insurance carrier - not because the carrier backed out of cove...
Los Angeles District Attorney Gil Garcetti earned two victories Tuesday when the Board of Supervisors approved the formal cre...
Intellectual Property
Lawyer: Gates Not 'Great Satan,' Just a Competitor
By Daniel Shaw
By Daniel A. Shaw Los Angeles Daily Journal WASHINGTON - In his opening shot at the government Tuesday, Microsoft's lead atto...
A plan to implement radical changes in the way youngsters are treated at MacLaren Children's Center, the county's only shelte...
Los Angeles attorney Tony Keats, head of the intellectual property rights team of the law firm of Baker & Hostetler, lamb...
Criminal
Sobek Lawsuit Is Said to Settle, Though Rathbun Wins Judgment
By Denise Levin
Nearly three years after Linda Sobek was murdered in the Angeles National Forest, a settlement may have been reached between ...
Five women from the Ukraine and Belarus recently flew halfway around the world in their fight, against the odds, for the lega...
SAN JOSE - Money and sex have never been strangers, so it shouldn't have shocked anyone that they would embrace in cyberspace...
Former Southwest Airlines pilot Christopher G. Sheppard thought his co-workers were out to get him. They had conspired to get...
Personal Injury & Torts
Court Steers a New Course in Rescue Lawsuit
By Anna Marie Stolley
The tow truck operator was supposed to rescue stranded motorist James Tidmore, not the other way around. But roles quickly re...
One after another, the lawyers and judges took the podium with the task of roasting and, at the same time, paying tribute to L...
SAN JOSE - A large gray box standing in the lobby of the Santa Clara County jail could revolutionize the business of bailing ...
SACRAMENTO - As a gubernatorial campaign issue, judicial appointments barely registers. The subject isn't blessed with the vi...
Finding no evidence of prosecutorial misconduct in the conviction of a lawyer who conspired to murder a business associate, a...
SANTA ANA - Orange County judges will find out Friday whether or not they will be getting additional money from the Judicial ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The federal prosecutor who successfully handled the financial fraud case against former Arizona Gov. John Fif...
The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission and soccer promoters have sued the company that manages the Coliseum, claiming t...
Electronic media -- and how it relates to the law -- is an inescapable issue in the legal profession. "The question of develop...
Public Interest
Teen Program Seeks to End Cycle of Domestic Violence
By Anne La Jeunesse
The judge grilled "Robert," asking the teen-ager why he had shoved his girlfriend from his car onto a residential street, then...
Judges and Judiciary
In Unusual Move, Justices Will Hold Hearing on Bar Discipline
By Don De Benedictis
The state Supreme Court will hold an unusual, afternoon-long public hearing next month on whether and how it might step in to ...
WASHINGTON - In an action likely to cause widespread confusion and debate, the Supreme Court on Tuesday decided not to review ...
SAN DIEGO - The American Civil Liberties Union of San Diego and Imperial Counties announced Tuesday that it has set up a stat...
As he earlier said he would do, U.S. District Judge J. Spencer Letts Tuesday ordered nine Indian tribes to shut down their ca...
Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti Tuesday defended his beleaguered family support division in the wake of a h...
DENVER - Kevin Williams' fate was sealed the day his feet left the wooden swimming platform floating atop a chilly South Caro...
APPLE VALLEY - You might not think that a High Desert community with a distinctly rural atmosphere would have problems dealing...
In pushing for the enactment of a one-day, one-trial jury service system in Los Angeles County under a new state law, District...
A medical marijuana activist, AIDS patient and defendant of federal drug charges sued California Attorney General Dan Lungren...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court has overturned a controversial extradition order for three escaped Irish Republican A...
In response to growing criticism from child advocates and the media, the presiding judge of the Los Angeles Juvenile Court is...