LOS ANGELES - With statistics for nearly all of 2000 available, the Los Angeles Police Department reported a nearly 25-percent...

WASHINGTON - The postelection legal drama that polarized and pulverized Americans for much of the last six weeks is fading fro...

LOS ANGELES - Hinting that it may review the type of ammunition it allows the Los Angeles Police Department to fire at demonst...

SAN FRANCISCO - Four companies, including what was once the nation's largest maker of the pesticide DDT, have agreed to pay $...

LOS ANGELES - Just two weeks before Los Angeles County officials recommended a $4 million settlement for 4-year-old Oei Mae, w...

LOS ANGELES - Criminal defendants are requesting officer personnel records in dramatically increasing numbers, the Los Angeles...

SAN FRANCISCO - Worried that the state's trial courts are unprepared to handle a flood of drug offenders entitled to treatmen...

SAN FRANCISCO - The daytime song of the Yosemite toad, once a distinctive part of the music of the Sierra Nevada, has gradual...

LOS ANGELES - In 1999, Gov. Gray Davis established a plan intended to expand eligibility in public high schools that increasin...

As we all know, the role of receptionist in a law firm is vital. A receptionist with good communication and people skills crea...

SAN FRANCISCO - The San Diego federal judicial district received no new judges in 1999, "yet it continued to lead the nation w...

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Dec. 28 for James M. Shields, retired managing attorney for CNA. Shields died Dec. 3 in...

Apparently fearing further limitations on Congress' legislative reach, supporters of Vice President Al Gore have criticized Ge...

LOS ANGELES - A developer who planned to make an "entertainment destination center" at the Hollywood Galaxy theater complex ha...

SAN JOSE - Attorneys for defendants in the Avant criminal trade-secrets theft case tried for a third time Monday to persuade a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Youth advocates filed suit here Monday seeking to improve conditions in overcrowded youth shelters across the...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Alameda County Public Defender cannot be held in contempt for failing to turn over completed juror questi...

LOS ANGELES - An oil company's suit against a consumer group that attempted to enforce public interest rights under Propositio...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Melvyn B. Fliegel, Century City attorney and former partner at Alschuler Grossman ...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Monday refused to remove one of the defense lawyers for former Symbionese ...

LOS ANGELES - The Immigration and Naturalization Service has been called a lot of things, but Santa Claus isn't one of them. T...

SAN FRANCISCO - A public defender whose professional negligence sends an innocent person to jail is not immune from malpracti...

LOS ANGELES - Who's afraid of People v. Mooc? The Los Angeles Police Department. The obscure Orange County criminal case is a ...

WASHINGTON - If President George W. Bush gets a chance to appoint a Supreme Court justice, he probably won't be able to fulfil...

SAN FRANCISCO - What do Cisco Systems, Charles Schwab, Fenwick & West and Men's Wearhouse have in common? They're all Bay...

After having read Justice Antonin Scalia's recent opinion regarding the stay of the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Bush v...

The court stated that tie votes are incompatible with the kind of affirmative action implied in the regulations. ...

The call of the general counsel slot was like a siren song for Peter Astiz. He left large-firm life a year and a half ago, ent...

Specialty Laboratories Inc. has gone public in an offering valued at $80 million. Santa Monica's Specialty Laboratories is a f...

Norm Rubenstein, chief marketing officer for San Francisco-based Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, warns that his firm will b...