RIVERSIDE - Judges and lawyers consider Riverside County Commissioner Martin H. Swanson better qualified to be a judge than Su...

Six months ago, the governing body of the American Bar Association decided it needed more time to figure out what to do about ...

With the incumbent again a no-show, Los Angeles County district attorney candidates Barry Groveman and Steve Cooley faced off ...

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For three years, David Kooyman must stay away from the Children's Courthouse - the same facility in which he trapped about 500...

Ethics Matters By E. Jean Gary Year 2000 is off to a rousing start. January came and went like a whirlwind. Annual reports rev...

By Barry A. Fisher In 1996, lawsuits filed in U.S. courts sought compensation for the role of Swiss banks in the German takeov...

Services will be held today for Michael J. Fasman, a Beverly Hills real estate lawyer who practiced for more than 50 years. F...

California's judicial hunting season for journalists, a favorite quarry of authoritarians everywhere, is in full swing. Last w...

SANTA ANA - Orange County Judge Robert R. Fitzgerald decided Monday that a suspect's flight into a garage during a police cha...

SAN FRANCISCO - More than a decade ago, Appellate Justice Joan Dempsey Klein of Los Angeles advanced the controversial theory ...

The Law School Admission Council has sued three men who were recently convicted for their parts in a scheme to steal a Law Sch...

SAN DIEGO - The district attorney's office will have little to say about the criminal investigation of Deputy District Attorne...

SAN FRANCISCO - Better late than never. Palo Alto's Fenwick & West is the last large Northern California law firm to anno...

ADR Daily Developments ADR Is No Longer a Refuge From Complex Legal Rules The Legislature has acted to deal with 'Birbrower, M...

Six IP Attorneys Switch Firms Six intellectual property attorneys from the San Diego office of Los Angeles-based Lyon & Ly...

SAN FRANCISCO - A former nude dancer has sued the owner of the Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theatre, claiming the establishmen...

In a potentially far-reaching case, a federal appeals court peppered both sides with tough questions Tuesday over claims that ...

Lawyers for convicted animal activist Pamelyn Ferdin Vlasak and the Los Angeles city attorney's office Tuesday agreed to rele...

By Iryna A. Kwasny and James R. Wheaton In Friends of the Earth Inc. v. Laidlaw , 120 S.Ct. 693 (2000) the Supreme Court used ...

Hahn Targets Venice Gang Los Angeles City Attorney James K. Hahn has filed a nuisance-abatement lawsuit against the Venice 13 ...

Richard Freed was sworn in as president of the Foothills Bar Association during a swank gala at Singing Hills Country Club in ...

Former madam to the stars Heidi Fleiss has sued the owners of E! Entertainment Television for defamation over a televised doc...

Pepperdine to Honor Mosk State Supreme Court Justice Stanley Mosk will receive Pepperdine University School of Law's Legal Her...

The president of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners sought to bolster public confidence in the police department T...

Scott Bice, one of the University of Southern California Law School's longest-serving deans, has announced he will return to ...

SANTA ANA - Family members of Garden Grove police officer Donald Reed told jurors Tuesday during the penalty phase trial of R...

Allowing Judge Patrick B. Murphy to take the oath of a Los Angeles Superior Court judge over the telephone on Jan. 31 may not ...

The parents of Jeremy Strohmeyer, who recently recanted a guilty plea for the killing of a little girl in a Nevada casino rest...

SAN FRANCISCO - After weeks of wrestling for control of some two dozen class actions against software giant Microsoft Corp., p...