DICTA I was sitting quietly in my high-rise office when all of a sudden - flashing strobes, screaming sirens and every single ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Expanding the charges of civil rights violations against guards at troubled Pelican Bay state prison, two guar...

LOS ANGELES - Justice William A. Masterson of the 2nd District Court of Appeal said Wednesday he will retire this summer, endi...

A memorial service will be held March 6 for Stuart P. Herman, a Los Angeles attorney and JAMS mediator. Herman died of cancer...

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LAPD Division May Be Divided The Los Angeles City Council unanimously approved a motion Wednesday asking the Board of Police C...

A veteran bankruptcy judge is resigning the post she has held for 15 years to become a mediator with the Judicial Arbitration...

The voice of the former Los Angeles Municipal Court was silenced Tuesday with the death of Public Information Officer Marcia ...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Alban I. Niles has been reassigned from family court to civil court in the wake of allegation...

An Orange County Superior Court judge has issued $2,250 in discovery sanctions against Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patri...

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SAN FRANCISCO - California physicians lost a long legal fight Tuesday as an appeal court said the California Medical Board may...

Voters should vote yes on Proposition 21. The measure sends a clear message to gang members and other potential serious offend...

Commissioner Elected Chair SANTA ANA - Orange County Superior Court Commissioner Sheila Fell has been elected chair of the Ora...

A memorial mass at Loyola University School of Law is planned for William G. Tucker, a veteran trial lawyer best known for hi...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County prosecutors must disclose full transcripts of grand jury proceedings, including their legal inst...

Audio and video forensics expert Norman I. Perle, who analyzed taped evidence and testified in a number of high-profile crimi...

The Los Angeles City Council stopped short Tuesday of endorsing a plan for a new independent commission to review the Rampart ...

WASHINGTON - Dealing a multimillion-dollar blow to California, the Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down as unconstitutional a ...

WASHINGTON - Thomas C. Goldstein is living the dream of many lawyers. He argued two cases before the Supreme Court last year a...

Proposition 21 is unnecessary and ineffective and will only make matters worse for California's youth and for California. This...

Brobeck Phleger SIX IP ATTORNEYS LEAVE LYON & LYON Six intellectual property attorneys from the San Diego office of Lyon ...

SACRAMENTO - Defenders of a 1996 campaign finance reform initiative will continue to face tough going, despite a recent U.S. S...

International Law - U.S. taxpayers must now realize that certain gifts must be reported and that the failure to report such gi...

By Helen H. Kang In a comprehensive opinion overturning the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision, the U.S. Supreme Cour...

Cooley Godward INTERNET CONTENT COMPANY ATTACHES A LEAF TO THE TREE Redwood City's BroadVision Inc., which provides services ...

DENVER - Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt announced a new land conservation system last week that will make the Bureau of Land...

Burningham & Burningham CYBERTEL COMPLETES DEAL MUSICALLY JUST LIKE DAT La Jolla's Cybertel Communications Corp. complete...

SAN DIEGO - Still maintaining that money he admitted stealing from the San Diego Zoo was spent for the zoo's benefit, former r...

Investigator Receives Executive Certificate SAN BERNARDINO - The chief investigator for the San Bernardino County district att...