A few weeks ago, the Senate's Commerce Committee hosted executives from the film industry who traveled to Washington to defend...

An 18-year-old man pleaded no contest Wednesday to felony vandalism committed during the Democratic National Convention in Aug...

A state appellate court heard arguments Wednesday that murderer Diana Haun was convicted on a bed of improper trial procedure,...

Following energetic debate over the extent to which the public should oversee police officer's conduct, the Los Angeles City C...

Los Angeles County workers manned the picket lines Wednesday in front of the Criminal Courts Building and the mall between the...

The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, together with representatives of religious, disabled rights and min...

Los Angeles County prosecutors in the corruption trial of four police officers have asked the 2nd District Court of Appeal to ...

In the article "School Voucher Gouger, School Reform Efforts Must Move Toward Accountability and Inclusion," (Sept. 26) where ...

The high court is faced with a fundamental public-policy issue: the continued viability and application of the continuous-viol...

When civil rights lawyer Constance L. Rice sought a consent decree with the Los Angeles Police Department several years ago to...

Bicycling enthusiasts who claimed they were unlawfully detained during the Democratic National Convention and kept from partic...

Most of the jurors who will decide the fate of four Los Angeles Police Department officers accused of corruption favor plea ba...

The California Supreme Court appeared reluctant Wednesday to grant public defenders the same malpractice immunity that already...

The Rampart police scandal has begun to resemble the murky world of Cold War espionage. For those who miss the days when the I...

Two Century City entertainment litigation powerhouses and former adversaries - Kinsella Boesch Fujikawa & Towle and Greenb...

Client fee agreements are designed to protect both attorney and client.

WASHINGTON - Jumping back into the thorny thicket of punitive damages, the Supreme Court Tuesday agreed to consider what stand...

A Los Angeles judge ruled Tuesday that 5,100 county hospital workers cannot leave their jobs to join the general strike of hal...

Two and a half years ago in Sacramento, federal Deputy Public Defender Robert Cohen came upon a situation he thought could hap...

The mediator has the responsibility to help the parties achieve an effective process that addresses their unique needs. ...

For most Americans, the sudden and dramatic conclusion of the Wen Ho Lee trial served as a profound lesson about the governmen...

Recently, as Stanford Law School dean Kathleen Sullivan left the room where she had just spoken at a Lawyers Club luncheon, a ...

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has appointed attorney Robin S. Toma as executive director of the county Human Rel...

Law schools have failed students by increasing tuition dramatically during the past decade without helping ease students' debt...

Without comment Tuesday, the Los Angeles City Council voted to sell a surplus pickup truck to Homeboy Industries for $1. ...

Two Internet greeting card companies with nearly identical monikers have settled their legal disputes, with the firm that lost...

Late in the night, long after most Angelenos have switched off the television news and drifted off to sleep, young car enthusi...

The Los Angeles Police Department's civilian policy-making panel took another step Tuesday toward bringing back a popular form...

NORWALK - A Los Angeles Superior Court jury has awarded $14 million to a former Pico Rivera couple who contended that their ci...

A jury was selected Tuesday in the trial of four officers charged in the Los Angeles Police Department corruption scandal. ...