The University of Southern California Law School has appointed one of its professors and graduates as its new dean. Professor ...

Some Laotian Vietnam war veterans and their family members now living in the United States could take a citizenship test throu...

Forum: By Erwin Chemerinsky For almost a half century, the U.S. Supreme Court has struggled with First Amendment challenges to...

Relatives of nine Baldwin Park residents who died, allegedly after years of drinking water contaminated with oil, solvents and...

The Public Eye By Ross Johnson Memo to: The lawyers of the thousands of Hollywood screenwriters tempted to steal from Thursday...

SAN DIEGO - It has been almost two years since California voters approved unifying the state's trial courts, a formidable task...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco psychiatrist, discharged from the Air Force for being gay, filed suit Thursday to block Air Fo...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court will review an appellate court's dismissal of a class action alleging that nine o...

Critics of the status quo say that America's neglect of its incarcerated kids with mental health problems has reached the brea...

SAN FRANCISCO - A former Pelican Bay state prison guard has been sentenced to nearly eight years in federal prison for a near-...

Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles and Campion Counseling Center plan domestic violence prevention training for legal and men...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has wiped out the bulk of Sony Corp.'s copyright and trademark suit against Connectix Corp. in...

Winston K. McKesson, the lawyer for Rampart scandal whistle-blower Rafael A. Perez, has been named the Century City Bar Associ...

SAN DIEGO - Those cute little compact discs that made 33 rpm records extinct don't come cheap, and a pair of San Diego lawyers...

SAN FRANCISCO - Ecards.com announced Wednesday that it will appeal the $4 million unfair competition verdict reached May 10. ...

Dicta: Money Matters By Kimberely Quackenbush A good time-entry program can make the difference between bills that are paid on...

Overriding a veto by Mayor Richard J. Riordan, the Los Angeles City Council Tuesday unanimously approved the continuation of a...

Practitioner: Insurance Law By Scott Thomas During 1999, California courts decided a number of cases involving the scope of co...

Practitioner: Insurance Law By Kirk A. Pasich On Thursday, May 4, much of the business world was hit by the "ILOVEYOU" virus/w...

Forum: In the Public Interest By David A. Lash California Business & Professions Code Section 6210, the statute creating t...

Pending approval from the mayor's office, the city of Los Angeles will spend about $900,000 to hire an architect to design a n...

Dicta: By Paul O'Brien Browsing through some very old newspapers, I came across an article from 1860. A long, front-page story...

SAN BERNARDINO - Those responsible for investing the county's money in the early to mid-1990s made poor decisions and paid unn...

In an expected response to Microsoft Corp.'s proposed counter remedy for its antitrust violations, the Department of Justice a...

SANTA ANA - The bargaining association for lawyers who work for Orange County has filed a lawsuit claiming county officials we...

WESTWOOD - James E. Holst, the University of California's general counsel and vice president of l egal a ffairs, said Wednesda...

The mother of a 14-year-old Orange County boy Wednesday filed a class action against Larry Flynt Publications, claiming that t...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court voted Wednesday to review a lower court decision that has caused "enormous uproar...

Berman Swarttz, the 84-year-old Los Angeles lawyer who skipped to Brazil with his prospective fifth wife last year after admit...

As four city leaders met Wednesday behind closed doors with representatives of the U.S. Department of Justice to discuss how t...