SAN FRANCISCO - Every traffic commissioner probably has a favorite excuse story spun by drivers handed a ticket. San Francisco...

SUPPORT RULING - When Eric Campbell's soon-to-be ex-wife remarried in Nevada, he thought it was the end of his obligation to p...

INSPECTOR'S REPORT - The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners inspector general provided the first glimpse Tuesday into h...

SAN FRANCISCO - When Presiding Judge Ronald W. Stovitz of the State Bar Court steps down toward the end of this year, Californ...

Forum Column - By John C. Eastman - Amazing that with a federal budget of nearly $2.5 trillion, several elected officials have...

Focus Column - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and David L. Marcus - The 2nd District Court of Appeal in In re Marriage of McTiernan and...

LOS ANGELES - Former Los Angeles Mayor Richard J. Riordan was recovering Monday from heart bypass surgery he underwent over th...

SAN FRANCISCO - Through an unhappy combination of geology and humans' quest for cleanliness, much of California has a big, but...

SACRAMENTO - Civil liberties groups that fought to end racial segregation in jails and prisons rushed Monday to defend the Los...

LOS ANGELES - Defendants facing charges of selling unregistered securities will have an easier time arguing their case after a...

LOS ANGELES - A letter of complaint sparked a career in mediation for Thomas J. Stipanowich, who has been tapped to become co-...

PASADENA - The city of West Hollywood is an "innocent owner" whose property was illegally seized by the federal government in ...

By Gary Abrams - A smelly little fish has blossomed into a stinking, rotting whale. And maybe we've only had the first whiff. ...

SANTA ANA - Prosecutors worry jurors may sympathize with the 81-year-old Orange County woman who claims she killed a man to p...

LOS ANGELES - Former Fleishman-Hillard executive Doug Dowie alleges in court documents that he was fired last year as part of ...

LOS ANGELES - In 1980, inmate Larry "Zoom" Roberts was set for release on parole from the state prison at Vacaville following ...

CAMPAIGN FINES - The state's political watchdog agency on Monday fined the Los Angeles trial lawyers group and a San Francisco...

LOS ANGELES - Joel R. Bennett and Matthew J. Fairshter have shuttered their Pasadena business litigation practice and joined ...

LOS ANGELES - One hundred years ago, 25-year-old Alexander Wallace Rutan came from the East Coast to the orange groves of Ora...

TORRANCE - A Denver-based private investment group purchased Hamilton Place, a 250,025-square-foot office building at 20101 Ha...

LOS ANGELES - Former Judge Kenneth Starr, best-known for his stint as independent counsel investigating President Clinton, is ...

Forum Column - By Joshua P. Davis - The most interesting issues before the Supreme Court in Gonzales v. Oregon , 126 S.Ct. 904...

Forum Column - By Norman Abrams - Most legal scholars and members of Congress assume that the National Security Agency's White...

Letter to the Editor - Your publication of a reader's response to an earlier constitutional law article by my special counsel,...

Focus Column - By William E. Winfield - Among the recent amendments to the Bankruptcy Code are some changes that are very bene...

SANTA ANA - The Los Angeles Times will pay $3.2 million to a bicyclist because a delivery driver ran him down while driving o...

LOS ANGELES - Ivy Kagan Bierman, an entertainment labor lawyer, has joined Loeb & Loeb in Los Angeles as a partner. Bierm...

LOS ANGELES - Berger Kahn, a 65-attorney law firm with four offices, continues the expansion of its business and corporate pr...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge John P. Doyle sits in chambers filled with family photos, golf balls and...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyer, activist and author Oscar Acosta is perhaps best known as the sidekick to the late Hunter S. Thompson,...