Forum Column - By Gregory A. Yates - Contentions that the Los Angeles Police Department's consent decree is needlessly costing...

Forum Column - By Dorothy M. Ehrlich - America stands at a crossroads today, as we wrestle with fundamental questions about in...

LOS ANGELES - Rancho Cucamonga attorney James Davis impersonated a Homeland Security employee to get the discounted government...

RIVERSIDE - Civil judges will return to their old jobs today following a three-week emergency program that required them to he...

RIVERSIDE - Riverside County, which is home to one of the largest collections of Indian casinos in the state, soon will get he...

SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County judge is considering how far a public agency can go in offering financial incentives to its un...

The perjury conviction of a Southern California doctor was thrown out 6-5 on Friday by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, ...

LOS ANGELES - A former Catholic priest must face criminal prosecution for allegedly molesting a minor between 1990 and 1995, a...

Column By Philip Carrizosa - In 1997, the state Administrative Office of the Courts took special recognition of the problems o...

LOS ANGELES - Citing technical deficiencies, a referee Friday ruled that the Los Angeles Archdiocese does not have to turn ove...

A Pacific Palisades school is seeking a judicial order compelling the Los Angeles Unified School District to make school facil...

LOS ANGELES - Clifford Chance's only two San Diego partners are leaving the firm, effectively shutting one of the two remainin...

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton has opened a Century City office that will house the firm's 18-month-old entertainment...

Column - Law Firm Management - By Peter J. Kalis - For the second year running, my law firm has commissioned outside social sc...

LOS ANGELES - In the weeks ahead, Los Angeles city officials will walk a fine line between fully and openly investigating last...

Forum Column - By Bob Kearney - In 1792, delegates ratified the Bill of Rights to ensure stronger protection of individual lib...

Employment Column - By Julie A. Totten and Galen T. Shimoda - Technology benefits the workplace by increasing productivity and...

Forum Column - By James R. Bozajian - "The Congress shall have power to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the U...

LOS ANGELES - A jury on Thursday convicted Stephen Otto Reitz of first-degree murder in the beating and stabbing death of his ...

WASHINGTON - In a pair of 5-4 decisions Thursday, the Supreme Court rejected challenges to a hundred death sentences in five s...

SAN FRANCISCO - The state Supreme Court offered guidance Wednesday to lawyers who believe they could prevent a crime involving...

LOS ANGELES - The Sheriff's Department should replace a significant number of deputies in the jails with civilian officers to ...

LOS ANGELES - Services are set Sunday for R. Gerald "Jerry" Markle, an expert and a leader in the legal ethics community. Mark...

LOS ANGELES - Eight Los Angeles police officers from the Southeast division have been reassigned to administrative positions o...

LOS ANGELES - A judge Thursday ordered the city of Santa Monica to give civil attorneys the California Highway Patrol's report...

LOS ANGELES - Three Los Angeles Superior Court facilities will close their doors by the end of July, saving the court $2.9 mil...

LOS ANGELES - As the world's media speculated wildly on how much Michael Jackson paid to settle allegations made by the first ...

LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Texas inmate can appeal his death sentence because jurors did not a...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court, wrestling with a case that had bedeviled a lower appellate panel, upheld Thursda...

SAN FRANCISCO - Mattel Inc. should have known it didn't have a shapely leg to stand on when it sued a Utah artist for his paro...