LOS ANGELES - A private security company is not responsible for the rape its security guard commits while on duty because the ...

LOS ANGELES - Crystal B., a minor, said she attempted suicide by an overdose of pills because of the depression and anxiety sh...

Should consumer attorneys do more pro bono work? The answer depends on a definition for "pro bono." ...

Citizens of every society take comfort in the knowledge that there exists a forum, an agency, a system where they can air thei...

Few groups in our society are as shut out of the legal system as are the homeless. An innovative court program, however, offer...

Advising business clients regarding antitrust issues is becoming more and more a matter of sophisticated analysis. ...

Just as the public needs access to justice, so we lawyers need access to good employers. ...

SAN JOSE - A New Jersey technology company, which had won an injunction barring two of its former employees from working at a ...

SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court denied a petition Wednesday by a group of insurers challenging the constitutionality...

Although our criminal justice system is predicated on promises of equality, it often fails to deliver. Now more than ever, it ...

The nation's third-largest cable company, Comcast Cable Communications Inc., announced Wednesday that it will open its system ...

If one is interested in an individual's ability to obtain access to justice, international mechanisms should not be overlooked...

Services have taken place for Maurice O. Huebsch, retired judge for the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board in Los Angeles. Hu...

Los Angeles Police Department facilities for storing drugs, guns and money lack adequate security, including functioning alarm...

Proposition 218, which gave California voters the right to vote on new taxes, does not apply to water use rates charged by the...

Brian Toutant remembers being repulsed when driving by homeless people holding signs such as "Will Work for Food," and "Homele...

The former head of Los Angeles County's Department of Children and Family Services cannot recover costs he incurred in defendi...

SANTA ANA - The Orange County Bar Foundation, which founded a number of programs geared toward tackling juvenile crime, will c...

Attorneys who represented groups that protested during the Democratic National Convention in a First Amendment dispute will be...

Two past members of now-defunct Los Angeles firm Tuttle & Taylor have landed on their feet at the Los Angeles office of Jo...

Two men who have worked for Los Angeles County for 11 years without employee benefits finally said "enough" Wednesday. John Ho...

A Los Alamitos police officer bitten by a California Highway Patrol dog cannot sue for the bite. The dog bite was an inherent ...

A man whose suit brought about a landmark decision barring insurance companies from denying disability benefits based on evide...

When artwork or sculpture meld into the architectural functions of a building, that eliminates copyright protection under a 19...

Decertify this! This week, the U.S. landscape looks - even more than usual - like it's been overrun by the big attack dogs of ...

One of the men has a master's degree in human resources management and used to play semi-professional baseball before becoming...

After a long struggle, Joe Fernandez thought his years of bad luck, heroin addiction, prison and family tragedy were almost ov...

The challenges facing local officials trying to implement Proposition 36 - the "treatment not incarceration" initiative passed...

Even though the state's Hispanic population is burgeoning, Latino attorneys are complaining that the number of Latino judges i...

David Grunwald didn't grow up dreaming of doing good. "I was a punk in high school," Grunwald recalled. Merle Haggard could do...