Manuel A. Abascal, a former assistant U.S. attorney who prosecuted a sophisticated Internet "pump and dump" scheme last year, ...

By Allonn E. Levy. Imagine your child is home sick with the flu. Instead of missing her school lessons, she spends the afterno...

Some lawyers can really pound sand. After coming in third for the last three years, a team of public and private lawyers took ...

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved a $1.5 million settlement to the family of a 32-year-old inmat...

SANTA ANA - A Santa Ana city councilman will claim entrapment in his defense against federal charges that he conspired to exto...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County woman has filed a lawsuit against her former employer, a Santa Ana company that markets Christian...

Aided by a conservative legal group, convicted Democratic fund-raiser Johnny Chung sued the U.S. Justice Department Tuesday, a...

The nation's two-party system has a counterpart in Los Angeles law firms: those who are concerned about the logistics of work...

SAN FRANCISCO - Clarifying what constitutes sufficient evidence of potential racial profiling to merit a jury trial, a federal...

A community meeting in a mid city police station Tuesday turned tense over fears that protesters at the upcoming Democratic Na...

By John M. Curtis. Average American families now spend about half a year working for federal, state and local governments. Mos...

By The Rodent. The aging secretary whose fingers haven't touched a computer keyboard or a Federal Express label in more than a...

By Clyde Leland. Choose quotes carefully and present them so the reader understands their importance. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court Monday ordered a trial for a surrogate mother seeking custody of a son whose conceptio...

By Mitchell A. Jacobs and David L. Marcus. Desired Declaration Lack of Disclosure Reversible Error Only if Party Prejudiced Al...

DENVER - The first segment of the nation's first statewide electronic court filing system is now online. Attorneys filing case...

A federal judge ruled Monday that a defense lawyer must tell a grand jury who paid him, and how much, to represent a convicted...

A state appellate court ruled Monday that a woman's right against self-incrimination was not violated when she was forced to t...

Services were held Monday for Frederick Charles Dockweiler, the last surviving child of Isidore B. Dockweiler, a Los Angeles c...

SAN DIEGO - Outwardly, nothing was unusual about the July 1998 lunch meeting at the Uptowner, a San Bernardino restaurant, wh...

By Dick Goldberg. Score one for the geezers. Down by three runs in their final at bat, a motley team of self-styled "old guys"...

A proposal to bolster the investigative capabilities of the inspector general's office and possibly other city of Los Angeles...

Wear latex gloves when swabbing blood samples from puddles on the street. Plastic baggies are handy not only for storing blood...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate court Monday upheld a $4.65 million damage verdict against Southern California's Metrolink...

Buford O. Furrow Jr., the avowed white supremacist accused of shooting up a Granada Hills Jewish center and killing a Filipino...

SAN FRANCISCO - Without resolving whether free exercise of religion trumps civil rights protections, a federal appellate court...

Steinway Musical Instruments Inc. has agreed to acquire Elkhart, Ind.'s United Musical Instruments Holding Inc. The deal is va...

Mannis & Phillips, a Century City family law boutique known for representing high-profile clients, from Hollywood stars to...

Tampa-based Holland & Knight has acquired the Los Angeles and Tokyo offices of New York-based Whitman Breed Abbot & Mo...

Reeves has settled the circuit split on a discrimination plaintiff's burden of proof, endorsing a common-sense approach instea...