Rita Ijebor, former head nurse at the Heman G. Stake Youth Correctional Facility, sat timidly in the conference room of the st...

A federal judge Wednesday approved an agreement between the city of Los Angeles and protest groups to give demonstrators the ...

By David B. (Dov) Fischer. Disagreements should be settled with words, not deadly weapons. That's a basic rule of civilized so...

It's been a tradition for the outgoing chair of the Council of Appellate Staff Attorneys to pass an "invisible gavel" to the i...

By Steve Baughman. In a recent political-asylum trial, my client testified to having paid a $25,000 fine for political activit...

By Virginia M. Apuzzo. The election in the year 2000 is the type that comes along once in a generation - an election that, for...

By Kathy M. Banke and Lisa M. Baird. Appellate Law - Waiver Worries Failure to Make the Record Can Be a Trap for Unwary. Two r...

B of A Absolved In Boy's Mauling Although it owned the property where a construction company's guard dogs fatally mauled a you...

After months of contemplation, Century City's Sanders Barnet Goldman Simons & Mosk - nine partners and one associate - hav...

A funeral service will be held today for retired longtime University of California, Los Angeles, law professor Harold W. Horow...

SANTA ANA - Patricia and Edward Haynes were not the first couple to sue the University of California and its Irvine campus fer...

As an assistant U.S. attorney in the 1980s, Peter Robinson helped convict neo-Nazi gang members and savings and loan swindlers...

Jeffrey W. Johnson, the first black federal magistrate in Los Angeles, is expected to be recommended for a district court judg...

Los Angeles County prosecutor Steve Cooley, who is challenging his boss, District Attorney Gil Garcetti, on the November ballo...

The attorney for Los Angeles Police Department Officer Humberto Tovar, whose firing has been recommended by a police board of ...

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Planning to remodel the kitchen or buy a new living room set? Better consult your horoscope. Homestore.com Inc., a group of I...

As fallout continues from a proposed merger between Chicago's 750-lawyer Winston & Strawn and Whitman Breed Abbot & Mo...

By Julie Nakashima Compared to the industrial sector, the San Gabriel Valley office market is minuscule - a base of just 14 m...

Facing a deadline for an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Jesuit religious order has negotiated a settlement of the sexua...

Services were held Sunday for family law specialist Joseph Taback, who lost a 16-month battle with pancreatic cancer. Taback d...

The recall campaign against Marin County District Attorney Paula Kamena has taken a sharp political turn since medical marijua...

Oops ... he did it again. During last week's debate between Los Angeles District Attorney Gil Garcetti and challenger Steve Co...

Los Angeles Superior Court lost a judge Monday to the new math of legal economics that hiked starting associate salaries up to...

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Old airplanes and an aging rock star provided the backdrop for a hormone-induced hip crowd at the fourth annual Justice Ball S...

By John McCloud The primary difference between what's happening along the I-680 corridor from Danville to Concord and what's ...

Real estate practice group joins Greenberg Traurig Los Angeles - Richard F. Davis, former managing partner of the internation...

By Marvin E. Krakow. The U.S. Supreme Court just held that an employee with a discrimination claim has a right to a jury trial...

By Paul D. Hesse and Alec H. Boyd. The decision in Streit suggests that attorneys should be cautious before undertaking to spe...