A Romanian woman fears being raped and killed because of her religious beliefs if she returns to her homeland. A Russian Jew t...

The list of Rampart-related police misconduct cases is growing, with the recent filing in Los Angeles Superior Court of two mo...

Noah Frederick Baum won his first trial last week in Los Angeles Superior Court - and his last. ...

NEW ADMITTEES: By Suzanne Mellard The specter of ethical conflicts takes on new meaning when law firms hire recent graduates w...

The Alumni Association of Southwestern University School of Law recently honored three members of the bench, bar and business ...

SANTA ANA - Go to the Web site for Tickets.com and the Costa Mesa-based company touts its mission as leveraging "the power of ...

The Pasadena courthouse of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals was packed Thursday afternoon with federal and state judges, membe...

The June meeting of the Family Law Section of the Long Beach Bar Association will feature a brown bag lunch with family court ...

NEW ADMITTEES: By Christopher Tayback and Adrian Pruetz Complex jury trials usually require more than one trial attorney - one...

Practitioner: By Mitchell Ehrlich The "fireman's rule" is traditionally applied to professional rescuers, who, because of the ...

Litigator Profile: By Deborah Rosenthal Attorney Rene D. Wasserman has cornered the market . As chair of the employment practi...

Dicta: By Andrew T. Cavagnaro and Elise G. Devecchio-Cavagnaro Imagine being in the jury box deciding the outcome of a murder ...

Keys to Victory: By Lisa Miller Galen Gentry, of Los Angeles' Law Offices of Galen Gentry, won a defense verdict plus $218,504...

Forum: Until I was 21, I knew no lawyers. Since then, I have known little else. Which is how I ended up on the cusp of winter ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Handing a significant victory to employers, a sharply split California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that an em...

SAN FRANCISCO - An evidently annoyed state appeals court has imposed $32,000 in sanctions on two San Mateo lawyers and their a...

SAN FRANCISCO - In an effort to centralize its sprawling corporate structure and trim its budget, legal publisher West Group i...

NEW ADMITTEES: By J. GARY GWILLIAM The jury had reached its verdict. I glanced at my client. I felt we had won. My client was ...

Dicta: By John A. Caudron I was a young grunt right out of the Vietnam jungle on leave in Okinawa and I had the luck to meet R...

Bringing to 91 the number of criminal cases that have been thrown out of court because of the Rampart police corruption scanda...

Practitioner: Tort Law By Michael K. Brown and Thomas J. Yoo What is spoliation of evidence? Consider an attorney investigatin...

Reaction of Los Angeles lawyers to Thursday's appellate decision denying an asylum hearing to Elian Gonzalez has been favorabl...

Justice Department and Los Angeles city officials meeting Thursday to negotiate the terms of possible federal oversight of pol...

TUSTIN - When she started her odyssey, she was just Kelli G., telling her story in the pages of this newspaper last month but ...

Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti said Thursday following a debate with challenger Steve Cooley that the Los A...

The Public Eye: By Ross Johnson In Los Angeles, a city that prides itself on its racial diversity, the lack of black entertain...

Aug. 23, 1996, was a big night for the Rampart-based Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums team. That night, 12 officers...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a surprising concession, the California Supreme Court on Thursday forfeited some of its power over attorney...

San Rafael Orion brokers 'Skip' market Before placing the property on the market, Mac Cranford and Haden Ongaro of Orion Part...

By W T "Dub" Northcutt For the most part, parking structures serve a strictly utilitarian function: they house vehicles at sh...