On a split vote Tuesday, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors acted to let voters decide in November whether to expand ...

Senate Bill 1899 should not be made into law. ...

You say your parents don't understand you? Get in line. The 4th District Court of Appeal in Orange County ordered a 16-year-ol...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a highly unusual move, a federal judge has significantly reduced a cocaine smuggling sentence because the ...

Tribal law enforcement officers have no more protection from lawsuits than other public officials, a state appellate court has...

SANTA ANA - In a strongly worded opinion, a state appellate court has reinstated an $870,000 jury verdict in favor of an Orang...

In the aftermath of Pillsbury Madison & Sutro's decision to become Pillsbury Winthrop in a marriage with New York's Winthr...

All but ensuring that the first criminal trial in the Rampart police misconduct scandal will start by October, the defense, in...

RIVERSIDE - A federal judge Tuesday disqualified a prominent Los Angeles defense firm, Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glas...

An employee for the contractor remodeling Cher's Malibu home has sued the pop diva for sexual harassment and wrongful terminat...

There is no way to minimize the importance of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. It is the law that governs almost e...

Recently resigned Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush, accused of substituting his own political interests for the enforc...

Probably one of the biggest law firm mysteries is how to properly conduct and evaluate an interview with a prospective new ass...

When does the skit end and life begin? The blurry line between entertainment and reality is a hallmark of contemporary existen...

District attorney challenger Steve Cooley on Monday said incumbent District Attorney Gil Garcetti has neglected his duties by ...

The notion of close regulation is receiving a liberal interpretation by the federal courts. ...

Julius Mel Reich, labor lawyer and co-founder of the law firm Reich, Adell, Crost and Cvitan, died Saturday. He was 67. Reich ...

State judicial officials agree that closer scrutiny of nominees is necessary in the wake of scandalous charges that Los Angele...

Amid reports that Los Angeles Police Department officers paid a visit to protest leaders just hours after they began setting u...

Behind the scenes of the Los Angeles City Council's narrow approval of a settlement payout to former Black Panther Elmer G. "G...

VICTORVILLE - Although officials found a Victorville man with drugs inside the courthouse, a judge has thrown out the charges ...

San Francisco's Pillsbury Madison & Sutro has agreed to a "merger of equals" with New York-based Winthrop Stimson Putnam &...

A former Los Angeles County deputy district attorney and four other men have been charged by federal prosecutors with illegall...

A federal judge Monday rejected immigration officials' attempt to maintain custody over a 3-year-old, HIV-infected Thai boy. ...

The court noted that the plaintiffs defined disparity in one way and the county defined disparity in another way. ...

Attorneys, paralegals and support staff are leaving firms in record numbers for competitors and clients, but many are starting...

Seth Zachary, co-managing partner of Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker, will become chairman of the firm effective Aug. 1. ...

Neal S. Millard, partner with the Los Angeles office of White & Case, has been elected to chair the Judicial Procedures Co...

The good, old-fashioned threatening letter can be one of the lawyer's most effective tools, but, if used improperly or careles...

Before the ink dries on a jury's decision awarding big damages, defendants often place a phone call to the San Fernando Valley...