^^OPINION^^ Unsafe and Unsound By Bill Higgins When it comes to property rights and the 5th Amendment's takings clause of the ...

By Deborah Rosenthal William E. Kirchhoff hit a career low when, following his termination as manager of the c ity of Redondo ...

Nearly 400 adoptions of children in foster care will become final Saturday during Adoption Saturday at the Edmund D. Edelman C...

Forum: By Harvey Karp As a pediatrician, I know parents work very hard to make a living, put good food on the table and keep t...

Dicta: On 'Judging Amy' By Akilah Monifa For this week's show, you gotta have heart, both literally and figuratively. Judge A...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco Superior Court appellate panel has ruled that landlords who are getting out of the rental busi...

The Los Angeles County Bar Association has mounted the first formal opposition to legislation that would require all Californi...

SAN FRANCISCO - California juvenile offenders are being treated in medical and mental health facilities that are unlicensed an...

A former creator of "Barbie" commercials for Ogilvy & Mather has sued the advertising giant, claiming that it unceremoniou...

The brother of an Iraqi dissident fighting deportation on charges of being a national security threat completed testimony Thur...

SAN DIEGO -- With Mexico's chief anti-drug prosecutor standing beside him, U.S. Attorney Gregory A. Vega announced Thursday th...

Suspended Rampart CRASH officer Humberto Tovar has been granted limited-use immunity by prosecutors in an effort to shore up t...

SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a state law exempting religiously affiliated organizations from a...

SANTA ANA - In what a plaintiffs' attorney is dubbing "just the tip of the iceberg," an Orange County couple today will file t...

Corporate and securities lawyer Alan C. Mendelson, a $10 million rainmaker and one of the founding partners of Cooley Godward ...

WASHINGTON - Citing the release of innocent people from death rows , a group of prominent personalities spanning ideological a...

With the federal government poised to come into town and clean up local policing, the Los Angeles Police Department's most pro...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal jury has awarded $4 million in damages to an Internet greeting card company, e-cards.com, for market...

WASHINGTON - A group of federal judges from states bordering Mexico turned into lobbyists Thursday, converging on the Capitol ...

Santa Monica attorney Bruce Broillet and his wife, Norah, gave about 50 luminaries of California's legal community the chance ...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Carl J. West is expected to decide a week from today if he will quash a subpoena of police re...

Practitioner: Environmental Law By Richard C. Giller Insurers have two separate but related duties under comprehensive genera...

Memo to movie director Francis Ford Coppola: Next time you write a letter to a newspaper, check with your lawyer. As reported ...

Dicta: Ethics Matters By JoAnne Earls Robbins In years past, new lawyers went to work for a firm, learned at the feet of olde...

SANTA ANA - The Orange County district attorney's office Wednesday charged a suspect in connection with one of the county's ol...

California government procedures for determining whether certain chemicals are regulated under Proposition 65 - effectively ba...

SAN FRANCISCO - The state Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to block implementation of California's new juvenile crime law, s...

Forum: By Charles A. Wieland Safe court facilities are required by law and human decency. What are judges supposed to do about...

A San Francisco judge has dismissed a malpractice suit against attorneys who brokered an $80 million settlement in a toxic tor...

Los Angeles is once again the city of the serial apocalypse. And not a moment too soon, I say. For a while there, it looked li...