SPECIAL ISSUE: DEMONSTRATIVE EVIDENCE By Julie Campanini Do jurors decide who should win a case based on the opening statement...

SAN DIEGO - In a lawsuit laden with accusations of political obstacles thrown up by the Clinton administration and Gov. Gray D...

City Attorney James K. Hahn's office this week identified an additional 57 misdemeanor cases involving Los Angeles Police Depa...

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge Thursday tossed out another five felony cases tainted by Rampart-style police law breaking,...

Kira Alexsis Murphy's life ended tragically Dec. 11, three weeks after her first birthday. Her mother, Jill Ann Alto, placed h...

A $20 million civil rights lawsuit was filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles on behalf of a Guatemalan man who ...

Retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge W. James (Jim) Turpit died Wednesday at his home in Corona del Mar. He was 85. Raised...

Former labor law attorney Alfred M. Klein died Wednesday at UCLA Medical Center. He was 87. In the late 1940s, Klein, along wi...

Love has hit the Los Angeles legal community, and it's not a pretty sight. A quick spot-survey by the Daily Journal found that...

SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a kidnapping may be punished more severely if it increases the r...

WASHINGTON - The criminal justice system, at every level and at every step along the way, treats blacks and Hispanics more sev...

Following a lengthy investigation, state officials have taken legal action to revoke the license of a Santa Barbara County fos...

SAN FRANCISCO - Expanding fair use protection for advertising display of a competitor's copyrighted work, a federal appellate ...

Where some see the impending Southland dot-com shake-up as a tragedy of epic proportions, Sidley & Austin's litigation hea...

Practitioner: Real Property Law By Michael M. Berger Utility Takings Facial Challenge to Mandatory Power-line Access Not Ripe ...

Practitioner: Real Property Law By Arthur F. Coon and Douglas M. Smith Most commercial general-liability insurance policies pr...

Craig de Recat, a partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, has received this year's Trial Lawyer of the Year award from Loyol...

A former software technician for Legasys Systems Inc. has sued the legal software manufacturer and its president, claiming sex...

When Leo R.B. Henrikson, a veteran lawyer and real estate investor, took up running in his 60s, he didn't plan on just jogging...

By Edward C. Stark Many people believe that the California Bar Exam is unfair, biased, capriciously graded and intended to lim...

SAN FRANCISCO - Punk rock went on trial Tuesday, as the former members of the 1980s band Dead Kennedys appeared in a San Franc...

Those attending Los Angeles Police Chief Bernard C. Parks' "monthly press availability" on Wednesday emerged splattered with s...

SANTA ANA - Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas has earned the District Attorney of the Year award from national c...

Dicta: By Sanford A. Lechtick The associate salary frenzy is akin to a tidal wave. Some firms might even get washed away. But ...

Dicta: By Gregory C. O'Brien Jr. A number of judges have been criticized by the media for their parts in the Rampart scandal. ...

A Los Angeles woman has sued a health benefits administration company for firing her after she disclosed her plans to marry a ...

The ink is all but dry on a long-anticipated settlement in related and complex bankruptcy and federal fraud lawsuits involving...

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge Wednesday reluctantly reduced a jury's $8 million medical malpractice verdict against UCLA'...

While some Sacramento lawmakers appear to be backing away from a state Senate proposal to outlaw "racial profiling" by police ...

A young Thai boy, who arrived in the United States sick and under a false passport, may stay until authorities complete an inv...