In an effort to provide a financial incentive to help improve Los Angeles' air quality, the City Council has given conceptual ...

In what will bring to 75 the number of felony cases that will have been thrown out of court due to the Rampart police corrupti...

Private legislation proposed Tuesday by U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., would grant citizenship to a severely disabled E...

RIVERSIDE - If Riverside County officials had wanted only to take some of Dr. Robin Oxman's land, they probably would no longe...

Dicta: By Erik Gunderson In the legal profession, cynicism pays. The practice of law is fraught with perils. These cynical ass...

Longtime homeless activist Ted Hayes laughed Monday when I asked him how many out-of-towners might ride the rails and the Grey...

FULLERTON - A murder defendant who is Orange County's first successful extradition from Mexico in a dozen years pleaded not gu...

Loyola Law School will inaugurate a program in August leading to a master of laws in taxation. ...

The Practitioner: Administrative Law By Stuart Miller Before a court can evaluate a hearing decision by an administrative agen...

Forum: By Michael McNulty Now that e-commerce has become a marketing juggernaut, various taxing authorities, and especially th...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that a plaintiff who claims to have contracted two different disease...

SANTA ANA - In a contrast with the battle over a perceived lack of diversity in Los Angeles County's grand jury pool, Orange C...

Eli Broad, chairman and chief executive officer of SunAmerica Inc., will deliver the commencement address at Southwestern Univ...

SAN DIEGO - Superior Court Judge Gerald L. Barry, 56, has retired from the bench after serving seven years, the past two of wh...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco has not seen so many pinstripes in one place since the New York Yankees were in town. An extraor...

IRVINE - Devallis Rutledge, former chief assistant district attorney of Orange County, has joined the firm of Manning, Marder,...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gary L. Reback, a high-profile partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati who led one of the first legal ...

By Steven A. Silver In her editorial "Mothers Targeting Gun Violence," (Forum, May 8), Sen. Dianne Feinstein gushed about the ...

The family of a 55-year-old United Airlines flight attendant who died of "metastatic lung disease" a year ago has filed a wron...

Just as the federal government is pressuring Los Angeles Police Department Chief Bernard C. Parks to hand over the keys to his...

SAN FRANCISCO - Celebrity divorce lawyer Marvin Mitchelson has convinced a State Bar Court judge that he is fit to practice la...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Monday approved an award of more than $1.7 million in attorney's fees for the city of To...

A federal judge Monday dismissed weapons charges against a man who contended he had been framed by one of the police officers ...

Convicted pimp Joy "Babydol" Gibson, who allegedly plied her sex trade via the Internet, was sentenced Monday to three years i...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - Peter C. Sheridan, a partner at Los Angeles' Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser, Weil & Shapiro,...

A compromise "Driving While Black or Brown" bill tailored to win the support of Gov. Gray Davis has been proclaimed by its spo...

Eric Suddleson, former head of business and legal affairs at Los Angeles' Mutual Film Co., has joined the entertainment and in...

As the first three officers charged in the Rampart scandal pleaded not guilty Monday, their attorneys went on the offensive, a...

In announcing his compromise racial profiling bill at that April 27 Sacramento rally, state Sen. Kevin Murray, D-Culver City.,...

Bottom Line: By Frank W. Nemecek and Mary H. Redfield An attorney has been hired to represent a client in a lawsuit. Pursuant ...