When Raymond G. Fortner Jr. worked in the property division of the Los Angeles county counsel's office in 1973, he did not kno...

One year ago, a 21/2-year-old Los Angeles County foster child named Oei Mae, who was prenatally exposed to cocaine and other s...

The Staples Center sports palace in downtown Los Angeles could become the graveyard of the First Amendment. That was the hypot...

WASHINGTON - Handing a major victory to California prosecutors, the Supreme Court Wednesday upheld, 5-4, the state's 20-year-o...

LOS ANGELES - Patent and intellectual property litigators Edward F. O'Connor and Jan P. Weir have joined Newport Beach's Strad...

Proposition 65 has allowed a wholesale change in California industries imperiling the public's health for years. ...

Cigarette Tax May Help Children The Los Angeles County Proposition 10 Commission proposes using $75 million in cigarette taxes...

It's a question that's been hotly debated for decades: How far can police go in enforcing the law, based on suspects' furtive...

Bet Tzedek Names Litigation Director Bet Tzedek has appointed Laura Streimer as director of litigation. Streimer, who earned h...

The March ballot for Los Angeles County judicial elections will be a classic case of "don't believe everything you read." Vote...

Services have been held for Robert Hoy Clark, a longtime and highly respected court reporter who is widely credited for givin...

Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp is the focus of the newest legal wrinkle in the battle between Guess? Inc. and one of its co...

By Martin Kruming LORENZ SWORN IN: Although he's been hearing cases since last October, Jim Lorenz was formally sworn in last ...

The latest batch of 1999 judicial campaign statements for candidates on the March ballot show much of their contributions in t...

The judge in the Sara Jane Olson bomb-conspiracy case on Tuesday allowed one of her two attorneys, Stuart Hanlon, to leave the...

SAN FRANCISCO - A "shrewd" decision by a federal judge last summer has been credited with forcing a recent settlement that so...

If our justice system emphasizes winners and losers, Lane Stuart measures success in comparatively small doses. "When a kid wi...

SACRAMENTO - When Time magazine crowned Gray Davis the nation's "most fearless" governor, it drew derision from California pu...

In the latest in a stream of filings, six more claims have been filed in connection to the Rampart Division corruption scandal...

Rodney Gilmore, a partner with Palo Alto's Doty Sundheim & Gilmore, is leading a double life. Monday through Wednesday, G...

Student Sentenced For Selling LSD A USC student who once bragged of selling drugs to five teens who plunged to their death dri...

By Stephen Kaus Is it just me, or is there an epidemic of articles about lawyers quitting their jobs to pursue other interest...

By Carol Sanger The Supreme Court now has before it the difficult question of whether states may order visitation by children'...

Homeowner to Get $1.5M From City The Los Angeles City Council has approved spending $1.5 million to settle an inverse condemna...

In Troxel v. Granville , the U.S. Supreme Court will decide what constitutional protection should attach to family relationshi...

Though David Spielberg studied engineering during college, he didn't need long to realize that he wanted to collaborate with s...

Law-firm staff are less likely than lawyers to share in the financial success they help create, but employers are finding othe...

Services have been held for attorney Marsha McLean-Utley, a former longtime partner of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and the fi...

Memorial services have been held for Zoilo I. San Andres, a Los Angeles resident and former prosecutor in his native Philippi...

Fred Alvarez , a partner at Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and the new president of the Bar Association of S...