SB48 was designed to make officialdom more responsive and less adversarial in its approach to open government.

Memorial Service Set for Rose Bird A memorial service for former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Rose Bird will be held at 2...

Gay soldiers should serve in the military under the same rules that govern heterosexuals. ...

Several months ago, Latham & Watkins partner Mike Weaver received a phone call from former State Bar President John Seitma...

That the Cuban people are suffering is lamentable, but the cause of that misery is not U.S. foreign policy. ...

The authors asked the law clerks to offer some do's and don'ts in preparing and using the excerpts of record on appeal. ...

REDWOOD CITY - An angry San Mateo County judge and feuding co-counsel have left in disarray a $500 million class action by 180...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - Without charactertizing what was behind payments a key witness received before testifying before the grand ...

The secretary of state's office reported Tuesday it has received 91 registration forms during the first two days in which Cali...

Attorneys for former reputed Symbionese Liberation Army solider Sara Jane Olson have asked the trial judge to scale back the p...

A federal grand jury Tuesday indicted two recent UCLA graduates accused of conducting an Internet fraud scheme in which they b...

Memorial services were held Tuesday for lawyer, teacher and renown legal language author David Mellinkoff. Mellinkoff died De...

SAN FRANCISCO - Upholding the conviction of a member of a notorious Internet child pornography ring, the 9th U.S. Circuit Cour...

A suspected rapist who was shot and wounded by police shortly after assaulting a lawyer in her Beverly Glen-area home early Ne...

A bridge between the old days of L.A. Law and the new was crossed last week with the passing of Nathan Snyder, who for more t...

The justices this week will hear these cases: Is the proper venue for a suit to vacate an arbitration award the federal distri...

Freeway Chase Snags Pot Advocate A marijuana advocate led police on a high-speed freeway chase in November, just two days afte...

Southeast District Gets New P.J. Municipal Court Judge Raul A. Sahagun, who is cross-assigned to the Los Angeles Superior Cour...

The courtroom is a place where people say and do funny things. Sometimes the humor is accidental, but more often than not it i...

Event to Benefit Legal Aid Clinic The Santa Monica Bar Association is seeking donations for its silent auction to be held duri...

The theoretical concept of ethics is ancient, but the practice of ethics as a profession is new and growing. The position of e...

It could very well be that Formal Opinion 1999-153 signifies a sea change in the area of corporate representation. ...

By Thomas D. Elias The presumption when Californians ended all state-sanctioned affirmative action by passing Proposition 209 ...

Assignments Made To Department 70 California Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald M. George has assigned the judges to Los Angel...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Richard W. McLain, who was appointed to the bench less than two years ago, died of a massive...

Rocker John Fogerty, former lead singer for Credence Clearwater Revival, has filed a $1 million-plus lawsuit against his forme...

Services will be held today for entertainment lawyer Harold Arlen Lipton, who died Thursday . He was 88. Lipton's approach to...

SAN FRANCISCO - Proposition 209, the voter-approved measure that sought to ban race-preferential affirmative action programs,...

Retired Los Angeles Municipal Court Judge Roy S. Ferkich, who died Dec. 23 at age 70, was remembered Monday by a colleague as...

Services have been held for tax attorney and CPA Arnold W. Magasinn, who collapsed while on vacation in Mammoth Dec. 23 and d...