Reacting to her resignation announcement, lawyers Thursday credited Immigration and Naturalization Service Commissioner Doris ...
RIVERSIDE - No one, aside from Nixon, garnered more ink in the Los Angeles papers in the 1970s than Paul Egly, a reporter once...
Government
DA Wants Oil Companies to Clean Up Their Act
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - The Orange County district attorney's office has filed a lawsuit against Arco and Thrifty oil companies, accusing ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The student-run Berkeley Law Foundation held its 5th annual Auction Extravaganza last Friday for the good caus...
Government
Judge Rejects Bid for Access to Festival Records
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
SANTA ANA - An effort by the mayor of Laguna Beach to gain access to board meetings, records and membership lists of the city'...
The union that represents 9,000 rank-and-file Los Angeles Police officers on Thursday withdrew its support of District Attorne...
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Thursday refused to allow lawyers for two men trying to overturn their convictions to ca...
SACRAMENTO - One of the nation's most contaminated sites, the Iron Mountain Mine near Redding, will be cleaned up under a sett...
Tread-separation accidents similar to those that have plagued Bridgestone/Firestone but involving large sport utility vehicles...
SACRAMENTO - A federal judge expressed skepticism Thursday at contentions that portions of the state's Political Reform Act ar...
Expert witnesses need even more preparation than regular witnesses, contrary to popular belief. ...
If your overhead seems unreasonably high, maybe your outgo isn't going where you think it is. ...
Members of a class action who won $7.9 million from a health insurance company they accused of providing a phony doctor for th...
A Montana case holds that billing rules imposed by insurers and disclosures to third-party auditors violate the Montana ethica...
Deputy district attorneys don't generally have a reputation for frolic, humor and theatrics, but if ever in doubt, just check ...
Insureds often overlook their commercial general-liability policies when evaluating coverage for stolen or forged checks. ...
Requiring a hefty retainer before beginning work is a good way to ensure timely payment. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Activists striving to oust four Marin County judges are claiming the state's election code requires far fewer ...
Private services will take place Friday for Henry Paul Erlich, retired Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner. Erlich died la...
Nino Durden, a former partner of disgraced Los Angeles Police Rampart Officer Rafael A. Perez, waived a preliminary hearing We...
Insurance companies, which continue to feel the aftershocks of the 1994 Northridge earthquake in the form of seemingly endless...
Two charges of misdemeanor manslaughter will be filed against a Westside attorney whose 1995 Mercedes Benz killed two elderly ...
Entertainment & Sports
Court Dismisses Soccer Coach's Claim Player's Dad Libeled Him
By Daniel Evans
A state appellate court slide-tackled a Loyola Marymount University soccer coach, dismissing his claim that he was libeled whe...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has fined a ship-salvage company $50,000 and temporarily barred its use of one of the largest ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Nearly 1 1/2 years after a controversial ruling barred the use of a form of DNA testing in five San Francisco ...
After-hours callers to Marshall L. Bitkower's Encino law offices get a recording that begins with the theme from "Dragnet," fo...
With President Clinton's signing late Tuesday of the "high-tech visa bill," Lindi Light will be able to leave her job in West ...
A former member of one of Los Angeles' most notorious street gangs testified Wednesday in the corruption trial of four police ...
The Los Angeles chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates recently honored five law school graduates for their academic...
Long-term health care providers charge that regulations offer no chance for meaningful review of governmental action. ...