Having watched the turmoil in Seattle, her family worried when Los Angeles police Officer Victoria Diaz pulled bike duty durin...

Now that the Democratic National Convention finally has left town, the police department has turned its attention to other wei...

Sandra Montoya, who grew up in Alhambra and landed a job as a clerk-typist with the county courts 28 years ago, has returned t...

Continuing its aggressive expansion in Southern California, Dallas-based Jenkens & Gilchrist has added four attorneys to i...

By Chere B. Estrin. Negotiating salaries is a tough assignment. During your journey for a new job, you've focused on packaging...

By Margaret Crosby. Allowing politicians to decide that one form of abortion is morally repugnant could lead to the prohibitio...

By The Rodent. Of the 41 presidents of the United States, 25 have been lawyers. Unless we see a major upset victory by Ralph N...

After a long battle with non-Hodgkins lymphoma, attorney Robert Anthony Villa died Thursday at City of Hope in Duarte. Villa, ...

Night owls are an endangered species in Beverly Hills, at least at the Beverly Hills Courthouse. Starting Oct. 1, all civil ex...

Jeff Kichaven, an attorney and mediation specialist, will talk about "Liars, Lovers and Lawyers: Effective Ways to Deal with t...

Even as a small handful of demonstrators remained on vigil Monday at a downtown Los Angeles jail in solidarity with those who ...

SUN VALLEY, Idaho - The federal courts in general, and California district courts in particular, may have their best chance in...

Farmers' rights to water located under their properties were reaffirmed Monday by the California Supreme Court, which ruled in...

By Mara E. Nez and Michelle B. Graham. An attorney must never assume or accept someone else's determination of residence.

Los Angeles will close one of its smallest courthouses at the end of September. The Calabasas Courthouse, formerly a municipal...

At first, Charley Robinet, a 24-year-old illegal immigrant from France, told authorities he robbed a Thousand Oaks bank becaus...

SAN DIEGO - As owners of sport utility vehicles rush to replace tires suspected of failing and causing hundreds of accidents, ...

NEWPORT BEACH - In a dramatic reversal, a Costa Mesa man was freed Monday after spending more than two years in custody for a ...

SACRAMENTO - A bill designed to protect jurors in criminal cases from unwanted questioning after trial has passed the state Se...

By Ira L. Shafiroff. As discussed recently in the New York Times, there is a small but growing movement in this country that w...

By I. Nelson Rose. The following notice has not been approved by any government official. Warning to all casino patrons: If yo...

By John M Curtis. Sitting tall in the saddle, Bernard Parks and the Los Angeles Police Department took a giant step in restori...

SAN JOSE - In his first response to a lawsuit accusing Santa Clara County District Attorney George Kennedy of invasion of priv...

By Daniel J. Curtin. Ninth Circuit holds that temporary development moratorium is not an unconstitutional taking.

Michael Woo may be down but he's not out of the race for City Council, yet. The 2nd District Court of Appeal agreed Thursday t...

A former rookie in the Los Angeles Police Department pleaded guilty Friday to a misdemeanor federal civil rights violation for...

SACRAMENTO - Trial lawyers hoping to gain public access to certain sealed discovery materials this year are pinning their hope...

In a relaxed, almost festive atmosphere - prompting senior Presiding Justice Joan Kllein to declare the proceedings a "lovefes...

Hany Kiareldeen, a 31-year-old Palestinian married to a U.S. citizen, spent 19 months in prison fighting deportation for being...

Maybe it's because clients are more demanding than they used to be. Maybe it's because of the technology-induced faster pace o...