The Los Angeles City Council Tuesday agreed to waive conflicts of interest in certain cases for attorneys volunteering to inve...

The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners on Tuesday set aside a proposal to give the police department the funding and au...

Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles filed a lawsuit Tuesday against telecommunications giant Pacific Bell and the company's t...

After 21/2 years dealing with world crises as a legal adviser to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, international environm...

The Hawaii Supreme Court has written a song for former Beatle George Harrison called, "We screwed up." The first verse is pret...

RIVERSIDE - A woman who was attacked and raped by two men in the laundry room of the Riverside apartment complex where she liv...

SANTA ANA - A pre trial hearing is set for Friday for a former Orange County midwife facing a felony charge of causing the sti...

Fritz Coleman, NBC's weather forecaster and a comedian, will be the featured entertainer May 12 at the annual Law Day dinner s...

The court battle won by the recording industry Friday may signal the beginning of a successful effort to police music piracy o...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two hours of in-chambers settlement negotiations failed on Monday, the opening day of a trial in which former ...

SANTA ANA - William Breck Mac Laren, who went by his middle name, a fixture in Orange County family law circles for 25 years, ...

Intellectual property litigator Richard L. Stone has left the Los Angeles office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton to...

State Supreme Court Justice Kathryn Werdegar will serve as keynote speaker Monday at the installation dinner of Women Lawyers ...

Dicta: By Mark B. Vezzani Every day thousands of guilty pleas are taken in criminal courts. But before the defendant is permit...

Forum: Spin Report By John M. Curtis Fiddling away at the White House, President Clinton was uncharacteristically tongue-tied ...

SACRAMENTO - A doctor cannot be held liable for artificially impregnating a woman at her request and not telling her husband, ...

Four Los Angeles Police Department officers claim in a lawsuit that LAPD supervisors discriminated against them and retaliated...

In a final settlement agreement, a Simi Valley condominium homeowners' association has agreed to pay State Farm Insurance Comp...

Expanding its Internet and technology presence in Southern California, Seattle-based Perkins Coie has recruited four more part...

WASHINGTON - Handing a victory to public-sector employers, the Supreme Court ruled, 6-3, Monday that state and local governmen...

Jedediah S. Minoff , 32, has shown impressive leadership at the helm of the Public Counsel's Juvenile Court Intervention and A...

Spieker Properties Inc. began construction on the first phase of Skyport Plaza, a mixed-use project with 1.1 million square f...

By Frank A. Shepherd The Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Justice Department base their view that Elian should b...

Forum: By Marc Van Der Hout and Sierra Thai-Binh The sight of a border patrol agent in full riot gear pointing a semi-automati...

Forum: By Pamela E. Kraver There are many legitimate and persuasive opinions regarding the Elian Gonzalez issue. Most people b...

SAN DIEGO - Citing what he described as lapses of prosecutorial ethics, a criminal defense attorney said in a speech Thursday ...

Hollywood superstar Julia Roberts and Santa Monica legal eagle Jill McDonell have one thing in common: an acute appreciation ...

Irvine - Two Orange County commercial real estate firms, 1st Option Commercial and ITC Real Estate Group, merged into a regio...

In a day-long technology and real estate conference sponsored by the Real Estate Conference Group and attended by about 1,100...