LOS ANGELES - Despite a state Supreme Court decision to the contrary, District Attorney Steve Cooley says he believes that a p...

California law requires counties to pay more than $2,000 a year to the state for each juvenile offender their courts send to t...

Focus Column - Family Law - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and David L. Marcus - In In re Marriage of Henry , 126 Cal.App.4th 111 (2005...

SANTA ANA - A former motel worker testified Monday that Alejandro Avila was not acting strangely when he checked into a Temecu...

LOS ANGELES - A group of toxic-tort attorneys, who are accusing the city of Santa Monica of failing to pay them after they sec...

LOS ANGELES - An elderly couple filed a proposed class action in Los Angeles federal court Monday against the American Investo...

LOS ANGELES - A Tunisian man Monday pleaded guilty in Los Angeles federal court to immigration fraud, admitting he entered int...

Column - By Garry Abrams - Former Gov. Gray Davis has the kind of pallor that could benefit from a couple of days in a tanning...

LOS ANGELES - Roger W. Boren is a storyteller. Boren, the administrative presiding justice of the 2nd District Court of Appeal...

Forum Column - By Patrick Mattimore - Many experienced trial attorneys believe that the most important part of a criminal tria...

Forum Column - By Loubna Freih and Joanna Weschler - On Thursday, Kofi Annan, the secretary-general of the United Nations, did...

Letter to the Editor - In his article about pre-employment background checks ("Follow Rules About Background Checks to Hire Wi...

Letter to the Editor - Amidst all the uproar over the case of Terry Schiavo, Americans have heard very little about the Bush a...

LOS ANGELES - A memorial service is scheduled today for retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge and JAMS co-founder Bonnie Le...

SAN DIEGO - The San Diego City Council and members of the city's retiree pension board broke state and municipal laws in actio...

LOS ANGELES - Deborah Thomas says she likes to think that, "as long as a kid still has a sparkle in his eye, you can still hel...

SANTA ANA - The teenage boy is slumped over, an empty bottle of booze at his feet. Despair is his only companion. Behind him, ...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Friday refused to halt the deployment an Oregon National Guardsman who is challenging the fo...

LOS ANGELES - Political rhetoric directed at judges over the Terri Schiavo right-to-die case is dangerous and threatens Americ...

Focus Column - Environmental Law - By Fred Blum - For almost two decades, federal cost recovery litigation was in stasis. One ...

ONTARIO - After failing twice in the past five years, University of La Verne College of Law is renewing its quest to become th...

Focus Column - Litigation - By John F. Fielder - A landmark case that regulates the use of medical testimony helps to weed out...

Letter to the Editor - Though I didn't completely fathom, or, therefore, agree with, Sherry F. Colb's essay on prostitution an...

Employment Column - Gary P. Scholick and Cynthia E. Maxwell - State and federal rules combine to create a roadmap for employer...

LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge on Thursday ordered the district attorney's office to produce agenda minutes from two con...

COSTA MESA - Santa Ana isn't leaving anything to chance in its bid to keep the 4th District Court of Appeal from moving down t...

LOS ANGELES - Ruling against media access, a state appellate court said Thursday that police-officer records kept by an outsid...

INDUSTRIAL COMMERCE - A private investor purchased a 136,720-square-foot industrial building at 2747 Malt Ave. from the Nishi...

LOS ANGELES - Five thousand mourners crammed the West Angeles Cathedral on Wednesday to bid farewell to Johnnie L. Cochran Jr....

Focus Column - Administrative Law - By Michael Paul Thomas - Exhausted? You'd better be - at least before you go the courts wi...