Focus Column - Land Use Law - By Laura W. Brill - Among the cases most frequently reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court are those...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Peggy A. Gerber, a Los Angeles attorney who inspired friends and colleagues to giv...

SANTA ANA - The son of political leader Robert F. Kennedy cannot intervene in a trio of lawsuits filed to prevent demolition o...

LOS ANGELES - A hearing on whether to confirm Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's nominees to the 2nd District Court of Appeal will b...

Column - By Paul Pfau - Over the past 27 years, I have customized programs for bar examinees who are dedicated to putting the ...

The New Lawyer Feature - SAN DIEGO - They see themselves as the chosen lawyers, willing to embody the military's ideal of hono...

SANTA ANA - Assemblyman Todd Spitzer's decision not to run against Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas next year h...

LOS ANGELES - Civil-rights lawyer Stephen Yagman deposed U.S. Attorney Debra Yang of Los Angeles and her chief assistant U.S. ...

SANTA ANA - David Hoffer is a mellow dude. A love of surfing handed down from his father may help explain why the Orange Super...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to revisit its landmark abortion ruling in Roe v. Wade and denied review of...

LOS ANGELES - On the heels of a stinging appellate opinion, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Peter D. Lichtman on Tuesday qui...

Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - Last week, Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and his wife Janet renewed their vows in a public c...

Forum Column - By Roderick E. Walston - When you close your eyes and envision a landscape, what comes to mind? Many people, li...

Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Laurie L. Levenson - Michael Jackson's defense lawyers caused quite a stir when they revealed...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared to show little enthusiasm for affirming a 9th Circuit decision that struck ...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether the Bush administration can block Oregon's assisted-suicide law, t...

LOS ANGELES - A 33-year-old inmate, held in the Los Angeles County jail since 1998 for a string of San Fernando Valley salon r...

SAN DIEGO - City Attorney Mike Aguirre said the Tuesday that he will ask a court to put the San Diego's troubled pension fund ...

LOS ANGELES - A doctor told his patient that she had only six months to live. "Isn't there anything I can do?" the patient ple...

LOS ANGELES - Dr. Park Dietz built an enviable career as the nation's most renowned courtroom forensic psychiatrist, weighing ...

WASHINGTON - In a property-rights case pitting a working-class neighborhood against a city struggling to rebound from its econ...

LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court judge has suggested that a Los Angeles Superior Court judge rigged the 1996 retrial of E...

The work of 94-year-old renowned architectural photographer Julius Shulman will be housed at the Getty Museum in a deal script...

After narrowly losing the November election for San Diego city attorney, Leslie Devaney just couldn't shake her interest in mu...

Californians honored Presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln yesterday. Mediators deserve a special day, too, accordi...

The legal community loosened its tie for a few hours in January to pay tribute to a good time. Oh, there was plenty of shoptal...

SAN FRANCISCO - With mediation under way in the Northern California clergy sex abuse cases, million-dollar settlements are at ...

The time for large-scale takeovers in the oil industry may be on the horizon again, with companies eagerly buying back their o...

Brenda Nelson, mother of Mario Nelson, has added her name to the list of anguished Angelenos seeking justice from the embattle...

When a landlord tried to sweep out tenants she thought overcrowded her building with too many kids, the 2nd District Court of ...