LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Attorney's Office said Monday that city officials had stopped trying to block off a public ...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patricia L. Collins dismissed an attorney from a potential jury panel recently ...

Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Saralyn M. Ang-Olson and Peter J. Engstrom - In Schlessinger v. Holland America, N.V....

Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - The Darfur region of western Sudan is one of the most remote and inhospitable places on ea...

Forum Column - By David Cameron Carr - Getting paid for your work feels good. Feeling secure now about getting paid in the fut...

SAN FRANCISCO - Oil companies and an environmental group have proposed one of the largest Proposition 65 settlements in histor...

SAN FRANCISCO - There's a big difference between a host who provides beer for his guests, including one he thought was 21 year...

SACRAMENTO - The selection of a new state Senate leader today is likely to affect the two legislative committees that lawyers ...

LOS ANGELES - Saying Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas violated free-speech guarantees, a state appeals court ha...

LOS ANGELES - With his release from prison last week, Harold Coleman Hall has joined a growing roll call of Los Angeles-based ...

SACRAMENTO - An arbitration panel of retired judges has quietly awarded a group of plaintiffs attorneys nearly $24 million in ...

LOS ANGELES - For the second time this summer, a federal judge has chastised Los Angeles county prosecutors for keeping a man ...

Labor lawyers reacted to Monday's change in federal overtime requirements with a yawn and a stir. The yawn because California'...

ALTURAS - Growing up in a town with a population of less than 3,000 can be a blessing and a curse. Just ask Superior Court Jud...

SAN JOSE - Yahoo Inc. acted too soon in seeking declaratory relief from French court orders assessing damages against the Inte...

LOS ANGELES - Leslie H. Abramson is out and John Gotti's former lawyer is in as music producer Phil Spector's defense lawyer. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A divided California Supreme Court held Monday that a divorced mother may have no choice but to send her daugh...

Column By Garry Abrams - Gladys M. Russell was on her way home from the post office Monday morning when she got wind of the pr...

Trying to drum up overseas business at a regional firm, some attorneys say, is like trying to pull a rabbit from a hat - witho...

Lisa Prager, a former deputy assistant secretary for export enforcement at the U.S. Department of Commerce, has joined Gray Ca...

The new president of the American Bar Association cut straight to the chase recently while addressing the association's Commis...

The promise of earning a law degree for only $3,000 to $5,000 a year can be pretty appealing. So can the prospect of taking cl...

LOS ANGELES - Growing up, Haley J. Fromholz longed for a more conventional first name. Haley, his mother's maiden name, had dr...

Elizabeth Thompson was the question mark when intellectual property boutique Townsend and Townsend and Crew acquired the 12-la...

Oscar Peoples, who drove a forklift for the Los Angeles Times for 30 years, was shocked when company management suspended and ...

Like many small cities facing growing pains, Murrieta is divided between advocates of growth and those who perceive the change...

Column - Law Practice - By Patrick Henry and Sandra Richlin - Our goal is to demystify the golfing experience as a tool in an ...

Former Indiana Attorney General Jeff Modisett became the managing attorney of the Santa Monica office of Bryan Cave in July. M...

Column - Adviser - By Alexander S. Polsky - The benefits of private arbitration are legion. When properly managed, private arb...

It may seem odd for a one-office, midsize Oakland-based firm to establish an international practice as Wendel, Rosen, Black &a...