LOS ANGELES - Call it Gil's revenge. In his first big loss since taking office last month, new District Attorney Steve Cooley ...
LOS ANGELES - The popular TV drama series "Law and Order" explains it this way: "In the criminal justice system, the people ar...
WASHINGTON - In a case that has become a rallying point for English-only advocates, the Supreme Court this week will consider ...
The silence of the contract on the sellers' contribution rights terminated those rights.
Alan Dershowitz recently wrote an irresponsible Los Angeles Times editorial ("Justice May Be Blind, But It's Not Deaf" (Dec. 2...
SAN JOSE - Before getting a job at Los Alamos National Laboratory, a New Mexico man hacked his way into the computers at sever...
SAN DIEGO - In a challenge likely to reach the state Supreme Court, opponents of Proposition 21 argued Tuesday to an appellate...
Among the many pleasures in the new Italian film "Malena" is watching a Sicilian defense lawyer in action in an Italian courtr...
SAN FRANCISCO - Former Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati partner Jonathan Axelrad can drop the "former" from his title. Axe...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal jury hit two San Francisco police officers with a $115,000 verdict after finding that they wrongfull...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a move discouraging to those working to change the way animals are viewed by the courts, Orange County Supe...
LOS ANGELES - A Las Virgenes middle-school teacher has the right to give his students low marks for poor conduct, an appellate...
Attorneys usually enjoy getting new clients, who frequently come in pairs. You might get two or more family members coming in ...
SiteStuff Inc., operator of an online marketplace for owners and operators of commercial and multifamily properties, said it ...
This case exemplifies the significance of tying together related, but continuous, pieces of evidence accruing over long period...
Last summer, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, reversing lower-court decisions, concluded that it was no longer possible ...
LOS ANGELES - Four candidates for Los Angeles city attorney will participate in a debate at the UCLA School of Law at 6 p.m on...
SAN FRANCISCO - Alarmed that more and more judicial candidates feel compelled to take the political low road of nasty, high-do...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that the federal Bureau of Prisons has discretion to decide which categories...
LOS ANGELES - A frequent visitor to Cerritos schools has vanished from the campus scene since the holiday break. A four-legged...
NEWPORT BEACH - Guinness, a 125-pound Rottweiler who was the subject of a closely watched custody battle in Orange County Supe...
LOS ANGELES - Finally the viewing public will get the chance to vote lawyers "off the island." Well, not really. But in the tr...
Government
Nixon's Graveside Birthday Service Gives New Meaning to Spinning
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Few lawyers are buried so well as Richard Nixon. The former president, Duke Law '37, lies alongside his wife, Pa...
SACRAMENTO - With Gov. Gray Davis focused on the state's electricity nightmare, funding the courts has probably been low on hi...
LOS ANGELES - California inmates can sue over a surcharge the state levies on all telephone calls they make from prison, a fed...
Law Practice
Fine Legal Minds Appear as High-Profile Case Chasers
By Contributing Writer
Those tiny strips of ballot paper we've come to know as "chads" - dimpled, pregnant and otherwise - seem an apt metaphor for t...
Attempts by the plaintiff's attorney to paint the intersection as "evil" failed, in part, because a directed verdict on govern...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Board of Supervisors on Tuesday agreed to accept $75,000 in state money to fund the collection a...
LOS ANGELES - Services will be held Sunday for Ralph Torres, a Los Angeles County deputy district attorney. Torres died unexpe...
In many ways, entertainment resembles any other area of business law, giving rise to litigation over contract disputes, accusa...