The former teen-age girlfriend of rogue Los Angeles police Officer Rafael Perez has told federal investigators that Perez shot...

Just because an attorney went to a prestigious school, or has a good book of business, doesn't mean that he or she will automa...

SAN FRANCISCO - Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown won't have to give up his $1 million downtown home in order to play a leading role i...

Los Angeles County's service workers union announced Friday afternoon that post-strike contract bargaining had resulted in sig...

SAN DIEGO - Guided by a coalition of academics and executives from high-technology industries, a computer and technology crime...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Friday urged the Los Angeles City Council to voice its support for an initiative on the Nov. 7 ballo...

When immigration officers came knocking at his door in 1987, Michel Shehadeh thought they were coming to congratulate him. Two...

Twelve Tuttle & Taylor lawyers - including the managing partner and seven other partners, two special counsel, one of-coun...

The proper use of the GHAD law can open up previously undevelopable areas to development.

The California Supreme Court gave no obvious hints during oral arguments how it will rule on the constitutionality of a statut...

Attorney Ronald S. Katz struck fear in the hearts of opposing witnesses in a recent trial. In fact, after watching Katz tear a...

When I was a young media lawyer, the United States Supreme Court decided Gertz v. Robert Welch Inc., 418 U.S. 323 (1974), and ...

Once you accept the job offer of your dreams, you must gracefully transition from your current employment to your new venture....

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled that California appellate courts have misinterpreted California law on th...

A useful new technique for arguing noneconomic damages has emerged recently that turns trial challenges into big results. ...

In August, the Census Bureau released population data announcing that California is now a "minority-majority state." The censu...

When examining a non-English-speaking witness, keep questions simple and short in order to be fully understood by the interpre...

The last man MGM owner Kirk Kerkorian wants to see won't be showing up in the United States any time soon. ...

Over the last 12 years, David Armstrong has developed a reputation for fairness and generosity in mediating construction dispu...

The defendants and their insurance companies agree to fund a program to clean up large-scale soil and groundwater contaminatio...

Since the California Legislature amended Code of Civil Procedure Section 437c in 1990, California courts have grappled with th...

SAN FRANCISCO - Meet Bruce Wayne Morris. The 43-year-old death row inmate may have been sentenced to death because the word "w...

SANTA ANA - Julianne Sartain, a partner at the Irvine law firm of Snell & Wilmer, has been elected the new president of th...

Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti, seeking his third term of office, received the endorsement Thursday of a ke...

A Los Angeles judge side-stepped the sticky issue of whether or not attorney Robert W. Hirsh is a vexatious litigant and allow...

Disgraced former Los Angeles police Officer Rafael Perez's alleged refusal to testify about a former lover's claims he murdere...

The Los Angeles office of Chicago-based Sidley & Austin launched a pro bono program at a reception Wednesday to celebrate ...

RIVERSIDE - A former Houston police sergeant has been selected to run Riverside's first commission to review citizen complaint...

The 9th Circuit has chosen the minority view on the liability of passive intervening owners. ...

Judges from Santa Clara, San Bernardino and Los Angeles spoke out Thursday against a state ballot measure that would require d...