TORT LAW By Raphael Metzger. Three years ago, the California Supreme Court issued a landmark toxic-tort decision in Rutherford...

By Tim Snodgrass With inventories at a minimum in many regions throughout the United States, would-be or current real estate ...

By Ronald McNees Conejo is the Spanish word for rabbit, but there will be no puns about how the Conejo Valley office market i...

SANTA ANA - A former assistant vice chancellor of the University of California, Irvine, has sued the school, two of its admini...

A Los Angeles judge Thursday sternly ordered the city attorney's office and police investigators to turn over videotapes seize...

A 23-year-old El Segundo man was arrested Thursday and accused of fabricating a press release that caused the high-tech firm E...

SAN DIEGO - County officials pressured one of their employees to push through a lease that now is the subject of a public corr...

A federal appellate court ruled Thursday that a lawyer need not be disqualified from a case just because another member of his...

Ruling that the lawsuit was based on dubious logic, the 2nd District Court of Appeal Thursday dismissed a Medi-Cal beneficiari...

Tax attorney Robert Browning Ballantyne died last Friday of a heart attack at Limerick Guest Home, a residential board and car...

SACRAMENTO - In a surprise move, state lawmakers Thursday revived a controversial measure intended to prevent police from maki...

IRVINE - Six hundred teachers and counselors came to school a week early Wednesday to sit through a daylong class in a hotel b...

From the time Juan Jose Gutierrez entered high school, he vowed to dedicate his life to helping immigrants like himself obtain...

Doug sits quietly in his attorney's conference room. Mostly he looks down, fixated on the patchwork of ridges he raises by squ...

A federal appeals court on Thursday ruled that a lawyer need not be disqualified from a case just because another member of hi...

SANTA ANA - Orange County officials lost their court challenge Wednesday to a proposed initiative requiring them to spend toba...

Score one for the 747s. Perennial airport critic Robert Hensler lost a legal battle Wednesday to keep the Burbank-Glendale-Pas...

The judge postponed the arraignment Wednesday on murder charges of three teen-agers in the stabbing death of a 17-year-old boy...

In the wake of a recent ruling that declared the Los Angeles municipal code governing demonstrations unconstitutional, city an...

A federal judge's decision to allow the Los Angeles Police Department to be sued under a racketeering statute is likely to pus...

Like any good businessman, Keng Liang "Anson" Wong seemed concerned about minimizing his risks, but he also looked to be willi...

Attorneys for medical marijuana advocates contend that the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling Tuesday barring distribution of the dru...

You can't take your staff with you. An Orange County man and the insurance adjusting firm he works for are liable for inciting...

Not only do Los Angeles judges fervently believe they deserve more income than the Legislature gives them, so does the state's...

By Wickson R. Woolpert. Jury duty. The summons orders your presence. You aren't too old and have no medical excuse. Show up yo...

Recent volatility in the share price of publicly traded dot-com stocks has fed speculation that the dot-com "bubble" is about ...

A federal judge has granted a summary judgment by Los Angeles city attorneys, ending a Los Angeles police officer's claim of r...

By Julie Hofius. The 10th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act is upon us, and the occasion warrants thinking ab...

A retired Orange County judge accused of abusing his authority to benefit friends and relatives admitted during a San Francisc...

SAN DIEGO - A San Diego high-tech firm filed suit Wednesday contending that some people conspired to drive the company's stock...