The on-again, off-again judicial career of Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patrick B. Murphy is off, again, apparently perman...

Two men linked to a $21 million investment scam have been charged with obstruction of justice for allegedly trying to hide ass...

Martin Brill, bankruptcy attorney and longtime managing partner of Robinson Diamant & Brill, is leaving the firm to become...

Amanda Susskind, who took time off from practicing law to run for the State Assembly in the 42nd District last year and lost t...

International corporate attorney Joseph M. Barbeau has left San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster after 18 years. Barbeau jo...

RIVERSIDE - A massive San Bernardino County landfill project, designed to handle the inevitable overflow of garbage from Los A...

A state court of appeal Wednesday ordered actor Robert Downey Jr. released from prison, deciding that he has served adequate t...

No tear gas, pepper spray or rubber bullets, please. And hold the bean bags and concussion grenades. Protest groups want the L...

SANTA ANA - Major distributors of recorded music may start singing the blues now that they've been targeted by an Orange Count...

SAN FRANCISCO - On Oct. 29, 1987, authorities found Virginia Lowery's partially decomposed body in the garage of her Excelsior...

Rita Ijebor, former head nurse at the Heman G. Stake Youth Correctional Facility, sat timidly in the conference room of the st...

A federal judge Wednesday approved an agreement between the city of Los Angeles and protest groups to give demonstrators the ...

By David B. (Dov) Fischer. Disagreements should be settled with words, not deadly weapons. That's a basic rule of civilized so...

It's been a tradition for the outgoing chair of the Council of Appellate Staff Attorneys to pass an "invisible gavel" to the i...

By Steve Baughman. In a recent political-asylum trial, my client testified to having paid a $25,000 fine for political activit...

By Virginia M. Apuzzo. The election in the year 2000 is the type that comes along once in a generation - an election that, for...

By Kathy M. Banke and Lisa M. Baird. Appellate Law - Waiver Worries Failure to Make the Record Can Be a Trap for Unwary. Two r...

B of A Absolved In Boy's Mauling Although it owned the property where a construction company's guard dogs fatally mauled a you...

After months of contemplation, Century City's Sanders Barnet Goldman Simons & Mosk - nine partners and one associate - hav...

A funeral service will be held today for retired longtime University of California, Los Angeles, law professor Harold W. Horow...

SANTA ANA - Patricia and Edward Haynes were not the first couple to sue the University of California and its Irvine campus fer...

As an assistant U.S. attorney in the 1980s, Peter Robinson helped convict neo-Nazi gang members and savings and loan swindlers...

Jeffrey W. Johnson, the first black federal magistrate in Los Angeles, is expected to be recommended for a district court judg...

Los Angeles County prosecutor Steve Cooley, who is challenging his boss, District Attorney Gil Garcetti, on the November ballo...

The attorney for Los Angeles Police Department Officer Humberto Tovar, whose firing has been recommended by a police board of ...

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Planning to remodel the kitchen or buy a new living room set? Better consult your horoscope. Homestore.com Inc., a group of I...

As fallout continues from a proposed merger between Chicago's 750-lawyer Winston & Strawn and Whitman Breed Abbot & Mo...

By Julie Nakashima Compared to the industrial sector, the San Gabriel Valley office market is minuscule - a base of just 14 m...

Facing a deadline for an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Jesuit religious order has negotiated a settlement of the sexua...