Membership Privileges Government Faces Major Hurdles in Credit-Card Case Whether the government can show injury to consumers, ...

The Los Angeles City Council on Friday voted to delay until April placing a measure on the ballot that would strengthen the po...

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center's attorney Rachel Lehmer Claus is forced to deal with a change of rules that are interferin...

Michael Stolzberg, a retired workers' compensation judge, died Monday from a lung infection. He was 86. According to retired c...

Sherrald Reed, LaRonda Burton, Mercedes Knox, Denise Reed, Rosslynn Mitchell and Barbara Becker - all convicted of drug offens...

Brian Kazarian was one of the finest the Orange County district attorney's office had to offer: an aggressive, sometimes arrog...

By David Houston Daily News Staff Writer A former veteran cop assigned to the Los Angeles Police Department's 77th Division pl...

More than two years after a man's death in an unlicensed alcohol rehabilitation facility in North Hollywood sparked a debate a...

Former 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge William A. Norris and former assistant U.S. attorney and Supreme Court clerk Edward ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Prodded by a state Supreme Court ruling that opened court proceedings involving actor-director Clint Eastwood ...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Larry P. Fidler on Friday set aside the conviction of a man allegedly framed by ex-Los Angele...

An immigration officer, already under criminal investigation for promising political asylum to two Chinese women in exchange f...

By Michael M. Berger. Land-use litigation in California is not for the faint of heart, at least if one represents landowners. ...

By Ruchi Gupta. Following a day-and-a-half of deliberation, a San Francisco jury awarded Mark Lewis, a 51-year-old mesotheliom...

The Public Eye: by Ross Johnson. Now that actor Robert Downey Jr. has left, at least for a bit, the California penal system, w...

By Allan D. Bogutz. In increasing numbers, lawyers are seeing clients who have residence in more than one country. Faster trav...

Labor and employment attorney Catherine Conway, formerly a partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, has joined the Los Angele...

By Stephen Zager. In a world that doesn't accept you based on circumstances outside your control, should you fight the law by ...

By Alexander S. Polsky. The expense and time of litigating construction defect matters has risen dramatically in recent years,...

Many federal district courts make available to attorneys analog and digital ELMO, real-time court reporting and videoconferenc...

If one person gets sexually excited by being spanked (with a hand, spatula, wet noodle, whatever) and another person gets exci...

By Ruchi Gupta. Despite having once taken a vow never to follow his father into the legal profession, Stephen M. Tigerman has ...

By James E. Chodzko. Mediating construction cases presents some unique challenges, the most important of which is resolving di...

A federal judge has thrown out a civil rights lawsuit filed by a San Francisco police officer who claimed he was subjected to ...

By James J. Moneer. Even if a plaintiff successfully opposed a SLAPP motion, the plaintiff can expect a two-year delay in the ...

Though the case already settled, a state appellate court granted a motion Wednesday to a divorce's former attorneys, who wante...

The bail of Los Angeles police Officer Nino Floyd Durden, charged in the attempted murder of an unarmed gang member, will rema...

When the city of Los Angeles contemplated holding its first national political convention in four decades, boosters touted its...

A bevy of First Amendment heavyweights gathered Thursday to dissect a controversial recent ruling holding the publisher of a g...

Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti, fighting to keep his job in the face of a strong challenge by Deputy Distri...