Services for attorney Albert J. Ashkar Jr. will be Friday. Ashkar, who suffered from multiple sclerosis for more than 20 year...

By Nicholas Young The unification movement was first espoused nearly 100 years ago by legal theorist and educator Roscoe Poun...

^^Employment Law^^ Promises, Promises Employers May Rescind Unilaterally Adopted Policies Without Employee Assent In light of...

It is time to stop treating members of different businesses differently when dividing up business assets in a divorce. Spouses...

SAN DIEGO - In her third and final day of testimony in a hearing on a motion to dismiss charges against the man convicted of m...

A homeowners' insurer is not required to defend a man accused of sexually assaulting and raping a deaf Riverside girl, a divid...

A former Rampart gang suppression officer denied at his board of rights hearing Wednesday that he unnecessarily roughed up a ...

Feeding off the recently bankrupt, ever-shrinking Landels Ripley & Diamond, Morrison & Foerster snagged six new attor...

The widows and orphans of five crew members who died in the crash of Egypt Air's Flight 990 filed suit Wednesday in Los Angel...

Joyce Unsworth worked in Los Angeles for 20 years as a nanny, waitress and banquet manager before one violent episode forever...

The name of the Staples Center should be changed to Fort Staples. The name change occurred to me Wednesday as I watched Los A...

SAN FRANCISCO - In an extraordinary effort to overturn a death sentence due to allegedly bad lawyering, a capital appeals atto...

Boys will be boys, but that doesn't mean a Jewish family's 15-year-old son can give permission for his friends to burn a 7-fo...

DICTA People decide within seconds whether or not a speaker has something valuable to say - merely by his or her voice. ...

By John Young In colonial Haleford, Md. , it was against the law to kiss for more than one second. Didn't matter who you kisse...

Re "The Facts on Death Sentences" by Bill Thompson (Forum, June 9): Watch out for anyone whose diatribe shrilly accuses his o...

By Charles Levendosky Decisions by justices of the U.S. Supreme Court affect the public even more than the presidents who app...

^^Health Care Law^^ Safety and Security Federal E-Health Regulations Will Deal With Privacy and Medical Errors Clinicians vie...

Tom Meriwether, a sole practitioner in Vista who practices workers' compensation law, has become president-elect of the Bar A...

^^First Light^^ By Richard P. McKee When the Founding Fathers created our republican form of government, they gave us, the pe...

Re "The Facts on Death Sentences" by Bill Thompson (Forum, June 9). Watch out for anyone whose diatribe shrilly accuses his o...

SANTA ANA - Farmers Group, Inc., the nation's fourth largest auto insurance company, has been targeted in a class action that...

SAN DIEGO -- A key prosecution witness in a 1996 murder trial said Tuesday that in the days immediately following the stabbing...

The family of a woman who died in Guyana after her carry-on luggage containing life sustaining medical supplies was taken, th...

In what should bring to 94 the number of criminal cases thrown out of court because of the Rampart police corruption scandal, ...

George P. Schiavelli, presiding judge of the appellate division of Los Angeles Superior Court, is leaving the bench to become...

SAN FRANCISCO - A city can blow the whistle on fraud against the state, a judge has decided, allowing San Francisco to pursue...

WESTMINSTER - John Alfred Thomas, a former Huntington Beach city councilman , has been charged with polluting nearly 14 acres...

An 11-judge federal appellate panel tussled Tuesday over whether California's teacher skills test is an employment test subje...

SAN FRANCISCO - Matthew Cramer was a low-risk , 32-year-old petty thief in 1995 when he was put on a bus to Pelican Bay State...