Dicta: By Andrew T. Cavagnaro and Elise G. Devecchio-Cavagnaro Imagine being in the jury box deciding the outcome of a murder ...

Keys to Victory: By Lisa Miller Galen Gentry, of Los Angeles' Law Offices of Galen Gentry, won a defense verdict plus $218,504...

Forum: Until I was 21, I knew no lawyers. Since then, I have known little else. Which is how I ended up on the cusp of winter ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Handing a significant victory to employers, a sharply split California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that an em...

SAN FRANCISCO - An evidently annoyed state appeals court has imposed $32,000 in sanctions on two San Mateo lawyers and their a...

SAN FRANCISCO - In an effort to centralize its sprawling corporate structure and trim its budget, legal publisher West Group i...

NEW ADMITTEES: By J. GARY GWILLIAM The jury had reached its verdict. I glanced at my client. I felt we had won. My client was ...

Dicta: By John A. Caudron I was a young grunt right out of the Vietnam jungle on leave in Okinawa and I had the luck to meet R...

Bringing to 91 the number of criminal cases that have been thrown out of court because of the Rampart police corruption scanda...

Practitioner: Tort Law By Michael K. Brown and Thomas J. Yoo What is spoliation of evidence? Consider an attorney investigatin...

Reaction of Los Angeles lawyers to Thursday's appellate decision denying an asylum hearing to Elian Gonzalez has been favorabl...

Justice Department and Los Angeles city officials meeting Thursday to negotiate the terms of possible federal oversight of pol...

TUSTIN - When she started her odyssey, she was just Kelli G., telling her story in the pages of this newspaper last month but ...

Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti said Thursday following a debate with challenger Steve Cooley that the Los A...

The Public Eye: By Ross Johnson In Los Angeles, a city that prides itself on its racial diversity, the lack of black entertain...

Aug. 23, 1996, was a big night for the Rampart-based Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums team. That night, 12 officers...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a surprising concession, the California Supreme Court on Thursday forfeited some of its power over attorney...

San Rafael Orion brokers 'Skip' market Before placing the property on the market, Mac Cranford and Haden Ongaro of Orion Part...

By W T "Dub" Northcutt For the most part, parking structures serve a strictly utilitarian function: they house vehicles at sh...

RIVERSIDE - Three recently promoted Riverside County prosecutors begin their new assignments as supervising deputy district at...

Giving private building inspectors more legal pull in court, a Los Angeles judge has ruled that deputy building inspectors who...

By Ronald McNees Tiny Visalia in the Central Valley had the lowest industrial vacancy rate in the nation last year - 0.2 perc...

By Wayne Hansen, PE, and Tim Jones The topic of indoor air quality and specifically indoor environmental management, has been...

Orange County new home sales during the first quarter of 2000 totaled 1,264 units, an increase of 15.4 percent from the 1,735...

By Greg Hulbert "The old adage 'People are your most important asset' is wrong. The right people are your most important asse...

Merced Castle and college consultant Merced County contracted Jim Forsberg, former assistant redevelopment agency director fo...

SANTA ANA - Criminal defendant Willie Hubert Knox III, who assaulted Orange County Senior Deputy District Attorney John Conley...

While experiencing historic economic prosperity, safer streets and improved air quality, the Southern California region still...

How is the changing nature of industrial real estate affecting its investment value and how will industrial real estate be us...

By Julie Nakashima A few years from now, high-paying technology jobs will bloom on a site in Long Beach once dominated by hig...