By W.F. Rylaarsdam In "Pity the Reader Who's Put to Sleep by a Block Quote" (Dicta, June 18), my good friend Jeffrey Calkins ...

By Hindi Greenberg Many lawyers consider teaching as an alternative to practicing law. They enjoy imparting information and t...

^^Tort Law^^ Cyber Arm When Can a Court Reach Internet Tortfeasors? The court analyzed the issue using both traditional juris...

Beyond Limits Elder-Abuse Claims Not Subject to MICRA By Steven G. Mehta In recent years, the topic of elder-abuse litigation...

By John Burton The U.S. Supreme Court term ended just before the Independence Day holiday, allowing the justices and their la...

A teen-ager's claims that he was physically abused, threatened with sexual assaults, called racially offensive names and phot...

The Los Angeles County grand jury saved taxpayers possibly millions of dollars by presiding over criminal matters during fisc...

WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday narrowly voted to send to the full Senate the 9th U.S. Circuit Court ...

In a continuing crackdown on the notorious Mexican Mafia, a federal grand jury has issued racketeering indictments against 16...

SAN FRANCISCO - It's a simple yet increasingly popular mixture of classroom and clubroom, where young and experienced lawyers...

SAN FRANCISCO - An injured prison inmate who claims workers dropped him to the ground as they tried to load him into an ambul...

RIVERSIDE - On a family trip to Yosemite in 1973, Jim Heiting first confronted the notion that he might have a drinking probl...

SIMI VALLEY - The case of an elementary school student molested by a teen-age girl raised a novel legal issue: Could the scho...

As Gov. Gray Davis prepares to make his first judicial appointments, the State Bar panel now completing its first evaluations...

WASHINGTON - In its recently completed 1998-99 term, the Supreme Court generated only 75 signed opinions - 16 fewer than last...

Some legal employers must offer hamburger instead of steak By Theda C. Snyder To get and keep full-time employees you have to...

By Michael M. Berger Although the courts have not been kind to landlords in recent years, the landlords finally won one in Ga...

^^Bench Press^^ It's All Greek Political correctness is sometimes enough to get one's Irish up By Gregory C. O'Brien Jr. My f...

Construction of the multimillion-dollar Playa Vista development at the Ballona Wetlands will continue in the wake of another ...

A businessman who claims he was attacked in jail after he wrongly was arrested on an expired or false warrant has sued the ci...

A lawsuit against the now-defunct Solish, Jordan, Arbiter & Weiner and one of its former senior partners, who was accused...

Several divisions of Woodland Hills-based Litton Industries agreed Wednesday to pay $18.5 million after pleading guilty to ch...

Ruling that any failure by prosecutors to present the grand jury with exculpatory evidence was not prejudicial to the defendan...

SAN FRANCISCO - A former Thai lawmaker extradited in 1996 to face marijuana smuggling charges in the United States is now fre...

It's hard to say what corporate lawyers would be doing today had Intel not invented the microprocessor in the 1970s. One thin...

SAN FRANCISCO - Removing a possible roadblock toward the mediation of Proposition 187, the California Supreme Court on Wednes...

CHICO - About 18 months ago, when Barbara Roberts donned her black robe, took her wooden gavel and ascended to the bench, she...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County Superior Court judge echoed jurors' sentiments and sentenced serial killer Charles Ng to death W...

In a case that has sparked a district attorney's investigation into allegations of widespread theft by Los Angeles Municipal ...

By Karl E. Geier On May 18, the 1st District Court of Appeal refused to follow the 4th District's decade-old decision in Famil...