Nearly 55 years ago, a young infantryman was stranded for hours in a shell hole surrounded by enemy soldiers. After six hours...

Publicly, State Bar prosecutors have stated they are seeking a two-year actual suspension from the practice of law as punishme...

1910 was a bad year for pimps, prostitutes and Democrats. It was the year the Progressives - a splinter group of Republicans ...

A former Disney Internet executive was convicted Wednesday on federal child pornography charges, but the jury deadlocked on tw...

SANTA ANA - Aging, overcrowded court facilities. Lack of services for self-represented litigants. Inadequate public education ...

Firing Likely for S.D. Investigator SAN DIEGO - District Attorney's Investigator Eddie Cervantes is under threat of being fir...

Certain Suit Policyholder Counsel Should Talk Tough When a Claim Is Denied By Scott Ferrell It is no secret that insurance com...

By Abby J. Leibman and Susan Berke Fogel The legal regulation of women's reproductive health care has undergone a dramatic rol...

A man who claims he was set up by the officer who sparked the Rampart Division scandal has sued the city of Los Angeles for vi...

A federal judge has granted preliminary approval of a $2 million settlement between the Los Angeles County and the Black Proba...

Insurance law's defining moments are seen in two important cases decided in the 1960s. Page 7 ^^Insurance Law^^ Defining Decad...

Music Piracy is the target of a lawsuit filed by the Recording Industry Association of America against an Internet service tha...

Veteran personal injury attorney Michael J. Piuze will face trial in February for advising a burn victim to turn down a $1.9 m...

It could be a good hypothetical for a law school class: Take a rare large parcel of land in an urban area populated largely wi...

DICTA Deadlines may come and deadlines may go, but their value cannot be underestimated. Page 8. By Paul O'Brien Nearly 20 yea...

SACRAMENTO - The prominent lobbying and litigation firm of Livingston & Mattesich has moved into the political law field w...

SAN FRANCISCO - The race for San Francisco district attorney ended in a virtual dead heat Wednesday, and authorities said the...

"No reptiles are found there," [in Ireland]", the 8th century historian, Venerable Bede, wrote of Ireland. Apparently, the sam...

Quinn Emanuel Adds Four Partners Los Angeles' Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges has hired a lateral partner and elev...

SACRAMENTO - History shows that the plaintiffs bar group, Consumer Attorneys of California, has an unfailing ability to raise...

The first Fords were swerving through dust to dodge horses and wagons. Ladies still wore corsets and toe-length dresses, and ...

Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti Wednesday sharply questioned estimates by the public defender that more than...

One morning in 1915, a potential client came to Earl Rogers' law office at 107 S. Broadway in downtown Los Angeles. "Mr. Roge...

California state universities may cut the number of male athletes in their sports programs to comply with a federal law design...

Sheriff Lee Baca and the special counsel to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors monitoring the Sheriff's Department to...

Former professional football great Jim Brown has lost a bid to recuse a judge from sentencing him for vandalism, on grounds sh...

Frank Sinatra's long-time attorney Milton "Mickey" Rudin died Monday . in Los Angeles. He was 79. Rudin, counsel to the late ...

By Richard A. Epstein Let's suppose that the improbable happens - that state bar associations no longer require bar candidates...

Two Courtrooms Get Longer Cases Starting today, two additional courtrooms at the main c ounty c ourthouse downtown will be de...

More than 250 new attorneys were sworn in last Thursday during a combined state and federal court ceremony at the Wyndham Emer...