Alan Michael Genelin's crime-stopping days did not end when he retired last year as chief of the Los Angeles County district ...

WASHINGTON - After a term in which the U.S. Supreme Court saw a protest and congressional scrutiny over the dearth of minorit...

Jury Recommends Death Penalty SAN BERNARDINO - Despite hearing the "horror story" of the defendant's early childhood in war-t...

By Marianne Means Some places are experimentally turning against free, nondiscriminatory public schools to prop up private re...

Claim of Substance New Pleading Requirements in Toxic Tort Cases By Barry N. Endick, Raymond J. Tittmann and William S. Choy ...

^^Occupational Hazards^^ Scout Masters Learn the lay of the land before starting your own business By Hindi Greenberg When la...

^^Tort Law^^ Suspicious Minds Court Catalogues Personal-Injury Statute of Limitations The Supreme Court backed away from reso...

When Representing Multiple Parties, Don't Waver on Getting Waivers By Ellen A. Pansky Perhaps the area giving rise to the mos...

By Baruch C. Cohen Nazi SS-Obersturmbannfuehrer (Lieutenant-Colonel) Karl Adolf Eichmann was originally a gasoline salesman b...

RIVERSIDE - Four finalists for Riverside County's public defender spot were interviewed by a panel of Riverside attorneys Thu...

SACRAMENTO - The state's huge backlog of unserved criminal warrants means that thousands of dangerous felons are loose and mi...

The attorney who represented Lana Turner in her estate planning has been sued by a woman who claims she was to inherit the bu...

VENTURA - Can a defendant receive a fair trial when a juror allegedly refers to the defense attorney as an "SOB"? That novel ...

WASHINGTON - In a potentially significant ruling for property owners and environmentalists, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the...

Immigration officials said Thursday they have made great gains in reducing a backlog of citizenship applications in its Los A...

SACRAMENTO - In another setback for the plaintiffs' bar, a bill to curb secrecy agreements in the settlement of civil lawsuit...

Echoing a sentiment that has come up in large class-action cases across the nation, a Los Angeles judge has refused to approv...

A long-running investigation into the Dec. 15 death of a 3-year-old Los Angeles County foster child at a home in Anaheim has ...

A federal appellate court Thursday rejected a First Amendment claim by three lawyer-lawmakers who challenged lobbying by the ...

SAN JOSE -- To Judge Robert P. Ahern, a lengthy jury trial is similar to a long unfolding mystery novel, full of unusual detai...

Retired Los Angeles lawyer, author and political activist Gerald H. Gottlieb will be buried in a New York City family plot Se...

Lying just beneath the surface of a complex, multimillion-dollar insurance fraud lawsuit brought by Allstate Insurance Co. is...

Spurned Speech State Constitutional Rights Lose to Private Property Interests By Janine C. Ogando In what can be considered a...

Telemarketer Is Convicted in O.C. SANTA ANA - The last of seven people charged with bilking half a million dollars from elder...

^^Real Property^^ Riverdance Litigation Involving Levee Failure in 1986 Is Continuing The record ran to 52,000 pages of appel...

^^Bench Press^^ Post-Graduate Education Diving into legal work can mean enrolling in the school of hard knocks Gregory C. O'B...

SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. District Judge Stanley A. Weigel, who epitomized a fierce judicial independence that left him undeterred ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Minority enrollment at University of California law schools continues to decline following passage of the UC ...

By Barbara Blinderman On Saturday, Aug. 21, the 740-seat Walk Festival Hall at Teton Village, Wyo., was filled to overcapacit...

L.A. Lawyer Heads International Group Los Angeles attorney Malcolm S. McNeil has been elected president of the Association of...