California law enforcement authorities reported 1,750 hate crimes last year, State Attorney General Bill Lockyer said Monday....

Once-urgent all-capital messages are now just annoyances By George W. Brewster Jr. My paralegal is relatively soft-spoken in ...

Services have been held for long-time Westside attorney Byron Y. Appleton - a fixture at the Santa Monica Municipal Court, wh...

Having struck out both with the district attorney and the Los Angeles County grand jury, attorney Gloria Allred and the siste...

A judge has reversed a jury's $6.6 million verdict in Los Angeles Superior Court earlier this year to a man who contended he ...

SAN DIEGO - The leader of a religious group accused of a string of robberies in San Diego and Riverside counties last year an...

In light of recent shootings including the murder of a postal worker and rampage at the North Valley Jewish Community Center,...

SAN FRANCISCO - It is official Berkeley doctrine for city agencies to shun Salvadoran coffee and to boycott goods from Burma,...

Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner H.M. "Trip" Webster III likes to joke that "being on the bench is like being an ombud...

In an abrupt reversal, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge lifted a court order Monday that barred the Daily Journal from publ...

A 3-year-old federal grand jury criminal investigation into Death Row Records that once appeared dormant is ongoing and is ex...

In what First Amendment experts are calling an unconstitutional prior restraint, the Los Angeles Superior Court has ordered t...

A group of discount cigarette distributors has sued the 46 states and major tobacco companies involved in a global settlement...

^^Land Use^^ Strip Speech First Amendment Rights Outweigh City's Image Concerns The court doubted the owner planned the image...

^^Real Property^^ By Mitchell Poole Recent amendments to federal and state sex-offender registration laws give prospective la...

SANTA ANA - At first glance, Orange County's Court of Appeal building in Santa Ana, with its Victorian-era architecture, mani...

Orange County attorney Monica M. Jimenez has sued her former law partner, prominent Los Angeles plaintiffs' attorney Raymond ...

SAN DIEGO - In an unusual alien-smuggling case, two Mexican citizens have been indicted on charges of illegally bringing four...

SAN FRANCISCO - With its reputation for peace-and-love liberalism and its history as the heart of the free speech movement, t...

SAN FRANCISCO - A trustee of DHL Express founder Larry Hillblom's $500-million estate has accused Morrison & Foerster and...

SAN FRANCISCO - For the first time, a federal appeals court has ruled the news media and public have a common-law right of ac...

The maker of Mag-Lite flashlights has once again hammered a competitor in court and won the right to pound the competitor's f...

In legal proceedings that have spanned the Pacific Ocean, 3Com Corp. has succeeded in persuading judges in Hong Kong and the ...

^^The Rodent^^ Legal Trappings The lawyer's midcareer crisis is one crisis too many Lawyer life is basically one crisis after...

Key Data Requests for Financial Information Raise Privacy Concerns By Catherine W. Johnson One of the most controversial prov...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a blistering closing argument, Ciro Mancuso's attorney on Thursday blasted Patrick Hallinan for bringing a ...

By Sharon Berman Dear Sharon: The majority of my practice depends on being fed business from partners in other practice areas...

^^Environmental Law^^ Superfund Junk Two CERCLA Plaintiffs Flunk Daubert Test These decisions demonstrate that CERCLA lawyers...

^^Takings Charge^^ By Michael M. Berger It is a solidly accepted part of the constitutional canon that the federal Civil Righ...

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