SAN BERNARDINO - Dan Lough, former second-in-command at the district attorney's office, and Barry Bruins, the office's former ...
LOS ANGELES - Resolving a dispute over the wording of a ballot measure in a Huntington Beach city election, an appeals court h...
Criminal
L.A.'s Golden Age of Conspiracy Theories Peters Out With Feds' Fade
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - Word that the federal government apparently has closed a six-year investigation of Death Row Records ...
LOS ANGELES - On a recent afternoon in a crowded coffee shop in Pasadena, the pretty young woman with long, blond hair quickly...
LOS ANGELES - In a special session, the Metropolitan Transit Authority board Wednesday voted to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Cou...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled Wednesday that, while there were errors and irregularities in polling p...
SAN FRANCISCO - The decades-old Geronimo Pratt saga swerved into a fee fight among his lawyers Wednesday as Oakland attorney R...
Forum Column - By Judith F. Daar, With little fanfare or public notice, President George W. Bush recently sounded the death kn...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal statute requiring the detention of lawful resident aliens without bail while they fight deportation ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Sheila Gonzalez, regional administrative director of the Administrative Office of the Courts for Southern Cali...
SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali has handed an important victory to plaintiffs in a series of cases that a...
LOS ANGELES - After a year of study, a special panel has recommended that California ease its rules against out-of-state lawye...
LOS ANGELES - Paul Abrams, a federal public defender for 14 years, took the oath Wednesday as the U.S. Central District Court'...
Forum Column - By Merrick Bobb, Respectful and effective policing, which was pioneered and practiced first in Los Angeles and ...
Dicta Column - By Robert M. Unterberger, Were you ever admonished to stop using unnecessarily large or pretentious words in yo...
Dicta Column - By JoAnne Earls Robbins, Most attorneys know that discipline can be imposed by the State Bar if the attorney is...
WASHINGTON - Ordering the resentencing of a South Carolina death-row inmate, the Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled, 5-4, that w...
Employment Law Practitioner Column - By Michelle A. Reinglass, In a decision making clear distinctions between retaliation and...
Focus Column - By Jon D. Meer and Eric S. Beane, As a result of recent decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court and the California ...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Norman Tyre, an entertainment-law veteran and a founder of boutique firm Gang Tyre...
LOS ANGELES - Marking its first foray into Northern California, Los Angeles-based Burke Williams & Sorensen has acquired t...
SAN FRANCISCO - Joining the list of city agencies trying to shut down the circus of crime and drugs on San Francisco's notorio...
WASHINGTON - For Sheldon Sperling, an assistant U.S. attorney for 16 years in Muskogee, Okla., the decision to accept Presiden...
SAN FRANCISCO - A settlement ending the bitter legal battle over Jerry Garcia's famed guitars divides the four valuable instru...
SAN FRANCISCO - Maritime lawyer Dennis Herrera took the helm of San Francisco's municipal law office Tuesday, becoming the cit...
LOS ANGELES - Lyle Greenberg kept his 1991 New Year's resolution to become active in some local organizations. "While it is tr...
LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury in Los Angeles has indicted a Middle Eastern pilot who made headlines recently in Arizona a...
SAN FRANCISCO - Judge Joseph Tyree Sneed doesn't have much interest in tort law, but let a slip of tax code catch his eye and ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Skadden Fellowship Foundation, a public interest law foundation created by the partners of New York's Skad...
SAN FRANCISCO - Continuing its quest to win federal protection for the medical distribution of marijuana, an Oakland cannabis ...