SAN BERNARDINO - Jurors began deliberating Thursday in a case against the nation's largest health maintenance organization - ...

SACRAMENTO - Signaling a new direction for the state Department of Justice, Attorney General Bill Lockyer plans to double the...

SAN FRANCISCO - Carving out a sweeping religious exception to antidiscrimination laws, a bitterly divided federal appeals cou...

WASHINGTON - The California law limiting welfare benefits for newcomers during their first year of residency to the amount th...

SANTA BARBARA - When Gov. Pete Wilson cut funding to the California Bar Association last year, he effectively shut off a free...

A Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner denied class certification to a lawsuit against Kaiser brought by a man who claims ...

Los Angeles County Counsel Lloyd W. Pellman has asked the Board of Supervisors to approve a budget adjustment for his office ...

A 9-year-old boy has pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the stabbing death of his 11-year-old brother, apparently be...

A discovery referee slapped attorneys at Lewis, D'Amato, Brisbois & Bisgaard, who are representing Disneyland in a person...

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher can be sued for breach of fiduciary duty by a man who claims the law firm passed personal informa...

WASHINGTON - There is another important trial under way in Washington, and it reached a pivotal point Wednesday when, after 1...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys for a Bay Area woman who caught her son downloading smut Internet images from the Livermore library...

Following accusations that the head of the county Department of Children and Family Services may have used his office to atte...

Los Angeles and San Francisco have moved a step closer to filing tort suits against the gun industry. L.A. City Attorney Jame...

Some of the country's best known retailers, including the Gap, J. Crew, Nordstrom and Wal-Mart, were accused in lawsuits file...

WASHINGTON - The 20-year-old independent counsel statute may be on its deathbed, but, in a discussion Tuesday that could only...

In the hope of reducing the county's liability in medical malpractice cases by having doctors and other medical personnel lea...

Lawyers at the Palmdale law firm of Epson, Milburn & Kahl and Los Angeles personal injury attorney Steve Lerman have been...

SAN BERNARDINO - When does an attorney-client confidentiality agreement go too far? Malibu attorney Ellen Peck, a speaker at ...

The 27-year-old receptionist for an Orange County bankruptcy trustee has been sentenced to one year in prison for embezzling ...

SACRAMENTO - Three challenges to the 1989 Roberti-Roos Assault Weapons Control Act are pending before the state Supreme Court:...

SACRAMENTO - Owners of military-style semiautomatic weapons and small, inexpensive handguns had better duck for cover in 1999...

SACRAMENTO - In his campaign to succeed Daniel Lungren as attorney general, Bill Lockyer charged that Lungren's lax enforceme...

SAN FRANCISCO - Tackling a case that could expand the Americans With Disabilities Act to cover local zoning laws, a federal a...

^^San Diego Watch ^^ For the first time since the late 1970s, the Superior Court has assigned a judge full-time to handle civi...

The elected charter reform commission has reversed its position and endorsed a unified Los Angeles City Charter proposal, but...

A state appeal panel, ruling on an increasingly important issue in insurance cases, has held that the insurance coverage exce...

SAN DIEGO - A deal is in the works. Entrepreneurs from the United States and Malaysia are looking to create a new venture in ...

For the past two-plus years, a capital murder case has pitted the Los Angeles Superior Court's security concerns against the d...

A self-described advocate of equal rights and one of Los Angeles' top litigators, Patricia L. Glaser recently found herself i...