The Los Angeles Superior Court must develop a new way to govern itself to give its leaders greater power to deal with problem...

The Hawaii Supreme Court this week overturned a $22 billion judgment against the estate of deposed Philippines president Ferd...

WESTMINSTER - Marvin Chavez, according to his lawyer, is a loving man who sought to end the misery of people with chronic pai...

DENVER - Lawyers here argued on Tuesday before an expanded panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals about whether pros...

In the wake of an audit criticizing the Children's Services Division of the Los Angeles County Counsel's office as the "dumpi...

Appearing Tuesday before the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, District Attorney Gil Garcetti delivered his most force...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County Superior Court judge ordered a former University of California, Irvine doctor who unsuccessfully...

The feud between outgoing Inspector General Katherine Mader and the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners has escalated w...

RIVERSIDE - Did Lora Sue Shipley cap a history of neglect by leaving her four children unattended in a truck that eventually ...

Patricia L. Glaser, a partner at Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser & Weil, denied on the witness stand Tuesday tha...

The pay stinks - $5 a day. And mileage reimbursement? Less than two bits a mile - one way. Jurors have long been the Rodney D...

WASHINGTON - And then there were none. The seven-seat U.S. Sentencing Commission has long endured a vacancy or two, but when ...

Lately, the kind of practice that's most coveted by law firms involves specialty work for which premium fees can be charged. ...

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LOS ANGELES - In a much-anticipated ruling, a judge Thursday denied a bid by the Los Angeles County public defender's office t...

A Los Angeles Superior Court jury has awarded $7.5 million in medical malpractice damages to a former Manhattan Beach high sc...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals panel, expanding immunity already recognized in federal court, has ruled that the associati...

A multimillion-dollar legal malpractice complaint filed on behalf of a teen-age boy and his family claims that a Van Nuys atto...

SAN DIEGO - Miller, Boyko & Bell, a San Diego transaction and litigation boutique that traces its start to a prominent ro...

A task force's report to the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners recommends sweeping changes in the way the police depa...

When the California Supreme Court holds its hearing this afternoon on the State Bar, it will be told repeatedly that it can d...

SAN FRANCISCO - Closing out testimony in a trial that may foreshadow - or forestall - a barrage of litigation against the fir...

SACRAMENTO - California's Department of Corrections already has released 118 inmates deemed mentally unstable and dangerous in...

Corporate finance lawyer Richard A. Shortz - who claimed he lost his job with Rogers & Wells when the New York firm pulle...

Convictions of racketeering and mail fraud against two former San Diego Superior Court judges and a Del Mar plaintiffs' attor...

SAN FRANCISCO - Holding to her end of a unique political swap, Judge Betty Binns Fletcher of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap...

WASHINGTON - The antitrust trial of Microsoft Corp. turned testy and technical Wednesday, when a Microsoft lawyer challenged ...

SAN DIEGO - Two hard-fought races for judgeships remained unresolved Wednesday, as candidates in both races were less than 1 ...

A judge left intact Wednesday the bulk of a libel and slander lawsuit brought against Wayne S. Braveman, a law partner at Hel...

VENTURA - The county's Chief Assistant District Attorney Kevin McGee claimed victory Tuesday as the county's 27th Superior Co...