SACRAMENTO - A proposal to give Native American tribal courts greater say in child custody placements won unanimous approval ...

SACRAMENTO ---- Legislation to cut lawyers' dues to $395, reduce continuing education requirements and restrict the bar's lob...

SAN JOSE - In a major battle pitting a corporation's right to control its Internet system against an individual's right of fr...

Facing an almost certain conviction on charges he operated a prostitution ring out of his law office, Tarzana tax attorney Bo...

Walt Disney Co. Chairman Michael Eisner rose from his desk and backed away from his estranged studio head Jeffrey Katzenberg ...

SACRAMENTO - Memo to San Diego County unified court judges: Avoid angering state lawmakers who represent the area, at least wh...

The bitter, protracted litigation over the custody of 5-year-old Haley A. settled Monday, just eight days before it was set f...

In an unusual display of unity, Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan and City Attorney James K. Hahn have stopped fighting over ...

The Judiciary Committees of the House and Senate have approved their versions of the sweeping bankruptcy reform legislation t...

WASHINGTON - Handing another setback to Independent Counsel Donald C. Smaltz, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday tha...

On May 12, 1989, a freight train loaded with chemicals derailed, barreling on to Duffy Street in a residential neighborhood o...

After three years of sparring, the legal rumble between movie executive Jeffrey Katzenberg and the Walt Disney Co. on Monday ...

ANAHEIM HILLS - Christie L. Noel, senior associate at the Law Offices of Ronald E. Lais in Anaheim Hills, was killed Friday i...

Reflecting on his more than 30 years of government and public service, Sargent Shriver, founder of the Peace Corps, the Speci...

SAN JOSE - In a rare legal assault on an Internet retailer, the Santa Clara County district attorney's office filed a civil c...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a disappointing decision for aggrieved former residents of a problem-plagued subdivision, Attorney General ...

A former inmate at the Men's Central Jail who is a paraplegic with a bladder problem filed a claim Monday against the county ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Patrick S. Hallinan started smoking on the advice of counsel. The deep drags on Camel filters he inhales thes...

A Los Angeles law firm claims in a lawsuit that the Vatican Library owes it more than $1.2 million in attorney fees and costs...

In an attempt to spare a convicted welfare cheat from a state prison term, her lawyer argued she was being used as fodder for...

The accounting firm of Ernst & Young has agreed to pay the Chapter 7 bankruptcy estate of Merry-Go-Round Enterprises Inc....

SAN FRANCISCO - A patent that spooked thousands of Internet commerce companies is now before the Federal Circuit Court of App...

Taking advantage of city rules that allow him to start his campaign two years before the election, Los Angeles City Councilma...

WASHINGTON - What could prove to be the definitive battle on the regulation - and perhaps banning - of tobacco products moved...

SACRAMENTO - With a one-page order, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday formally granted Gov. Gray Davis' request...

RIVERSIDE - Three years ago, Margaret Spencer became public defender of Riverside County. At the time, she gave an interview ...

Pez dispensers might seem an unlikely candidate to single-handedly jump start the initial public offering market that stalled ...

A question for patent litigators: Would you pay $75,000 for 15,000 display boards, any of which would be available at a moment...

Barry S. Levin , the new chairman of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe , has been groomed for the job since he joined the fi...

James H. Davis, a once-prominent former plaintiffs' attorney, was arraigned Friday in Los Angeles Municipal Court on charges ...