WASHINGTON - In a marathon House Judiciary Committee hearing Thursday that ranged from raucous to rote, and stretched well in...

In a speech at the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles' annual awards luncheon Tuesday, John McKay, president of the Legal Se...

Joseph William Davidson was only 14 years old when he allegedly shot to death his mother in 1996. Despite his age, however, p...

SAN BERNARDINO - A Redlands woman is suing the nation's largest health maintenance organization in a case that is one of the f...

VENTURA - A Ventura County Superior Court judge set aside the 1996 guilty verdict and subsequent life sentence of a gang-rela...

SAN DIEGO - U.S. Attorney Charles La Bella, who as head of a Department of Justice campaign finance task force recommended th...

SACRAMENTO - A major fight is brewing in California over fees paid to lawyers under the proposed national settlement of tobac...

For more than 100 years Shepard's has been the standard method for lawyers to check case law citations, but in the future, it...

A $15,000 settlement has been reached in a lawsuit arising out of last year's Carroll O'Connor trial in which the attorney re...

SAN FRANCISCO - An Alameda County probate-court debate over the death of a loved one wasn't what Priscilla Camp's client had i...

WASHINGTON - When independent counsel Kenneth Starr appears before the House Judiciary Committee in today's impeachment heari...

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 ...

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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...