Six years after the precedent was established, the state's appellate justices remain widely divided over the wisdom of a state...

RIVERSIDE - One mother is now serving three consecutive 15-years-to-life sentences in a precedent-setting case of murder by m...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court has given judges sweeping new power to reject federal sentencing guidelines and impos...

SAN DIEGO - Terry O'Rourke, a controversial San Diego Superior Court judge, was nominated Thursday to fill a nearly 2-year-ol...

WESTMINSTER - The founder of an Orange County cannabis club was convicted Thursday of seven counts of selling marijuana and o...

A judge has issued a temporary restraining order against labor unions representing striking ABC workers who the broadcast com...

Rejecting an argument that federal law supersedes state law, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge denied a request Thursday by ...

Criminal charges have been filed against the operators of several Southern California paralegal firms as part of what federal...

A Los Angeles County civil service hearing officer concluded Thursday that District Attorney Gil Garcetti's administration wa...

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...