SACRAMENTO - Californians who get medical benefits through private employers could sue their health maintenance organizations...

The divisive issue of court unification is expected to suffer its second defeat in Los Angeles County when the Judicial Counci...

SAN FRANCISCO - Moving swiftly for the defense, the gun industry's top lobbyist has selected veteran Los Angeles litigator R.D...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Tuesday all but killed a novel student lawsuit against the elimination of aff...

SAN DIEGO - The first defense witness in the trial of a day-care operator accused of shaking a 13-month-old boy so violently ...

SACRAMENTO - A taxpayer group sued Gov. Gray Davis Tuesday to try to stop the mediation of Proposition 187, claiming the gove...

SAN BERNARDINO - San Bernardino County cases seeking damages of more than $25,000 may soon incur a $35 filing fee - revenue t...

A reputed gang member who turned down a plea agreement on a misdemeanor charge of brandishing a gun may unwittingly have star...

On June 8, the County Bar board of directors will choose as its next president one of two civil litigators from prominent fir...

SAN FRANCISCO - New York-based Weil Gotshal & Manges has decided to cash in on the booming mergers and acquisition market...

The former acting city attorney of Inglewood Tuesday filed a reverse discrimination lawsuit against the city and Mayor Roosev...

The topic was the value of Ariel and Simba - the mermaid and lion cub that are the basis of some of the most popular kids' en...

WASHINGTON - Ending a long and contentious legal battle, the Supreme Court on Monday denied review of two appellate decisions ...

SACRAMENTO - Republican rhetorical fire on Tuesday failed to stop Senate approval of a bill to set lawyers' annual State Bar ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Anyone who thinks Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May is still merely an Oakland insurance defense firm should ta...

The executor of the estates of Phil and Brynn Hartman and trustee for their children has filed suit against the makers of the...

SAN FRANCISCO - In the duel between California and the weapons industry, the side with the guns has evidently taken an early ...

Two Southern California attorneys have been nominated for federal judgeships by President Clinton. Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Cali...

TUCSON, Ariz. - Southern California had better get its act together soon on reducing its dependence on the Colorado River. If...

Three individual bad-faith lawsuits against a European insurance company that allege failure to pay on Holocaust-era life ins...

Jeffrey C. Eglash, the assistant U.S. attorney named Friday as the Los Angeles Police Commission's new inspector general, sai...

Scan any of the regular listings of lawyers who have been disciplined by the State Bar Court or the state Supreme Court. Look...

The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously Friday to prohibit the city attorney's office from settling any lawsuit exceedi...

In the wake of a state appellate ruling that corporate counsel are entitled to collect "big-firm" attorney fees under Civil C...

VENTURA - A Ventura man charged with the attempted murder of his former girlfriend is suing the victim, claiming he suffered ...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco's pioneering domestic partners' ordinance survived constitutional attack Thursday in a federal ...

Retired U.S. Magistrate Judge Ralph J. Geffen died Tuesday at Los Angeles' Cedars Sinai Hospital after a two-month battle wit...

DENVER - The first of what is expected to be many lawsuits related to last month's tragic shooting at Columbine High School w...

RIVERSIDE - Former Riverside County prosecutor Patrick Dutton was denied a promotion and then terminated from his job because...

A nonlawyer has been charged by Los Angeles County prosecutors with assuming the identity of a practicing attorney and collec...