A developer who used workers to remove asbestos and mold and mildew from apartment complexes in Orange County and Washington ...

SAN DIEGO - In the latest twist in a case raising charges of misconduct by local prosecutors, bench warrants issued Wednesday...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has moved to dampen some of the demands to split the circuit by indepen...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County Superior Court judge decided Wednesday that more than 1,600 low-level managers at Mervyn's depar...

One of the teen-age extras who sued Phoenix Pictures after allegedly being forced to strip bare for a scene in the movie "Apt...

Master wordsmith Bryan A. Garner was teaching his advanced legal writing seminar to about 100 lawyers and judges at a San Fra...

When Adrienne Byers takes over as the 25th president of the Black Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles tonight, she's not...

"In The Public Interest" By David A. Lash The "well regulated militia" of the Second Amendment obviously has nothing to do wit...

^^ Speak Easy ^^ By Charan Levitan Pleasant Tone and Appropriate Volume Retain Attention Your case preparation is thorough and...

Just hours before former Sen. Charles Calderon was expected to take the witness stand Tuesday in the $83,000 breach of contra...

A memorial gathering will take place Sunday for Edward Rubin, an entertainment lawyer who represented many high-profile clien...

In the latest fallout from the scandal rocking law enforcement in Los Angeles, a Superior Court judge Tuesday temporarily sus...

A federal judge has thrown out key evidence in a drug trafficking case against the Lawndale city clerk, ruling that federal ag...

The debate over the role of the police inspector general heated up Tuesday when Los Angeles City Council members said he shou...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate Tuesday deadlocked Tuesday over the confirmation of several judicial nominations. But this showd...

SAN DIEGO - When children at a neighborhood street fair suddenly huddle on their knees, few would suspect them of shooting cr...

SACRAMENTO - California has finally achieved $25 billion worth of closure in a massive settlement of litigation against cigar...

By Marianne Means For some time now, the Miss America pageant has had pretensions of being more cerebral than it really is. T...

San Diego DA Picks New Chief Deputy SAN DIEGO - The appointment of Deputy District Attorney Kristin Anton as chief deputy dis...

By Heather Whitestone McCallum I will never forget the quote I studied daily before I competed in the 1995 Miss America Pagea...

^^Administrative Law^ Total Exhaustion Administrative Doctrine Is Still Evolving in California Several recent cases have elab...

$2.2M Settlements OK'd by Board The Los Angeles County Claims Board on Monday voted to recommend that the Board of Supervisor...

Transactions With Clients and Others Can Be Risky Business By Lindsay K. Slatter Despite decades of case law and the grievous...

SAN FRANCISCO - To settle a case that has been in dispute for more than a year, Wells Fargo Bank has agreed not to charge mon...

Jurors in a case brought against former state Sen. Charles M. Calderon (D-Whittier) by his fund-raising consultant - who clai...

LOS ANGELES - Memorial services were conducted Friday for former in-house corporate counsel and educator Theodore Bruinsma. H...

SAN FRANCISCO - County public defender offices may not hand out cases to private counsel on the presumption it is more cost e...

SACRAMENTO - The assembly speaker's office has delayed releasing a report that examines whether the California Highway Patrol...

SAN FRANCISCO - State prosecutors have waded into a huge legal fight started by a San Francisco environmental group, hoping t...

RIVERSIDE - A defense attorney is asking for a court order to keep reporters from conducting jail-house interviews with his c...