SAN FRANCISCO - An angry jury Wednesday socked tobacco giant Philip Morris with $50 million in punitive damages - the largest...

A shopkeeper in the Little Saigon neighborhood of Westminster who stirred bitter protests by displaying a poster of Ho Chi Mi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Trying to boost public trust and confidence in the judiciary, the state Judicial Council gave approval Tuesda...

WASHINGTON - The case against President Clinton officially went to the "jury" Tuesday afternoon, as senators began deliberati...

Interpreters assigned to the downtown Los Angeles Criminal Courts Building are criticizing new work guidelines they contend a...

RIVERSIDE - Staffing problems in Riverside County's juvenile halls were addressed Tuesday as the county's Board of Supervisor...

Following up on recommendations from an outside auditor on how to improve the district attorney's office, the Los Angeles Cou...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that minor political parties have no private right under existing campa...

A music industry attorney has filed a malicious prosecution lawsuit against former Guns 'N Roses drummer Steven Adler, claimi...

SACRAMENTO - Expanding the exposure of health maintenance organizations to lawsuits might improve health-care quality, as cla...

The American Bar Association's policymaking body Monday adopted minor changes to its lawyer-discipline punishment standards a...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a surprise verdict, a San Francisco jury Tuesday awarded $1.5 million in damages to a terminally ill smoke...

The State Bar has closed its investigation of prominent criminal defense attorney Leslie Abramson, deciding there was insuffi...

WASHINGTON - The impeachment trial of President Clinton drew one big step closer to a conclusion Monday, when House prosecuto...

RIVERSIDE - Riverside County law enforcement officials have subpoenaed several witnesses in the December shooting death of a ...

A settlement in a personal injury case has ended the need for a hearing to decide if defense counsel, whose expert witness al...

A jury has awarded more than $2 million to two men in their 60s who were kicked out of the Los Angeles police academy for all...

After condemning the exchange of campaign contributions for government-provided legal work, the American Bar Association now ...

The woman who is likely to become president of the American Bar Association in 18 months on Monday lined up with many of her c...

The policymaking body of the American Bar Association overwhelmingly went on record Monday in favor of killing off the federa...

When Helen E. Zukin, a Los Angeles plaintiffs' lawyer, agreed to chair the State Bar's panel evaluating judicial candidates, ...

In a victory for plaintiffs, a federal judge has ruled that more than 6,000 Los Angeles police officers can pursue their claim...

Dashing the hopes of many appellate lawyers, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday that appeal courts can summarily rever...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Gray Davis, whose administration startled the state's agribusiness community last month by withdrawing s...

A grieving couple who watched in horror as images of their dead son appeared on a segment of "LAPD - Life on the Beat" have su...

PHOENIX - William Scholl lost his job, his retirement savings and hundreds of thousands of dollars defending his case. Late l...

A two-day delay in publicly reporting a $5 million lawsuit settlement approved by county supervisors in closed session has le...

Neither a car wreck nor a misplaced letter is a good enough excuse for missing a deadline to contest a decision by a Californ...

The president of the American Bar Association will meet next month with Attorney General Janet Reno in hopes of resolving the...

Beneath the swirl of controversy over Kenneth Starr's investigation of President Clinton is a quieter but ongoing debate over...