A Long Beach attorney will be referred to the California State Bar after filing a juvenile court appeal that justices said was...

The California Supreme Court unanimously agreed Wednesday to decide whether plaintiffs who bring private attorney general acti...

A Los Angeles state appellate court threw out a robbery conviction and life sentence Wednesday because a deputy district attor...

WASHINGTON - Environmental activists recently voiced alarm that if Congress splits the 9th U.S. Court of Appeals into two cour...

SAN FRANCISCO - Trampoline, yo-yo, zipper and escalator are just a few of the onetime trademarks that fill the graveyard of pr...

LOS ANGELES - Attempting to stanch criticism over internal spending, Legal Service Corp., the federal entity that funds nonpro...

The couple at the center of a politically charged battle over the legitimacy of the Iraq war has enlisted a top California pla...

Letter to the Editor - I refer to Victoria Fine's article reviewing med-arb, "Hybrid 'Med-Arb' Receives Mixed Reviews," (Los A...

SAN FRANCISCO - A 2-year-old landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling limiting hearsay in criminal prosecutions has cast a local hig...

Ruling in favor of a widow who had been denied benefits from her husband's life insurance plan, a federal appeals court Tuesda...

LOS ANGELES - Hewlett-Packard's announcement late last month that it would acquire Mercury Interactive Corp., an enterprise so...

A November ballot initiative that would raise tobacco taxes to fund hospital emergency services and other health programs cont...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Riverside County judge has struck out with a judicial watchdog agency for waiting to take a verdict in a dou...

Kent B. Goss and Valerie M. Goo, Los Angeles-based partners at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, have departed the firm to join...

Four Morgan, Lewis & Bockius summer associates returned to law school last week not just having gained legal experience bu...

Forum Column - For the first time in perhaps more than a decade, Institutional Shareholder Services, the most prominent adviso...

Focus Column - 'Please, sir, I want some more." For his modest request in seeking another bowl of gruel, the protagonist in Ch...

Los Angeles officials hope a federal judge flushes a voter-approved Kern County measure that the city says discriminates again...

SANTA ANA - Taking a recent Supreme Court precedent into new territory, a federal judge has sharply limited the evidence prose...

A former "shock jock" at a college radio station can sue the school and its general counsel for defamation after he drew fire ...

RIVERSIDE - Commissioner Charles J. Koosed doesn't like to rush young offenders through his juvenile delinquency calendar for ...

LOS ANGELES - Workers at five Los Angeles nonunion hotels are embroiled in contentious organizing drives just as the areas hos...

Forum Column - By Michael Halley - The Supreme Court's decisions about which cases it accepts to review are crucial for the ad...

SAN FRANCISCO - Superior Court Judge Paul H. Alvarado, a veteran of two decades on the bench, is retiring Wednesday. ...

Letter to the Editor - Thank you for providing a well-balanced, broad brush stroke of workers' compensation practice. "How Has...

LOS ANGELES - After spending three and a half years as in-house counsel for NBC Universal, Camilo Echavarria has joined Davis ...

Focus Column - By Kirk A. Pasich - California Civil Code Section 2860 addresses an insurance carrier's duty to provide and pay...

If police departments want to investigate whether officers are making traffic stops based on the race of the driver, they don'...

LOS ANGELES - Not long ago, the idea of an individual's right to counsel in civil cases was endorsed by few people outside the...

Los Angeles prosecutors failed to hand over evidence favorable to an armed-robbery defendant, leading a state appellate panel ...