WASHINGTON - Supreme Court justices Wednesday expressed strong concern about the specter of "runaway" punitive damages awards ...

LOS ANGELES - A complaint filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Tuesday charges Clinton Hagenbach, a deceased Los Ange...

Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Richard Chernick - It's been another year of significant developments in AD...

LOS ANGELES - A former teen model has filed suit claiming that the founder of one of the world's leading model management agen...

CORONA - Using a high-powered legal move, the city of Corona is fighting to take control of energy sources owned by Southern C...

SAN FRANCISCO - California's judiciary is seriously considering taking ownership of court reporter transcripts and increasing...

Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - Pendula swing; that's their nature. Listening to the cries of the professional environme...

Forum Column By Erik Luna Nov. 1 marked the 15th anniversary of the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, the punishment scheme created...

WASHINGTON - Weighing a case brought by a California land developer, the Supreme Court justices on Tuesday indicated they will...

WASHINGTON - A liberal judicial advocacy group took the unusual step Tuesday of announcing its opposition to a conservative le...

Column By Garry Abrams - LOS ANGELES - "Shoplift here! We Won't Prosecute!" This is the sort of sign that may be displayed - i...

SAN JOSE - Elcomsoft engineer Dmitry Sklyarov, who designed a software program prosecutors say violated a 1998 federal law in...

LOS ANGELES - An Alhambra Toyota dealership was sued Monday by a group of Mandarin-speaking customers who claim they were defr...

LOS ANGELES - Saying "the paralegal did it" is a good excuse for attorneys who want to reverse default judgments against their...

LOS ANGELES - The California judicial watchdog agency on Monday publicly censured two former state judges who resigned under f...

LOS ANGELES - An Orange County appeals court has reversed a $24 million fraud verdict against a local aerospace company, sayin...

SACRAMENTO - The state Department of Justice has improperly included juvenile offenders in its DNA databank of convicted felo...

Focus Column - Family Law - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and Steven R. Landes - The second item on a petition for dissolution of marr...

SAN FRANCISCO - It was like a building possessed. The Coudert Brothers law firm moved its San Francisco offices a year and a ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two new immigrants to the Midwest in 1988 instantly became celebrities. The arrival in Toledo, Ohio, of Le Le ...

LOS ANGELES - A federal appellate panel Monday upheld the eight-year prison sentence of a Woodland Hills woman with family tie...

VENTURA - Defense counsel has called the prosecution "felons, pure and simple." A prosecutor has suggested that the defense co...

SAN FRANCISCO - The State Bar and its union begin talks today with a federal mediator after six months of intense negotiations...

Forum Column - By Tom Giovanetti - If the study of public policy teaches us anything, it is that political solutions usually h...

WASHINGTON - In a case from Southern California, the Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider whether police officers may ...

SAN DIEGO - After working as an executive for two San Diego sporting goods firms and as a legal and business consultant, Andre...

SANTA ANA - In an unexpected turn of events for the original plaintiffs in the suit, a unanimous Santa Ana jury on Nov. 2 awar...

SACRAMENTO - A Sacramento lawyer reached a $51,000 settlement last month with the city of Benicia, which he accuses of filing ...

NEWPORT BEACH - Many powerful businessmen have found themselves inside William Lobel's fifth-floor, corner office in Newport B...

LONDON - Bodo Schaar is the newest attorney to join Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's growing European presence. The firm a...