LOS ANGELES - In the past, unhappy investors who wanted to file claims against their stockbrokers had no way to find out much ...

LOS ANGELES - Attorney Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. claims in a lawsuit that an allegedly inappropriate relationship between a forme...

SAN FRANCISCO - An arbitrator is poised to award San Francisco's municipal lawyers a 17.5 percent pay increase over the next ...

In a recent decision, the California Supreme Court invalidated a city council-sponsored initiative for lack of California Envi...

LOS ANGELES - As some Los Angeles City Hall observers predicted, city leaders will choose between two out-of-state consulting ...

The tragedy of life can produce far more suffering than the tragedy of death. Such was the argument made in a court battle ove...

LOS ANGELES - A grand jury returned indictments Wednesday against 18 people, including a Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer,...

LOS ANGELES - New York-based Proskauer Rose has added two litigators to its Los Angeles office. Jack DiCanio and Anthony Pach...

LOS ANGELES - To help convert the Chinatown Cornfield rail yard into the largest inner-city park in Los Angeles history, Gov....

LOS ANGELES - Richard B. Humbert, founding general counsel of Fluor Corp., has died. Humbert, of Corona del Mar, died April 3...

SACRAMENTO - Trial lawyers are making significant progress with a bill that would make it harder for defendants to get summar...

LOS ANGELES - City attorney candidates Rocky Delgadillo and Mike Feuer skirmished at a noontime debate Wednesday and took tur...

LOS ANGELES - In an effort to protect Holocaust survivors from giving up their rights to valuable insurance claims, an 89-year...

SAN DIEGO - The provision of Proposition 21 that gives prosecutors unilateral authority to charge juveniles as adults for cert...

SAN FRANCISCO - A born-again Christian who successfully sued a Catholic hospital that fired him because he shared his religio...

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. got the judicial equivalent of a trip to the woodshed Wednesday as U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis...

SAN FRANCISCO - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patrick Couwenberg lied about his background and receipt of a Purple Heart in...

SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas & Electric Co. got the judicial equivalent of a trip to the woodshed Wednesday as U.S. Bankru...

SAN FRANCISCO - Security has been tightened at Hanson, Bridgett, Marcus, Vlahos & Rudy after a former contract worker was...

KIRKLAND, Wash. - A legal fight over a Web site that posted the home addresses and phone numbers of police officers is being w...

LOS ANGELES - The loud, thumping noises coming from Department 54 of Los Angeles Superior Court this week were the sounds of M...

LOS ANGELES - Bankruptcy Professor Daniel Bussel of the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, will take a two-y...

Little things turn Ira Rivin on. Like the turning point in a trial he was involved in almost 20 years ago, the longest and mos...

LOS ANGELES - A divided Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners on Tuesday decided to continue a Boy Scouts of America-affil...

In Bibb v. Bibb, 104 Cal.Rptr.2d 415 (Cal. App. 2001), the 1st District Court of Appeal applied family law concepts to ...

M. Scott Donahey's dream was to write the great American novel. Although he never wrote that book, he has remained a man of le...

Litigators can be unpleasantly surprised when a defendant's bankruptcy filing interrupts a lawsuit. Strategic questions trigge...

SACRAMENTO - Trial lawyers, forever pecking at the shell of pre-dispute binding arbitration clauses, broke through Tuesday by...

Yalies Rule - O'Donnell Shaeffer partner Carole E. Handler called The Buzzz from a New York taxi May 1 with a play-by-play of ...

SAN DIEGO - U.S. Attorney Gregory A. Vega, the first Mexican-American to lead federal prosecutors in the Southern District of ...