LOS ANGELES - "Yo, Los Angeles!" Deputy Mayor Rockard "Rocky" Delgadillo wants to be your next city attorney. Driving past bil...

LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court appeared skeptical Wednesday about reviving a major class action alleging that nin...

LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court expressed mild alarm Wednesday when a prosecutor argued there is no special protect...

LOS ANGELES - Deputy District Attorney Frank Tavelman had two days to produce a key witness or blow a three-strikes case he de...

LOS ANGELES - In a rare move, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals kicked a Los Angeles lawyer off a panel that represents in...

SAN FRANCISCO - Long before prosecutors charged Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel in the dog-mauling death of Diane Whipple, Ha...

How many times have you had to prepare a joint document with several lawyers and spent more time coordinating the attorneys' s...

Ten years ago, Lambert v. General Motors had all the elements of a loser case. A teen-age driver, whose blood tested ju...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles attorney who sued his former partners after they kicked him out of the firm may be able to return ...

Michael J. Piuze tried to leave his heart in San Francisco, but he couldn't find a taker. So he brought it to Los Angeles and ...

Every day, the words of the First Amendment are turned into reality through the hundreds of demonstrations, pickets and organi...

On Feb. 8, at approximately 1 p.m., my work supervisor called me to the office. He told me that I needed to report to the pris...

They said they wanted a businessman's divorce. What they really wanted was someone to salve old wounds. In one of the first ca...

Pamela Koslyn, a Los Angeles sole practitioner, won a $14.3 million verdict as co-counsel in a case of fraud and interference ...

Does anyone trust that which they cannot touch, taste, hear, sense or smell? Can anyone really believe that meaningful negotia...

The differences between domestic and international arbitrations surprise many lawyers: rules, customs and enforcement mechanis...

LOS ANGELES - Terry Friedman, the presiding judge of the Los Angeles Juvenile Court, has received the Freedom of Information A...

LOS ANGELES - With little discussion, the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners on Tuesday approved a proposal to create 1...

SAN DIEGO - Deeming the circumstances behind the case "tragic," a state appellate court nonetheless reversed a judge's $1.4 mi...

LOS ANGELES - A Van Nuys judge ordered the state attorney general Tuesday to explain why convicted murderer Robert Rosenkrantz...

LOS ANGELES - Former Los Angeles City Councilman Richard J. Alatorre took nearly $42,000 in cash from people trying to influen...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday turned down a proposal to prohibit the sale of ammunition but indicated ...

LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for former SLA fugitive Sara Jane Olson indicated Tuesday they want to postpone Olson's April 30 trial...

SAN FRANCISCO - When the Austin, Texas-based home furnishings site Living.com filed for Chapter 11 protection last year, the c...

LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court cited and fined one appellate lawyer for contempt and threatened two others Tuesday...

SACRAMENTO - A bill that would require financial institutions to obtain the written consent of customers before sharing their ...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge on Tuesday ordered prosecutors to turn over all information they have related to the credibi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Helen Gozum Doty was confused by her lawyer's failure to push harder to defeat a deportation order against her...

VICTORVILLE - Finding that sheriff's deputies illegally searched a defendant at a San Bernardino County courthouse, an appella...

SAN FRANCISCO - President Bush intends to appoint prominent San Francisco attorney Brian W. Jones as the general counsel to th...