SAN FRANCISCO - Embattled former judge Patricia Gray thinks her free speech rights trump judicial ethics constraints and on Mo...

LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court has declined to overturn the conviction of a Los Angeles man linked to the 1981 murder o...

WASHINGTON - In a second unanimous decision Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state claim-preclusion rules, rather th...

LOS ANGELES - For the first time in Los Angeles' history, the city's annual liability has surpassed the $1 billion mark for wo...

SAN FRANCISCO - Paralegal students from the College of the Sequoias in the San Joaquin Valley town of Visalia recently were ho...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge Monday dismissed a lawsuit against a Venice tenants' association whose member...

If a company does not treat its trade secrets with appropriate respect, it cannot count on a court doing so. ...

LOS ANGELES - A heated debate last week over the future of news media in the Internet age touched on the privacy rights of onl...

When arguing for death penalty abolishment, death penalty opponents have been reluctant to assert that capital punishment cost...

LOS ANGELES - Since the firing of its leader earlier this month, the Los Angeles Police Department's civilian oversight panel ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court has denied the Oakland Raiders' effort to reinstate $1 billion worth of fraud claims a...

SAN JOSE - In a sweeping legal victory for the First Amendment rights of individuals who post caustic commentary about publicl...

For associates who reel in a new client, several things can happen when they put their name down as the originating lawyer. ...

LOS ANGELES - The general counsel for the Los Angeles Unified School District is seeking permission from the board of educatio...

SANTA ANA - Another three Orange County couples sued the University of California and doctors affiliated with the now-defunct ...

SACRAMENTO - A controversial measure that could greatly increase the number of convicts subjected to mandatory DNA testing has...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court justices Monday not only struggled with how to decide their latest case involving government re...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County's failure to provide an adequate education to children - including special-needs children - i...

SAN FRANCISCO - One more reason not to file Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation is that you might end up paying do...

NEWBERRY SPRINGS - In this windswept outpost of the Mojave Desert, the sand moves constantly, forming dunes and covering road ...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles may not have a National Football League team. The XFL may be tanking faster than Bill Clinton can ha...

Among actions announced Monday, Feb. 26, 2001 by the justices were:

Libel! Defamation! Slander! Invasion of privacy! A journalist tagged often enough with these dangerous words can expect a one-...

AmericanGreetings.com has agreed to acquire Egreetings Network Inc. The value of the deal has not been disclosed. Cleveland's ...

Lisa Specht, a partner at Los Angeles' Manatt Phelps & Phillips, assumed the presidency of the Los Angeles Coliseum Commis...

Three months after acquiring a high-powered Washington, D.C, environmental boutique, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, is ma...

SAN FRANCISCO - An Emeryville environmental consultant has been fined $10,000 and required to perform 200 hours of community s...

It's quite a leap from "Helter Skelter" to boleros, Vincent Bugliosi admits. But the famed prosecutor of serial killer Charles...

Community development expert Daniel Tellalian has joined the Santa Monica real estate shop of Harding Larmore Kutcher & Ko...

Labor lawyer Keith Jacoby joined Los Angeles' Davis Wright Tremaine on Feb. 7 with the hopes of further refining his labor and...