City Council members said Wednesday they wished they had noticed sooner that $7.9 million in federal grants that could have be...

Former Los Angeles Superior Court Judge George W. Trammell III pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to mail fraud and bre...

Dear Mr. Abrams, aka the Judgmental Journalist, Because you are the Ann Landers of legal columnists, I am asking for your advi...

If an attorney wants a summary judgment to stand up on appeal, he must get the court to rule on his evidentiary objections. ...

It is refreshing to find that there is a high degree of consensus among Americans about the importance of families to the heal...

Since the end of the Democratic Party Convention on Aug. 17, the Los Angeles Police Department has been showered with praise. ...

Mark Pulliam of Latham & Watkins had been trying for about two years to get California Supreme Court Associate Justice Jan...

Continuing a harsh attack on Los Angels police officials, a civil rights lawyer clashed with members of the Police Commission ...

A 36-year-old deaf woman from Glendale has won a $42,000 settlement against a local physician for refusing to provide an inter...

SAN DIEGO - Asserting that his office had "professionally fulfilled its obligations to the public and defendants," District At...

The city of Los Angeles paid out more than $4.1 million in police misconduct verdicts and settlements in the first six months ...

A jury has hit the Los Angeles Unified School District with a $4.25 million verdict in the drowning of a 15-year-old special e...

A Los Angeles jury awarded $5.75 million to a legal secretary who lived out her greatest fear when an elevator in her office b...

The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners on Tuesday endorsed a community court that could send homeless and mentally ill ...

SAN FRANCISCO - When Samuel Lee Johnson was arrested on murder charges in 1996, he was allowed the usual two free phone calls ...

On Friday, Father Gregory Boyle, the no-nonsense street priest of East Los Angeles' gang kids, buried his 84th child-victim of...

The judge presiding over the corruption trial of four Los Angeles Police Department Rampart Division officers granted a key de...

SAN FRANCISCO - A retired Orange County judge who improperly intervened in several cases to help friends and relatives has bee...

Partners from Santa Monica's Belin Rawlings & Badal have closed shop to follow new opportunities. The 10-attorney litigati...

Gil Garcetti promises to get to the bottom of Rampart and put officers on notice that police corruption will result in stiff p...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court has ruled that a woman who has no marriage license cannot pursue a wrongful death acti...

A California appellate court has held that a shareholders' derivative suit for malpractice can be brought against outside coun...

Juror questionnaires show that jurors generally prefer defense counsels' style of arguing over plaintiffs' style. ...

Horns blared, tires screeched, cars stalled and onlookers gaped while a lunatic swung a broomstick at two of Beverly Hills' fi...

SAN DIEGO - A year and a half after revelations of alleged prosecutorial misconduct turned the routine retrial of a street sla...

Charles G. La Bella, the former U.S. attorney in San Diego, has joined Washington, D.C.-based McKenna & Cuneo's San Diego ...

ANAHEIM - An associate at Los Angeles' O'Melveny & Myers may jump ship and end up an associate of Regis Philbin on his mor...

A water-main break at the U.S. District Courthouse in Los Angeles flooded the basement and parts of the first floor, damaging ...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis vetoed a measure that would have eliminated the "baby bar" exam for students in unaccredited law ...

WASHINGTON - The battle over the "Cheers" robots finally is going to trial - if it doesn't settle first. The Supreme Court Mon...