As family law courtroom dramas escalate, judges are digging foxholes. West Hollywood lawyer Patricia J. Barry is a passionate ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Conscious of the widespread feeling that the attorney discipline system is too harsh on minor offenses, the St...

Conditions for women in Los Angeles haven't changed much in the past 29 years. When Connie McFall, executive director of Rainb...

Two defendants in a lawsuit brought on behalf of a permanently brain-damaged foster child are opposing an $800,000 settlement ...

SACRAMENTO - A controversial racial-profiling bill apparently has died in the state Legislature after its author pulled it Thu...

By Alex Ricciarduilli. A remarkable change might occur soon in California law concerning probation and parole searches. The Ca...

By George W. Brewster Jr. I just zipped through my 42nd birthday, putting me solidly in what I have heard described as a lawye...

The St. Louis architectural firm that designed Los Angeles County's Twin Towers Correctional Facility could pay $10.6 million ...

The Los Angeles city attorney will ask Judge Malcolm Mackey to set aside Wednesday's $1.5 million verdict awarded to Raymond W...

SAN DIEGO - Saying that they accepted responsibility for taking part in a gang summit they knew could lead to violence, four m...

Attention prosecutors on the Organized Crime Strike Force in the U.S. attorney's office: Eddie Nash has been known to use some...

A Los Angeles Superior Court jury has awarded $2.8 million to a 48-year-old school teacher who suffered serious head and neck ...

A man who claims that disgraced former Los Angeles police Officer Rafael Perez and two other Rampart cops burst into his home ...

The latest sampling of voters on the question of who should be Los Angeles County's district attorney - two-term incumbent Gil...

SAN BERNARDINO - Twelve members of a Los Angeles family who claimed to have been turned away from a McDonald's restaurant beca...

An environmental watchdog group on Thursday sued to block televangelist Pat Robertson's charitable trust from reopening a Sant...

SAN FRANCISCO - After three years of working on various proposals to reform the appellate process, a specially appointed task ...

The attorney who won a $35 million jury verdict for a musician severely brain-damaged when defective custom van seats snapped ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Ruling that "sexual identity is inherent to one's very identity as a person," the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap...

SAN FRANCISCO - Responding to judges' complaints that counties are increasingly abandoning basic maintenance and oversight of ...

Several dozen current and former Los Angeles Police Department officers Thursday filed a $100 million whistle-blower lawsuit a...

Recent news stories on the Los Angeles Police Department Rampart scandal have repeatedly referred to them. No sworn, tenured m...

By Anthony Saul Alperin. In Tahoe-Sierra Preservation Council Inc. v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, 216 F.3d 764 (9th Cir. 2...

By Charen Levitan. Appropriate hand gestures and positive body language can influence the impression you make on jurors and cl...

SACRAMENTO - Two bills introduced in response to the Rampart scandal have cleared the state Assembly unopposed and are on thei...

By Fred Silberberg. There is a serious flaw in our legal system when it comes to addressing custody cases. The existence of pr...

The court can force an anonymous sperm donor to testify in a lawsuit brought by the family of an 11-year-old girl who claims t...

ASPEN, Colo. - The rule of law is both a vital catalyst for, and a check on, globalization, participants concluded in a four-d...

After nearly four years in litigation, an unusual workplace retaliation case pitting two former workers' compensation judges a...