By Douglas Smith, W. Scott Shepard and Arthur F. Coon. Under general negligence principles, architects, general contractors an...

Months after it was supposed to end, Elwood Lui's post as the Supreme Court's special master overseeing the State Bar discipli...

Pacific Bell has settled a claim that the company illegally published the confidential address of a domestic violence shelter ...

A Superior Court judge has left in place a protective order on documents in the case against four Los Angeles Police Departmen...

DENVER - Based entirely on evidence collected by a jailhouse lawyer, a Colorado judge has ordered a special prosecutor to look...

Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti on Wednesday said the time has come to stiffen penalties for felony and misd...

The National Association for Public Interest Law announced Wednesday the expansion of the nation's largest postgraduate legal ...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge David P. Yaffe on Wednesday jettisoned O.J. Simpson's efforts to stop CBS from airing a minis...

Arraignment of Damian Monroe Williams on murder and robbery charges was postponed Wednesday until Sept. 15, when co-defendant ...

Parents of children with disabilities may recover attorney fees if they prevail in a complaint-resolution process for disputed...

The 47-acre Chinatown Cornfields rail yard is the largest open space adjacent to downtown Los Angeles, and dozens of civic org...

In another blow to the Internet-based companies that stream music to their customers, a federal judge Wednesday ordered MP3.co...

Although the two cases aren't connected, federal indictments handed down recently in Los Angeles indicate that two attorneys m...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer had just five minutes Wednesday to convince the California Supreme Court that af...

Santa Monica lawyers Rae Lamothe and Harold J. Light will be installed as president and president-elect, respectively, of the ...

By John J. Diiulio Jr. and Joseph P. Tierney. America's violent crime rate has fallen by about a third since 1993, but it coul...

Appellate Practice by Ron Cohen and Ronald Steiner. The California courts have also signaled some discomfort with the rules pr...

California Supreme Court Justice Janice Brown will address a luncheon at the County Bar Center later this month. But it was no...

The intake, records and public information areas of four divisions of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District will ...

The Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control has, for the third year, awarded a grant to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Depa...

SAN DIEGO - A Superior Court judge Tuesday dismissed marijuana sales charges against five defendants, ruling that the statutor...

RIVERSIDE - An attempted child molestation case that caused a change in the San Bernardino County sheriff's office policies in...

Richard Abbe, a retired 2nd District Court of Appeal justice known for the landmark 1989 decision that further secured the rig...

A Los Angeles personal injury lawyer and his former office manager pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a 71-count federal indictment...

A Glendale man who allegedly tried to hire a hit man to kill criminal defense lawyer Theodore S. Flier and his wife, Los Angel...

SACRAMENTO - If three times is a charm, then an attempt to eliminate passage of the "baby bar" as a requirement for students o...

SANTA ANA - Santa Ana City Councilman Ted Moreno was convicted Tuesday of 25 federal counts of conspiring to extort campaign c...

SACRAMENTO - For years people have been talking about bringing reciprocity in bar admissions to the Golden State so that being...

Query: 'What are the three most pressing problems facing the district attorney's office and how do you plan on solving them?' ...

SeaWest WindPower Inc. recently completed a $14 million financing of its Foote Creek IV wind energy project, to be constructed...