SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County judge on Monday rejected a bid to throw out a lawsuit against the county and a prosecutor file...

SACRAMENTO - The insurance defense bar has moved to pump up its political muscle and legislative presence as it battles cost-...

"Law & Order" is exciting: The characters are engaging, the story riveting and the photography cutting edge. And that is w...

^^Litigator Profile^^ By Deborah Rosenthal Verdicts & Settlements Staff Writer A practitioner must be creative to practice...

The statute of limitations in asbestos cases will be examined by the California Supreme Court. ...

FORUM By Sheila James Kuehl Proposition 22, the limit on marriage initiative, was passed overwhelmingly by California voters. ...

SACRAMENTO - When change is drastic, it can be hard. That seems especially true for hulking bureaucracies. Take, for example,...

SPECIAL ISSUE: ADR By Jeffrey A. Rich Contractual dispute resolution provisions may not adequately contemplate the need for pr...

In a case that illustrates that alleged misconduct at the Rampart Station is ongoing despite the glare of various investigatio...

Employee-benefits attorney Donald W. Meaders has left the Los Angeles office of San Francisco-based Pillsbury Madison & Su...

Two men who claimed they were falsely arrested and violently treated by anti-gang officers from the Los Angeles Police Departm...

WASHINGTON - Although the current Supreme Court is relatively young, the "advanced age" of some of the justices was the topic ...

A Beverly Hills law firm and one of its partners has agreed to pay a former client $3.4 million to settle a legal malpractice ...

A search warrant in a 1999 cocaine possession case signed by Superior Court Judge Patrick B. Murphy is raising questions from ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that flight attendants may sue over Northwest Airlines' policy of allow...

Vivian Yoshioka, a court clerk in the Los Angeles Superior Court's East District, said she just wants to do the best job she ...

SANTA ANA - Irene Gut Opdyke, a woman who sheltered a dozen Jews in the basement of a Nazi officer's home during the Holocaust...

DICTA When partners change firms, everyone assumes it's because of money. Page 8. By Sandford A. Lechtick Many firms currently...

SAN DIEGO - The Civil Service Commission voted unanimously Wednesday to affirm the termination of district attorney's investig...

^^Real Property^^ Litigious Lawbreakers Statute Does Not Protect Felons Injured by Intentional Acts By Michael Paul Thomas A p...

When you ask people why the Los Angeles County's three juvenile halls have inadequate mental health services for children, the...

Defect Damages Economic Loss Rule Does Not Bar Recovery of Home Injury By W. Scott Shepard In a recent ruling from the 4th Dis...

DICTA The financial burden of supporting the jury system is the hidden tax imposed upon the business community by the courts. ...

By Marjorie Cohn "The deliberate institutionalized taking of human life by the state is the greatest conceivable degradation t...

What to do with mentally ill children incarcerated in juvenile halls has become an issue of serious concern for many lawmakers...

SAN DIEGO -- The retrial of David James Genzler in the 1996 slaying of Dustin Harless has been scheduled for May 22, after mon...

A bankruptcy trustee's attorneys continue to search for an estimated $35 million that investors pumped into an Irvine company ...

Hollywood beware, those naive-looking suckers from out-of-town are smarter and tougher than you ever thought. Sure, Sunset Str...

Because the juvenile justice system has few resources for children with mental health and substance abuse problems, the county...

For the first time in its century-old history, Oakland-based Crosby Heafey Roach & May has elected a Southern California p...