A Los Angeles jury has ordered New York-based Herzfeld & Rubin to pay nearly $1 million to a woman the firm represented at...

It's a grand old house - with large rooms, a fireplace, gleaming hardwood floors and a sparkling white kitchen - and it sits o...

By Ramona Ripston It's a sad day when a majority of Californians vote in favor of discrimination. That is what Prop. 22 is, pu...

A woman whose 13-year-old son died in a school fistfight filed a $10 million wrongful death and civil rights complaint Tuesday...

SAN FRANCISCO - Jurors, who decided the country's two biggest cigarette manufacturers defrauded the public by misrepresenting ...

Services have been held for Linda Kippen, assistant division chief of the county courthouse in Van Nuys. Kippen died Saturday ...

SANTA ANA - The 4th District Court of Appeal in San Diego has ordered Orange County to pay $474,000 in attorney fees to two gr...

By Kevin Notre Soon a same-gender union entered into in Vermont will entitle a same-gender couple to obtain the same benefits ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Philosophically polarized positions became obvious Tuesday on an 11-judge federal appeals panel that is decidi...

The Los Angeles district attorney's office said Tuesday - in its strongest defense yet to criticisms that it blew an opportuni...

SACRAMENTO - Handing a rare court victory to one state agency over another, a judge has ordered the Fair Employment and Housin...

Warren Christopher, the man to whom the city turned to reform the Los Angeles Police Department in the wake of the 1991 Rodney...

SAN DIEGO - A man who says he is Elijah the biblical prophet angrily denied that he stole money and vehicles from the people h...

FORUM There is no Rampart scandal - what we have instead is business as usual. Page 6. By Robert Sainburg When I think of a sc...

A former attorney for Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios Inc. claims he was wrongly denied a severance package when he was laid off d...

DICTA Successful summary judgment motions begin with the way you frame your pleadings. Page 8. ^^Courtroom Craft^^ By David Pa...

SAN FRANCISCO - The venerable New York firm of Sullivan & Cromwell will be opening an office in the land of dot-coms - Sil...

A watershed ruling expanding pension protections for workers came under heavy fire Monday from an 11-judge federal appellate p...

Two recent cases elaborate on the duty of public officials to protect the rights of individuals. Page 7 ^^Administrative Law^^...

REDWOOD CITY - A San Mateo County judge Monday rejected a defense bid to dismiss murder charges against two former members of ...

FORUM Cary Stayner , accused of murdering three tourists in Yosemite last summer, is now wanted for his story. Page 6. By Thom...

It's getting so that people need a scorecard to keep track of who's who in the civil federal fraud case in which Los Angeles S...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider whether sexually violent predators may challenge in the federal court...

The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to review a ruling upholding California's mandatory continuing legal education program. ...

The Los Angeles district attorney's office has provided the Los Angeles Police Department with a memorandum from a deputy dist...

Deputy District Attorney Richard Rosenthal remembers a feeling somewhat akin to getting the wind knocked out of him the day he...

SACRAMENTO - Using their new power under Proposition 21, prosecutors have begun charging teen-agers in adult court without goi...

Rapper Andre Young, better known as Dr. Dre, has sued his former lawyer for not informing him about a conflict of interest tha...

FORUM Children born out of wedlock are more likely to end up in poverty than children born in wedlock.

Jeff Newman has spent 30 years learning the art of listening. Whether working in Ghana, with U.S. political agencies or as a l...