In a potentially far-reaching case, a federal appeals court peppered both sides with tough questions Tuesday over claims that ...

Lawyers for convicted animal activist Pamelyn Ferdin Vlasak and the Los Angeles city attorney's office Tuesday agreed to rele...

By Iryna A. Kwasny and James R. Wheaton In Friends of the Earth Inc. v. Laidlaw , 120 S.Ct. 693 (2000) the Supreme Court used ...

Hahn Targets Venice Gang Los Angeles City Attorney James K. Hahn has filed a nuisance-abatement lawsuit against the Venice 13 ...

Richard Freed was sworn in as president of the Foothills Bar Association during a swank gala at Singing Hills Country Club in ...

Former madam to the stars Heidi Fleiss has sued the owners of E! Entertainment Television for defamation over a televised doc...

Pepperdine to Honor Mosk State Supreme Court Justice Stanley Mosk will receive Pepperdine University School of Law's Legal Her...

The president of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners sought to bolster public confidence in the police department T...

Scott Bice, one of the University of Southern California Law School's longest-serving deans, has announced he will return to ...

SANTA ANA - Family members of Garden Grove police officer Donald Reed told jurors Tuesday during the penalty phase trial of R...

Allowing Judge Patrick B. Murphy to take the oath of a Los Angeles Superior Court judge over the telephone on Jan. 31 may not ...

The parents of Jeremy Strohmeyer, who recently recanted a guilty plea for the killing of a little girl in a Nevada casino rest...

SAN FRANCISCO - After weeks of wrestling for control of some two dozen class actions against software giant Microsoft Corp., p...

A highly regarded Los Angeles County alternate public defender Tuesday became new co-counsel for former reputed Symbionese Li...

Federal authorities have filed a discrimination lawsuit against a prominent San Diego-based law firm, over the firm's inclusi...

There are plenty of hard-fought legal battles in the federal court in Los Angeles. But it's rare that lawyers for one side ask...

Former television news anchor Larry Carroll, who recently had charges of investment fraud against him dismissed, has sued his...

By William Funderburk and Lisa Morelli While members of environmental and other "public interest" groups may be celebrating th...

FORUM Two forms of illegality exist - actual and effective - and both can prevent a company from marketing its product.By Mich...

Firm Will Boost L.A.'s Salaries, Too San Francisco's McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen has decided to extend the salary in...

Los Angeles Police Department Chief Bernard Parks has figured out how much integrity costs in the City of the Angels. In a 17-...

SAN JOSE - The Santa Clara County public defender's office has launched an unprecedented attack on a local jurist's impartiali...

Family Law Taxing Breakups Deductibility of Attorney Fees in Dissolution Matters The overriding rule on deducting legal expens...

SAN FRANCISCO - More than seven years after hundreds of neighbors sued Shell Oil Company, claiming its Martinez refinery relea...

NORWALK - Orange County Superior Court Judge Gary P. Ryan has received a sentence of three years' probation and a three-month ...

Judge Convicted of Bankruptcy Fraud A federal court jury has convicted Simona Flores Rosales, an administrative law judge for ...

A retired Los Angeles Superior Court judge claims the state has secret "sweetheart" contracts with insurance companies that wr...

Los Angeles district attorney candidate Steve Cooley, stepping up his criticism of incumbent Gil Garcetti for not uncovering t...

SAN DIEGO - The 11-year legal battle over the Mount Soledad cross could be ended with a federal court ruling that permits the ...

SAN DIEGO - Charges against Yvonne M. Reese of assaulting two Border Patrol agents remained unresolved after a federal jury de...