In one of the longest prison terms ever imposed in Los Angeles County, a third-strike serial rapist has been sentenced to 538...

To some observers, the recent demise of the viewing format for digital video disks known as Divx is a reminder that though po...

Former Santa Monica attorney James P. Tierney, who was convicted earlier this year in a scheme to hide valuable paintings and...

She wore a fancy pink lace dress and a matching bonnet. Her long, curly eyelashes nearly touched the tops of her eyelids. The...

In 1996, Grace Home for Waiting Children, a foster family agency founded three years earlier by former county employees, was ...

Los Angeles County contracts with about 80 foster family agencies, which operate more than 5,300 foster homes for children wh...

SACRAMENTO - The plaintiffs' bar has reached a key agreement with a major insurer on legislation to restore a negligence vict...

SACRAMENTO - Eight years after the videotaped beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers shocked the nation, polic...

SAN FRANCISCO - A massive Proposition 65 case billed as one of the largest environmental lawsuits in state history has been a...

VENTURA - Ventura County's judges have rejected a low bid from an out-of-county law firm and voted to continue contracting wi...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge has recused himself from presiding over an attorney fee dispute in a contentious class-...

DENVER - At a gathering of officials from states that have been affected by recent youth violence, the drive to do something ...

WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday advanced to the full Senate the federal bench nomination of Los Angel...

Services will be held today for retired Torrance City Attorney Stanley Edward Remelmeyer, who died Saturday of a stroke. He w...

Even though prosecutors argued that physician David G. Gardner had been convicted in the largest money-laundering case ever f...

SAN FRANCISCO - The nation's chief patent and trademark official promised Thursday to shave the time it takes to process pate...

A production company claims in a $10 million lawsuit that an attorney at the Los Angeles law firm of Mitchell Silberberg &...

Applying a rarely used statute to clean up slum housing, renters at a Hollywood apartment building filed a lawsuit Thursday a...

SAN FRANCISCO - An alleged plot by a French bank to illegally obtain billions of dollars by deceiving California insurance re...

Representatives of the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority hurriedly left Los Angeles Superior Court in Burbank Thurs...

WASHINGTON - One day after greatly strengthening the states' immunity from suits in both state and federal courts, the Suprem...

SAN FRANCISCO - Mary Gemma O'Keeffe was 19 when she entered the convent. Her only career decisions, she thought, would be whe...

SAN FRANCISCO - Echoes of his early days as a lawyer surfaced as Charles R. Breyer reflected on the recent impeachment trial ...

A former Riverside Municipal Court commissioner can pursue his federal civil rights suit against two judges who he claims pus...

SAN FRANCISCO - Continuing to curb controversial news media practices, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the A...

Services will be held today for Diane Sullivan, family lawyer and member of San Diego's self-proclaimed "Old Girls" group, an...

Bowing to a court ruling that it must reveal its confidential voting records, the Commission on Judicial Performance announce...

As they recently prepared to take a 16-year-old homicide case to trial, Los Angeles County prosecutors say they were confiden...

In narrowing the conditions under which states can be sued against their will in federal court, the U.S. Supreme Court appear...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lindbergh Porter Jr., a partner at Littler Mendelson and immediate past president of the Bar Association of S...