WASHINGTON - Ending a long and contentious legal battle, the Supreme Court on Monday denied review of two appellate decisions ...

SACRAMENTO - Republican rhetorical fire on Tuesday failed to stop Senate approval of a bill to set lawyers' annual State Bar ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Anyone who thinks Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May is still merely an Oakland insurance defense firm should ta...

The executor of the estates of Phil and Brynn Hartman and trustee for their children has filed suit against the makers of the...

SAN FRANCISCO - In the duel between California and the weapons industry, the side with the guns has evidently taken an early ...

Two Southern California attorneys have been nominated for federal judgeships by President Clinton. Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Cali...

TUCSON, Ariz. - Southern California had better get its act together soon on reducing its dependence on the Colorado River. If...

Three individual bad-faith lawsuits against a European insurance company that allege failure to pay on Holocaust-era life ins...

Jeffrey C. Eglash, the assistant U.S. attorney named Friday as the Los Angeles Police Commission's new inspector general, sai...

Scan any of the regular listings of lawyers who have been disciplined by the State Bar Court or the state Supreme Court. Look...

The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously Friday to prohibit the city attorney's office from settling any lawsuit exceedi...

In the wake of a state appellate ruling that corporate counsel are entitled to collect "big-firm" attorney fees under Civil C...

VENTURA - A Ventura man charged with the attempted murder of his former girlfriend is suing the victim, claiming he suffered ...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco's pioneering domestic partners' ordinance survived constitutional attack Thursday in a federal ...

Retired U.S. Magistrate Judge Ralph J. Geffen died Tuesday at Los Angeles' Cedars Sinai Hospital after a two-month battle wit...

DENVER - The first of what is expected to be many lawsuits related to last month's tragic shooting at Columbine High School w...

RIVERSIDE - Former Riverside County prosecutor Patrick Dutton was denied a promotion and then terminated from his job because...

A nonlawyer has been charged by Los Angeles County prosecutors with assuming the identity of a practicing attorney and collec...

SAN FRANCISCO - Finishing off the tort of spoliation of evidence, a narrowly divided California Supreme Court ruled Thursday ...

An investment group claims in a Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit that attorneys they hired in 1996 to sue a Rancho Cucamong...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court justices have seemed more relaxed and playful during oral arguments this term. Perhaps that's ...

Juror No. 3 was, admittedly, a little "stressed out" when she threatened during deliberations to slap her fellow jurors "upsi...

Ruling just one day after oral arguments in a dispute between Frank Sinatra Jr. and his one-time kidnapper, a state appeal pa...

A couple who claim their daughter was killed and they were seriously injured when the tire blew on the minivan they were ridi...

Ruling that a Beverly Hills lawyer charged with fraud poses a flight risk, a federal judge has ordered him to remain detained...

SACRAMENTO - It's a crime in California to see someone's pet get shot by a hunter and not report it to authorities. And a lic...

In the first-ever appellate examination of California's Son of Sam law, the statute prohibiting felons from selling their sto...

SACRAMENTO - People harmed by corporate, professional and individual negligence could sue defendants' insurers if they denied...

Culminating a five-month, nationwide search, Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti announced Wednesday he has hir...

SAN JOSE - In a sweeping victory for affirmative action opponents, a state appellate court panel ruled Wednesday that city co...