Los Angeles County Bar Association trustees simultaneously gave both grumbling and wholehearted support to pending legislatio...

SAN FRANCISCO - Fighting in Vietnam changed attorney Charles E. Patterson's life for the better, he says, by destroying any i...

WASHINGTON - After several days of vigorous debate, Senate Democrats used parliamentary devices Thursday to block a vote on a...

A motorist injured while driving his employer's uninsured vehicle is not barred under a 1996 initiative from recovering for p...

WASHINGTON - Asked to interpret the Americans With Disabilities Act in the employment context, the Supreme Court wrestled thi...

Borders, a nationwide chain of music and book stores, encourages its customers to purchase lattes and cafe au laits from its ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Robert Alberti thought he had the right stuff to be a successful sheriff's deputy - he is athletic, is a train...

The Los Angeles City Council has voted unanimously to settle an officer-involved shooting lawsuit for nearly $3.3 million. Th...

One day after he decided to let a judge try him on charges he operated a prostitution ring out of his law office, Tarzana tax...

Three employees of a Southern California testing laboratory were indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury on environmental ...

WASHINGTON - The deposition setup looked fairly typical Wednesday. Around a long conference table sat lawyers representing as...

PALM SPRINGS - The Commission on Judicial Performance has always made state judges feel a little uneasy - and perhaps even mo...

A media request for documents in the trial of movie executive Jeffrey Katzenberg's $250 million suit against the Walt Disney ...

The North Hollywood man charged with using the Internet to stalk and solicit the rape of a woman who had rebuffed him - the f...

A former Kmart cashier was awarded $4.2 million in damages by a Los Angeles Superior Court jury that found she was fired in r...

WASHINGTON - Bankruptcy legislation wending its way through the House and Senate Judiciary Committees is bogged down in vigor...

For years, Jim Gripp has helped criminal attorneys - both prosecution and defense - tell their stories with graphics. Today, ...

SACRAMENTO - A proposal to give Native American tribal courts greater say in child custody placements won unanimous approval ...

SACRAMENTO ---- Legislation to cut lawyers' dues to $395, reduce continuing education requirements and restrict the bar's lob...

SAN JOSE - In a major battle pitting a corporation's right to control its Internet system against an individual's right of fr...

Facing an almost certain conviction on charges he operated a prostitution ring out of his law office, Tarzana tax attorney Bo...

Walt Disney Co. Chairman Michael Eisner rose from his desk and backed away from his estranged studio head Jeffrey Katzenberg ...

SACRAMENTO - Memo to San Diego County unified court judges: Avoid angering state lawmakers who represent the area, at least wh...

The bitter, protracted litigation over the custody of 5-year-old Haley A. settled Monday, just eight days before it was set f...

In an unusual display of unity, Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan and City Attorney James K. Hahn have stopped fighting over ...

The Judiciary Committees of the House and Senate have approved their versions of the sweeping bankruptcy reform legislation t...

WASHINGTON - Handing another setback to Independent Counsel Donald C. Smaltz, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday tha...

On May 12, 1989, a freight train loaded with chemicals derailed, barreling on to Duffy Street in a residential neighborhood o...

After three years of sparring, the legal rumble between movie executive Jeffrey Katzenberg and the Walt Disney Co. on Monday ...

ANAHEIM HILLS - Christie L. Noel, senior associate at the Law Offices of Ronald E. Lais in Anaheim Hills, was killed Friday i...